Thursday, July 13, 2006

Pleasing Advertisements

This letter is in complaint of the ad I was getting the other day on Yahoo Mail. All day long the only ad I was getting, on both the side and the top banner, was an animated cartoon of a nasty-ass diseased toenail. You know the one I'm talking about - the one where in the animation the toenail is lifted like a hatch door? That's the part that bothers me the most. Anyway, here is my letter to Yahoo! about it.

Dear Yahoo!

Please, I beg of you, get rid of those disgusting toenail fungus medication ads. Even though they are only an animated cartoon, they are truly disgusting and give me (and my friends) the heeby-jeebies. It wouldn't be so bad if the ad appeared only occassionally but today it is like that is the only client you have!

Their response:

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Customer Care. We appreciate your comments and feedback regarding advertising on Yahoo!. Our services are made available in part by the ads that you view while using Yahoo!. While we attempt to choose advertisements that will be pleasing [they thought this would be pleasing??], we understand that not all ads will appeal to all of our users.