Audi Galway on Facebook

CosmicJay

I rang Audi Ireland to see what was up.

They seem to be overwhelmed with calls about it.

They reached out to the dealer and received confirmation that it was indeed an official competition, that the winner is real and not fake.

Audi Galway is an independent dealer who franchises the audi name, Audi Ireland is investigating the matter and will stick by their colleagues until the evidence convinces them otherwise.

Social media gone wrong it seems.

Redgirl82

Hermy wrote: »

I know all publicity is good publicity but this really pushes the maxim a bit to far.

Cant see how trying to scam your customers is good publicity is any way....just shows you are a company of lies and cheats.....I know if I was buying a 30-100k car which is what Audi Galway would sell I wouldn't trust them and go to another Audi garage

Audi Athlone will be rubbing there hands

jimmii

CosmicJay wrote: »

I rang Audi Ireland to see what was up.

They seem to be overwhelmed with calls about it.

They reached out to the dealer and received confirmation that it was indeed an official competition, that the winner is real and not fake.

Audi Galway is an independent dealer who franchises the audi name, Audi Ireland is investigating the matter and will stick by their colleagues until the evidence convinces them otherwise.

Social media gone wrong it seems.

The hole just keeps getting deeper. Once they see the winning account they surely can't think its legit.

sjb25

Feck I wasted two min of my life likeing and sharing and tagging somebody in that post I think they now should give everybody a car to make up for it

Timfy

Latest statement, posted on joe.ie

Audi Ireland contacted us on Friday evening to clarify the course of events.

"Ryan Lydon was the winner of the competition," said a spokesperson. "He won the competition and asked that the prize be given to his mother, May Lydon. That's where the confusion came in.

"We know nothing about the setting up of the Facebook page - as far as we can see it was just a nice gesture on his part."

bucketybuck

Should be easy to confirm you would think. When "May" comes to collect her prize she can bring some proof of id, such proof of her existence can be verified with some independent people and there you are, whats the problem?

jimmii

Guess that's possible. Why wait so long to say that though?

Samaris

Hah, good squirming, guys.

OldMrBrennan83

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sjb25

bucketybuck wrote: »

Should be easy to confirm you would think. When "May" comes to collect her prize she can bring some proof of id, such proof of her existence can be verified with some independent people and there you are, whats the problem?

Lady who will look like one of the car sales men in a wig and dress

CosmicJay

It says David Lydon on joe.ie now.

Redgirl82

Timfy wrote: »

Latest statement, posted on joe.ie

Audi Ireland contacted us on Friday evening to clarify the course of events.

"Ryan Lydon was the winner of the competition," said a spokesperson. "He won the competition and asked that the prize be given to his mother, May Lydon. That's where the confusion came in.

"We know nothing about the setting up of the Facebook page - as far as we can see it was just a nice gesture on his part."

So after a couple of hours trying to cover up the bulls**t someone has come up with this story.

Why did they not just post that in first place on there facebook instead of trying to cover it up? even IF they didn't create the facebook page why would they just post that on facebook and not delete the post and try to hide

Complete sh*t

The Backwards Man

I think it's genius

Sure, you have a few people on your page saying they'll never buy an Audi from you that would never be in your forecourt in any case, and you have people having a general laugh at your expense over the bank holiday weekend, but you also have a rake of publicity over what amounts to very little harm done.

Kudos.

Buzz Meeks

Why would Ryan create a Facebook page for his mammy after winning the competition. And put a picture of himself as the profile picture.
Is his mammy into speed and high performance cars. It seems an unlikely present for her.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Congratulations John.

Cold War Kid

I know people were right ultimately but how did they know there was no person of that name on Facebook? People can make their names unfindable on Fb.

delahuntv

Silly season in the media. Everyone bored and just like the Primark breast feeding story a couple of weeks ago every jumps in with 2 feet making loads of false accusations (read them about car servicing, purchases etc - and profiles showing them living in Cork, Dublin, Wicklow etc) on social media which in turn get into mainstream media.

It is very plausible that a David Lydon did win - there are several David Lydons in Galway area on Facebook.

If it is a correct winner and his mother is May, then an awful lot of red faces about just like the Primark story.

KatW4

Cold War Kid wrote:

I know people were right ultimately but how did they know there was no person of that name on Facebook? People can make their names unfindable on Fb.

From reading the comments earlier, I think some people (with a lot of time on their hands) went through all of the names of the people who liked and commented on the original competition post! But that's just what I picked up, I could be wrong!

