I like to believe (and I hope that I'm right) that I am quite good at identifying and analyzing advertisements, and how they may try to play on your insecurities. I think I'm pretty damn hard to sway with just an ad, but sometimes ads have the opposite effect on me - I start resenting the product, and if I ever need something like it, I look elsewhere.
So I guess there IS an effect. Not the intended effect, but an effect.
Its always a pain for me to buy expensive things, especially electronics, because I always end up looking for MANY multiple opinions and reviews before shelling out the dough. The computer geeks here will understand
