Does Boards.ie get quoted much in media?

I regularly quote & discuss it in work. But I am surprised by the number of tech-savy ppl who have never heard of Boards.ie

A few years back there was a thread on BA about wenger luggage that was on offer in Tesco, cheap if you have tokens.

Now in work we used to be given Wenger backpacks, and they really are the dogs bollocks of bags, loved mine, so i posted on thread that Wenger produce the best backpacks i've ever had, or words to that effect

Move forward a few days and someone posts on the thread that i'm famous, and posted a pic of an ad in that days national newspaper, was an advert for the bags and tesco, with a quote underneath....."The best backpacks i've ever had - Boards.ie"

Utterly wounded that Tesco had used my quote without permission i wrote an email to the CEO of Tesco Ireland (don't mess about with the monkeys, straight to organ grinder) saying how upset and distraught i was that they had used my quote without my permission

Received a phone call the next day, apologising and offering me any of the bags/suitcases as a gift, i chose the large suitcase, which is still great to this day, just about over the upset and trauma of it all now :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :pac:

somefeen wrote: »

That's a brilliant story but also incredibly bizzare.

Here ya go, bizarre but true, always looking for an angle for a freebie, worked well this time

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80101519

There's a Wikipedia article about it.

scudzilla wrote: »

Here ya go, bizarre but true, always looking for an angle for a freebie, worked well this time

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80101519

Ah Jesus. That's mental.
It really was as if the whole of boards.is was endorsing their product. Wonder were there any posts saying the cases were pure ****e?

Boards is a day or two behind Reddit so any lazy journalist would have his ‘work’ done over there.

Deleted User wrote: »

Twitter gets quoted all of the time now in Newspapers - everything from Politics to peoples opinions of TV shows.

But I never see any quotes from Boards.ie in National Newspapers, TV or radio or other online media- any reason for this? I would have thought that Boards.ie was as valid a place to quote from as Twitter or Bookface but obviously not.

Mostly twitter is linked to a real persons name or at least a picture of them. Where as boards is totally anonymous which is why it wouldnt be used for quotes.

Besides why would any paper want to quote "blast him with piss"??:D

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I've had PMs from several journalists over the years asking if I'd be willing to be interviewed. The last time was on a thread about the extra bus lanes on Dublin city quays. I had said that I was turning down appliance repair jobs in the city centre due to the restrictions on traffic.

They might not quote directly from boards but they certainly get ideas and stories from boards.ie

Several journalists messaged you?
Lol that makes me feel like my posts are really dumb and uninteresting

tomwaterford wrote: »

Dunno do they count as journalists.....but the morning show on beat fm basically consists of everything on boards

I was just about to post the same. One of the local papers used to quote from Waterford threads too, not sure if it still does.

If this counts. It was RTE who posted on here, but they did use my story live on air.

Link to the thread.

Hi RTÉ Today Show, I signed up to the Setanta Sports for €1 offer in December. I assumed it was for a month so rang them to cancel the other day as we had it for 29 days at that stage. They told me I should have read the T&C's properly as it stated anyone who doesn't cancel the €1 offer by the 31st of December would be automatically signed up with them for a minimum of 2 months at full price.

So what I thought looked like a nice €1 offer before Christmas has now turned into a minimum of €45. I said to them I don't want the channels for the next 2 months and I want to cancel, they refused to cancel my subscription unless I pay the full €45 first which puts me in the strange position of having a service we don't want! In a subsequent email I reiterated I don't want the channels but again they refused to cancel. So I'm going to owe them another €22 each month unless I clear what I 'owe' them. Reckon I'll owe them about €300 by the end of the year.

Terrible way for a company to do business in my opinion.

Looking back it worked out pretty funny. When I rang to cancel Setanta initially I spoke with a Scottish lady who refused to cancel my account. I distinctly remember saying in a non aggressive/threatening way that there is absolutely no chance I will be paying the bill, she said I would have to, and in a very relaxed voice I said I guarantee that wont happen.
It was by pure coincidence the next day I spotted the RTÉ Today Show - Free Consumer Help thread, and posted the above quoted message on it.
RTE person rang me, and then Setanta on my behalf. Got a call the next day from the same Scottish lady at Setanta profusely apologising to me about the terrible error they had made, and how the system must have got my account mixed up, and offered to clear my outstanding balance and offer something as a goodwill gesture. I was just happy to be done with them.

So it seemed to them like I had the 'pull' and 'connections' to have my grievance with Setanta sorted out by getting the issue spoken about on national television, when in reality all I did was post on boards to that thread. I still think that Scottish lady was amazed and frightened by my 'powers'.