[Closed] mods. Tudor watch as popup.

Erm, are you going to tell him or shall I?

How late are you to the Tudor party?

So late that there's no pudding left!

😆

Just noticed a thread on PH complaining about adverts on STW 😀

If had a watch he'd have turned up on time.

I'm crap at time keeping.

I'm not the only one then. Phew.

I don't see them.

It's set up so it only pops up very rarely. Makes you feel special when it happens. Nice to feel special so many times in one day.

See what? 😉

Dunno

Drac - Moderator
I don't see them

A tudor watch?

Does it look like this?
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It seems to be working ok on my tablet, it pops up once a day, for about 5 seconds, then pops away. Rather not have it but it works better then it did.

You mean you're immune to advertising ? Yeah, I knew a bloke like that

Have you checked you Premier settings?

Yup, it 'should' be a once a day feature unless you mess with your Cookies.

Lloyds Bank has kindly given me a loan to buy the goggles and mask but not the wetsuit and watch. Bast****!

Brilliant ad campaign. I'm like putty in their hands and now own 7 Tudor watches. Genius. And I can't tell you how good I look in the wet suit.

BB

Another happy STW forum member........

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Thanks for the help.

I'll have a play with the browser settings. I guess some tablets and browser apps will be different. With chrome on my Z2 tab it won't bugger off! Ahh well. Not the end of the world but it puts me off buying a Tudor watch if I could ever afford one.

Were you previously aware that there was a company called Tudor making watches? I wasn't and, being a premier member, I might have remained ignorant of this fact had it not been for all the folk posting about the ad. I guess you're just all just unpaid cogs in the big marketing machine.

I must admit, this is the only site I regularly look at, which I've had to more or less give up even trying to access from a work pc, due to the advertising pop ups that break my work browser. This is (and it's not meant as a criticism, I understand to provide a free forum, money must be made) the only site I routinely access, who's advertising behaviour is so bad that it breaks my work pc.

It most definitley appears more than once a day for me. Especially as I am on leave at the moment and on this site more than usual. I will say I will never ever buy a Tudor watch. They look like cheap Rolex copies. I'd rather have a stein hart if I was looking for a homage.

I've found turning the iPad into portrait and back again makes it go away without having to hit back.

I don't know what idiot is behind that marketing campaign but they should fire them, all they are doing is pissing people off.

CaptainFlashheart - Member
So late that there's no pudding left!

My iPad logged me out - the Tudor watch popped up - REALLY ****ING ANNOYING!

Then I logged back in and it's gone.

Hopefully you'll buy a watch, Tudor will realise what great value advertising on STW is and increase their spend accordingly. STW will continue and for a paltry £20/year I get no ads and a great forum., win win.

That are part of Rolex.

Scottie, sounds like you should get out more. 😉 it's been around for ages.

The latest version on here is worse than ever albeit slightly less frequent. But remember, everyone should be grateful for the benefits those nice people at baby Rolex bring.

DT78, some light reading for you;

Rolex SA offers products under the Rolex and Tudor brands.

§Tudor[edit]
Montres Tudor SA has designed, manufactured and marketed Tudor watches since March 6, 1946. Rolex founder Hans Wildorf conceived of the Tudor Watch Company to create a product for authorized Rolex dealers to sell that offered the reliability and dependability of a Rolex, but at a lower price.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex#Tudor

£1.50 a month or £15 a year gets you a P and no adverts 😀

Once again I won't be blackmailed into a premium sub by being bombared with adverts, I can't believe some people think this is okay for a forum. A forum it's content generated by its users. No other forum is this bad that I know of. Must mean they are proping up the magazine with the ad revenue form this forum which would cost very little to run.

I actually don't care about Tudors heritage they still look like Rolex knock offs. The brands cheap marketing policy of badgering me daily has put me off them completely. And I do like watches and have a small collection.

Does any one ever complain to the company that made the tablet, created its operating system or created the browser

Try complaining to your IT department for blocking the cookies that would stop it popping up as much.

Does any one ever complain to the company that made the tablet, created its operating system or created the browser

That nice diver bloke just popped up again to say good night and to stop me accessing the forum at such a late hour. So thoughtful of him......

It is more like every couple of hours rather than once a day. I have had it twice this evening. However have discovered if I turn my iPad from landscape to portrait I can see the x and kill it. Which while annoying only takes a second.

Yet like every other time you say it stops you posting you still manage to post.

I wonder if Tudor know that whatever marketing agency their paying has managed to piss off so many would be customers?

They are probably giving loads of good feedback "click through" from stw is great etc when actually it's just people hammering their iPads trying to get rid of bloody thing!

Once again I won't be blackmailed into a premium sub by being bombared with adverts

But it's not blackmail thought is it, you pay for a subscription to read the magazine electronically and get the ads removed as a bonus.

But it's not blackmail thought is it, you pay for a subscription to read the magazine electronically and get the ads removed as a bonus.

Nick surely there are to ways to look at this

Its Single Tracks fault for making a web page a ipad has trouble with

Its Apples fault for making a device that can't read a web page

Good news, I am now on the Tudor STW loyalty scheme. Sixty eighty, well after this sixty seven, more visits and I get 50% off a "maritime" replacement strap or a free refill of my aqua lung. Quids in, so everyone is a winner.

Great idea to introduce the scheme....

Another finding it ridiculous here.

