Bargain! Reckon!
Sometimes the stupidest ads are actually to most interesting and Trading Post has got one of the stupidest I’ve seen in a while … Bless their crazy marketing little hearts!
For a week or two I drove past a roadside billboard ad that had a goofy looking goat with a green frog on it head, but no actual indication of the product. The ad was as cute as it was weird, but I wasn’t inclined to hunt it down via Google. Finally last night I saw a the first ad where an excited father brings home the goat and frog to his family (which he must have bought on TradingPost), much to the disgust of his wife and amusement of his daughter. I love the child-like innocence and wonder on the father’s face as the goat and frog talk for the first time … Obviously once his family has left the room.
Scrounging around YouTube I found two more ads in the series which haven’t been aired yet (well I haven’t seen them). Each progressive ad shows the father getting more desperate as his attempts share his new purchase’s catch phrase, “Bargain! Reckon!”, fails. Its fantastic that in each advert how the goat and frog are attune to their surroundings by actively looking at things like the family or the father’s mobile phone.
Well this advertising campaign worked on me because I’m off to investigate Trading Post. It can’t be any worse than eBay could it? :-p
