Finally - someone putting their money where their mouths are!
I just bought some tyres from Firestone Direct and was really impressed.
They didn't rip me off, understood exactly the type of tyres I needed for my
car, and were generally good buggers to deal with.
The reason I'm sending this in though, is because I found out about their
Price Beater Guarantee - they promise to beat any competitor's quote on car
tyres or they give you a hundy, in cash!
I went down to the branch on the Strand but apparently they do that in all
their stores.
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I went to the supermarket the other day to buy some Continental Soup but I couldn't find it.
That's because they've changed the packaging.
It's the one with the big C on it.
(What's that?)
The one with the big C on it. You'll find it right where it's always been, but now looking even better.
S
2:34 pm NZST
Cheers Scott
3:00 pm NZST
No worries Ben.
S
3:51 pm NZST
Folks. I hereby apologise for one of our suits getting on our creative blog site. As for you Ben, I'm sure there's a David Gray or Coldplay chatroom you could play on.
Bob Kerrigan.
4:02 pm NZST
Apology accepted.
Quick! Someone set up nzsuitcircle.blogspot.com
A place to talk about JCRs whatever the fuck they are.
4:07 pm NZST
Fantastic. They could talk about how much paper they shuffled and how many pills they stuck up their bums in the weekend.
4:12 pm NZST
Awesome idea. They could trade 'lazy creative' gags like"bring the afternoon paper did you?" or "got nothing do do have we?" and talk about their best brief lines this week like "incredible piece of kit" ,"vanilla","onion" and "media cloud".
4:17 pm NZST
OK, that's just great. By any chance did you just forget to mention that you drove around and got a written quote from every tyre shop in Auckland to get the best price. Then went down there and got them to beat it? Or are you just a cretin?
4:19 pm NZST
Is someone in the process of setting this up? 'Tis genius.
4:27 pm NZST
nzsuitcircle, that is.
4:28 pm NZST
Who'd organise it. It would take 8 suits three weeks of discussion when to have the first meeting.
4:29 pm NZST
What with P. O'Neil leaving, Ben has to take up the 'shimmer' effect.
4:36 pm NZST
I just interupted a meeting where the suits were discussing the phrases they were going to use in a meeting with the client. They couldn't decide and agreed to meet in the morning to resolve it.
5:47 pm NZST
Will they be meeting over bagels or low-fat Muesli with low-fat yoghurt?
6:25 pm NZST
lay off the crack.
7:51 am NZST
The guy who wrote the original email is a junior suit called Ben. He works at Whybins. He drives a Rav 4.
Whybins do the Firestone ads. I think his strategy is to come across as the really enthusiastic - but ultimately annoying - suit who thinks writing stuff like this will make up for lack of insights and clear, defined, briefs.
He came from Saatchis.
8:01 am NZST
I agree with the angry person. It was as transparent as the beer at a wellington cricket match. Not very clever to put on here.
8:28 am NZST
Yeah, more appropriate for http://nzsuitscircle.blogspot.com/ the new, hip and happening place for people who wear loafers and business shirts with 'wild' prints over the top.
8:35 am NZST
http://nzsuitscircle.blogspot.com/ - Brilliant. It's good to know that a creative didn't write it.
8:55 am NZST
Once again, apologies everyone for the suit, especially the guy on P.
9:20 am NZST
As Bob said - it was not a junior creative who wrote this shameless piece of client promotion on our blog site, it was a suit.
We are taking steps to ensure this kind of stuff doesn't happen again. The tyres (Bridgestone RE54s) on his RAV4 (complete piece of shit car that remind me of a mini with a hunk of plastic bunged on the side of it) are being let down as we speak.
Cheers,
S.
9:24 am NZST
You'll notice the P guy actually posted his first comment at 9.55. Probably still at work trying to art direct a circle.
9:31 am NZST
Ben Pegler. Now Ben the Junior Suit.
Any more people with the name Ben we can take the piss out of?
Yes, there is. Karl Fleet.
9:36 am NZST
Or he spent 4 hours trying to figure out how to do those xcvjkfkg code things and press send.
9:36 am NZST
Hey Guys, could you please hurry up and finish those scripts? I'm off to see the client in 10min..
From the suit that looks like George from Desperate Housewives.
9:39 am NZST
I'm not on P, just understandably angry.
