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Thelastheraclid · 06-30-2021, 07:42 AM

Aephino · 06-30-2021, 08:58 AM

Edward Williams was contacted about advertising a new energy bar that was supposedly tasty, full of protein, and gave you energy that lasted for hours. Not being bothered to try the energy bar, Williams went ahead with the deal. Normally he would want to personally endorse the product because of its actual value, but he was feeling lazy this day. Plus, the company was paying him $300,000 to make just 3 ads about it. One Facebook video, one Instagram post, and one TikTok. Easy enough. A few weeks after the ads were released, people were actually trying the bars. Turns out, the energy bar was 99.9% whey protein and 0.1% chocolate. The bar was "literally the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten" said one disgruntled customer (Cristiano Ronaldo). The product was discontinued, but the payment still went through to Edward Williams for the advertisements. Later that week, a brand new company contacted Edward about a new protein shake. He did not respond.

*JURT* · 06-30-2021, 09:05 AM

Shortly after arriving in Seattle, JURT started looking for the best pizza around, so he could strike a deal with the pizzeria's owners : free pizza for as long as he was in Seattle in exchange for publicity. After a few weeks of trying different pizzas, he finally settled on the Southpaw pizzeria. It was not only the best pizza in Seattle, it was the best pizza that he'd ever eaten. While the restaurant was already pretty famous and didn't lack for clients, JURT's endorsement took the popularity to a whole new level. So much in fact, that it became dangerous. People were going crazy for this pizza: people went bankrupt just to buy a dinner reservation, relationships were ended over a dropped slice, friends fought and betrayed each other. Ultimately, the place had to shut down when a cook was stabbed for forgetting to put extra anchovies (of all things). JURT is now looking for a new pizza place to fulfill his needs.

*Zoone16* · 06-30-2021, 09:32 AM

In partnership with Sports Foods Ltd, Luca Del Vecchio had an endorsement deal to promote a brand-new line of pasta sauces, one that the goaltender was able to tweak and give feedback on. It was much to his dismay that this very line of pasta sauces (aptly named Del Vecchio) had a major recall after reports that the sauce was too salty for human consumption.
After investigation, it was revealed that some employees, who want the goaltender gone from Baltimore’s hockey team (the Platoon) had intentionally oversalted the product in order to tarnish Del Vecchio’s image among the community.
The after effect of the sabotage was a significant sales drop in Del Vecchio food related brands for a while for fear that further sabotage had been done to other products. Sports Food Ltd. conducted a full investigation of all their facilities and found no other evidence of tampering. Product sales took months to get back to normal, through other sales & promotions but after about a year of fixing this mistake, the product is well liked by consumers and Italian nonnas alike.
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pat · 06-30-2021, 10:41 AM

After his first season in the Juniors, a toy company located in Charlotte, KABLAMMO, approached Gino with the prospect of using his name and likeness for a new children's toy they had been developing. The toy was essentially a relaunch of the very popular game/toy Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, and both robots in this case were modeled after Gino Lombardo wearing nothing but his hockey pads (the Carolina Kraken refused to allow KABLAMMO with the rights to their team name, colors, and jerseys). The toy would eventually come to be known as, "Lombardo's Rough Tough Ice Hockey Rumble" (they didn't workshop the name for nearly long enough).

The only issue with the toy, and what led to its eventual recall, was that in the spirit of its namesake, they made it so that both of the combatants would need to be hit literally thousands of times before either would submit. Owners complained that they would have matches last upwards of 45 minutes, and there were not infrequent complaints of people developing carpal tunnel syndrome after playing with the toy.

BarnabasCollins · 06-30-2021, 11:32 AM

Kata Vilde is no longer much of a big name SHL star so he has to take any endorsement deal he can. So when the deal came along to endorse a new thicker pad for women who better than a goaltender who knows a thing or two about pads. Well in a way anyway. That's what the genius that thought up the idea pitched to Vilde. Now in Canada there are quite a few female hockey fans so it seemed like a good idea at the time. And hey 5 million is 5 million right? Vilde thought nothing of it wearing his signature red Calgary Dragon's pads in the commercial shoot for it, little realizing the impact it would have. Coming to practice the day after the commercial aired Vilde was greeted by hundreds of women picketing outside the Big Parm. They were accusing him of being totally sexist and absolutely tasteless to boot for appearing in this commercial. The worst part is the pads weren't even very effective, they were so huge it was making it difficult for women to even walk with those monstrosities between their legs. Team management was horrified by Vilde's lack of judgement and his entire 5 million endorsement fee was to be given to women's charities in the greater Calgary area.

**RomanesEuntDomus** · 06-30-2021, 12:05 PM

Philipp Winter went for a rather unusual route when he decided to do his first product placement deal. He has had many Finnish and Swedish teammates over the years and has loved the product since he was a kid, so what better first endorsement to go for for the German than... Salty liquorice! What's not to like about that stuff, it's tasty, and salty and comes in lots of variations, kids and adults alike love it and in many regions of the world it is basically still unknown, so the potential for growth is huge. You can imagine the surprise Philipp must've felt when he found out that not everyone in the world is Scandinavian or a German with weird taste, and learned that most people absolutely hate that stuff. There was actually nothing wrong with the product but for some reason, "Salty Winters" didn't fly off the shelves in the US and Canada quite as Philipp had envisioned so after a few months and with supermarkets around the county still sitting on like 80% of their stock and getting tired of having to pay to store it, the pressure on the producer of the liquorice got big enough for him to just recall the product altogether. They decided not to destroy it however so thousands of boxes of Salty Winters are still sitting in a warehouse or a basement somewhere, ready to hit the world again when people have finally wisened up enough to be ready for its salty deliciousness...

