I completely agree with you. The MOR commercials are likely the most irritating locally. I get especially irritated because the volume on those commercials is always higher than the program that is being watched. Plus often they will run the same commercial 2-3 times during the same commercial break.

Bakersifeld Mazda was running a series of irritating commercials for a while where they would drive a used car onto the screen and say what the price was. Then a large group of people would yell "DROP IT!!!" They would give a lower price and the group would yell "DROP IT!!!" again. This would go on 3-4 times before they moved onto another vehicle. That particualr commercial was I believe an attempt to copy Towbin Dodge in Las Vegas. It just seemed way to slime-ballish for Bakersfield to me.

I try not to watch live TV anymore. We took a DVR box from Brighthouse last year. Now we usually record what we wish to watch and blast through all of the commercials.

The MOR commercials are what I compare wind-bag politicians to!

Those who are always "fishing" for MOR "Face Time" on the boob-tube.  First and foremost on the list?  Hands down winner: Dean I-Never-Met-A-Camera-I-Didn't-Like Florez.

If he would just shut up and work without patting himself on the back every five minutes I might actually respect him.  But alas, he is so in love with the camera it will never come to pass.

At the risk of sounding like I am living in the stone age...Who Is Olbermann? (Told-ya, I don't watch much TV).

I just figure the MOR commercials like all  the inane similar stuff including lending scams are money laundering schemes to bamboozle the IRS.

Grandsons major in college was business administration and when talking about commercials once he said that it didn't matter whether a commercial was funny or annoying.  The whole point is to keep people talking about it and keep the name at the front of your mind.  Guess which commericials people on this blog talk about the most?  Looks like they achieved their goal.

For me...In the same company..Geico.  I love the cavemen and hate the lizard.

I have a habit of just changing the channel when an annoying commercial comes on...whish is A LOT OF THE TIME. I put in a recorded movie that I keep for just that occasion and never go back to the channel, sometimes for days...so if it's viewers thwy are trying to keep...they definitely lose me.

The commercial I really hate, though, is the one that has some has-been entertainer paraphrasing some so called customer about getting their insurance payment after an accident. I think that one is pointless, and insipid (did I spell that correctly???)

I will have to check out Keith Obermann. As for keeping a company's name on my mind, I guess that is true; however, how much good does it do them when I badmouth them at every turn to anyone I know who is in the market for furniture? I know for a fact that I have cost the MOR company money, in particular an over-ten-grand sale that some friends of mine cancelled after they heard my experience with this company and their dishonest dealings.

I will also check out Dish; do they service Tehachapi?

Anybody remember this jingle?

Booths, Booths, 2020 H st, Booths Booths......We got our first 25 " Magnavox color tv and our first Magnavox console stereo from there. Remember when 25" screens were huge????

Remember, this week is the FINAL Mor Sale...forever.....no payments until you die, then your children pay for all accrued interest at 27%

I think I'll stick to Weatherbys.

Tonylee, did you just call Peter Graves a "has-been?" 

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The sight of "Mr. Phelps" saying "so I put on some tangerine lip gloss and answered the door..." cracks me up.

Did someone say MOR FURNITURE?

I have them to thank, or for you blame, for bringing me to The Californian's blogs. I used to write letters to the editor, but they have a policy against letting people viciously attack businesses. Andrew Mockett suggested the blogs: http://bakersfield.typepad....

I used to leave anything horrible anyone had to say about them at their website: http://www.morfurniture.com... , but you'll never hear back. The people at their headquarters are completely unsympathetic. I called Time Warner before they became BrightHouse and talked to a manager. She said as long as MOR FURNITURE pays their bills, which can't be more than two cents per commercial, they don't care how irritating they are.

I've escaped, though, by moving behind the Redwood Curtain on Jan 4, 2006. I hearby pass the blow-torch to you, Charlee. Best of luck, sic 'em!  

You are right, robb...I wrote a letter to the editor regarding this, and warning our Bako neighbors about this company's bad business practices. They would not publish it. So here I am, and I humbly accept the blow-torch and will wield it with honor.

Geico? I must admit, I love the one with the announcer:  "In a world where both of our cars were totally under water...." The Gecko is getting old, and he needs to go back Down Under.

I don't know Booth's, but I have dealt with Weatherby's for years. My salesman knows me by name when I walk in, and I have never had a bad experience with them. It was my idiot ex-husband who insisted on buying from MOR when we got our new house, but then, this is a guy who planted a cut Christmas tree in our front yard because I told him it would re-grow. (I wanted to see if he would do it. My neighbors laughed for weeks!) 

Yes, and he watered the thing every day for three weeks. It kept getting browner and more withered, until he went out one day and all the needles had fallen off of it, like the Charlie Brown tree.

