Tricked into buying the Irish Daily Mail

mconigol · 06-02-2011 06:19PM #1

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

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

Kasabian · 06-02-2011 06:21PM

How were you tricked?

Important for the thread I think.

cml387 · 06-02-2011 06:22PM

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.

MistyCheese · 06-02-2011 06:22PM

I was tricked it looking at it online.

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

mconigol · 06-02-2011 06:22PM

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!

Das Kitty · 06-02-2011 06:23PM

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.

ejmaztec · 06-02-2011 06:25PM

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

galwayrush · 06-02-2011 06:25PM

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

mconigol · 06-02-2011 06:25PM

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!

Kasabian · 06-02-2011 06:27PM

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

Pj! · 06-02-2011 06:29PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

+1

cml387 · 06-02-2011 06:30PM

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.

Blackjack · 06-02-2011 06:31PM

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.

Coriolanus · 06-02-2011 06:48PM

Blackjack wrote: »

That Rag certainly does not qualify as anything Irish.

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

pablomakaveli · 06-02-2011 06:50PM

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

Collie D · 06-02-2011 06:51PM

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

number10a · 06-02-2011 06:52PM

pablomakaveli wrote: »

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.

CDfm · 06-02-2011 07:12PM

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

Thank you AH for keeping me informed.

questionmark? · 06-02-2011 07:50PM

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

After Hours is the place for the real news

mconigol · 06-02-2011 08:43PM

Pj! wrote: »

+1

galwayrush wrote: »

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

questionmark? wrote: »

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

After Hours is the place for the real news

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

Murt10 · 06-02-2011 08:50PM

+ 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

mconigol · 06-02-2011 08:52PM

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:

Bosco boy · 06-02-2011 08:55PM

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!

Blisterman · 06-02-2011 08:56PM

Picture here:
http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/irish-mail-on-sunday-uses-tribune-masthead-for-readers-of-the-sunday-tribune-2011-2/

God that really is cheeky.

CDfm · 06-02-2011 09:06PM

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: »

Picture here:
http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/irish-mail-on-sunday-uses-tribune-masthead-for-readers-of-the-sunday-tribune-2011-2/

God that really is cheeky.

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

Bosco boy · 06-02-2011 09:06PM

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.

CDfm · 06-02-2011 09:16PM

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

Mike 1972 · 06-02-2011 09:55PM

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 ?

CDfm · 06-02-2011 10:25PM

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.

christmas2010 · 06-02-2011 10:30PM

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

Baf50361 · 06-02-2011 10:32PM

Simple answer - as a people enmasse, boycott the mail

Tricked into buying the Irish Daily Mail

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