Consumption Junction Sucks Ass

[-=HUNGRYMAN=-]

Here is the header of their February ad campaign that another nameless webmaster board spammed me with ....

Extremely bad taste ... I won't give them any business that is as certain as death and taxes !! :mad:

[GOD]

That's sacreligeous !!

:(

[CumSensei]

Hmm thats not so cool...

Remember when there where companies trying to make a few bucks scamming after the towers went down.

[Mister X]

Yeah I got that fucker in my email this morning. Whoever did that one is either dumber than a sack of politicians or just a big asshole with no fucking class. Probably both.:mad:

[MarcfromCJ]

Come on people, lighten up! Have you ever been to CJ? We're all about "poor taste" humor. Didn't you guys ever read Mad Magazine when you were kids? We're equal-opportunity offenders. As for the whole "trying to make money off the tragedy" line, that's just ridiculous. It's not like we're selling "I went to Texas and all I got was this chunk of astronaut on my T-Shirt" shirts. We're selling traffic. That has nothing to do with the Columbia accident. The ad was designed to grab your attention and it obviously did that. If you can't take a joke, then we probably don't want to work with you. You don't have to respect us, but keep this in mind, we've got 6,500,000 people that think the same way we do, visit our site religiously, and buy porn. If you're judgemental nature and inablity to take a joke causes you to not want to business with us, fine. You're the ones missing out. There are plenty of others who can take the joke, buy the traffic, and get the joins.

[MarcfromCJ]

One of our associates on another board posted this:

"If there was no demand or market in the world for truly tasteless humor, then why was everyone telling those horrid "challenger" jokes back in the late 80's? People, virtually every disaster on Earth is joked about. There's a period of respectful morning... then BAM, out come the jokes, and people laugh. Disasters are what give us a sense of how short life is and brings us down to reality, Humor is the medicine that lifts us up."

So, with that in mind:

SHUTTLE JOKES

Q: Did you know that Christa McAuliffe was blue eyed?
A: One blew left and one blew right.



Q: What were Christa McAuliffe's last words?
A: "What's this button do?"



Q: What were Christa McAuliffe's last words to her husband?
A: "You feed the kids - I'll feed the fish."



Q: What was the Shuttle's last transmission?
A: "I said BUD LITE!"



Q: What does NASA stand for?
A1: Need Another Seven Astronauts
A2: Need Another Shuttle Also
A3: Chicken Kiev [Ed: Punchline to another joke.]



Q: Did you know why there was only one black crew member on Challenger?
A: They didn't know it was going to blow up.



Q: Did you know that NASA has a new space drink?
A: Ocean Spray - It was their second choice because they couldn't
get 7-UP.



Q: When the next shuttle launches into space, what will the senior
controller say?
A: "72, 73, 74 BOOM! - Just kidding guys!"



Q: What do Playtex tampon users and Christa McAuliffe have in common?
A: They both should have stayed on the pad.



Q: What does a sea lion, the space shuttle and Tylenol have in common?
A: They're all looking for a tight seal.



Q: How many people will fit in a Florida Volkswagen?
A: Four in the seats and seven in the ashtray.



Q: On future shuttle missions, why will one of the astronauts have to
be a naval officer?
A: So when they decide to use it as an experimental submarine, they'll
have a rated officer onboard.



Q: What do Christa McAuliffe and Donna Rice have in common.
A: They both went down on the challenger.



Q: Did you hear that they are sending up another teacher on the next
shuttle mission?
A: She's going to be a substitute.

[barryf]

BAD TASTE

But then again that's why I advertise there :D

B

[Machinegunkelly]

yeah thats totally disrespectfull ,
wonder if topbucks, etc know that their names are on this banner?

if so thats pretty sad .

[ParasiteTV]

I think that ad is funny, ParasiteTV subscribes to the same kind of humor...(we also read too much MAD as kids, hehe)
Don't get your panties in a bunch...

Nice one CJ!

:D

[twinkley]

Personally I find it distasteful. If their advertisers dont care, more power to them. I do. I didnt ask for this. I didnt opt in. I got spammed.

Yes, this IS the same type of humor as some of the stuff on CJ - which is why I choose not to watch it. I surely didnt choose to see this.

Thats my issue with it.

twinkley

[ParasiteTV]

Everybody draws a line at a different point... Some people find anal distasteful, some people find BDSM disgusting... some love scat sports, some think it's repulsive.
Humor works in the same way.

Interesting story; one time at an art gallery there was a series of photos... ranging from a couple kissing to beastiality. There was a long peice of scrap paper under the series, and it said, "You Draw The Line."

Needless to say the paper had more lines than a pair of cords...

Just a thought.