Cold War Kid

KatW4 wrote: »

From reading the comments earlier, I think some people (with a lot of time on their hands) went through all of the names of the people who liked and commented on the original competition post! But that's just what I picked up, I could be wrong!

Ah ok. I thought the winner was announced after the original competition status was taken down.

KatW4

Cold War Kid wrote:

Ah ok. I thought the winner was announced after the original competition status was taken down.

It could have been. I'm not sure. That was just the impression I got from the fb comments

beertons

They'll worry about it Tuesday. The races are on, and its a bank holiday. Party on.

Cold War Kid

delahuntv wrote: »

Silly season in the media. Everyone bored and just like the Primark breast feeding story a couple of weeks ago every jumps in with 2 feet making loads of false accusations (read them about car servicing, purchases etc - and profiles showing them living in Cork, Dublin, Wicklow etc) on social media which in turn get into mainstream media.

It is very plausible that a David Lydon did win - there are several David Lydons in Galway area on Facebook.

If it is a correct winner and his mother is May, then an awful lot of red faces about just like the Primark story.

Oh my God, I saw that Facebook status - knew it seemed highly dubious. The blind support that woman got with only her version of the story, and the accompanying idiocy... was a bit depressing tbh. It's gone to court now - good stuff Primark not tolerating defamation. Hopefully other companies will follow its lead. People can be dreadful to customer care staff on social media, without facts and knowing the reps can't defend themselves. Remember the pathetic Three witch hunt a few weeks ago.

I don't think this case is a definite scam either.

jimmii

KatW4 wrote: »

From reading the comments earlier, I think some people (with a lot of time on their hands) went through all of the names of the people who liked and commented on the original competition post! But that's just what I picked up, I could be wrong!

That's the impression I got too. I think there is a few who do that the whole time!

Big Nasty

Hold on a second. They announced the winner as May Lydon and something along the lines of 'please contact to collect prize'.

Now why would they do that if the actual winner was David Lydon?

delahuntv

I do FB comps.

The list of entrants I see when I'm logged in under the company name is a lot bigger than the list I see if I look at it logged in on my personal page.

On this, I can locate 7 David Lydons in the Galway / Mayo area. It is also a good Galway name.

I can also see online there's a Mai Lydon and a Maisie Lydon mentioned in Galway / Mayo articles and both seem of more senior years than typical FB members. One of them in particular would deserve a prize after a recent event.

I'll bet it turns out genuine!!!

delahuntv

Big Nasty wrote: »

Hold on a second. They announced the winner as May Lydon and something along the lines of 'please contact to collect prize'.

Now why would they do that if the actual winner was David Lydon?

Easily done if one person picks a winner and another does the post. - I have experience of similar, but it was just a 30quid voucher and rectified within a few minutes.

Wompa1

You'd imagine Audi Ireland would know if Audi Galway was allocated a car as a prize...

My timeline was blowing up last night with everyone I know sharing and tagging. My gut told me it was a scam. An Audi dealer in a relatively tiny area of the country (population wise) wouldn't be giving out an expensive car like that just for a bit of advertising like that...in my opinion anyways...

One More Toy

Wompa1 wrote: »

You'd imagine Audi Ireland would know if Audi Galway was allocated a car as a prize...

My timeline was blowing up last night with everyone I know sharing and tagging. My gut told me it was a scam. An Audi dealer in a relatively tiny area of the country (population wise) wouldn't be giving out an expensive car like that just for a bit of advertising like that...in my opinion anyways...

Funny its always the "full time mummy" and "worked at dole" ones on facebook that get caught like this. When Im in charge......

delahuntv

Wompa1 wrote: »

You'd imagine Audi Ireland would know if Audi Galway was allocated a car as a prize...

My timeline was blowing up last night with everyone I know sharing and tagging. My gut told me it was a scam. An Audi dealer in a relatively tiny area of the country (population wise) wouldn't be giving out an expensive car like that just for a bit of advertising like that...in my opinion anyways...

It was the rental of a car for the weekend - somehow I reckon your post is bs. Or you didn't read the comp.

Samaris

delahuntv wrote: »

It was the rental of a car for the weekend - somehow I reckon your post is bs. Or you didn't read the comp.

The phrasing was very crafty, tbh. A lot of people did think that it was -winning- the car, and really, I'd have thought that too from reading the post. It was clarified much later that it was only for the weekend.