Audi Galway on Facebook

Rhys Essien

May popped in earlier to collect it.She got a small bit excited.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02550/audi_2550161b.jpg

Roger McAllen

It wouldn't surprise me if this whole fiasco beginning to end was staged, all I can think about after reading 7 pages of this thread is Audi Audi Audi Audi.

Diabhal Beag

Let's be completely honest here and admit every competition on Facebook is a scam. These thickos just got caught red handed.

Cold War Kid

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Let's be completely honest here and admit every competition on Facebook is a scam. These thickos just got caught red handed.

Every competition on Facebook is not a scam. I know this for a fact.
Facebook is crawling with thickos though.

sjb25

Roger McAllen wrote: »

It wouldn't surprise me if this whole fiasco beginning to end was staged, all I can think about after reading 7 pages of this thread is Audi Audi Audi Audi.

Mmmmmmm I suddenly feel
The need to go buy an Audi can't think why

Muir

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Let's be completely honest here and admit every competition on Facebook is a scam. These thickos just got caught red handed.

They aren't all scams. The ones where the page was set up a day ago and is giving away 500 iPhones - scams. But most of the time if it's a genuine company page it's real.

Diabhal Beag

Remember that lovely gift-basket that Lusan Synch (she doesn't want the boss seeing her controversial take on Cecil the Tiger) won last week from that restaurant you like? She's related to the owner's in-laws. SCAM!

c_man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvK1F-Thrzk

Mr. CooL ICE

Christian Grey brought Anastasia back to his lavish apartment. He whispered in her ear: "Do you trust me?"

"Yes", she replied, nervously.

Christian ripped her clothes off. He went to his cupboard and came back with some odd looking devices. "What are they?", she asked. He didn't say a word. He placed a spring contraption on her left hand, and another on her right, and then one on each of her knees.

He grabbed her body and placed her down so that she was on all fours, save balancing precariously on the spring-loaded devices. She looked concerned, but he said was "trust me". He then placed a duck call in her mouth. He then proceeded to have sex with her.

They had sex for over an hour. She orgasmed 4, possibly 5 times. She lost count. It was the best sex she ever had. Tired, she asked "what was that?".

He replied: "That was the four-spring duck technique"

Ellie2008

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

Christian Grey brought Anastasia back to his lavish apartment. He whispered in her ear: "Do you trust me?"

"Yes", she replied, nervously.

Christian ripped her clothes off. He went to his cupboard and came back with some odd looking devices. "What are they?", she asked. He didn't say a word. He placed a spring contraption on her left hand, and another on her right, and then one on each of her knees.

He grabbed her body and placed her down so that she was on all fours, save balancing precariously on the spring-loaded devices. She looked concerned, but he said was "trust me". He then placed a duck call in her mouth. He then proceeded to have sex with her.

They had sex for over an hour. She orgasmed 4, possibly 5 times. She lost count. It was the best sex she ever had. Tired, she asked "what was that?".

He replied: "That was the four-spring duck technique"

What?!

gordongekko

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

Christian Grey brought Anastasia back to his lavish apartment. He whispered in her ear: "Do you trust me?"

"Yes", she replied, nervously.

Christian ripped her clothes off. He went to his cupboard and came back with some odd looking devices. "What are they?", she asked. He didn't say a word. He placed a spring contraption on her left hand, and another on her right, and then one on each of her knees.

He grabbed her body and placed her down so that she was on all fours, save balancing precariously on the spring-loaded devices. She looked concerned, but he said was "trust me". He then placed a duck call in her mouth. He then proceeded to have sex with her.

They had sex for over an hour. She orgasmed 4, possibly 5 times. She lost count. It was the best sex she ever had. Tired, she asked "what was that?".

He replied: "That was the four-spring duck technique"

Gotta say sir to you I tip my hat.

Flippyfloppy

My take is : Galway Audi set up a competition, hope to get some likes. Maybe they intentionally word it so it can be taken up ' would you like new a Audi, for the bank holiday(& evermore)'. Everyone just reads 'win an Audi this weekend' , & likes & shares, after all it's free, no skin off their nose.

Coming up to the 3pm announcement on the dull last Friday in July there's 30,000 entrants. Galway Audi feel a bit overwhelmed; how on earth do they pick a winner who has liked & shared. They then realize a lot of people think the car is the prize, that they didn't state the T&Cs anywhere, and they're might be trouble ahead.

