<p>For those of you who are, know, or love musicians, you might want to send a complaint to Reebok about their ad featured on Groupon today:</p>
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<p>Ugh. Way to use high school-esque cliches in your ad campaign. They can be sure I’ll never buy one of their products again. (Already sent them a complaint informing them of such.)</p>
<p>I agree, bad ad…</p>
<p>Wow. Just wow.</p>
<p>I think it’s the Groupon staff that writes the copy–sounds like their style, always trying too hard to be clever and amusing. Send your complaints to them. Reebok may never have even seen the ad.</p>
<p>MommaJ-I’d believe it except for the fact that this isn’t Reebok’s first bad ad campaign. The last one that got them into trouble?</p>
<p>“Cheat on your girlfriend, not your workout.”</p>
<p>Wow. What sort of marketing moron thinks that is appropriate. One that doesn’t realize the thousands of band kids (and their parents) do actually have feet and do buy shoes.</p>
<p>I sent a complaint - to Reebok. Let them sort out who is to blame. And I posted it on facebook - lots of band families in our circle.</p>
<p>Disgusting! Simply disgusting! Yuck. D’s HS band used all white Reebok shoes as part of their band uniform. :eek:</p>
<p>Overreacting a tiny-bitty much about the ad, HGFM? The ad is vintage Groupon and could be interpreted differently when focusing on the tooting your own horn part. </p>
<p>Try this</p>
<p>A quarterback on the college football team requires not only talent, rhythm, but also the ability to refrain from tooting his own horn, unlike a trombone player in a college marching band.</p>
<p>Same words in a different order. Different perception, perhaps.</p>
<p>tumblr is freaking out about this. Google searche “Trombonegate 2012.”</p>
<p>Offensitivity</p>
<p>Groupon wants them to write full of snark. I remember reading a “want ad” for new Groupon writers and honestly, that’s what they were looking for - quirky, snarky, writers.</p>
<p>Ok I’m in band and on the football team, so I deal with both worlds, and this ad is freaking hilarious!</p>
<p>Maybe the ad writer is thinking about something like the Yale Precision Marching Band.</p>
<p>You know…I haven’t been getting Groupon notices, come to think of it…I wonder what happened?</p>
<p>Thank you xiggi! A simple case of poor editing. I think your rearrangement was exactly what they were trying to say. Otherwise it is just stupid, not clever.</p>
<p>To be clear, Groupon writes their own copy. This isn’t Reebok’s ad; it’s a Groupon ad written to be catchy. It apparently is. It’s also meant as a fairly obvious joke, but it’s also in fairly bad taste.</p>
<p>Bad taste and pretty stupid from a marketing point of view. Though it did make me go look at the site and I was momentarily tempted by the price, so i guess it worked in a way. Except that I didn’t actually buy.</p>
<p>It’s a joke. So now band kids are too sensitive to take a joke. Sheesh. Get over it.</p>
<p>I do like buying Groupons, but honestly, I generally read everything about the deal EXCEPT the snarky write-ups accompanying the buy.</p>
<p>Agree with Xiggi et al. Stupid wording but not worth a reaction in my view (and I was a band kid!) Just Groupon bad writing.</p>