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What's With The Cigar?

Started by needsadvice
almost 15 years ago
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Saw the video on this unit: http://www.elliman.com/listing/for-sale/manhattan/upper-east-side/the-dunhill--401-east-84-street/401-east-84-street/dunzgac Why is he carrying an unlit cigar throughout the video? And what is with that tag line?
Response by West81st
almost 15 years ago
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Weak play on the name "Dunhill"?

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Response by bramstar
almost 15 years ago
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Might as well don muddy overalls and a straw hat and play on the word 'dunghill'.

By the way, this is the same tool who was inexplicably carrying around a guitar in another video... By the way, who do they hire to shoot these things? Talk about seasick making.

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Response by aboutready
almost 15 years ago
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i was disappointed that the video did not feature iman.

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Response by falcogold1
almost 15 years ago
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I've met Max at an OH or two and he's a very nice knowledgeable broker. I've also seen a few re videos with him in it. All thing considered I think he actually does a good job and I see this a an inexpensive excellent selling tool. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The homemade quality is reasonable. It's just to peak you interest. I think it works!

And the Oscar goes to Max...

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Response by needsadvice
almost 15 years ago
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I don't doubt that he's a nice guy. But the puns are just so cheesy . . .

"Stay thirsty for real estate: followed by a sip of OJ?

Groan . . .

NY real estate is full of sharks, I'd be worried about this guy if he was my broker, because he's not enough of a shark.

But I agree, love videos, I've seen a few and they really are helpful.

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Response by MidtownerEast
almost 15 years ago
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Iman? I was hoping for David Bowie. Oh, you mean Bacodari. Jacky's got quite a crew going there.

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Response by bramstar
almost 15 years ago
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I'm sure this gentleman is a very nice person who means well but what he fails to understand is that a sloppily produced video is more detriment than asset. A badly shot video can actually make the space look worse--smaller, lower-ceiling'd, etc.

Rather than enlisting his assistant/wife/nephew to shoot he should hire someone who knows how to hold the camera steady, frame a shot, and pan, tilt and zoom smoothly. This is not costly--there are some very talented film students out there happy to make a buck.

If that's a bridge too far, then he should stick with professional still shots that show the apartment to its best advantage.

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Response by needsadvice
almost 15 years ago
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A film student with a wide-angle lens. The lens makes all the difference.

The video does make it look small.

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Response by spinnaker1
almost 15 years ago
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The only thing missing is the tag line "What do I need to do to put in a new LeBaron today."

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Response by alanhart
almost 15 years ago
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I don't have the patience to watch the video, but it reminds me of those crappy skits and videos that B-School Students and ladder-climbing corporate drones put together when they're trying to show that their groups are ""creative""

In other news, I was mindlessly paging through the duty-free catalogue on an air-o-plane yesterday and was struck by the oddity of the men's perfume ads ... everyone one of them had a gigantic male model dude headshot with this bizzarro pose, forearm held up vertically and the fingers clenched into a sort of semi-fist, alongside (but not touching) the chin. WTF is that supposed to represent? If sometimes a cigar is really just a cigar, are there other times when the absence of a cigar is really a cigar? I'm just saying.

Sign the petition.

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Response by falcogold1
almost 15 years ago
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I assumed that's how those handsome square chined men held their hands and posture.
You would never buy a scent with my face as the sales pitch unless it was called 'Euww, what's that'.

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Response by bramstar
almost 15 years ago
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Falco, how about "Eau Di Ferous".

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Response by MidtownerEast
almost 15 years ago
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Sex Panther -- it's got real bits of panther in it.

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Response by alanhart
almost 15 years ago
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Eldorado del Falco Terlet Wawduh.

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