Putting flyers on windscreens

Forums › Off topic › Putting flyers on windscreens

1 | 2 | 3

20523 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 4798

#1835333 1-Aug-2017 23:44

tdgeek:
Its spam, not all spam is email. Unsolicited mail.

Although one is illegal and one isn't. Although it doesn't seem that span is policed all the much these days

Aredwood

3885 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 1749

#1835336 2-Aug-2017 00:27

Just spend whatever you were going to spend on printing, on Facebook advertising. At least you can target it to people who could be interested. Instead of a scattergun approach. And I highly doubt that Westfield or another mall owner will allow you to conduct advertising on their properties without their permission. They will probably want to charge you to do so as well.

Jase2985

13746 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 6230

ID Verified

Lifetime subscriber

#1835349 2-Aug-2017 05:00

https://www.dia.govt.nz/Spam

MikeAqua

8036 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 3827

#1835370 2-Aug-2017 08:18

I hate car spam. It's just a piece of litter that I now have responsibility for.

Mike

sir1963

3428 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 3756

Subscriber

#1835441 2-Aug-2017 09:48

andrewNZ: If I ever catch someone putting a flier on my car, we'll be having a disagreement.

If you're asking because you want to do it, I'd like to... suggest you reconsider.

When it has been a business that has done this I have rung that business and told them what happened and how I would never use them for anything

and more to the point I would tell everyone I know that they are a a pack of w*nkers and should be avoided.

I have also pointed out to one company that I would bill them for a new set of wiper blades and I would take it through the small claims if they did it again

and I have also threatened one company with a police complaint of unlawfully interfering with a motor vehicle.

Rikkitic

Awrrr
19086 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 16356

Lifetime subscriber

#1835469 2-Aug-2017 10:07

That's a lot of aggression. Windscreen flyers just might be counterproductive. I don't like them either, though they don't enrage me. Far better in today's world to use digital media and appropriate fora.

Edit to add: If you must have flyers, put them up in public spaces like supermarkets and libraries and maybe on streetlights or whatever if allowed. Ask shops and fast food joints if you can put them in the windows. Some probably won't mind, especially if it is for a worthwhile activity. You can also probably get free publicity in community newspapers.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

Geekzone support

Support Geekzone with one-off or recurring donations Donate via PressPatron.

Lias

5655 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 3978

ID Verified

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#1835872 2-Aug-2017 16:39

The few times I've had this done to me, I felt like firebombing the businesses in question. I'd go so far as to say I can't think of any other form of advertising that annoyed me so much.. You just don't touch someones car.

I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad, a Quic user, and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. If you use my Quic signup you can also use the code R570394EKGIZ8 for free setup. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

xpd

Geek of Coastguard
14123 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 4589

Retired Mod

ID Verified

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#1835879 2-Aug-2017 16:44

Westfield will nail you to the wall if you try it at any of their sites.

Generally, you need permission of the land owner.

XPD / Gavin

LinkTree

netspanner

358 posts

Ultimate Geek
+1 received by user: 92

#1835960 2-Aug-2017 17:48

Not only is it annoying but people tend to pull off the adverts then throw them on the ground. So if you want to make it look like you are just littering with your adverts go ahead, it certianly doesn't help your cause.

MissiMoo

1 post

Wannabe Geek
+1 received by user: 1

#3296246 11-Oct-2024 17:57

I was just wondering if this would be something I could do while waiting in the carpark for my daughter during an appointment. Other than the shared links, it was an easy decision not to become of the number of 'don't put that crap on my car' responses! I personally don't mind - if it's something interesting or helpful, great, if not I put it in the car and into the bin once I'm home. Lucky I checked!

JimmyH

2898 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 1554

#3296287 11-Oct-2024 19:35

Just don't. It's a thoroughly obnoxious practice.

I'm fed up with advertisers and marketers, such as the young English chap with a in the blue jacket with clipboard who thought he had the right to just march up and interject into a private a conversation I was having with someone as we walked along Featherston Street, who think they have the right to be irritating and annoying to grab my attention and push their "message".

Annoy me, and I'm likely to actively avoid whatever you are promoting, not engage with it.

No, just no.

Quic Broadband

Move to New Zealand's best fibre broadband service (affiliate link). Free setup code: R587125ERQ6VE. Note that to use Quic Broadband you must be comfortable with configuring your own router.

Technofreak

6659 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 3480

Trusted

#3296317 12-Oct-2024 07:20

I didn't realise there's so many angry grumpy people on the world.

I don't go around placing flyers under windscreen wipers, and they can be a pain if you don't see them before you hop in.

They appear very infrequently. I just grab it from under the wiper blade have a quick look, it maybe of interest (I dont do Facebook), screw it up and throw on a spare seat to put in the rubbish when I get home.

There's much more important stuff to put my energy into than getting twisted out of shape over a bit of paper that someone has placed under my wiper.

Sony Xperia XA2 running Sailfish OS. https://sailfishos.org The true independent open source mobile OS
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6
Dell Inspiron 14z i5

floydbloke

3649 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 4557

ID Verified

#3296322 12-Oct-2024 07:52

Technofreak:

I didn't realise there's so many angry grumpy people on the world.

...

We're not angry and grumpy 100% of the time, only when someone does something to inconvenience us when going about our business. This includes but is not limited to:

having to remove a piece of paper from my windscreen and later dispose of it with environmental consideration when I just want to get in the car because I want to get home from work
someone trying to stop me on the street to extract money from me when I'm on my way to the shop to buy a pie
having to get off the couch when I'm watchin cricket because there's someone at the door who wants to convince me their invisible friend is better than someone else's

This doesn't makes us a bad person, e.g.

I'll happily help a woman (because it usually is) with a pushchair on some stairs, or give up my seat on the train to someone who looks like they need it more than I do
I'll happily give a couple of bucks to the neighbour's kids when they come to the door selling chocolate bars to fundraise for their upcoming netball tournament in Masterton

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

eracode

Smpl Mnmlst
9348 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 6228

ID Verified

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3296326 12-Oct-2024 08:14

Technofreak:

I didn't realise there's so many angry grumpy people on the world.

Welcome to the modern world - get with it. It's our absolute and inalienable right to feel grumpy if we identify as grumpy. We're entitled. And it's our right to air our grumpiness and to be heard via all modern means of communication such as a TV reporter standing outside in the rain at night next to a life-size statue of the appropriate one of the Seven Dwarves. And to call for the cancellation of people who don't agree with us.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

sir1963

3428 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 3756

Subscriber

#3296327 12-Oct-2024 08:17

eracode:

Technofreak:

I didn't realise there's so many angry grumpy people on the world.

Welcome to the modern world - get with it. It's our absolute and inalienable right to feel grumpy if we identify as grumpy. We're entitled. And it's our right to air our grumpiness and be heard via all modern means communication such as a TV reporter standing outside in the rain next to a life-size statue of one of the Seven Dwarves.

I have a t-shirt from Disneyland with Grumpy on it...It says "I am Grumpy, don't make it worse"

1 | 2 | 3