9:47 am NZST
RE54s? I prefer the Bridgestone D694, myself. It's a great tyre, especially in the wet whether you off-road regularly, or just want to drive down to the shops.
9:57 am NZST
You P smokers all say that.
10:02 am NZST
Sorry guys,
The letting down of the tyres didn't work.
I'm just gunna go up there and punch him now.
S.
10:05 am NZST
Guys, it's happened before and it needs to be stopped. There are suits on our site again. This is almost worse than the poms invading our agencies.
10:05 am NZST
Luckily they stick out like a ladyboy in prison. It really was pathetic. "generally good bugger to deal with" If I pulled this line on my CD he'd bugger me for sure.
10:16 am NZST
Yeah, but the poms do such great ideas that are stolen from movies and TV shows.
They come with such great hype. They are always such a let down.
10:16 am NZST
Make a change from the pearl necklaces they so greatfully receive from clients.
11:04 am NZST
Guys. I really don't like the font on this site.
11:21 am NZST
I once heard one mention that he thought the type needed some curding.
He meant kearning.
Bless.
S.
11:25 am NZST
That was a typically thoughtless and disrespectful thing that suit did. What a soul-less sellout. Especially seeing as there's better deals around, like ANZ now have a competitive home loan rate, plus you get a free holiday with any loan drawn down before april 3rd.
11:26 am NZST
Sorry I'm late on the site today guys, just had to get my comment sighed off by Ben Sendrove.
11:28 am NZST
Hey, looks like P guy finally got some sleep.
11:31 am NZST
Well your going to have to change your comment, the client doesn't like it and they're always right. After all, at the end of the day they pay your wages...
11:34 am NZST
That's you again isn't it Ben?
You can borrow Brendon's spade.
11:59 am NZST
11:34 - It's 'you're' not your! What is wrong with you? How hard is it? Or are you just picking it up like bird flu from other illiterates?
12:16 pm NZST
Briscoes have got a sale on!
12:18 pm NZST
This is getting even sillier than usual.
12:34 pm NZST
He's mixing his crack with his P again.
1:00 pm NZST
Is Tarquin a boy or girls name?
1:08 pm NZST
Now now lets all calm down. We all need each other and we know it. We need suits to plate the clients, media because no-one else in their right minds would want to do that job, production because not everyone can go to university, planners because it's probably safer to have them in an agency than on the client side, and creatives to stand outside pubs and look crucial.
1:10 pm NZST
Is Jello a dessert or an anal lubricant?
1:11 pm NZST
A "Migrationary Brief" is one that's so bad that the work it causes results in the client migrating to another agency.
1:11 pm NZST
A "Migrainery Brief" is one that is jolly difficult to crack.
1:14 pm NZST
Jolly?
Go home pom.
1:18 pm NZST
Why do you ask about anal lube?
Do you always receive arse-punches from clients?
1:19 pm NZST
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Ahhhh.
1:20 pm NZST
Man. Just came out of this excellent meeting where we really nailed a classic migrationary brief.
Don't really have a proposition yet but will just show the guys a few of the old ads and see what they come up with.
The we'll write a reverse brief and brief it in to a different team.
Man this job's hard when you forget the keyboard shortcuts for copying and pasting.
1:38 pm NZST
Sorry Tarquin,
Can't help. We're all on Macs. They're logical.
Go buy some tyres.
1:44 pm NZST
Jello, meet me in the toilets in the Domain (South End) at 9:30 (got a trade ad to do) tonight.
1:57 pm NZST
Orrr god... now we've got bumfuckery going on on this blog. What next; a client?
2:00 pm NZST
Ben Sendrove's Diary
Wednesday 22nd 12:30pm
Guerilla marketing attempt made for client, posted a heart-felt, yet down-to-earth entry on nzcreativecircle. Aiming to spread wom marketing through buzz. Inspired, if do say so myself. The big R will be well pleased with my initiative. He's so amazing, think I have what it takes to make the move up to acc director, just need to keep coming up with inspired, out-of-the-box marketing ideas like these.
