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Good Ole Tom’s — Creepiest local commercials ever

Normally I wouldn’t spill into worthless stuff like this, but I can’t help it.

As I’ve mentioned before, I dont have cable here. I do have a slingbox that I keep at my parents place. I don’t use it often, but its nice to find something to watch when I go to bed. Something mindless.

Well… Good Ole Tom has businesses in the greater Hartford area. Buys old coins, paper money, scrap metal, broken jewelry, and I think some other products as well. Okay, thats fine… but his commercials are damned right creepy

Uh. ok.

Good to know if I ever find a “juuuurrrry bawx” full of broken “juuuurrry”

Alright, this one was damned right creepy. I don’t care how terribly your business is doing, you can afford better actors than this. At least cut back on the makeup budget, Tom.Even looking beyond the need to pawn things off in an emergency, I find something rather irking about the terms “collecting all my ‘joory’ and scrap metal up from my friends and kin” I don’t know about you, but if some overweight cousin of mine showed up demanding any gold/silver/whatever I wasnt actively using, Id consider it closer to robbery than anything else.

What I cant find are the other two commercials, which specifically mention Tom wanting to give you “cash moneys” for your coins, jewelry, etc.

[[shakes head]]

The man is a local celebrity though, to the point OTHER folks have come by and gotten celebrity photos and video with him. I can’t fault someone for making a business that fills a need. He’s got a decent web presence too. I just think the commercials need a bit more work.

Good luck Tom!