Company wins their own Facebook competition

Faith

Skillens, a jewellers in Co. Down, ran a Facebook competition in December - a like and share competition to win a diamond and tanzanite ring. A few days ago, they announced the winner and posted a photo of the winner and her husband with the prize. Only... oops, the winner, Lynda Speers, was commenting on the picture and she forgot she was logged in as the Skillens Facebook account!

You can see the screenshots and the awful "statement" released by the company here: http://www.bitterwallet.com/big-stink-caused-over-lovely-ring-facebook-prize/61625

Makes you wonder how often companies do this and get away with it.

What if their statement is true though?

Mr. Nice

Did you read it all?

krudler

She is currently being cared for by family who fear for her health, that the stress of all this will cause a heart attack or the like.

sweet jesus...

Penn

Ahahahahahahahaha

Love when stuff like this happens.

seamus

The statement could be true, but a few of comments allege that members of the winners family have the surname "Skillen".

TeddyTedson

The statement seems plausible although a very strange thing to do.

Red Crow

I wonder did he put the hat on to give her the signal?

Penn

Deleted User wrote: »

What if their statement is true though?

People were jealous, so they added her as an admin to their company Facebook page and gave her free will to delete any posts she wanted? Hardly likely.

People were calling it a fix, and then she accidentally posted from the company account, pretty much proving that it was actually a fix.

Guill

Statement reads like Bull sh1t to me, I know because i've read a lot of Bull sh1t in my time.

patdshaker

Hehehe
This is the best thing since slice pan.

gobnaitolunacy

Cue Father Ted quote/youtube clip....

biko

Happens all the time I'm sure.

seamus

Penn wrote: »

People were jealous, so they added her as an admin to their company Facebook page and gave her free will to delete any posts she wanted? Hardly likely.

It does sound ridiculous, but there's no limit on the depths of human stupidity. So while ridiculous, it's actually plausible that the company could just be that dumb.

However, if the other allegations are true about her not having shared the photo and being at least related to the company, then it's clearly a bull**** statement.

Penn

Actually, if there had been a lot of vindictive messages directed towards the winner, why on earth would they add her as an admin, thereby ensuring that she'd end up reading most of them? Get a trusted family member to do it.

Sorry, but their statement just makes very little sense.

greenheart

From statement

This must stop, she is a very decent lady, and going thorugh a mini nervous breakdown it would seem, yet has done no wrong. Any existing customer knows my staff, and knows this is a witch hunt.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Oops.

DesperateDan

Sounds to me like this man is sleeping with Lynda.

suicide_circus

Stung rapid

BUBBLE WRAP

Penn wrote: »

People were jealous, so they added her as an admin to their company Facebook page and gave her free will to delete any posts she wanted? Hardly likely.

People were calling it a fix, and then she accidentally posted from the company account, pretty much proving that it was actually a fix.

I think you can delete any comment. I do it the whole time. :cool:

maximoose

Statement is nonsense, they were caught out and now trying to make her seem like a victim.

According to one of the comments on that site, the "winner" didn't even share the post?

P_1

And this is why you shouldn't do any marketing on Facebook if you don't know what you're doing...

castletownman

I heard that it was conducted via a rigged raffle and it was pre-meditated that she was to have the winning ticket number 11. But, it took her ages to realise that she had the winning ticket because she was reading it upside down!

Faith

seamus wrote: »

The statement could be true, but a few of comments allege that members of the winners family have the surname "Skillen".

Apparently, a few members of the Skillens' and Speers' families had each other listed as "cousins" on their Facebook pages, prior to the competition.

K-9

WE exchanged telephone numbers.

Definitely worth a Dougal comment.

smash

You don't give random people admin access to your fb account, even if they did win a prize.

Lenin Skynard

Fair play to the owner of the place with his statement actually managing to convince some people with his very far-fetched yarn. It reminds me of a child making up some very elaborate excuse as to why the packet of biscuits is all eaten.

Dodge

smash wrote: »

You don't give random people admin access to your fb account, even if they did win a prize.

In fact you can't give admin access to a facebook page to someone who you aren't facebook friends with.

PizzamanIRL

We're talking national scandal.