They stall for a while. Then Announce an unusually named winner (and ask the winner to contact them...that's important for later)

People are copping that May Lydon is another one of those annoying generic names that always seems to win competitions on our fair isle. Some wisecracker out there realizes May is not real but he does what any red blooded Irish internet user would do, he decides to BE May Lydon. (To get the prize) This further infuriates the hard done by entrants, or angry mob at this stage, who think Audi Galway were dumb enough to also make a fake profile. It even makes 'news'

Audi Galway have a not very boring board meeting , and decide to go with the 'David Lydon' story, which has more holes in it than your mothers cheese. They explain they contacted Dave, he basically said 'give it to me ma, but she's not on Facebook' then Audi state 'May won, send us a pm' Even though by their own admission she's not on Facebook.

Fox_In_Socks

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

My take is : Galway Audi set up a competition, hope to get some likes. Maybe they intentionally word it so it can be taken up ' would you like new a Audi, for the bank holiday(& evermore)'. Everyone just reads 'win an Audi this weekend' , & likes & shares, after all it's free, no skin off their nose.

Coming up to the 3pm announcement on the dull last Friday in July there's 30,000 entrants. Galway Audi feel a bit overwhelmed; how on earth do they pick a winner who has liked & shared. They then realize a lot of people think the car is the prize, that they didn't state the T&Cs anywhere, and they're might be trouble ahead.

They stall for a while. Then Announce an unusually named winner (and ask the winner to contact them...that's important for later)

People are copping that May Lydon is another one of those annoying generic names that always seems to win competitions on our fair isle. Some wisecracker out there realizes May is not real but he does what any red blooded Irish internet user would do, he decides to BE May Lydon. (To get the prize) This further infuriates the hard done by entrants, or angry mob at this stage, who think Audi Galway were dumb enough to also make a fake profile. It even makes 'news'

Audi Galway have a not very boring board meeting , and decide to go with the 'David Lydon' story, which has more holes in it than your mothers cheese. They explain they contacted Dave, he basically said 'give it to me ma, but she's not on Facebook' then Audi state 'May won, send us a pm' Even though by their own admission she's not on Facebook.

"Well, that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The 'How' and the 'Who' is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia, keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game. Prevents 'em from asking the most important question: Why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?... The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers. And Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War in his second term. He wanted to call off the moon race in favor of cooperation with the Soviets. He signed a treaty with the Soviets to ban nuclear testing. He refused to invade Cuba in 1962 and he set out to withdraw from Vietnam. But all of that ended on the 22nd of November, 1963. As early as 1961, they knew Kennedy was not going to war in Southeast Asia. Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies and something's underway, but it has no face. Yet everybody in the loop knows...
Everything is cellularized. No one has said, 'He must die.' There's been no vote. Nothing's on paper. There's no one to blame. It's as old as the crucifixion. A military firing squad: five bullets, one blank. No one's guilty, because everyone in the power structure who knows anything has a plausible deniability. There are no compromising connections except at the most secret point. But what's paramount is that it must succeed. No matter how many die, no matter how much it costs, the perpetrators must be on the winning side and never subject to prosecution for anything by anyone. That is a coup d'état...."

jimmii

Ellie2008 wrote: »

What?!

It was post of the day. That's what!

um7y1h83ge06nx

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

"Well, that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The 'How' and the 'Who' is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia, keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game. Prevents 'em from asking the most important question: Why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?... The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers. And Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War in his second term. He wanted to call off the moon race in favor of cooperation with the Soviets. He signed a treaty with the Soviets to ban nuclear testing. He refused to invade Cuba in 1962 and he set out to withdraw from Vietnam. But all of that ended on the 22nd of November, 1963. As early as 1961, they knew Kennedy was not going to war in Southeast Asia. Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies and something's underway, but it has no face. Yet everybody in the loop knows...
Everything is cellularized. No one has said, 'He must die.' There's been no vote. Nothing's on paper. There's no one to blame. It's as old as the crucifixion. A military firing squad: five bullets, one blank. No one's guilty, because everyone in the power structure who knows anything has a plausible deniability. There are no compromising connections except at the most secret point. But what's paramount is that it must succeed. No matter how many die, no matter how much it costs, the perpetrators must be on the winning side and never subject to prosecution for anything by anyone. That is a coup d'état...."

