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As the title says, has anyone bought anything based off an advert, whether it be in print or on the TV? Also was it directly from an advert or perhaps within a few days as something you just had to have?
Personally, I don't think I have ever bought something that has been sparked off by an advert. It's usually something I need, instead of something advertised to me.
It was decades between, but for years they advertised a product called the Clap-On that you plug into and outlet and then plug a device you want to control into it. I had a specific need for a device like this and bought one about 6 years ago.
Does a sales flier count as an advert? It sounds like you're talking about a specific product ad and not a flier a store sends out.
No. Adverts don't work on me. As a child, I must have mithered my mam for about a million things I saw on adverts, but the continual disappointment of having a mam who was skint and couldn't afford such fripperies, probably hardened my spirit to them as I grew up. Cheers, mam. :)
I recently started using Old Spice deodorant thanks to the Old Spice Guy, but that's the only thing I can recall in recent history.
I bought a PedEgg. I should have known better.
Yes, specifically food. Commercials and print advertisements can be good for sparking a particular food craving. For a lot of other things, advertisements are where the actual awareness of the product/brand even existing came from, though the decision to eventually buy it grew from necessity or interest rather than directly from the ad.
All the time. What the heck, I don't think I'd ever bought a case of Dos Equis before the Most Interesting Man in the World planted it in my mind. (And it's not even like I thought, while watching the commercial, "I'll buy that" -- I was just in the Beer Store, deciding what to buy, and bang -- why not what the MIMitW drinks, when he drinks beer.)
Advertising works.
My wife was a Russian bride.
Damn ad was full of lies. She completely can't brew her own beer or rebuilt a transmission.