My daughter's boyfriend cracked up when I told him this story. And then my daughter said, "I don't think it is funny; he made me water that stupid thing every day."  When I said that her father had done the watering himself, she answered with a smirk. "Yeah, the first time. He did it again last year!"

I laughed so hard I fell off the chair.

In Chicago, is was EMPIRE CARPET.....588-2300 EMPIRE!! Good ole Mr. Kimstead!

We make jokes about the info-type commercials that say:  If you order right now, you'll also receive *insert crap product here*, after that it was:  "BUT WAIT, that's not all, you'll also receive"... *another crappy thing*....."plus if you call within the next five minutes, we'll throw in *stupid piece of plastic*............blah!  WOOF!  But wait there's MOR...hahaha

Hey, Woof...I remember that Empire jingle from when I was a little kid in Chicago! The funny thing is, they still use the same one, except that they have added "1-800". I like that song in the Geico airport commercial too...I wonder who sings it?

Tony...Wasn't the Peter Graves character in Airplane Capt. Clarence Over? (Over...Unger. Unger...Dunn)

Hey I found it!  It's called Remind Me, by Royksopp click the link for the YouTube video....

....remember the days when we use to sit and just wonder about stuff.....you can find anything on Google....now if only I had bought their stock when it was $100/share.... 

Hey, woof, thanks! I have never heard of them but I love it! I saved it to Media Player! :D

Google is indeed a wonderful addition to modern life. I too wish fervently that I had gotten in on the ground floor.

Woof..that's probably one of my favorite commercials. (if I may say such a blasphemous thing).  The look on his face and the gentle shake of the disgusted head.  Too funny.  I didn't notice the raquet..I'll watch next time.

Ghost..Mr Phelps..Captain Clarence (?)  = Peter Graves.  Best of the best.

Last week after hearing the "Pay no Interest, Make no Payments until 2009" I decided to go to Mor and get a new bedset.  I found one I liked, I mean, I've seen more that I've liked, but this deal was the way for me to get a new set.  I didn't qualify for this financing - my FICO is over 700, I make all my payments on time, I own a house - the banker said it was debt to income ratio - so what I need to make $6000 a month instead of $3000?!  Anyway, this sent me away ... but I really wanted a new set, and with that promotion.  So I pulled my dad down with me last night, he agreed to co-sign.  The sales guy from the week before was off for the day, we used another sales guy that my boyfriend knows. 

Guess what - that promotion doesn't exist.  My payments would be $86 a month with their current promotion of "No Interest for 2 Years", but you had to make that minimum payment inorder to not have the interest.  The other promotion is "One Year, No Interest, No Payments" ... I was planning on just using part of this years tax return to pay half and next years to pay the other half with the 2 year deal I'd heard about and confirmed with the first sales man - Darnell.

Anyway, bottom line - Mor lied and I just shrugged and said that if I wasn't getting the awesome promotion or some discount on the furniture then I was going to look around and shop elsewhere since they didn't have anything "enticing" to make me just have to buy my furniture there.  I think I'll go to the wholesale place on Chester today.

That's MOR for ya.

You've almost been had.

I don't wish to offend anyone, but I think that one purpose of MOR's commercials is to ensure that anyone who does come in is not very financially street-wise.

Kindra...GOOD FOR YOU!!!! Weatherby's is great, and Urner's is also a great place. We got our entertainment equipment there, a big-screen Mitsubishi and a terrific sound system. It cost a lot, but we got a great, honest deal considering what we bought was all top-of-the-line. And to make it even better, Urner's had a sound expert come out to our house as part of the deal, and set it up so that the acoustics are perfect. The guy was there most of the day, wiring and testing everything, and it is still perfect three years later.

Also, if you want some nice, very unique stuff, try Timeless downtown. I got a chaise there that I get comments on all the time, and it is the most comfy thing in my living room!

Pete

You're right.  We got dish network about three months ago.  Less Mor and loving it.

You get the local news on the dish.  And Fox and PBS out of Fresno.    And it doesn't cost one cent more.  What I miss the most about Brightouse (I didn't think I would miss anything about Brighthouse) is the On Demand Channels.  Dish doesn't have them.

If Mor told you that you did not qualify with a credit score of 700 because of a debt ratio etc. You need to ask for the reason for declining you credit ( IN WRITING ! )  YOu can then take the letter and report them !

Under the Fair credit reporting act they cannot deny you credit if your credit is really good.

Also you need to see if THEY REALLY DID do a credit check or just gave you a line of bull. This is something that sales schemes are based upon. They say your denied and immediately offer you something that better fits there profit margin. If enough people would report them  MOR would be busted for fraudulent advertising.....

Look on the bright side.  If Mor turned you down for credit, they did you a big favor.

Mor has the highest prices I have ever seen in a furniture store.  And their financing is the slimiest, slipperiest mine field that I've ever seen.

Oak Liquidators.  Now those are low prices.

MOR = Rage