Audi Galway on Facebook

CD8ED · 31-07-2015 05:01PM

Ha, Think Fast Fr Ted! :pac:

jimmii · 31-07-2015 05:01PM

How do people think they can get away with that? Seem to remember some other company pulling something similar about a year ago and it coming unstuck. It probably goes on all the time giveaway a ridiculously good prize get a load of attention and then have a friend "win".

snowbabe · 31-07-2015 05:04PM

It gets better theres a post on their page from May poor girl thought she had won a car !! Telpis us all

Fr_Dougal · 31-07-2015 05:08PM

jimmii wrote: »

How do people think they can get away with that? Seem to remember some other company pulling something similar about a year ago and it coming unstuck. It probably goes on all the time giveaway a ridiculously good prize get a load of attention and then have a friend "win".

It was Denis Mahony. http://shaneoleary.me/blog/index.php/attempt-to-drive-facebook-likes-backfires-on-car-group/

I wouldn't consider buying as much as a tyre cap off them after that stunt.

cazzer22 · 31-07-2015 05:09PM

Again that was Audi trying to cover their tracks. Her name is 'May' yet there's a man as her profiler and the web address is Facebook.com/John.moran. Idiotic.

The_Valeyard · 31-07-2015 05:10PM

jimmii wrote: »

How do people think they can get away with that? Seem to remember some other company pulling something similar about a year ago and it coming unstuck. It probably goes on all the time giveaway a ridiculously good prize get a load of attention and then have a friend "win".

Wasn't that some jewellers did that?

RichardCeann · 31-07-2015 05:11PM

May Lydons one friend has also won a prize. She'll be collecting it from the nearest social welfare office on Monday morning.

jimmii · 31-07-2015 05:11PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Wasn't that some jewellers did that?

Not sure I remember a lady won and then after a few moaning posts she started replying as admin and they came out with some excuse saying the added her to the page so she could delete comments or something. At least that one was just slightly slightly believable.

EDIT: Found it

jimmii · 31-07-2015 05:12PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

It was Denis Mahony. http://shaneoleary.me/blog/index.php/attempt-to-drive-facebook-likes-backfires-on-car-group/

I wouldn't consider buying as much as a tyre cap off them after that stunt.

Hadn't heard that one before thats ridiculous!!

Pinch Flat · 31-07-2015 05:17PM

It's amazing a company will mess up its reputation for a few hundred euros (I.e. Just let a genuine / real punter win and drive the car for the weekend, rather than a fake profile). If this is how they behave on social media, how could you trust them with your car?

Eponymous · 31-07-2015 05:21PM

Dear god...if you're going to make a fake woman's profile at least put up a picture of a woman..

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...95&oe=5648F43F

Looks surprisingly like the guy in the cover picture on their twitter page too (can't link from here, but it's @audigalway )

jimmii · 31-07-2015 05:22PM

Eponymous wrote: »

Looks surprisingly like the guy in the cover picture on their twitter page too (can't link from here, but it's @audigalway )

Isn't that Hector?

Taboola · 31-07-2015 05:28PM

Has the May Lyndon profile been deleted?

jimmii · 31-07-2015 05:29PM

To make it worse people are still entering. Does make you worry about humanity even if they don't know its a scam they can surely read the end time.

Mars Bar · 31-07-2015 05:32PM

I entered just for the sake of entering as I'd been tagged. It was worth liking the page just to follow the controversy on the now deleted announcement comment!

jimmii · 31-07-2015 05:32PM

Taboola wrote: »

Has the May Lyndon profile been deleted?

I guess Facebook just wasn't for them!

AnonoBoy · 31-07-2015 05:33PM

Sh*t "news" website TheLiberal.ie did this with an iPhone competition that a mate of theirs "won" a while back.

They also didn't report on the result of the Marriage Referendum because it didn't turn out how they wanted it to.

jimmii · 31-07-2015 05:34PM

I would imagine this article will be the first of many. Must be pretty awkward over there right now probably expecting a call from a German number telling them to just go home.

anncoates · 31-07-2015 05:36PM

Terrible.

Because a real person generally always wins the expensive consumer item in these spamshare competitions.

AnonoBoy · 31-07-2015 05:39PM

anncoates wrote: »

Terrible.

Because a real person generally always wins the expensive consumer item in these spamshare competitions.

Indeed, just ask my friends John Smith, Mary Murphy or Randomly Generated Name O'Reilly who all won competitions recently.

RayM · 31-07-2015 05:47PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Sh*t "news" website TheLiberal.ie did this with an iPhone competition that a mate of theirs "won" a while back.

They also didn't report on the result of the Marriage Referendum because it didn't turn out how they wanted it to.

They're still at it. It's clearly a scam, but it's a successful one... There are still plenty of gullible fools retweeting and following them.

https://twitter.com/TheLiberal_ie/status/627150497854558208

They were obsessed with the referendum for months, and then abruptly forgot about it. I was half-expecting them to describe the result as a resounding win for the 'No' side.

Samaris · 31-07-2015 05:50PM

This whole thing is pretty hilarious. And they just keep digging by deleting comments, as if that's going to help! :pac:

jimmii · 31-07-2015 05:52PM

Samaris wrote: »

This whole thing is pretty hilarious. And they just keep digging by deleting comments, as if that's going to help! :pac:

The post trying to suggest it was a legit random draw was just ridiculous. Surely at that point you have to go into damage limitation mode.

Samaris · 31-07-2015 05:57PM

There is no damage control that they can do now, and trying to pretend that there's nothing wrong's going to do them no favours! Sanest thing they can do to save face is to pick someone else and claim it was an "accident". No-one's going to believe them, but at least it'll get the thing over with.

Or do a mea culpa, apologise profusely and give a random person the car. They'd phrased the competition just sneakily enough that they could get away with "no no, we totally said it was just for the weekend /cough"

fergus1001 · 31-07-2015 06:09PM

And the winning ticket is number 11 on yellow paper

Number 11

11

Dougal !!

Oh sorry ted i was holding it upside down

AnonoBoy · 31-07-2015 06:10PM

RayM wrote: »

They're still at it. It's clearly a scam, but it's a successful one... There are still plenty of gullible fools retweeting and following them.

https://twitter.com/TheLiberal_ie/status/627150497854558208

They were obsessed with the referendum for months, and then abruptly forgot about it. I was half-expecting them to describe the result as a resounding win for the 'No' side.

The main man behind the site is a fool. I sometimes read through his Twitter spats with people just so I feel better about myself.

Also the site reads like it was written by teenagers who are learning English.

Also I've never seen a news site that blocks people as quickly as the bunch of clowns that run that place. They're a joke!

Hermy · 31-07-2015 06:30PM

I wonder what Audi AG think of all this?

vicwatson · 31-07-2015 06:31PM

I think Audi are saying nice work. Free advertising

jimmii · 31-07-2015 06:37PM

Samaris wrote: »

There is no damage control that they can do now, and trying to pretend that there's nothing wrong's going to do them no favours! Sanest thing they can do to save face is to pick someone else and claim it was an "accident". No-one's going to believe them, but at least it'll get the thing over with.

Or do a mea culpa, apologise profusely and give a random person the car. They'd phrased the competition just sneakily enough that they could get away with "no no, we totally said it was just for the weekend /cough"

Yeh too late now. They have to decide now to hope it goes away (that always works so well on the internet!) or just man up and admit they screwed up. Guessing they try the former.

Hermy · 31-07-2015 06:38PM

I know all publicity is good publicity but this really pushes the maxim a bit to far.

Audi Galway on Facebook

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