Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up. (Vol 2)

[LuS1fer]

The Lynx ad, suggesting it smells as good as the finest fragrances, not fly spray.

All the gold coins ads with "bargain prices" when the "coins" themselves are 11mm in diameter. Check your ruler to see just how small that is, it barely qualifies as a trinket.

[Halmyre]

£10,000 for solving some sort of wordsearch puzzle, entry is free!!!! Call on an 0800 number to enter.

So where's the scam? Presumably you phone the number and they ask for your bank details or something?

[hidetheelephants]

Halmyre said:

£10,000 for solving some sort of wordsearch puzzle, entry is free!!!! Call on an 0800 number to enter.

So where's the scam? Presumably you phone the number and they ask for your bank details or something?

Typically it will be the call charge for those kind of things; entry is free and in the microtext it will explain how to enter for free by post, but calling up or texting to enter isn't.

[Anonymous John]

Halmyre said:

£10,000 for solving some sort of wordsearch puzzle, entry is free!!!! Call on an 0800 number to enter.

So where's the scam? Presumably you phone the number and they ask for your bank details or something?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5957457/television-wordsearch

"Now they take £19.75off my bank every month. I had card blocked and new issued but somehow I see they managed to take it again. "

[I-am-the-reverend]

The Halfords advert.

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fk OFF!

[cuprabob]

Anonymous John said:

Halmyre said:

£10,000 for solving some sort of wordsearch puzzle, entry is free!!!! Call on an 0800 number to enter.

So where's the scam? Presumably you phone the number and they ask for your bank details or something?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5957457/television-wordsearch

"Now they take £19.75off my bank every month. I had card blocked and new issued but somehow I see they managed to take it again. "

I phoned it once out of interest and all they asked was for my name and address. A few weeks later I received a letter saying I was entered into the competition. No bank details were requested and I haven't received any further Spam through the post. Surprisingly I never won the competition.

[Halmyre]

Anonymous John said:

Halmyre said:

£10,000 for solving some sort of wordsearch puzzle, entry is free!!!! Call on an 0800 number to enter.

So where's the scam? Presumably you phone the number and they ask for your bank details or something?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5957457/television-wordsearch

"Now they take £19.75off my bank every month. I had card blocked and new issued but somehow I see they managed to take it again. "

So it's been running three years!

Reminds me of late night ITV many years ago, they used to run similar competitions in the wee small hours. A blonde young female would stand next to a CGI wordsearch and invite you to phone in with the bleedin' obvious (or so it seemed) solution.

[The Hypno-Toad]

When we get a new government, can we have new ruling? None of these songs are ever, ever to be allowed in adverts again.

Any song that has been featured on a Tarantino soundtrack.
Can’t Touch This.
Pump Up The Jam.
I’ve Got The Power.
Walking On Sunshine
Steal My Sunshine
Ace Of Spades

Makes me mad…

[cuprabob]

The Hypno-Toad said:

When we get a new government, can we have new ruling? None of these songs are ever, ever to be allowed in adverts again.

Any song that has been featured on a Tarantino soundtrack.
Can’t Touch This.
Pump Up The Jam.
I’ve Got The Power.
Walking On Sunshine
Steal My Sunshine
Ace Of Spades

Makes me mad…

No problem as long as we can keep Jess Glynne and "Hold my Hand"

[Milkyway]

May I add the banning of any Alison Hammond or Brian Blessed boom overs.

[CoolHands]

David Beckham now advertising Ali Express. When will advertisers understand that he will do literally anything for money, and as a result no one in the uk respects him. Utter joke

[Milkyway]

CoolHands said:

David Beckham now advertising Ali Express. When will advertisers understand that he will do literally anything for money, and as a result no one in the uk respects him. Utter joke

He is their GLOBAL AMBASSADOR... doubt if he is doing that for free.
He's linked in with the Euros, so we will have will have to put up with him... for few months at least.

Edited by Milkyway on Wednesday 29th May 23:05

[hidetheelephants]

Advert for anti-allergy stuff; woman on a bus that looks like she's dying of ebola but has hayfever, ridiculous over-the-top make-up.

[Richard-390a0]

The Hypno-Toad said:

When we get a new government, can we have new ruling? None of these songs are ever, ever to be allowed in adverts again.

Any song that has been featured on a Tarantino soundtrack.
Can’t Touch This.
Pump Up The Jam.
I’ve Got The Power.
Walking On Sunshine
Steal My Sunshine
Ace Of Spades

Makes me mad…

Pump up the jam being on at least two current adverts. Mini & M&S

[lornemalvo]

I never watch ads. They are all crap and are repeated ad nauseum. There is no humour in them any more and the mantra for these "creative" ad people seems to be plenty of bright colours and as few white people as possible. preferably none.

[Bluedot]

'Trev, this is gonna be big'

[swisstoni]

lornemalvo said:

I never watch ads. They are all crap and are repeated ad nauseum. There is no humour in them any more and the mantra for these "creative" ad people seems to be plenty of bright colours and as few white people as possible. preferably none.

Well done managing to avoid all ads.

[mac96]

swisstoni said:

lornemalvo said:

I never watch ads. They are all crap and are repeated ad nauseum. There is no humour in them any more and the mantra for these "creative" ad people seems to be plenty of bright colours and as few white people as possible. preferably none.

Well done managing to avoid all ads.

I drive with my eyes shut to avoid seeing any billboards!

[Silverbullet767]

That fking Cadbury's ice cream advert. Not only is there an empty box in the freezer, the tt lifts it out, clearly empty with no weight, then proceeds to "empty" the contents into his other hand. You know it's fking empty you 'tard. So why the show? Your family clearly don't care enough, they don't even care enough to put the empty box in the recycling.

[21st Century Man]

Silverbullet767 said:

That fking Cadbury's ice cream advert. Not only is there an empty box in the freezer, the tt lifts it out, clearly empty with no weight, then proceeds to "empty" the contents into his other hand. You know it's fking empty you 'tard. So why the show? Your family clearly don't care enough, they don't even care enough to put the empty box in the recycling.

The reason they don't have any ice cream is because the empty tub gets put back in the freezer. Mum checks the freezer and sees they still have ice cream, so she doesn't buy any