Posted on 01/26/2005 5:42:34 AM PST by The Wizard
So, I just want to share how NOT to do something with you all
In Central Florida a group is advertising a place called "The Villages" as a great place to live.....BUT
They don't tell you where it is, and when you call the number, even THEY don't know where it is.....
Now imagine all the money these fools paid to the ad agency to develop the ad and campaign, the money they paid to the stations to run the ad, and the phone company to answer the calls, and yet nowhere is the location of the "Villages" known.....
I don't know about anyone else, but when I find information hard to get there usually is a reason......the town the "Villages" is located near must be a dump......
***An Amazingly Poor Vanity: "This Thread"***
When people are already gun shy about buying swamp land, the missing address is a screaming ommission
an opinion, not necessarily a fact
It's so exclusive, even the residents don't know where it is.
very good....
It's not far from Ocala.
I know people in that area.
Sounds like a bad ad. But from what I hear, the place is very nice.....if you're retirement age.
We just want to keep vanity posting riff-raff out of our cozy community.
Signed,
Slim, Villages Homeowners Association Grand Vizier.
But Nancy Lopez likes it.........
Sounds like something Bill and Hill would be involved in.
I'm with you...
And because of their omission of info, they've just gotten free advertising on FR reaching 1,000s of people.
Actually I've been in that area many times and have been to The Villages... it is in central Florida, not far from Leesburg, FL. It is very nice, what I'd call a pretty upscale retirement community. It is not near a dumpy or swampy area at all. You might also have seen it in the news, as President Bush had an appearance there during the last weeks of the campaign. Since you've seen the commercial so many times, it means you watch almost as much daytime TV as I do. I think the ad runs on Fox, doesn't it?
It's a retirement community. Maybe the ad was made by older people, and they just forgot to put the address in it? :~ )
Oh my gosh! A vanity by Wizard!!! Stop the presses.
You don't need to know where The Village is any more than you need to know what the soylent green is made from.
...if you have to ask....
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