I wish - but then unlike a huge amount of online customers, I have a brain in my head and research. That way if anything goes wrong, it's my fault.....
Crikey Ling is annoying, never realised.
You never watched The Apprentice then?
Lucy Crowe is part of a public government body
Fail.
When people at work leave their screens unlocked at work, Lings Cars suddenly becomes their homepage
So. Ling. Would you?
Lucy Crowe is part of a public government body
Fail.
Sorry, should have been more precise: she works for a body that is not part of the political (elected) government, but is an organisation that regulates advertising, with legal firepower provided by the OFT. So no, not technically speaking a "public government body", but it might as well be.
Shes an employee- anyone could scrutinise her emails/complain/dig etc etc - it'd probably come to nowt but if your personal emails to clients etc were made public, someone could nit-pick (or you'd worry they might). She might have gone home stressing about etc.
Handwringing? maybe but its part of the reason why I think Ling over-stepped a line. Self-promotion without thinking of others.
Just noticed this thread, she's always had a bit of a crazy idea about advertising, years ago I'm sure she had a tank or a old jet fighter parked up advertising her cars. Not sure if she still does, but she lived about half a mile from me, second hand cars sales in dodgy advert scam...nothing new here?
It's really not a scam.
Re: personal details, I can see an obvious potential issue with publishing email addresses on the Internet in this sort of context. To wit, an influx of semi-literate abuse from the bottom half of the Internet.
[i]second hand cars sales in dodgy advert scam[/i]
errrm, except she only sells new cars and even then only acts as an agent.
I'm interested as to why the equally frivolous Robin Reliant ad has received no attention from the ASA.
has received no attention from the ASA
Because no-one has complained about it and they only respond to complaints?
so, in theory, she could continue to run the Reliant stuff despite the ASA ruling that the identical bar the car DeLorean one is 'wrong'?
Well that's the public well and truely protected.
Yes - she even offered that they look at the Robin advert in her correspondence with them.
It is ludicrous.
I saw a misleading advert the other day for Mcdonalds, there was a pilot saying he had just bought a burger for £1.49??? not in an airport he didnt!
misleading adverts you say?
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of course some are more accurate than others
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It's starting again.
from twitter;
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Reply from the Advertising Standards Authority. It is "embargoed". Bollocks to that. Will publish, very soon.[/i]
