[Porsche-O-Phile]

Conventional advertising or word-of-mouth. Let's face it, how much stuff do you buy as a result of advertising efforts versus word-of-mouth recommendations?

Virtually ALL my purchases are based on recommendations by others and advertising efforts have little, if anything to do with it.

I could care less about the rationalizations for the activity - it's unwanted, offensive and frankly I'm LESS inclined to patronize any business that resorts to such tactics.

"Don't-call-us-we'll-call-you" are words that people and businesses need to learn to live by. If I want their product, I'm resourceful enough to find them. Pushy marketing and salesmanship almost always draws a very negative response from me. I've literally walked out of stores and people have lost some very high-dollar sales by me because their pushy attitude pissed me off. No joke. This stuff is really that annoying.