Confused.com

As I mentioned before I believe you should be wary of people doing adverts who clearly don’t need the money. Selling out is one thing, doing it to raise profiles or keep your face on TV is even worse. Equally you should be wary of people doing adverts for free.

Why should you be wary of people doing adverts for free? Because they’re dicks. That’s why.

Dicks like The Amazing Phil who appears who have built some kind of lowly internet profile following his appearance in these shitawful Confused.com adverts. Oh I see. He wasn’t a genuine customer who believed in the product, he’s a attention seeking egotist who wanted to get people to listen to his wacky self-stylings. Truth in advertising strikes again.

I have a few questions about Confused.com and it’s adverts. Feel free to leave answers in the comments section.

• Who are these people? Do they have nothing better to do than film themselves talking about car insurance? Have we turned into a nation of bored consumer junkies who’s idea of a good night in is to film themselves explaining a comparison website to their idiot aunt?
• Where did these people go for their car insurance before the launch of these comparison sites? “I saved 400 my car insurance” – fucking really? Then you deserve to be fleeced you moron. I tried this site and most of the prices that came through were above what I normally paid. If you couldn’t get cheap car insurance before the start of the meercat / opera singer / webcam / Peter Jones wars then you were probably an alcoholic Royals Royce driver.
• How much time did these people spend on Confused.com before the website was redesigned? They speak as if they visited it once a week, hung out and compared prices for the Friday night fun of it. It’s fucking car insurance people, every company will undercut another so you are guaranteed a cheap price – get it sorted and then move on in life instead of obsessing over every potential saving.
• Everything they say is a lie. I went to confused.com and found it utterly baffling and unnecessarily intrusive, plus since signing up for the service they’ve bombarded me with spam emails every fucking week.

Watching this advert makes me embarrassed for humanity. We have been reduced to this; making wacky webcam videos about the improvements to a car insurance comparison website. Making tiny shoes so we can dance on our fingertips whilst extolling the virtues of savings. We are a sad and desperate nation. The Amazing Phil has alot to answer for.