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Company wins their own Facebook competition

Faith

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.

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Corkbah

Dodge wrote: »

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

erm... give them a username and password and they have admin access !! you dont need to be friends with them on facebook !!

smash

WindSock wrote: »

Like and share to win a 2k ring from a small business seems unlikely, however if this is a marketing ploy, it's very good indeed.

Where did you see the value? 2k is a pretty small ring.

K-9

They deleted their Facebook page.

Yeah, it's looking like a Ghost Town as the Stranglers would say.

Lone Stone

ha that's gas, fraudsters.

Lollipops23

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.

antodeco

K-9 wrote: »

WE exchanged telephone numbers.

I wonder did he give her a ring?

PizzamanIRL

We're talking national scandal.

Down with that sort of thing!

Dodge

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.

Lenin Skynard

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.

smash

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

K-9

WE exchanged telephone numbers.

Definitely worth a Dougal comment.

Faith

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.

castletownman

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!

P_1

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

maximoose

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?

BUBBLE WRAP

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:

suicide_circus

Stung rapid

DesperateDan

Sounds to me like this man is sleeping with Lynda.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Oops.

greenheart

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.

Penn

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.

seamus

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.

biko

Happens all the time I'm sure.

gobnaitolunacy

Cue Father Ted quote/youtube clip....

patdshaker

Hehehe
This is the best thing since slice pan.

Guill

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

Penn

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.

Red Crow

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

TeddyTedson

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

seamus

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