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Stuart G

(38,357 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 05:06 PM Apr 2018

Time to expose an advertising lie..Yahoo News exposes the lie to ads you have seen.

Two young people in an ad that tells you ..."two math grads who are disrupting insurance industry"

If you hit the link below, it is an honest Yahoo Finance story that shows how one company has made a fortune lying to internet users. It is a real link, and won't harm your computer. Please give the article a chance to load completely ...Once it is loaded, then scroll down about 4 pictures to see the real founders of the company. They are not young attractive young people. It is a short story, and you can pass it on. And most important, it is totally legit and the truth......Scroll down till you find a picture with 2 mid- aged white guys.....the picture is titled..........................................
.EverQuote co-founders Seth Birnbaum (L) and Tomas Revesz (Photo source: John Reynolds for The Boston Globe).

Hope you found this useful and interesting..


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/real-story-behind-those-two-math-grads-who-are-disrupting-auto-insurance-industry-192118360.html

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gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. Wait; you're saying click-bait ads may not be on the up and up?
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 06:05 PM
Apr 2018

Whoa. Imma need to sit down for a minute.

Stuart G

(38,357 posts)
2. Yes, ....."click - bait ads"...may not on the "up and up."..
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 06:28 PM
Apr 2018

Those companies would get you if they could...

Interesting footnote...Question..why did Yahoo News publish something like this?...I think I might have a good guess.......................................................
...Yahoo had allowed these ads on their website for a number of years. After many complaints, that Yahoo was encouraging a certain kind of almost "fraud"...not quite, but almost, by allowing the ads, so in answer to the complaints about the nature of the ads...., they published this article on the company.

... And I do not know if Yahoo still takes those ads. Many, many, many sites do allow these ads to appear no matter what the background story is.....Why?..and another question....Why is the company still running the ads?

.........Why do the sites accept ads that might be not true or suspicious?
..........answer....... websites like to have the revenue that the ads bring in...The ads are ads, they are not on a web site for ...
..... FREE.... Companies charge to put those ads up for us to see....

QUESTION NUMBER 2...........WHY ARE THOSE ADS STILL UP THERE?..... those ads have been up there for many months, or maybe years...why are they still up there....????

............answer....very simple.....these ads are targeted in a way that somehow works....that is ..if the ads did not sucker people into calling the company, or contacting the company..then the ads would be taken down, or better yet, the company would go broke putting these ads up for people to see...Therefore, a person could and would conclude...............
...................................one simple fact................THE ADS WORK TO SUCKER PEOPLE INTO CONTACTING the company.YES THEY WORK,.... OR THEY WOULD BE TAKEN DOWN. Ads that don't work, don't last long..

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Initech

(99,909 posts)
3. They need a whole article to tell you those ads are bullshit?
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 07:37 PM
Apr 2018

I could have told you that and I didn't write it!

Stuart G

(38,357 posts)
4. Yes, you and I know they are .."bullshit lies" I used to teach this in high school...But
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 08:06 PM
Apr 2018

If they did not work, they would be gone.
... Worse than the ads, this is a bullshit company. At the Better Business Bureau, there is a record of people calling and writing in. The company responds with more lies. Here is a link to the BBB. site that deals with this company...............Hit the link, you will see most complaints, are very negative..some positive comments but those are fake..(in my opinion) The company, Everquote puts those positive ones up to balance the negative ones...

:https://www.bbb.org/boston/business-reviews/internet-marketing-services/everquote-inc-in-cambridge-ma-122911/reviews-and-complaints

Initech

(99,909 posts)
5. If I see the word "brilliant" in a click bait ad, I immediately think "bullshit".
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 08:46 PM
Apr 2018

Of course these companies cater to people who don't know that.

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