Down with that sort of thing!

antodeco

K-9 wrote: »

WE exchanged telephone numbers.

I wonder did he give her a ring?

Lollipops23

smash wrote: »

You don't give random people admin access to your fb account, even if they did win a prize.

You do if you haven't a breeze about social network marketing.

I'm really not sure I buy the statement to be honest- and all this guilt-tripping saying she's having a nervous breakdown etc/about to have a heart attack is despicable. People are within their rights to ask questions about the whole debacle, especially after the slip up of writing while still signed in as the jewelers.

Lone Stone

ha that's gas, fraudsters.

K-9

They deleted their Facebook page.

Yeah, it's looking like a Ghost Town as the Stranglers would say.

smash

WindSock wrote: »

Like and share to win a 2k ring from a small business seems unlikely, however if this is a marketing ploy, it's very good indeed.

Where did you see the value? 2k is a pretty small ring.

Corkbah

Dodge wrote: »

In fact you can't give admin access to a facebook page to someone who you aren't facebook friends with.

erm... give them a username and password and they have admin access !! you dont need to be friends with them on facebook !!

thenightrider

This is all i have to say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNxCvDYpmxE

Sitec

Well the last raffle I was at the person who ran the raffle actually won it, so it's not that uncommon.

Dodge

Corkbah wrote: »

erm... give them a username and password and they have admin access !! you dont need to be friends with them on facebook !!

Thats not how facebook pages work. In this case, the owner would have to the women access to his/her facebook personal account and tell them how to access the facebook page etc. Do you think thats likely?

There isn't a Facebook page username and password

The_Minister

FFS, we're never going to find out the answer here.

Someone who cares just shoehorn it into a deception offence and bang it off to the local Gardaí.

BUBBLE WRAP

greenheart wrote: »

From statement

and going thorugh a mini nervous breakdown it would seem,

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JslS4E7UL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://www.dimensionsinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Smallest-Violin.jpg

etc.

antodeco

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JslS4E7UL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://www.dimensionsinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Smallest-Violin.jpg

etc.

Jaysus, that second picture is nearly NSFW!!

Meangadh

Even if their story was legit (which I highly doubt is, I've heard 4 year old come out with better stories than that), they could at least have made an effort with the statement. So badly written and so sensationalist- it makes it hilarious rather than any way believable!

What were they thinking? Surely they could build up their "likes" in a far less ridiculous way. Weird.

seamus

Meangadh wrote: »

What were they thinking? Surely they could build up their "likes" in a far less ridiculous way. Weird.

I'm sure this kind of thing is absolutely rife in facebook competitions, especially where the business is a small one and the prize seems exceptionally good.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're actually advised to do this by cowboy "social media experts".

Completely dissimilar, a client of mine runs a small jewellery shop and held a facebook competition for €500 worth of jewellery. The winner asked if she could have the €500 in cash because she had her eye on a piece of jewellery in another shop. Eh, no.

Donerkebab

Dodge wrote: »

In fact you can't give admin access to a facebook page to someone who you aren't facebook friends with.

So explain how i was made admin of a page without being friends with the person.

seamus

Donerkebab wrote: »

So explain how i was made admin of a page without being friends with the person.

TYou only have to like the page to be adminned, you don't have to be friends with them.

BUBBLE WRAP

antodeco wrote: »

Jaysus, that second picture is nearly NSFW!!

I know, hardcore stuff..

P_1

The_Minister wrote: »

FFS, we're never going to find out the answer here.

Someone who cares just shoehorn it into a deception offence and bang it off to the local Gardaí.

Trouble is the Gardaí probably can't do anything about it seeing as the company was based in Co Down.

I think advertising and these 'like' competitions on Facebook are a bit of a mystery legally.

ITS_A_BADGER

LOL the feckin eejits. They were deffo caught out big time, but does it reallly matter? they're company will get a bad rep alright but sher what do they sell only feckin jewellery, Not the end of the world in the grand scheme of things

BostonB

Talk about being between a rock and a hard place.

Ghandee

Is this what's known as 'ring sting'?

kc66

Lucky lady

... and a big fan of jewellery