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Tricked into buying the Irish Daily Mail

  • 06-02-2011 5:19pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭


    So was anyone else tricked into buying the Irish daily mail today?

    Sneaky bastards :mad:.....still haven't recovered :(


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    How were you tricked?

    Important for the thread I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,767 ✭✭✭cml387


    You seem to have missed all the news bulletins saying that the Trib wouldn't be published today.

    That being said I'd feel cheap and dirty if I accidentally let the odious rag that is the Mail into the house.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    I was tricked it looking at it online.

    Thought I was been linked to a video of Ricky Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    Kasabian wrote: »
    How were you tricked?

    Important for the thread I think.

    They pretended it was a "special edition" of the sunday tribune! Just grabbed it in a hurry when I was in the shop this morning. Wasn't impressed when I opened up the front page to find a copy of the Mail hidden inside!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    They put an extra cover sheet on that looked almost exactly like the Sunday Tribune's. Said they wanted to encourage people to keep buying Irish Sunday Newspapers. IMO they really wanted to trick the unobservant into buying their right wing fail rag.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    It's like finding a toilet-roll inside a table-napkin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    cml387 wrote: »
    You seem to have missed all the news bulletins saying that the Trib wouldn't be published today.

    That being said I'd feel cheap and dirty if I accidentally let the odious rag that is the Mail into the house.

    Just arrived back in the country. I had briefly heard about it but though they were having one final edition or something.

    In my defense it was early and I'd been travelling since 4am!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    The Daily Mail tricked people into buying there paper when all they needed was to offer each person a free subscription to AH.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
    +1


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,767 ✭✭✭cml387


    mconigol wrote: »
    Just arrived back in the country. I had briefly heard about it but though they were having one final edition or something.

    In my defense it was early and I'd been travelling since 4am!


    OK.Boards forgives you.

    No backsliding now,sneaking a look at what Mary Ellen Synon is writing about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,639 ✭✭✭Blackjack


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    They put an extra cover sheet on that looked almost exactly like the Sunday Tribune's. Said they wanted to encourage people to keep buying Irish Sunday Newspapers. IMO they really wanted to trick the unobservant into buying their right wing fail rag.

    That Rag certainly does not qualify as anything Irish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Blackjack wrote: »
    That Rag certainly does not qualify as anything Irish.

    It has Irish in the name. Ha, fúcking slamdunk!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I remember when they were giving away copies of the Daily Mail for free in college. Still nobody took it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,438 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Nevore wrote: »
    It has Irish in the name. Ha, fúcking slamdunk!

    So do a lot of pubs you find on the continent with bikes and sh*t hanging on the walls


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭number10a


    I remember when they were giving away copies of the Daily Mail for free in college. Still nobody took it.

    They were doing it on Patrick Street in Cork the other day and yer wan had an awful job trying to give them away. And the back of her SUV was overflowing with them!! Must have been there all day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    I was listening to the news today and heard in passing that there was some sca about the Irish Mail on Sunday and some newsagents were taking it off the shelves. Afraid I'd miss something I bought a copy only to be pleasantly surprised that it was more readable than the Irish Times.Imagine my disappointment if it had been the Sunday Tribune.

    Is it right wing just because Emma Waldron is quoted saying " Yes I am Miss Ireland but you will never see me dieting to a size zero or posing half naked on Grafton Street" or " the top cosmetic surgery clinic where a make-up girl will take you thru the consultation" or Twinks show Grumpy Old Women descrined as having " all the subtlety of rhinosorous'mating " .

    Maybe Trib readers didn't know what they were missing :D



    Thank you AH for keeping me informed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    OP you know the Tribune is **** as well :rolleyes:

    After Hours is the place for the real news :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    Pj! wrote: »
    +1
    galwayrush wrote: »
    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
    OP you know the Tribune is **** as well :rolleyes:

    After Hours is the place for the real news :D

    Yeah I've never ever bought the tribune. This was the first time! lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭Murt10


    + another 1 conned.

    I'm ripping mad. I heard that theTribune wouldn't be publishing this week but when I seen the paper in the newsagents today I thought it must be a special one off, of some sort.

    Is there any official agency that I can make a complaint to that will hurt the Mail on Sunday.

    It certainly wasn't what it said on the tin


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    Murt10 wrote: »
    + another 1 conned.

    I'm ripping mad. I heard that theTribune wouldn't be publishing this week but when I seen the paper in the newsagents today I thought it must be a special one off, of some sort.

    Is there any official agency that I can make a complaint to that will hurt the Mail on Sunday.

    It certainly wasn't what it said on the tin

    I thought this was it? No? :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Bosco boy


    I'd say its a case of watch this space, the daily mail must be absolutely desperate to pull such a stunt, surely the tribune can sue then for copyright etc, gutter press in the gutter again!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,481 ✭✭✭Blisterman




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Murt10 wrote: »

    I'm ripping mad. I heard that theTribune wouldn't be publishing this week but when I seen the paper in the newsagents today I thought it must be a special one off, of some sort.