***Ohtaay*** · 06-30-2021, 12:26 PM

Ever since Kondos launched his partnership with a restaurant in Anchorage in which he sponsored their famous chicken products, everything from chicken wings, chicken fingers, chicken tenders - the restaurant was off to a booming year. It did not slow down as Kondos got called up to Texas, winning the Jesster brought more attention to the restaurant as young kids who wanted to play like Kondos told their parents they had to eat the same chicken fingers he was eating. Just as things started to slow down, Texas won the challenge cup and you guessed it. Kondos brought the cup to the chicken joint bringing people back in and ordering tons of chicken.

However, this time the rebound was not as smooth. Struggling with a decline in customers and losing long time cooks - the fresh new faces in the kitchen could not keep up. Chicken was coming out under cooked and people were getting sick. However, the worst situation was when someone found an uncooked chicken leg in the bottom of their chicken bucket. This ultimately caused the health inspector to close the location.

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**bk1689** · 06-30-2021, 12:31 PM

Brennan Kennedy Jr was so happy when he got a call to endorse a new Dementia treatment. Unfortunately he forgot to show up for the first commercial, he's getting forgetful in his old age. When the company finally wrangled him, he seemed a little confused and somewhat irritable yelling "I never signed up for this". Anyways he also had an onion tied to his belt, which was the style at the time. Now where we're we? Oh yes that's right. So he said no, I will not endorse your cleaning product, do I look like I clean my own house? As he enjoyed a nice tall glass of turnip juice. Why don't my kids come and see me anymore he wondered? And where's that damn maid at. Sadly, Brennan is getting senile, there never was a maid, or an endorsement deal for a Dementia medication. What a sad, sad day.

Dagumpa · 06-30-2021, 12:43 PM

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***KaleSalad*** · 06-30-2021, 01:22 PM

Nathan was excited to be the near poster boy for the new virtual reality game system out of a Canadian company. Though Nathan loved the idea of being a poster boy he never used the product. It came as quite a shock when he learnt of the full ban on the product in the USA and Canada. Apparently the product was being manufactured in China and the software was full of bugs and pushed some very radical political agendas. The Canadian company was quick to issue a formal apology as the their label was supposed to be completely manufactured in Canada. Nathan became very embarrassed to have his name tied to this scandal but his agent ensured him he would get his name as far as way from the product as possible. When asking about why the recall took place Nathan got the low down. Apparently there was some altered programming that when playing first person shooters all the enemies became both Canadian and American militaries essentially making any country that was a democracy the enemy. On top of that there was a back door programmed in that was actually acting as spyware for an unknown entity. How these software “glitches” made there way into the final product is still unknown. When reaching out to the company in question for a statement they said “ we are deeply saddened that our product was not up to our standards and that an unfinished product ultimately made it to market. We will correct the software issues in the coming weeks and ask that you bring your product to the closest dealer to have both the software and hardware replaced.” Needless to say this was a colossal flop for their opening. Hopefully they will be able to get through this and come back as the product itself was pretty amazing and on the cutting edge.

Jonny Tsunami · 06-30-2021, 01:58 PM

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XLeafer · 06-30-2021, 02:29 PM

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Steelhead77 · 06-30-2021, 02:55 PM

Esa Parmborg is a big eater and everyone associates him with food. Recently he had a great idea for a fork with knife blades on the outside edges so it would be easier to cut through his chicken cutlets and he would not have to use a knife, he could just use the edge of the fork as a knife. This was a great idea in theory so he contacted a silverware company and of course they loved it and named him the product spokesman, he did commercials and everything, it was a big endorsement deal. However, once the product hit the shelves and people started using it, a problem was quickly recognized... Everyone was slicing the sides of their mouth open with the edge of the fork that was actually a knife. Not good. Tons of lawsuits and blood lost, some customers even had to have surgery their wounds were so deep. All the forks had to be recalled and Parmborg felt real bad for having a great idea that actually turned out to be a terrible idea. He now has turned back to cutting his chicken cutlets with a regular knife.

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- First GM to Win 5 & 6 Challenge Cups -
Esa Anrikkanen Award - SMJHL ROY - Est. S34
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sulovilen · 06-30-2021, 03:19 PM

Walton Stromberg landed a product placement deal with with a protein shake company in San Francisco. The agent introduced the company as a highly innovative and modern company called SunPower. The company claimed they had found a new way to create protein out of sunlight. As weird as sunlight as a source of protein sounded, the company had a bunch of scientific researches, patents and certifications that on the surface looked very real. Walton's agent believed it and for some reason the products also passed the eye test of the local supermarket buyers. SunPower by Walton Stromberg shakes (strawberry / chocolate-banana / vanilla flavors) were a huge hit for a couple weeks, until a scientist noticed the product, became sceptical and conducted some testing. It appeared that there was 0 % protein in the shakes. And after further examining, the scientist noticed that it actually said the same thing in the ingredient listing on the package. It said "0 % protein, 100 % bullshit". Nobody had bothered to read the fine prints earlier. Naturally, the product was recalled and discontinued. Luckily the customers didn't face any side effects, but it was quite embarrassing for Stromberg, who was the face (and name) of the product.

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