Wednesday 22nd 10pm
Just logged back into the blog to see if my entry caused much buzz. (mental note: use that term in discussion to client to sound like I have my finger on the pulse) Seems people aren't that happy with my post. I don't understand why. So glad the site is anonymous! Lucky for me no one knows it's me that posted it. Hope R doesn't find out. Hope the client doesn't find out! Anyway, I'm sure that tomorrow will bring some more positive responses and kudos for me. Fingers crossed. A little anxious but will listen to my James Blunt cd to calm myself before I go to sleep. Hmm, is tomorrow going to be a pink shirt day, or should I go for the light blue one? Wonder if my ass looks a little chunky in the dark blue pants I normally wear with the pink shirt. Might go with light blue shirt and black pants - more slimming. Big day ahead after all!
Wednesday 22nd 10:10pm
Bugger me, somebody has threatened to kill me. That's just going to far. This would never happen in the Mother land. Fucking colonies.
Thursday 23rd 8:05am
Fuck, fuck, fuck. I've been outed. Not only that, they referred to me as a 'junior' suit. Wankers. I'm not a junior. Called me ultimately annoying...implied I lack insights. How should I deal with this? How would the big R deal with this? I have insight, I'm fucking British.
Thursday 23rd 9:30am
Dirtied my hands changing my tyres. One of my own let them down. This is not a good day. Can barely concentrate on the contact report I'm writing. Disastrous. Resolve never to post on that blog again. Worst of all, now everyone knows I drive a rav 4. Should have bought that old beemer after all. Always been embarrassing that rav 4. Can't exactly rock up to Prego in it.
Thursday 23rd 10:20am
Got blood on my shirt. One of my own punched me in the nose. Devastated. Don't understand how this could have turned out so badly. Bugger, bugger, bugger. Caught the receptionist sniggering, I wonder if it was about me.
Thursday 23rd 10:28am
Now they are calling me a ladyboy. Must stop refreshing blog page and finish this contact report. Will not log in again for the rest of the day. So depressed I ate one of the chocolate bars from reception. Can feel it on my thighs already.
Thursday 11:30am
I couldn't help myself, had to log in. Things just got worse; they've used my last name too. Everyone is smirking at me. I think my ass looks chunky in these pants anyway. Fuck. Utterly disastrous day.
Thursday 1:57pm
Phew! Looks like the discussion has moved on from me. Thank god. Let's just hope no one mentions me again! Feeling better, just finished my best ever contact report.
2:43 pm NZST
genius Rob.
2:59 pm NZST
I think the line was just crossed there.
S.
5:03 pm NZST
hahahahahahahahaha. That's fucken funny.
5:58 pm NZST
Genius. I cried.
6:34 pm NZST
I think that'll be the last piece of moronic suit spam we'll be seeing on the site for a while. Nice, nice work 2:43pm.
My favourite bit from Ben's initial post is the 'hundy' word. Trying so hard to sound like a kiwi.
7:40 pm NZST
That you Ben?
8:21 pm NZST
"there hands" - bloody suits.
12:46 am NZST
I could be completely off base here, but don't Mother in the UK operate without suits?
The Poms can't be completely retarded.
Maybe it was just something I dreamed of.
9:28 am NZST
If I had a fiver for every time I'd heard a creative say "who needs suits?" I'd have a lot of fivers. So many start-ups have tried operating without suits and inevitably end up hiring them because it's such a shit job that sidetracks you from doing ads. The time it takes to argue the toss with a client over the size of the logo is soul destroying. Just get used to the simple idea that you do the ads and the suit takes it to the client and you can't go wrong. It doesn't mean that you have to like them or anything.
9:56 am NZST
"So depressed I ate one of the chocolate bars from reception. Can feel it on my thighs already."
Brilliant piece of work 2.43.
Kia kaha Ben.
10:01 am NZST
I like suits but I couldn't eat a whole one
10:16 am NZST
Scott, can I borrow your sharpie?
10:27 am NZST
So much time on my hands . . . .
hmmm . . . .
Don't you think that Brendon McLean looks like George from desperate Housewives?
10:39 am NZST
All I say say Ben is, if you don't want your drink spiked, don't go to Sponge.
11:00 am NZST
Yeah sorry Ben, I know its a lame way to meet people but I was to shy to just say hullo so I slipt a mickey into your tennents
11:05 am NZST
'slipt'. Puuleeeese.
12:25 pm NZST
I reckon you've both slipt up - puuleeeese.
3:18 pm NZST
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