Lets not forget the black Samsung fridge freezer that is resplendent in the kitchen

Don't believe in MASERATI subliminal messages 

This thread was brought to you by....Samsung.

I don't watch football 

I'm a 'Ello Tosh got a Toshiba' gal!

     They did their job then?

Mine's a Panny telly and a Tosh lappy

My phone is Samsung... it's a bit shit ©Zaph

I do have a Samsung fone - cost me £15 - but with the deal I got it actually cost me nowt & I had £37 credit when I left the shop 

 They're EVERYWHERE!

OMG Slim I had forgotten about that advert

Embarrassing wot one remembers sometimes Issy  

Have to say though that home TV & DVD recorder are also Toshiba - larder fridge however is a coop's home grown! 

Bloomin eck! Hoochie

It took ages to decide on a fridge freezer - the space in the kitchen wasn't quite wide enough for an American style one but this samsung one ticked all the boxes.

I should have known...

How do you get the samsung chocolate?

Were you cajoled into it Issy 

I don't like combi anything so have a larder fridge & chest freezer ....

No not really - I will be honest and say that I have always liked Samsung as a brand so really was quite pleased when we decided on that one.

It got rave reviews as well....

But is it a bit shit?

I have a samsung touchscreen mobile and a samsung LED tv. They both pretty good but I also had a samsung colour laser printer and sent it back is it was faulty. 

Never had samsung choccy though

I just bought a new external hard drive. I can't bring myself to tell you who made it.

I loved my Samsung phone, I have a BB now and it is nowhere near as good.

I will return to the Samsung one day.

Yeah!

But it lets me make/receive calls & texts - am happy with that  

Anything dearer would be a waste cos I'm a bit shit where fones are concerned!

I've been quite loyal to Samsung phones despite the Chelsea connection. I was quite loyal to O2 despite the Arsenal connection.  But then, I'm not 12 year old glory hunter or wannabe wag, who may probably sees things somewhat differently.

I often wonder whether companies sponsoring football clubs actually work.  I remember years ago Sharp sponsoring Manure for many seasons, presumably at the time Sharp were paying the top fee in football sponsorship, yet Sharp never really became a leading brand during that time and I would say that Sharp, over the period they sponsored Man U declined.

Well it's clearly worked on me  Ditto on the O2 thing by the way, I went O2 for phone network I couldn't care less who they sponsor.

I'll stick with my Nokia phone. 

Exactly, but if anything, the association with a football club could be turn off with fans of other clubs. Generally, I've never really rated Samsung for anything except their mobiles.  I think there are fans who will specifically avoid the products.  I suppose Chelsea and other big clubs are in a different category because they're on international TV so much.

Luckily, Ipswich Town are sponsored by an arms deal arranger and a few years before that, Fisons (fertiliser) so there's never been much chance of me indirectly funding Ipswich Town!

The day I see SMEG spread across footballers shirts, is the day I'll buy something else, probably. 

I know for a fact this happens. So, no evidence at all that they gain from having their name on a football shirt but plenty that they lose business through it. Seems crazy to me.

That's what I was thinking but the more I thought about it, the more I could see that perhaps there is a gain. Not in this country, but on a world wide scale, maybe so.

Take the (former) big four, those club's matches are broadcast all around the world.  So would a Man U fan in Thailand have any great animosity for Liverpool? Plus glory hunters don't tend to share the animosity for local rivals that the hardcore seem to.  So I'd very much doubt it.  For all I know, people in Thailand might think Manchester's in London or a part of London or that Tottenham is a city somewhere in England. Would someone in China know that Everton is in Liverpool, when Liverpool exist?  Would they know that West Ham are in London but West Brom are in, West Bromwich?

Samsung are international, so Chelsea are promoting Samsung internationally.  So while someone in this country might be less likely to buy a Samsung product, internationally, that won't be the case.

Even in that scenario it still doesn't provide any evidence that people would see the sponsorship as a positive thing. Will someone in China really go out and buy Samsung products because they are a Chelsea fan and they see the name on the shirt? Glory-hunters follow the team not the sponsor. Much as I joke about subliminals Samsung make fine products. All sponsorship does for me is ruin a perfectly good football shirt. Don't get me started on stadium name rights...

It's all about product recognition, surely.

TV adverts can put me off buying certain products, but seeing a name on a shirt just helps my memory, I think, maybe. 

I quite like it when they take the shirts off, tbh. 

I'll second that 

And I know who not to go to for an insurance broker! 

Effing ad does my nut! 

Guess which one ? 

It might not but lets not tell the sponsers as most football clubs aren't as rich as the big 4 and need the money pretty much all those outside the premiership do in any case

I've no idea.

I really don't take any notice of advertising, tbh,

Unless it's Pecs. com. 

Footballers without shirts do nothing for me ...

BUT I really wanted to buy a SMEG fridge - just a little too expensive I'm afraid..

Originally Posted by SazBomb:

But is it a bit shit?

Yeah!

But it lets me make/receive calls & texts - am happy with that  

Anything dearer would be a waste cos I'm a bit shit where fones are concerned!

The handset is fine, but I don't like the way the menus are set out. The most annoying thing though is the dictionary - you can add words in and it's really hit and miss whether it stores them Sometimes my word will be there for a few days, then it's disappeared