[Crak_JMan]

Originally posted by MarcfromCJ
Come on people, lighten up! Have you ever been to CJ? We're all about "poor taste" humor. Didn't you guys ever read Mad Magazine when you were kids? We're equal-opportunity offenders. As for the whole "trying to make money off the tragedy" line, that's just ridiculous. It's not like we're selling "I went to Texas and all I got was this chunk of astronaut on my T-Shirt" shirts. We're selling traffic. That has nothing to do with the Columbia accident. The ad was designed to grab your attention and it obviously did that. If you can't take a joke, then we probably don't want to work with you. You don't have to respect us, but keep this in mind, we've got 6,500,000 people that think the same way we do, visit our site religiously, and buy porn. If you're judgemental nature and inablity to take a joke causes you to not want to business with us, fine. You're the ones missing out. There are plenty of others who can take the joke, buy the traffic, and get the joins.

Hey Marc,

How you doing bro, looks like you guys are busy getting more exposure and traffic and make people $$$$ while some others have all the time in the world to complain ... I wonder why ;-))))))))))))

All I Need to say about CJ is that the site ROCKS, the Gang ROCKS and their traffic CONVERTS.

Well you shold not beleive me but you should have a look for yourself.

When you coming to Montreal Marc ???

[ParasiteTV]

Does Nadine say anything to ya? hehe... I might be wrong tho.

[Crak_JMan]

Originally posted by ParasiteTV
Does Nadine say anything to ya? hehe... I might be wrong tho.

Who's Nadine ?

[Crak_JMan]

If you are talking about Nadia my ex wife, well yeah we still talk ;-)

[ParasiteTV]

Naw, sorry, you're not who I thought you were... but your pic does look alot like this guy I knew...

[Crak_JMan]

Originally posted by ParasiteTV
Naw, sorry, you're not who I thought you were... but your pic does look alot like this guy I knew...

If it's a guy you knew and he;s from montreal that's probably be me ;-)

[LAJ]

Originally posted by -=HUNGRYMAN=-
Extremely bad taste ... I won't give them any business that is as certain as death and taxes !! :mad:


Hey Hungryman... so you think that starting threads about them on a webmaster board is a good way to not "give them any business??" :bonk:

[Mister X]

I have no issue with fuckheads being able to make whatever kind of sick joke they want. What I do have an issue with is Platinum Bucks sending me this piece of shit tasteless crap spam. If I want to go to a site and laugh about dead babies and shit I will. I don't want it in my email. I've never been to Consumption Junction and I didn't sign up to any list there. I don't like spam and I lost a lot of respect for Platinum Bucks for sending me the piece of shit in question.

I can take a joke with the best of them. Even sick jokes. Hell I've been to Stile project and the rest of those sites. I've looked at pictures of Chris Farley lying dead on the floor of his motel room and I wasn't morally offended or anything of the sort. But none of them ever had the simple lack of decency or taste to send me something like that when I didn't ask for it. And I don't really give a shit how popular the site is or how much money it makes. There's too much of a tendency in this industry to say "I can do anything I want cuz I make a ton of green and you're just a pice of shit nobody" already. Up yours Consumption Junction.

[Ryan_CJ]

See thread

http://www.xnations.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1893

[cdsmith]

Originally posted by MarcfromCJ
One of our associates on another board posted this:

"If there was no demand or market in the world for truly tasteless humor, then why was everyone telling those horrid "challenger" jokes back in the late 80's? People, virtually every disaster on Earth is joked about. There's a period of respectful morning... then BAM, out come the jokes, and people laugh. Disasters are what give us a sense of how short life is and brings us down to reality, Humor is the medicine that lifts us up." That would be me.

I also posted this:
People can disect the theme of this particular banner til the end of time. Analyze it six ways to next winter.

Or accept it for what it's worth and move on.


Looks pretty obvious that it was intended to draw a parallel between the shock of their great ad deals and the shock of the shuttle tragedy, in that both have high shock value. One is tragic, the other will shock you by how much money you make.

It ain't rocket science. Be offended, don't be offended. Knowing what I know about CJ, it's all about humor, and the pursuit of the "truly tasteless"...... so I got past it. Can you?

And I'm sure that an email to anyone at CJ requesting that you be removed from their mailing list will be honored and dealt with promptly. Nothing to get all worked up over.

[twinkley]

It's not CJ's mailing list...

[Danny_C]

Not my kind of humor.

[cdsmith]

Originally posted by twinkley
It's not CJ's mailing list... It must be somebody's mailing list. I'm on that list too, as I get regular email from CJ. My point is that I am sure that if anyone requests they get no more mails, then they will get no more mails. The end.

[twinkley]

Actually,

It's platinumbucks list. CJ just buys space on it. If your problem is with the spam, you need to talk to PB.

twinkley

[Platinum Albert]

Hello All:

Platinum Bucks has a long standing business and personal relationship with Consumption Junction.

This was a paid webmaster mailing. This advertisement is not a reflection of the views of Platinum Bucks or Platinum Bucks' webmasters. We sincerely apologize, if we offended you or any of your team members with this webmaster mailing.

This recent tradegdy is truly horrific and we keep all those who died and all their family members in our prayers.

Please accept our deepest apologies.

Respectfully Yours,
Platinum Bucks and Porno Junkies Management Team.

[Easton]

i still wear my CJ t-shirt they gave me... :D

[cdsmith]

Originally posted by Easton
i still wear my CJ t-shirt they gave me... :D Does it say "What's your dysfunction?" on it?

