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  • veryintrigued
    veryintrigued Posts: 3,843 Forumite
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    veryintrigued wrote: »
    The Nationwide 'poetry' series.

    Truly awful.

    Now bettered by the 'sisters' nonsense.

    Who on earth pays the cheque for this dross?
  • No_6
    No_6 Posts: 835 Forumite
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    I ignore all the adverts but use all of them. for money
    I can make and then close when required.
  • SnowTiger
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    Alliance Building Society had drab adverts.

    They got better after the merger with the Leicester Building Society.

    Building societies gave us some good adverts: 'Arthur Daley' advertising The Leeds' Liquid Gold account, paying a whopping 10% interest; The Woolwich 'are you with...'; and an easy Sunday morning with Halifax.
  • jonesMUFCforever
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    Does the fact that the majority on here don't like the Nationwide adverts but most remember them not mean that they are actually working?
    By that I mean you are talking about Nationwide - rather than completely forgetting them?
  • SnowTiger
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    jonesMUFCforever wrote: »
    Does the fact that the majority on here don't like the Nationwide adverts but most remember them not mean that they are actually working?
    By that I mean you are talking about Nationwide - rather than completely forgetting them?

    We all like to think advertising doesn't affect us.
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
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    Nationwide and HSBC peddling their ant-Brexit, Marxist political agenda, usually with some champagne socialist celebrity virtue signalling.
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
  • Stuart_W
    Stuart_W Posts: 1,731 Forumite
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    Anyone else remember the Open your bank account Britain tune?
  • thor
    thor Posts: 5,483 Forumite
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    jonesMUFCforever wrote: »
    Does the fact that the majority on here don't like the Nationwide adverts but most remember them not mean that they are actually working?
    By that I mean you are talking about Nationwide - rather than completely forgetting them?
    I actively avoid companies who have annoying ads and I suspect I am not the only one. So remembering them does not actually mean the ad has been successful.
  • IanManc
    IanManc Posts: 2,085 Forumite
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    I detested the Leeds Permanent Building Society ads with the ultra irritating song:

    "Say the Leeds and you're smiling
    Every Leeder knows
    Say the Leeds and you're smiling
    As your money grows ......".

    I was a Leeds Permanent customer at the time and none of us were known as Leeders, and you can easily say Leeds without smiling so it was all cobblers anyway.

    The staff in my local branch hated the television adverts as much as I did and wouldn't display the accompanying posters until they were forced to by their area management.
  • Mnd
    Mnd Posts: 1,699 Forumite
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    Nothing really wrong with the advert as such but the Lloyds bank horse and the tag line "The listening bank"...they didn't listen when we asked them not to shut the last bank in town
    No.79 save £12k in 2020. Total end May £11610
    Annual target £24000
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