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Who gets the award for biggest self-inflicted reputation/marketing fail in 2010?

MetroStyles

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Please voat.
 

Mr Herbert

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mel gibson seemed like such a nice guy before
 

Saul Silver

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Lebron James because he destroyed his reputation all at once, while BP's gradually eroded over the course of a couple months.
 

Douglas

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lots of contenders. apple is up there, gen. mcchrystal too.
 

tiecollector

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I was shocked to find that so many people don't know that BP owns Arco. They probably don't even know what BP does despite the oil spill.
 

acidboy

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seems like lindsay and the lohans have been sweeping this award for the past, what, 5 years?
 

Lynx_the_one

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I'm pretty sure it actually took lebron a full hour on ESPN to ruin his reputation.
 

LawrenceMD

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it has to be KIN smartphone by MicroSoft. its a whole phone made specifically for facebook use that they made that whole commercial campaign for.

the actual phone only lasted like 2 months.... 2 months.
 

Texasmade

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Originally Posted by LawrenceMD
it has to be KIN smartphone by MicroSoft. its a whole phone made specifically for facebook use that they made that whole commercial campaign for.

the actual phone only lasted like 2 months.... 2 months.


I honestly didn't even know Microsoft even made a smartphone.
 

HRoi

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hard to top BP, but i would like to also nominate Barack Obama
 

Biggskip

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Originally Posted by MetroStyles
twas 09

Eh, the orginal incident occurred in '09, but most the disclosures came in early '10. And then there was his own version of the Lebron one hour special in the form of that awful mea culpa.
 

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