Aggressive marketing.
What a disgusting social attitude!
Greek telephony has grown rapidly, exactly like commercial banking.
During his “infinite prosperity” reign, Chinaman, a famous but obsolete politician. Flattered by a common stock exchange paradox, Chinaman persuaded almost a country to dig up their life savings in order to invest in a virtual economy.
After the mid nineties, rumors talk about a million individual local entries in the stock market. That could be described as a 10% of total population. In fact, nearly one third of national households where connected to it!
Most of the “investors” had completely no idea of the procedure and lack economy fundamentals. They were just collecting their profits while indexes were constantly moving up. The art of monkey business!
Gradually all this fake prosperity faded. Professionals made a fortune from the unsuspicious. Bitter truth came as a surprise to many who just witness a system collapse helplessly. With their money inside!
There was a lot of talking about “major political scandal” and “deliberately misinformed investors”. In fact, it was their original arrogance, which caused losing great part of their savings. Of course, fraud in Greece is like coffee and sugar!
Always something happens!
But that’s not today’s point…
“Olympic” visions and widely spread stock concern forced a society to experience one of the roughest versions of capitalism. With backup savings lost or shrunk, the majority was vulnerable to emergencies and extravagant consumer needs.
For retaining prosperity fact & figures in a level, Chinaman decided to bring the banks to the game. He extended their role.
Central national bank was loaning capital with low rates and banks provided a variety of unnecessary products such as consumer loans and credit cards. Everything with extremely high interest rates.
It was then when actually started a huge campaign of aggressive marketing. Operators were constantly making random phone calls, trapping hundreds, maybe thousands of unsuspected customers into unnecessary loans.
As a result of that tactic and after a decade of service, over a million households own big time. Greek banking system is described as one of the most profitable in the world!
Someone instructed me to watch prime time commercials in a free-to-air channel. He said that I could learn a lot about a society’s level of prosperity. There are some categories like luxury cars and multinational beverages, but beyond all time classics exists the only (well…) truth.
Once there was a so-called “war of yogurt”. Milk industry fought for the leading market share and few companies spent much with daily commercials of their products.
During stock exchange mania, there were many different advertisements from companies, which never targeted individuals for their products. Their main purpose is to present their real or future activities in order to attract “investors” for their stock.
After the downfall, it was the “selling dreams” industry that rose to the television throne. Lotteries and betting looked as the only ticket to richness. Funny thing to mention: there was not actually a fight. The public monopoly just attempting to increase its profits, supporting struggling airplay and of-course preparing its own way to the stock market!
Every sign of glamour seemed to be lost forever. Mobile phone-related companies took the lead. But the last big bang come from telephony. It was the loss of OTE monopoly that provided another new world of opportunities. Plenty of newly established companies tried to persuade consumers to chose their own services.
Like in banking, none of those companies had their own network infrastructure. They were just buying cheap from OTE and selling pure clean… air. In fact they still do!
I was sick and tired of being harassed by private telephony companies. Numerous times a day, an aggressive operator kept bugging me about “real bargains”. I just couldn’t get rid of those shotgun calls. Gradually, the market shaped its share, situation cooled but never stopped. Nowadays, even OTE follows that kind of aggressive marketing. Even I refused to leave OTE for some monkey competitor, such tactics will inevitably make me reconsider.
Today, I get annoying phone calls from every possible kind. I think I’m very close of my first “thank you and fuck off” reply to the next part-time operator!
God, give them a list and they’ll kill you for nothing!
There must be a law against all those nutcrackers!
At least, something must be done.
I’ll start collecting signatures someday!
One effective way is to make those shotgun calls myself!
But still, I have to wait for the economic crisis to resolve first.
It was yesterday when I made that “prosperity test” on prime time advertisement. I can say for sure that nearly 2/3 of the television spots referred to bank loans. Felt sorry about everything.
Something’s wrong lads!
Well, no news in this, but still, its difficult to vision a world full of beggars.
So, just in case you didn’t realize the exact size of damage:
We are plenty! Doomed but cool!
And an extra rotten wish (free of charge):
What a disgusting social attitude!
