Company wins their own Facebook competition

Faith · 08-01-2013 12:32PM #1

Skillens, a jewellers in Co. Down, ran a Facebook competition in December - a like and share competition to win a diamond and tanzanite ring. A few days ago, they announced the winner and posted a photo of the winner and her husband with the prize. Only... oops, the winner, Lynda Speers, was commenting on the picture and she forgot she was logged in as the Skillens Facebook account!

You can see the screenshots and the awful "statement" released by the company here: http://www.bitterwallet.com/big-stink-caused-over-lovely-ring-facebook-prize/61625

Makes you wonder how often companies do this and get away with it.

08-01-2013 12:36PM

What if their statement is true though?

Mr. Nice · 08-01-2013 12:36PM

Did you read it all?

krudler · 08-01-2013 12:38PM

She is currently being cared for by family who fear for her health, that the stress of all this will cause a heart attack or the like.

sweet jesus...

Penn · 08-01-2013 12:39PM

Ahahahahahahahaha

Love when stuff like this happens.

seamus · 08-01-2013 12:40PM

The statement could be true, but a few of comments allege that members of the winners family have the surname "Skillen".

TeddyTedson · 08-01-2013 12:41PM

The statement seems plausible although a very strange thing to do.

Red Crow · 08-01-2013 12:42PM

I wonder did he put the hat on to give her the signal?

Penn · 08-01-2013 12:42PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What if their statement is true though?

People were jealous, so they added her as an admin to their company Facebook page and gave her free will to delete any posts she wanted? Hardly likely.

People were calling it a fix, and then she accidentally posted from the company account, pretty much proving that it was actually a fix.

Guill · 08-01-2013 12:44PM

Statement reads like Bull sh1t to me, I know because i've read a lot of Bull sh1t in my time.

patdshaker · 08-01-2013 12:45PM

Hehehe
This is the best thing since slice pan.

gobnaitolunacy · 08-01-2013 12:46PM

Cue Father Ted quote/youtube clip....

biko · 08-01-2013 12:47PM

Happens all the time I'm sure.

seamus · 08-01-2013 12:49PM

Penn wrote: »

People were jealous, so they added her as an admin to their company Facebook page and gave her free will to delete any posts she wanted? Hardly likely.

It does sound ridiculous, but there's no limit on the depths of human stupidity. So while ridiculous, it's actually plausible that the company could just be that dumb.

However, if the other allegations are true about her not having shared the photo and being at least related to the company, then it's clearly a bull**** statement.

Penn · 08-01-2013 12:49PM

Actually, if there had been a lot of vindictive messages directed towards the winner, why on earth would they add her as an admin, thereby ensuring that she'd end up reading most of them? Get a trusted family member to do it.

Sorry, but their statement just makes very little sense.

greenheart · 08-01-2013 12:49PM

From statement

This must stop, she is a very decent lady, and going thorugh a mini nervous breakdown it would seem, yet has done no wrong. Any existing customer knows my staff, and knows this is a witch hunt.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 08-01-2013 12:49PM

Oops.

DesperateDan · 08-01-2013 12:50PM

Sounds to me like this man is sleeping with Lynda.

suicide_circus · 08-01-2013 12:50PM

Stung rapid

BUBBLE WRAP · 08-01-2013 12:51PM

Penn wrote: »

People were jealous, so they added her as an admin to their company Facebook page and gave her free will to delete any posts she wanted? Hardly likely.

People were calling it a fix, and then she accidentally posted from the company account, pretty much proving that it was actually a fix.

I think you can delete any comment. I do it the whole time. :cool:

maximoose · 08-01-2013 12:51PM

Statement is nonsense, they were caught out and now trying to make her seem like a victim.

According to one of the comments on that site, the "winner" didn't even share the post?

P_1 · 08-01-2013 12:52PM

And this is why you shouldn't do any marketing on Facebook if you don't know what you're doing...

castletownman · 08-01-2013 12:52PM

I heard that it was conducted via a rigged raffle and it was pre-meditated that she was to have the winning ticket number 11. But, it took her ages to realise that she had the winning ticket because she was reading it upside down!

Faith · 08-01-2013 12:53PM

seamus wrote: »

The statement could be true, but a few of comments allege that members of the winners family have the surname "Skillen".

Apparently, a few members of the Skillens' and Speers' families had each other listed as "cousins" on their Facebook pages, prior to the competition.

K-9 · 08-01-2013 12:54PM

WE exchanged telephone numbers.

Definitely worth a Dougal comment.

smash · 08-01-2013 12:54PM

You don't give random people admin access to your fb account, even if they did win a prize.

Lenin Skynard · 08-01-2013 12:55PM

Fair play to the owner of the place with his statement actually managing to convince some people with his very far-fetched yarn. It reminds me of a child making up some very elaborate excuse as to why the packet of biscuits is all eaten.

Dodge · 08-01-2013 12:57PM

smash wrote: »

You don't give random people admin access to your fb account, even if they did win a prize.

In fact you can't give admin access to a facebook page to someone who you aren't facebook friends with.

PizzamanIRL · 08-01-2013 12:58PM

We're talking national scandal.

Down with that sort of thing!

antodeco · 08-01-2013 12:59PM

K-9 wrote: »

WE exchanged telephone numbers.

I wonder did he give her a ring?

Lollipops23 · 08-01-2013 12:59PM

smash wrote: »

You don't give random people admin access to your fb account, even if they did win a prize.

You do if you haven't a breeze about social network marketing.

I'm really not sure I buy the statement to be honest- and all this guilt-tripping saying she's having a nervous breakdown etc/about to have a heart attack is despicable. People are within their rights to ask questions about the whole debacle, especially after the slip up of writing while still signed in as the jewelers.

Company wins their own Facebook competition

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