    It certainly wasn't what it said on the tin
    Blisterman wrote: »

    It is very funny and if it hadn't happened would anyone have really whinged at the Tribs passing.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Bosco boy


    not only can you not believe what is in the paper any more, you cant even believe it is the paper you bought, a great day for journalism in ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Bosco boy wrote: »
    not only can you not believe what is in the paper any more, you cant even believe it is the paper you bought, a great day for journalism in ireland.

    journalism in Ireland ,you say,I have just 2 words to say on that.

    Sunday World


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Bosco boy wrote: »
    the daily mail must be absolutely desperate to pull such a stunt, surely the tribune can sue then for copyright etc,

    Trademark Infringment ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Trademark Infringment ?

    PR & Marketing Stunt.

    The reality is that the shoppers could have gotten refunds at the shop and yes it was a good shot by the Mail to target the readers of the (hopefully not defunct) Sunday Tribune.

    I don't drink tea but when I do buy it buy Barry's and a few years back picked up Dunne's own brand as the packaging was the same or similar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭christmas2010


    Thought it was a brilliant marketing stunt. I knew it wasn't the Tribune but bought it anyway cos it was only a euro. The real sickener would be if you had bought the ordinary Mail on Sunday without the tribune cover cos that was €2


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 Baf50361


    Simple answer - as a people enmasse, boycott the mail


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Retail Hell


    Baf50361 wrote: »
    Simple answer - as a people enmasse, boycott the mail

    always have always will, even when an ex was working there selling ads


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,799 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Blisterman wrote: »

    Picture No. 8...of a Twitter account. Is that a journalists using text speak? Cos I will revoke the title of journalist quickly.

    Hope the Mail is ounished so severely they have to disappear for a long long time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    always have always will, even when an ex was working there selling ads

    I saw some time ago that it was making a loss, so I wonder how far the UK head-office will allow the circulation to drop before they pull the plug, so that we can be shot of the sh1te forever?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,627 ✭✭✭baldbear


    The Mail's a rag just like the Sunday Independant but in fairness the Mail has broke some stories other Irish papers didn't, The Willie O'Dea Lady of the night story and the Frank Fahy "forgetting" twice to declare his shares ina building firm.

    The Mail is an anti irish paper historically and i hope the Tribune finds investment and the Mail goes bust.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    It's phishing pure and simple and netizens should treat the mail accordingly.


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0206/sundaytribune.html
    'We are talking about 43 jobs in Ireland here, not extra remuneration for Associated Newspapers back in the UK.

    http://asai.ie/
    All marketing communications should be legal, decent, honest and truthful.

    All marketing communications should be prepared with a sense of responsibility both to the consumer and to society.

    All marketing communications should conform to the principles of fair competition as generally accepted in business.
    if you want to complain about the "advertising" go here http://asai.ie/complain.asp


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    It will be a pity if the Tribune goes , but, it would be equally bad for journalism if the Mail went.

    The Tribune had investment by the Indo and how many other papers like the Irish Press have gone after being saved by the Indo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 343 ✭✭Geansai Rua


    Great stunt tbh...

    if there were enough people buying the tribune in the first place then it wouldnt be in the state its in now!

    I honestly dont think this will have much of an effect on the readership of the mail..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Kasabian wrote: »
    The Daily Mail tricked people into buying there paper when all they needed was to offer each person a free subscription to AH.

    Newspaper of choice for AH users :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,969 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    There are 2 shít sunday papers and the mail is both of them....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ilovemybed


    Thought it was a brilliant marketing stunt. I knew it wasn't the Tribune but bought it anyway cos it was only a euro. The real sickener would be if you had bought the ordinary Mail on Sunday without the tribune cover cos that was €2


    The 'fake' Tribune had no magazine and was €1. The Mail on Sunday had the magazine and was €2. There WAS a difference.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    A lot worse newspapers out there, compared to the Mail imo. That said I haven't bought the Irish edition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 Baf50361


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    A lot worse newspapers out there, compared to the Mail imo. That said I haven't bought the Irish edition.

    :pac::confused::(:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Murt10 wrote: »
    + another 1 conned.

    I'm ripping mad. I heard that theTribune wouldn't be publishing this week but when I seen the paper in the newsagents today I thought it must be a special one off, of some sort.

    Is there any official agency that I can make a complaint to that will hurt the Mail on Sunday.

    It certainly wasn't what it said on the tin

    Press Ombudsman would probably be the one to talk to.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Press Ombudsman would probably be the one to talk to.
    Best if there were multiple complaints


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    IBWB. (in before walshb)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭thenutflush


    I always get the Irish Daily Mail because I find it has the best journalists, most of the other papers are of terrible quality


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,802 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    I always get the Irish Daily Mail because I find it has the best journalists, most of the other papers are of terrible quality

    Fiona Looney? Mary Ellen Synon? You sir/madam are having a giraffe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    , most of the other papers are of terrible quality

    I just dont get Irish newspapers - I havent gotten the Mail but when I get a paper it needs to have good sports coverage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    It looks like legal action may be taken against the Mail over the matter.

    No harm but publicity good or bad will only bring attention to this paper which is what they want.

    http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/irish-mail-on-sunday-faces-legal-action-over-its-use-of-tribune-style-2529389.html


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