Greek telephony has grown rapidly, exactly like commercial banking.
During his “infinite prosperity” reign, Chinaman, a famous but obsolete politician. Flattered by a common stock exchange paradox, Chinaman persuaded almost a country to dig up their life savings in order to invest in a virtual economy.
After the mid nineties, rumors talk about a million individual local entries in the stock market. That could be described as a 10% of total population. In fact, nearly one third of national households where connected to it!
Most of the “investors” had completely no idea of the procedure and lack economy fundamentals. They were just collecting their profits while indexes were constantly moving up. The art of monkey business!
Gradually all this fake prosperity faded. Professionals made a fortune from the unsuspicious. Bitter truth came as a surprise to many who just witness a system collapse helplessly. With their money inside!
There was a lot of talking about “major political scandal” and “deliberately misinformed investors”. In fact, it was their original arrogance, which caused losing great part of their savings. Of course, fraud in Greece is like coffee and sugar!
Always something happens!
But that’s not today’s point…
“Olympic” visions and widely spread stock concern forced a society to experience one of the roughest versions of capitalism. With backup savings lost or shrunk, the majority was vulnerable to emergencies and extravagant consumer needs.
For retaining prosperity fact & figures in a level, Chinaman decided to bring the banks to the game. He extended their role.
Central national bank was loaning capital with low rates and banks provided a variety of unnecessary products such as consumer loans and credit cards. Everything with extremely high interest rates.
It was then when actually started a huge campaign of aggressive marketing. Operators were constantly making random phone calls, trapping hundreds, maybe thousands of unsuspected customers into unnecessary loans.
As a result of that tactic and after a decade of service, over a million households own big time. Greek banking system is described as one of the most profitable in the world!
Someone instructed me to watch prime time commercials in a free-to-air channel. He said that I could learn a lot about a society’s level of prosperity. There are some categories like luxury cars and multinational beverages, but beyond all time classics exists the only (well…) truth.
Once there was a so-called “war of yogurt”. Milk industry fought for the leading market share and few companies spent much with daily commercials of their products.
During stock exchange mania, there were many different advertisements from companies, which never targeted individuals for their products. Their main purpose is to present their real or future activities in order to attract “investors” for their stock.
After the downfall, it was the “selling dreams” industry that rose to the television throne. Lotteries and betting looked as the only ticket to richness. Funny thing to mention: there was not actually a fight. The public monopoly just attempting to increase its profits, supporting struggling airplay and of-course preparing its own way to the stock market!
Every sign of glamour seemed to be lost forever. Mobile phone-related companies took the lead. But the last big bang come from telephony. It was the loss of OTE monopoly that provided another new world of opportunities. Plenty of newly established companies tried to persuade consumers to chose their own services.
Like in banking, none of those companies had their own network infrastructure. They were just buying cheap from OTE and selling pure clean… air. In fact they still do!
I was sick and tired of being harassed by private telephony companies. Numerous times a day, an aggressive operator kept bugging me about “real bargains”. I just couldn’t get rid of those shotgun calls. Gradually, the market shaped its share, situation cooled but never stopped. Nowadays, even OTE follows that kind of aggressive marketing. Even I refused to leave OTE for some monkey competitor, such tactics will inevitably make me reconsider.
Today, I get annoying phone calls from every possible kind. I think I’m very close of my first “thank you and fuck off” reply to the next part-time operator!
God, give them a list and they’ll kill you for nothing!
There must be a law against all those nutcrackers!
At least, something must be done.
I’ll start collecting signatures someday!
One effective way is to make those shotgun calls myself!
But still, I have to wait for the economic crisis to resolve first.
It was yesterday when I made that “prosperity test” on prime time advertisement. I can say for sure that nearly 2/3 of the television spots referred to bank loans. Felt sorry about everything.
Something’s wrong lads!
Well, no news in this, but still, its difficult to vision a world full of beggars.
So, just in case you didn’t realize the exact size of damage:
We are plenty! Doomed but cool!
And an extra rotten wish (free of charge):
Have a nice day!
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