ad farms do you boycot what they advertise?

From what I hear most of the companies advertised don't even exist, it's just a ploy to scam money from neigbouring residents.
I certainly would avoid any site I found linked to them. Even if they were real I've only ever seen 2 or 3 different signs proving the advertising companies lack of prowess to attract more clients and confirmed by their belief that 40 signs the same side by side will sell more 40 times more product.

I refuse to buy from them and make a mental note of whose they are as a merchant to avoid.....

if they need to advert their products that way, they must be really ugly, I don't trust them...I never stop to read anyway!

I just ignore them, so I have no idea if I ever shopped at a store that used these.

But then, with a bit of advertisment I have no problem (how could I as I am in RL business). Anyway, if it is overdone or too much at one spot it had no effect, because people lose focus.
Good advertisement is grabbing the attention of people.... ad farms don't do this.

Morwen.

I just recently bought land on the new mainland a few days ago to set up my shop.. And was thrilled about just getting in on the ground floor for the land I purchased.

To boot-Between my land and existing plots of land is maintenance land own by LL- possibly a road to come or a nice stream of water- who knows. Anyway, I was like "woot!".

Then it happen...

Low and behold the next day as I was setting up, several "mini ad" plots pop up behind the maintenance own LL land! At 1st,I got upset thinking how this would ruining my business and was about to go and snatch up every ad plot. However, I came to the conclusion that :

A.) I would be left with 8-10 mini plots that would be useless to me for the sake of fighting off advertisement.

B.) I'm not about to spend anywhere from 888L to 2188 LL a pop, for these plots in helping them get any sort of revenue to fund their business. Heck- I need that money to fund my own- so find another sucker...

C.) The owner of these ads just help raise the traffic in my area. So ,I'm looking at this situation differently as to how it can help, rather than hurt.

Yes, the ads are not the greatest to look at--Which is one the downsides of owning on the mainland. AND, some of these companies may not be legitimate. But again, the user is clicking at his or own risk to sign up for these ads. However, I have to stand by this, if you purchase land on the mainland you have the right to put what you want on the land you've purchased( within the TOS of LL, of course). It's called Business.

At any rate, if you have good business plan and good clients/customers who support your product, placement of these types of ads should not have an impact on how well your business thrives.

Just my 0.02LL.

No. People advertise their products - that's how business works - otherwise I couldn't find the products I wanted. Ad farms are fairer than the skewed classified system anyway.

as long as the ads are farmed free-range i'm not sure i'd object




on topic : don't see many ad farms thankfully, but if i saw many for the same business i might think twice about stopping by

Sorry to disagree with you but I don't think there is anything fair about shouting your message over and over in an ugly way that destroys the view and the value of the land around you as far as the draw distance can see.

I boycott all ad farm content and have total distain for ad cutters. It is far and away my biggest pet peeve in SL.

not sure about land value thingy, but big yes to the shouting and view..... (realised there's a really really ugly thing going on next door to what i call my home before i posted my previous post)

I hate them viscerally. I will do whatever I can to block the view. There once was a nice, large estate at the edge of the sim I developed. It got sold, cut up, and right along the Linden road at the edge of the land? Towering spinning ads cropped up, destroying the view outside the back windows of my rental property. Forced me to put up an extensive garden to block the view (mostly) of the ads. The garden is lovely, and that property *finally* got some tenants in it.

Ad farmers are in my opinion one of the lowest forms of scum known to SL. They are sociopaths.
People who advertise via ad farms are not much better.
People who buy anything advertised via ad farms are knowingly or unknowingly encouraging the spread of ad farms.


If I happen to recall seeing a product advertised via an ad farm there is no way that I would buy it. I also try my best to persuade my friends not to buy anything that is advertised via an ad farm.

People who buy product/services advertised via ad farms are the reason that ad farms continue to exist.


*The above is purely my opinion. No ad farmers were harmed during the making of this rant.*

i honestly don't even notice them. i've never even read what is on one. i have a small ad farm right next to my property, and i just block it. it doesn't bother me at all.

business works in a variety of ways. One thing tokeep in mind is that people usually buying products or services from people or companies who irritate them.

I will NEVER EVER knowingly buy anything that is advertised in an add farm.

I believe this may be the least effective form of advertising possible in SL.

Sooz

It may be the least effective form of advertising, but it's highly effective in getting people to pay ridiculous prices just to remove them. Unfortunately, the plots are not really about advertising.

To amplify on my earlier post: I would boycott them if I read them, but that would mean reading the damn ads, which I will not do. "Nuff said, if you are using them to advertise...

Ads are everywhere in real life - why should Second Life be any different?

People can and will use whatever means they have to in order to gain customers. Live with it.

I will live with it, but I'll never condone it or stop fighting it. As far as SL is concerned, it's greed in its ugliest form.

*moves*

Most of them seem to lead to dead links anyway, really just a land devaluing/extortion scam, or companies stupid enough to think they get more return the more adds they put next to each other.
"Hey advertise with me and i'll put 100 of your signs in SL (all in the same block of land)....................

I wouldn't lose any sleep if the went away, but I don't lose any by the fact they are here. I'm fortunate that I rarely see them, and when I do I ignore them. But I can sympathize with those that live next to them.

It seems that web readers have learned to ignore anything that even looks like an ad*. I have no reason to believe that SL is any different in this regard.

* http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html