In my ipad it pops up up to 5 times a day. I turn it to portrait back to landscape and i still can't get rid of it! I have to close my browsers down then reopen.

I want to drown the bloke 😡

Nick surely there are to ways to look at this

Its Single Tracks fault for making a web page a ipad has trouble with

Its Apples fault for making a device that can't read a web page

Just to reiterate the point made many times by many people. No problem with adverts in principle. The site has to be funded, they have two models, subs and ads, both are fine and it's nice to have a choice. The only issue is this advert does not behave as the people supplying it claim it does. Something is broken/wrong.

When it pops up on an iPad just refresh the page and it goes away.

stupid advert that makes the site unusable on the iPad. for the terminally incompetent it's very irritating to be told to pay for "premier". we have been paying for the magazine since the first issue, thats enough money. Suppose that well know moderator will be along shortly to take the p..s. If you you have so little respect for your customers that you force us to look at the stupid adverts perhaps this grumpy git should move on and cancel the subscription. Calm down dear!
As you can see that Tudor ad gets on me wick, what wrong with a cheap Timex?

You're not a customer. You're the product.

I'm both or quite possibly neither very soon.

stupid advert that makes the site unusable on the iPad. for the terminally incompetent it's very irritating to be told to pay for "premier". we have been paying for the magazine since the first issue, thats enough money. Suppose that well know moderator will be along shortly to take the p..s. If you you have so little respect for your customers that you force us to look at the stupid adverts perhaps this grumpy git should move on and cancel the subscription. Calm down dear!
As you can see that Tudor ad gets on me wick, what wrong with a cheap Timex?

Unless you have found a deal that I don't know about you can't subscribe to the magazine without getting Premier thrown in

Makes me want to swap my Galaxy tab for a poxy ipad and turn off the P just to see what the fuss is about.

we have been paying for the [b]magazine[/b] since the first issue, thats enough money.

The magazine is what you've been paying for, to pay for the site requires either ads or for those that wish to buy an Premier subscription which will allow online access to the mags and Ad free browsing plus other benefits.

Without Ads there will be no STW as you know it.

Clearing out my history solved it for me. Oddly I had been thinking about buying a Tudor watch with this years bonus, no chance now, plus I can get an almost identical Chris Ward at a third of the price.

I’ve already got a print subscription and website account, can I get the ‘Premier’ bit?

Yes, just pop along to the Premier upgrade page. Then we can match the accounts up and you can enjoy the enhanced website features of being a Premier member.

I've been trying to think of some kind of witty pun for this thread, but I find that Tudor watch ad so ****ing aggravating that I'm not going to grace this thread with anything that requires any thought.........

Without Ads there will be no STW as you know it.

How about less ads?

*runs away*

Without Ads there will be no STW as you know it.

Without Ads there will be no STW as you know it.

Actually, 'without ads that people look at and click...'

So all P equals no stw.

Again, no problem with ads only broken ads

This.

However, another upside of P is that the bald site looks a lot less obviously like skiving at work. Jus' sayin'

I was in the market for a new watch, but anyone else notice the Tudor is always displaying the wrong time when the add helpfully pops up on the iPad screen?

Has undermined my confidence in the brand!!!

But it's perfectly accurate twice a day!

Got a [i]really[/i] strange déjà vu kinda feeling reading this!

ampthill - Member
Nick surely there are to ways to look at this

Its Single Tracks fault for making a web page a ipad has trouble with

Its Apples fault for making a device that can't read a web page

I haven't seen it since I started the thread. At all. Spooky! Mind you I'm browsing on the phone atm.

I also don't mind ads. Just ones you can't get rid of easily. Seems it affects both apple and android devices.

I haven't seen it since I started the thread. At all. Spooky!

Not really that's how it's supposed to work, you should only see it once every 24hours.

I had heard that it only showed up on tablets. That said it is also only supposed to appear once a day and that feature doesn't work that well.

plus I can get an almost identical Chris Ward at a third of the price.

Also, Aliexpress is a great place to buy Pinarello frames and team cycling kit.

£1.50 a month or £15 a year gets you a P and no adverts

Great if you are logged in on the device you are using at the time and a subscriber. If you are not it pops up over the area where you might log in and covers that. It also has no option to reduce page zoom on a small device i.e. a Nexus 7 running Chrome. So at that point I'll just refresh the page or get annoyed by it and browse away, so it should at least be responsible for a drop in traffic.

Does the marketing revenue of this app justify any dip in traffic you may have seen since you introduced it? Personally as someone working at an online retailer I think the full page modal overlay is one of the worst advertising concepts yet and I hope it dies very very soon.

The problem with the ad is due to the website not having a mobile version (like most website have these days). When you zoom in to make the forum text fit the page the ad pops-up but in full size, so you can no longer re-size the page to hit the tiny x in the corner.

So as others have said, advert works fine, website/forum has not had any changes to make it suitable to read on a phone or tablet. Might change when the new site becomes live in 2009, someone go prod the hamsters.

And people saying buy P, missing the point. The website needs to be usable buy the general public, thats what draws more people in so the advertising pays to handle the traffic the site gets.

as if you'd go diving wearing a watch that costs over a grand.

3 times in the last 2 hours 😡

I really want a Tudor watch.

I can't see the advert because I have a little [img] [/img]

I have tried logging out to see it but then I can't post.

Please please can STW sort this out, this is unacceptable!