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Audi Galway on Facebook

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  • #122
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    There is now a photo of the winner on their page. :D


  • #123
    snowbabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭snowbabe


    Just saw May in the flesh there,where is her son? Are they deleting all comments on their page now? So,May with no fb account won a competition that she had to tag a person to go for a spin with her,give her a beep if you see her around Galway as she might be lonely. Bonus prize of a BMW if anyone actually gets a photo of her:)


  • #124
    May Lydon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 ✭May Lydon


    The competition is all above board.
    Some of you here have very active imagination. And maybe a little jealous as well.
    Well, time to kick 'dis mule and burn some rubber. So long suckers.


  • #125
    Flippyfloppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,749 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    May Lydon wrote: »
    The competition is all above board.
    Some of you here have very active imagination. And maybe a little jealous as well.
    Well, time to kick 'dis mule and burn some rubber. So long suckers.

    Now May lied on boards and bookface


  • #126
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    LynnGrace wrote: »
    There is now a photo of the winner on their page. :D

    Someone has said that the photo is actually of their accounts manager :pac:


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  • #127
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Jenny Thalia wrote: »
    Someone has said that the photo is actually of their accounts manager :pac:


    Where you see that


  • #128
    jimmii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    Specialun wrote: »
    Where you see that

    Someone posted it on the pic only reply is "It's not the accounts manager!!" thats me convinced.

    For some reason can't post it as an image.

    http://s15.postimg.org/ecpw456tn/audi_comment.jpg


  • #129
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,139 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    jimmii wrote: »
    Someone posted it on the pic only reply is "It's not the accounts manager!!" thats me convinced.

    For some reason can't post it as an image.

    http://s15.postimg.org/ecpw456tn/audi_comment.jpg

    Not sure why that would convince you? "Someone" posted it is their accounts manager but "someone else" posted, no it's not?

    I m laughing at some of the funny comments but to be fair none of us know for definite if that lady is in fact a customer who has now won a prize she might rather not win! No wonder she looks unimpressed!

    She seems to be getting a lot of personal abuse about her appearance, being too old to win, etc and for me that's taking it a step too far.


  • #130
    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    anewme wrote: »
    She seems to be getting a lot of personal abuse about her appearance, being too old to win, etc and for me that's taking it a step too far.

    Haven't seen any of that but sounds awful. No need at all.


  • #131
    jimmii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    anewme wrote: »
    Not sure why that would convince you? "Someone" posted it is their accounts manager but "someone else" posted, no it's not?

    I wasn't serious.


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  • #132
    jimmii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    LDN_Irish wrote: »
    Haven't seen any of that but sounds awful. No need at all.

    I haven't seen that either but if that is the case does seem a bit much. People love going internet warrior mode though and once they do its hard to get them back.


  • #133
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,805 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Rachel Allen likes Audi Galway.


  • #134
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Its a funny case all right. Funny that these companies think they can pull a fast one like this and then start making a holy show of themselves when caught out.
    The negative publicity must be killing them.


  • #135
    jimmii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »
    Rachel Allen likes Audi Galway.

    Shtop the lights.


  • #136
    jetsonx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭jetsonx


    This whole affair has resulting in Audi Galway looking like a very shabby operator.

    Would I buy an Audi from them now ? No Way Jose.

    From my experience, in companies where there is a culture of lies and deceit they tend not
    be very good companies to do business with anyway.

    The best thing they could not now would be to come clean and offer an Audi as a prize with proceeds going to reputable charity. They might be able to redeem themselves. Because if they don't, this fiasco will be at the back of peoples minds for a long time to come.

    But whether their management team has the tact and foresight do this is another matter.


  • #137
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,139 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    jimmii wrote: »
    I wasn't serious.

    Sorry!

    I'd just be a bit annoyed if it was my Mum or if that lady is genuine.

    Yep some people have been taking it a bit too far with their comments , she works for the dealership or "must be connected"., can't crack a smile, etc etc!Someone else said she's too old? To win that prize! Then the person who said no it's not their accounts manager got rounded on as well.

    Suppose there's always a few who take a joke too far from behind their keyboard.


  • #138
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Why would anyone enter a competition where the "main prize" was an extended test drive, or at best free weekend car rental?

    I've seen village GAA club raffles with better prizes...for third place.


  • #139
    jimmii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    anewme wrote: »
    Sorry!

    I'd just be a bit annoyed if it was my Mum or if that lady is genuine.

    Yep some people have been taking it a bit too far with their comments , she works for the dealership or "must be connected"., can't crack a smile, etc etc!Someone else said she's too old? To win that prize! Then the person who said no it's not their accounts manager got rounded on as well.

    Suppose there's always a few who take a joke too far from behind their keyboard.

    Yeh if it does turn out to just be a serious of unfortunate mistakes then you have to feel for her. Either way Audi Ireland screwed up big time no way out of it for them really.


  • #140
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    I don't get this..
    May Lydon won and so Audi announced this on Facebook and asked her to PM them.
    Then they say her son actually won but he said that he wanted his mother to win and so they announced her as a result of that.
    So then why did they ask her on Facebook to PM them if they had been talking to her son.

    I mean surely, most companies you won a car from would, on the back of you saying you would rather that your mother had won the car, tell you that well it's up to you what you do with the prize but we won't be announcing that she won, as she didn't win it, you did...

