Totally Awesome Update
I would have added this to the previous post, but this is worthy of its own entry…
Eric Snider, humorist extraordinaire of Provo, UT, also had a run-in (albeit online) with the Totally Awesome Gun Toting “Superdell.” You just can’t make this stuff up!
A few months ago, I said the guy on the Totally Awesome Computer commercials was so annoying, I would sooner smash him in the head with a computer than buy one from him. This resulted in an exchange of e-mails with the guy himself — Superdell, he’s called –
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I told him if he did lots of business, fine, but as for me, his commercials annoy me to the point of wanting nothing to do with Totally Awesome Computers.
That’s when the friendly stopped. He wrote (and this is just how I received it):
I can’t believe someone educated to your level would have such a weak mind! Why would you not want to save $100, get a better computer and better service simply because your emotions are stronger than your common sense. I don’t care if you are a total [vulgar expression], I would buy from you if you had the better deal. … Suggesting that people should get all emotional, and boycott a product is unwise. You should be charged with malpractice ['cause I'm a doctor, you know] or fired for having such a ridiculous opinion! [If columnists got fired every time they had a ridiculous opinion, would Ann Landers still be writing? Trick question; Ann hasn't expressed an opinion, ridiculous or otherwise, in well over 30 years.] Are you having that female time of the month by chance? Sounds very childish! [And that female time of the month crack was the picture of maturity. What is the female time of the month, anyway? I didn't realize the month was divided into genders like Spanish nouns.] What next? Not buying from people because they are black? Or not of your religion? Just because people are different doesn’t make them bad. [No, it's being annoying that makes them bad.] Use your brain mister IQ! I still love you but you should grow up so you don’t have to avoid every business of whom you didn’t like their ads for the rest of your life.
This guy was just bound to crack.
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That’s totally awesome!!
What is with the “I still love you,” bit? He always say that on his commercials and now in this gem of an article. That alone was always enough to annoy me. And I would definately pay $100 more to get a computer from anyone else so I wouldn’t have to buy one from him.
“This guy was just bound to crack.”
This guy is ON crack.
Marketing isn’t just about name recoginition, it also involves building brand equity. Clearly , Mr. Superdell has not understood that the brand that he is creating through his commercials is one that offends some people. Many (most even) people make purchase decisions based on brand more than price, look at cars, or clothes. Price is just one piece of the puzzle.
Dale is totally awesome and an idiot
This guy is over the top. I am SOOOOOOOO glad his “best computer store on the planet” is now the deadest computer store on the planet. I would never buy a computer from any company he worked for, let alone from him not because of price and quality, but because of his instability. He accuses you of getting all emotional…DID HE EVEN READ HIS OWN REPLY!?! I want nothing to do with Dell Schanze.