How not to run a marketing campaign on Facebook....

Arciphel · 30-03-2012 10:53PM #1

http://imgur.com/XILdm

Denis Mahony Motors off the M50 had a competition on facebook today, like a picture of a Mercedes 4x4 and you could win it. However it's all gone pear shaped. The angry mob have gathered on Facebook and are setting fire to their torches as we speak :pac::pac::pac::pac:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=199265473516996&set=a.169748589802018.32777.141993002577577&type=1&theater

Jen Pigs Fly · 30-03-2012 10:58PM

I think it's very clever! great way to get people talking! There will always be a few complainers who will give out, but I do think it's a genius idea to stand out!

mikemac1 · 30-03-2012 10:59PM

Should of waited for April fools day

FAIL

RubyGirl · 30-03-2012 10:59PM

Well did u comment, unlike page or report. Def bad move,I wonder how many "like this page & share competitions" are really legit on facebook?

Arciphel · 30-03-2012 11:00PM

RubyGirl wrote: »

Well did u comment, unlike page or report. Def bad move,I wonder how many "like this page & share competitions" are really legit on facebook?

I'd say a lot of them are scams, or the people that "win" in the end are mates of the people running the competition.

hairyprincess · 30-03-2012 11:02PM

To make fools of people is not the way to drum up business.

They will suffer for this idiocy

justsomebloke · 30-03-2012 11:02PM

It really is amazing how stupid and gullible a large proportion of Irish people are

booboo88 · 30-03-2012 11:04PM

People are actually getting very angry about it, posting abusive messages:eek:
Boys and their paitence though, would have been so much better to wait til 1st:rolleyes:

token101 · 30-03-2012 11:05PM

Arciphel wrote: »

http://imgur.com/XILdm

Denis Mahony Motors off the M50 had a competition on facebook today, like a picture of a Mercedes 4x4 and you could win it. However it's all gone pear shaped. The angry mob have gathered on Facebook and are setting fire to their torches as we speak :pac::pac::pac::pac:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=199265473516996&set=a.169748589802018.32777.141993002577577&type=1&theater

I'd reckon it's PR gold. Everyone's talking about it, they got the name out there. That's the point if it really! And the people talking about 'itz a dizgrace Joe', they don't look the Mercedes buying type! :pac:

mikemac1 · 30-03-2012 11:08PM

Arciphel wrote: »

or the people that "win" in the end are mates of the people running the competition.

Ha, Father Ted won a car in his own raffle as I remember

humbert · 30-03-2012 11:13PM

It makes them look cheap and tricky. It was a dumbass move.

whirlpool · 30-03-2012 11:19PM

justsomebloke wrote: »

It really is amazing how stupid and gullible a large proportion of Irish people are

How I love watching people look back in hindsight from atop their high horses.

Arciphel · 30-03-2012 11:20PM

It's just appeared on http://www.broadsheet.ie/

Irish_Elect_Eng · 30-03-2012 11:23PM

Wow...talk about not understanding your customers....

saa · 30-03-2012 11:26PM

Herb Powell · 30-03-2012 11:28PM

People seem to be miles up their own asses, judging by the comments

omahaid · 30-03-2012 11:29PM

token101 wrote: »

I'd reckon it's PR gold. Everyone's talking about it, they got the name out there. That's the point if it really!

Yes, they have the name out there. I will avoid this place when looking for a car.

gilmour · 30-03-2012 11:34PM

Mother of suffering jesus look at the comments, you would think they paid 50 quid a head into a competition for the thing, all you did was click a ****ing button on the internet you absolute circus clowns. Btw i'll take the toy jeep if nobody else wants it

justsomebloke · 30-03-2012 11:40PM

whirlpool wrote: »

How I love watching people look back in hindsight from atop their high horses.

Actually I commented on their original post that is was an April fools joke gone bad as they had it running past mid day and had started it too early. Actually the vast majority of people were saying the same thing but a lot of people ignored this and now making fools of themselves on the thread complaining about it.

I'd say a lot of these people are waiting on their €20 tables from little woods as well

Arciphel · 30-03-2012 11:47PM

I think some of the comments are comedy gold... this is my fave
"Must be Thumbs up if Your a Ballbag day?"

Skid · 30-03-2012 11:50PM

It's been a tough week for some people. no cheap table and chairs from Littlewoods, and no free BMW.

I hope there are Counsellors available to get them through this difficult time :rolleyes:

PrettyBoy · 30-03-2012 11:55PM

No such thing as bad publicity, Denis Mahony Motors must have gotten hundreds if not thousands of likes today and now all the dopes that thought they were going to win a free Mercedes are going mad.

Have to laugh at how stupid most Irish people are. They feel like they've been "cheated" and "scammed" judging from the comments on the fan page. Idiots, good enough for them, now all of their Facebook friends can see how truly stupid and gullible they are.

31-03-2012 12:19AM

Did anyone win the toy? I really want it.

omahaid · 31-03-2012 12:25AM

PrettyBoy wrote: »

No such thing as bad publicity,

So you reckon the Mahon tribunal report has increased support for Fianna Fail?

WoollyRedHat · 31-03-2012 12:29AM

Can you take them to court over false advertising?

No way is that toy jeep top of the range

leggit · 31-03-2012 12:31AM

haha people are such moaners, some of the comments are comical though!

Some guy protecting them saying he runs a successful business, drives a 2009 mercedes slk and "will be in for an upgrade soon" and he's also a personal trainer would ya believe!

What the hell is he doing on facebook???

Ice87 · 31-03-2012 12:35AM

The comments are hilarious under the photo.

The only thing not funny about the picture is the shocking suit that the bloke is wearing.

Itsdacraic · 31-03-2012 12:45AM

What a shower of mongs getting all worked up. They clicked like, it cost them nothing, get over it.

chin_grin · 31-03-2012 12:51AM

Arciphel wrote: »

I think some of the comments are comedy gold... this is my fave
"Must be Thumbs up if YOU'RE a Ballbag day?"

If that's the calibre of the insults, then you can't really take them seriously. But yeah, boohoo it's like the toy Yoda email that went around years ago.

http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/hummer.asp

kleefarr · 31-03-2012 01:05AM

April the first is Aprils fool day.
Just an attempt of getting out of being fools themselves.

They are the fools.

darlett · 31-03-2012 01:13AM

Herb Powell wrote: »

People seem to be miles up their own asses, judging by the comments

Orla Hearne "Really bad taste... this marketing strategy has now back fired and won't do ur business any favours what so ever. Some comments say people need to lighten up but in these really ****ty times all people want is the chance of a better life and not getting hard done by over and over again in this country. Shame on u"

Sales of BMW in the Hearne household will no doubt plummet dramatically for the rest of 2012. The sad freakshow :pac:

How not to run a marketing campaign on Facebook....

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