    I can't see any company announcing another person won a competition just because the winner of it wanted them to.


  • #141
    jimmii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    I don't get this..
    May Lydon won and so Audi announced this on Facebook and asked her to PM them.
    Then they say her son actually won but he said that he wanted her to win.
    So then why did they ask her to PM them if they had been talking to her son    .

    I mean, surely, most companies you won a car from would, on the back of you saying you would rather your mother had the car, tell you that it's up to you what you do with the prize but we won't be announcing she won, as she didn't win it, you did...

    I can't see any company announcing another person won a competition just because the winner wanted them to.

    This is the question a lot of people have been asking and to date they haven't even attempted to answer it. I guess possibly one person contacted the son and then all they told the social media person was the name of the winner who they assumed had been drawn via the Facebook entries.


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  • #142
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,139 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    I don't get this..
    May Lydon won and so Audi announced this on Facebook and asked her to PM them.
    Then they say her son actually won but he said that he wanted his mother to win and so they announced her as a result of that.
    So then why did they ask her on Facebook to PM them if they had been talking to her son.

    I mean surely, most companies you won a car from would, on the back of you saying you would rather that your mother had won the car, tell you that well it's up to you what you do with the prize but we won't be announcing that she won, as she didn't win it, you did...

    I can't see any company announcing another person won a competition just because the winner of it wanted them to.

    Odd all right but there's obvious terms and conditions......maybe the son won and the insuance wouldn't cover him or something, so they announced the mother instead.

    It's not a car they win, only as someone else rightly said, an extended test drive.


  • #143
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Why would anyone enter a competition where the "main prize" was an extended test drive, or at best free weekend car rental?

    I've seen village GAA club raffles with better prizes...for third place.

    But Audi hasn't been given anything to raffle since those two bags of coal in 1964...


  • #144
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    anewme wrote: »
    It's not a car they win, only as someone else rightly said, an extended test drive.

    Ah ffs!


  • #145
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,524 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    jetsonx wrote: »
    This whole affair has resulting in Audi Galway looking like a very shabby operator.

    Would I buy an Audi from them now ? No Way Jose.

    From my experience, in companies where there is a culture of lies and deceit they tend not be very good companies to do business with anyway.

    The best thing they could not now would be to come clean and offer an Audi as a prize with proceeds going to reputable charity. They might be able to redeem themselves. Because if they don't, this fiasco will be at the back of peoples minds for a long time to come.

    But whether their management team has the tact and foresight do this is another matter.


    Truth be told, if they were offering me a good price on an Audi, I wouldn't care what they put up on their social media pages, and I'd care even less what those who were never going to buy and Audi from them in the first place might think!


    (nothing against you jetson but money comes before morals for most people, how do you think Apple, Google and thousands of other companies stay in business exactly?)


  • #146
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So many strange things happening lately.

    First there was Flight MH370, then that sinkhole/wormhole on Dame Street, and now Mae Lydon?

    Aliens are behind this.


  • #147
    munuus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭munuus


    interesting


  • #148
    jetsonx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭jetsonx


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Truth be told, if they were offering me a good price on an Audi, I wouldn't care what they put up on their social media

    (nothing against you jetson but money comes before morals for most people, how do you think Apple, Google and thousands of other companies stay in business exactly?)

    It's not what they put on their Facebook page per se that is the problem.

    As a consumer, the shabby and deceitful way in which they have handled this operation would be a big red flag to me.

    Because, if I hand over, lets say, 30k for a new Audi and it develops serious transmission problems after a couple of months. I want a supplier that I can trust who will honor a warranty.

    And I can guarantee you, if you got a "great deal" on an Audi and you discovered serious problems with it and the dealer did'nt want to know...then you too would discover pretty quickly the value of doing business with trustworthy companies.


  • #149
    rizzodun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    jetsonx wrote: »
    It's not what they put on their Facebook page per se that is the problem.

    As a consumer, the shabby and deceitful way in which they have handled this operation would be a big red flag to me.

    Because, if I hand over, lets say, 30k for a new Audi and it develops serious transmission problems after a couple of months. I want a supplier that I can trust who will honor a warranty.

    And I can guarantee you, if you got a "great deal" on an Audi and you discovered serious problems with it and the dealer did'nt want to know...then you too would discover pretty quickly the value of doing business with trustworthy businesses.


    I second this, on the face of it it's a storm in a teacup, but if they have no problem being deceitful about an extended test drive how do they handle warranty issues or even general servicing?

    A: "You need a new belt pulley, not covered under warranty."
    C: "Really? I didn't notice any noise or problems...."
    A: "Yes, well, it needs doing, €300 parts and labour..."
    C: "Oh, well of course, you're the experts"


  • #150
    jetsonx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭jetsonx


    rizzodun wrote: »
    I second this, on the face of it it's a storm in a teacup, but if they have no problem being deceitful about an extended test drive how do they handle warranty issues or even general servicing?

    Exactly that is the whole crux of the issue. No one wants to do business with a
    pack a liars. This dealer should adopt a redemptive course of action as quick as possible because this situation is now festering. As a company they risk now being known as "the Audi dealer who ran the fake Facebook competition" among the public. This could haunt them for years to come. And I'm sure this perception is not exactly aligned with the brand values of Audi.


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  • #151
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,852 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    May needs to lose the shades.

    She looks way too.......shady.


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