I want one!






Twinkly -- I guess my point was that it really doesn't matter whose mailing list it is. If a request is made to be removed from it I'm quite sure that request would be honored. I said that because a few people have bitched about getting those emails. It's not "my" beef, it is theirs.

Thank you.

[gregtx]

all of our businesses thrive on not being censored... everyone is quick to point fingers... but if you don't like it... don't use it...

I found the ad very distasteful myslef.. but it is their right as a company to build ads they see fit to help their business.. and I do respect that...

[chAos-mAtrix]

OK i have read this crap on 3 other boards and I am suprised at the amount of morality that all of you "supposedly have" i mean fuck look at what we all do for a living - NEWSFLASH: The porn industry degredates and exploits women and teens.

This is not anything that is new jesus all of these people are so moralistic when someone makes a sick joke of something it is for shock value. I know because of this i might actually buy traffic from CJ now..

Most of you know me and know that i am very laid back and happy go lucky type of person but to persecute someone for making a distasteful ad campaign is lame as fuck. I laughed my ass off. Fuck call me sick i don't care shit they are dead and so are the hundreds of people that die everyday in america i do not see any boleding hearts for them. What just cause these people are astronauts they deserve all of this reverence. Fuck they flew in space they knew the risks and now they are dead..

It is a joke learn to lighten up and realize that we are not much different with our bukkake's, fishhooks, and exploitations. Has anyone here even thought about the girls that are shot that you make all this money off of and felt man i just fucked this girls whole life up .. NO i think not .. so get off this self richeous (spelt wrong) kick and just learn to laugh.

[TDavid]

My main issue and concern, similar to Twinkley, with this mailing was that I didn't ask to receive it, I didn't sign up for it, and therefore there was no implied consent on my part to receive it. There is no privacy policy or information at PJ that says they do this when I registered -- and YES I do read and look for such messages.

I asked on the Porno Junkies board back in October of 2002 about how to get off the list and received no response from anybody at PornoJunkies. Being ignored on any board is bound to raise someone's ire.

In the PJ thread PlatinumAlbert, you said you were going to get me off the list and that you wanted to talk to me. That was like 2 going on 3 days ago and 2 emails from me later I've still heard nothing from you or any other representative from Platinum Bucks.

There's my issue, and I think it is a valid one. Just don't add me to lists without getting my permission.

If PJ had said that it was a requirement of their board that you be on these whored out email lists, then I would not be complaining about this.

Ok, now I'll take some cheese to go with my whine ;)

[TDavid]

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with PlatinumAlbert and he has addressed my concerns with PJ email policies. I'm sure almost nobody really cares, but if I'm going to say a guy hasn't contacted me then the least I can do is update in the same place when he has contacted me.

Thank you, Platinum Albert ;)

[Platinum Albert]

Hello All:

As the thread above explains, TDavid and I have discussed the issues at hand. There were miscommunications and all things have been resolved by both parties.

I encouage all of you to simply email me directly at albert@platinumbucks.com if there are any issues with Platinum Bucks and any of its products.

Thanks,
Platinum Albert

[Easton]

Originally posted by cdsmith
Does it say "What's your dysfunction?" on it?

I want one!


yeah, that's the one... :D

[MarcfromCJ]

Originally posted by Easton
yeah, that's the one... :D


Now here's truly offensive marketing:


Now till end of February, anyone who buys traffic from CJ gets .... A FREE T-SHIRT!!!

<img src="http://shop.consumptionjunction.com/images%2Fproducts%2Ftshirts%2Egif">

or FREE OFFENSIVE STICKERS!!!

<img src="http://shop.consumptionjunction.com/images%2Fproducts%2FSTICKER%2Dmain%2Ejpg">


Whatta deal! Have a good weekend fuckers. :)

[Kristin]

Okay, I have yet to post my thoughts on this subject, and I have just seen these threads too much that I will finally post. What the hell is everyone bitching about? Come on guys, it's fucking CJ...they are known for this shit. And you know what...it's clever. As a marketing and advertising person, I find it to be very creative. Shit, I have an "Islam is the Bomb" shirt. It's just a different kind of humor...we work in the porn business for holy jeez!

[chAos-mAtrix]

This is Brilliant marketing LOL ... Hey mark can you start posting my pic again that was good marketing .. LOL

[gunner]

my only complaint was that in the pic the helmet was kinda blurred, so it took me a second to figure it out... and then I laughed.

[Darin]

Okay. I guess I been to busy to notice this thread.

But..

I'll never do business with CJ now. Sorry.

There ARE limits people. Making fun of death is not on the list in my book.

.. and ANYONE watching the LIVE shots of that helmet will remember the very first shot was a closeup of the FRONT of the helmet by the camera man...

The close up was lit up (normal lighting for the camera settings) and showed the burned human hair stuck to the back of the interior of the helmet.

Every shot AFTER that was adjusted and darkened so you didnt see the burned human hair.

This ad is disgusting and if this is the type of people that run that company, I'll not do business with them.

[cdsmith]

I think Darin's got a gerbil in his shorts over this.