Boffer Dead: It's official! - Or not...

stevire

Boffer Rest In Peace.

You may remember some time ago we ran a spoof product called a USB fornication optimiser. 22,000 of you boffered it. Most of you when it finally dawned on you it was a spoof loved our quirky and fun sense of humour. LOOK HERE

Even the Register gave us a mention. Clicky

Four of you objected that the promotion was misleading because it was not made clear that the products didn’t exist (DOH) and decided to report us to the Advertising Standards Authority. Three of you decided that that the freebie made fun of people who couldn’t have children and they went ahead and reported us to the ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY.

The ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY has now published their findings and unfortunately we feel we are going to have to tone down our descriptions and make boffer more politically correct...

Over the next few days we will be implementing a lot of changes on the site.

1. Our descriptions will no longer be fun. Please see today’s boffer for an example of future descriptions.
2. We will no longer have funny pictures.
3. I will no longer be able to talk of girl’s night outs and tell you about Katie wanting to Shag Rick Astley when she was pissed.
4. We are going to have to close or at least heavily censor the forum.
5. We are putting our prices up so we don’t annoy other retailers who claim we are too cheap.
6. The next sell off will probably be the last one!! Goodbye bag of crap <weep>

Click Here for a preview of the sell off Newsletter.

I suppose we had a good run but all good runs must come to an end.

All the best

Lauren x

Click here to download a full copy of the ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY report with all the recommendations...

alastair_doom

Just another lame windup i'm afraid.

They link to this* form, from the ASA, but if you check the last page, they say it was just a wind up and they actually doing the opposite of what they claim on the site

* http://www.boffer.co.uk/mailshot/announcement/Notice.pdf

Gauge

boffer wrote:

Dear Boffer Members,
Sorry we just couldn’t resist the wind up :- )
Common sense prevailed and the ASA found in our favour, we knew they would.

Yep.

Ghost Train

I hate those guys... i think

stevire

yeah just saw that there myself...

they really take it to far some times, ok it was funny the first couple of times but now its just sad.

Losers laughing to themselves in the office just because 10,000+ sign up for spoof boffers every now and again... :rolleyes:

not to say I'll stop buying from them though!

Basq

"Boffer in sense of humour" shocker! :rolleyes:

Not a Bargain Alert regardless.