As she pulled him off little did she know how deliciously violent his throbbing eruption was going to be.

fullstop

There's people changing their names to May Lydon now and leaving reviews saying they're the real winner and the other one is a fraud

G_R

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

"Well, that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The 'How' and the 'Who' is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia, keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game. Prevents 'em from asking the most important question: Why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?... The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers. And Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War in his second term. He wanted to call off the moon race in favor of cooperation with the Soviets. He signed a treaty with the Soviets to ban nuclear testing. He refused to invade Cuba in 1962 and he set out to withdraw from Vietnam. But all of that ended on the 22nd of November, 1963. As early as 1961, they knew Kennedy was not going to war in Southeast Asia. Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies and something's underway, but it has no face. Yet everybody in the loop knows...
Everything is cellularized. No one has said, 'He must die.' There's been no vote. Nothing's on paper. There's no one to blame. It's as old as the crucifixion. A military firing squad: five bullets, one blank. No one's guilty, because everyone in the power structure who knows anything has a plausible deniability. There are no compromising connections except at the most secret point. But what's paramount is that it must succeed. No matter how many die, no matter how much it costs, the perpetrators must be on the winning side and never subject to prosecution for anything by anyone. That is a coup d'état...."

Mod: I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, but it doesn't relate to Audi in any way shape or form that I can see!

dan1895

fullstop wrote: »

There's people changing their names to May Lydon now and leaving reviews saying they're the real winner and the other one is a fraud

Can the real May Lydon please stand up?

snowbabe

Lovely day for a spin in the Audi all the same

anewme

fullstop wrote: »

There's people changing their names to May Lydon now and leaving reviews saying they're the real winner and the other one is a fraud

The funniest is the 2 May Lydons interacting with each other and other people thinking they are being serious. one May Lydon is from Cork and asks ...so when can I pick this yolk up Bois???? Replies about going drifting in Ballymount.

Cue then a couple of outraged people who don't get the jokes and start challenging and replying to the May Lydons...... "Can't wait to see your photo in The Galway Advertiser.......hope you are proud of yourself for lying....you come across as very much like a man" to which one of the Mays respond " no, that's not me in the profiler pic at all, that's your man Gandhi, sure I'm a big fan of the lad"

Pure Comedy Gold!

LynnGrace

There is now a photo of the winner on their page.

snowbabe

Just saw May in the flesh there,where is her son? Are they deleting all comments on their page now? So,May with no fb account won a competition that she had to tag a person to go for a spin with her,give her a beep if you see her around Galway as she might be lonely. Bonus prize of a BMW if anyone actually gets a photo of her:)

May Lydon

The competition is all above board.
Some of you here have very active imagination. And maybe a little jealous as well.
Well, time to kick 'dis mule and burn some rubber. So long suckers.

Flippyfloppy

May Lydon wrote: »

The competition is all above board.
Some of you here have very active imagination. And maybe a little jealous as well.
Well, time to kick 'dis mule and burn some rubber. So long suckers.

Now May lied on boards and bookface

Penny Tration

LynnGrace wrote: »

There is now a photo of the winner on their page.

Someone has said that the photo is actually of their accounts manager :pac:

Specialun

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

Someone has said that the photo is actually of their accounts manager :pac:

Where you see that

jimmii

Specialun wrote: »

Where you see that

Someone posted it on the pic only reply is "It's not the accounts manager!!" thats me convinced.

For some reason can't post it as an image.

http://s15.postimg.org/ecpw456tn/audi_comment.jpg

anewme

jimmii wrote: »

Someone posted it on the pic only reply is "It's not the accounts manager!!" thats me convinced.

For some reason can't post it as an image.

http://s15.postimg.org/ecpw456tn/audi_comment.jpg

Not sure why that would convince you? "Someone" posted it is their accounts manager but "someone else" posted, no it's not?

I m laughing at some of the funny comments but to be fair none of us know for definite if that lady is in fact a customer who has now won a prize she might rather not win! No wonder she looks unimpressed!

She seems to be getting a lot of personal abuse about her appearance, being too old to win, etc and for me that's taking it a step too far.

LDN_Irish

anewme wrote: »

She seems to be getting a lot of personal abuse about her appearance, being too old to win, etc and for me that's taking it a step too far.

Haven't seen any of that but sounds awful. No need at all.

jimmii

anewme wrote: »

Not sure why that would convince you? "Someone" posted it is their accounts manager but "someone else" posted, no it's not?

I wasn't serious.

jimmii

LDN_Irish wrote: »

Haven't seen any of that but sounds awful. No need at all.

I haven't seen that either but if that is the case does seem a bit much. People love going internet warrior mode though and once they do its hard to get them back.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Rachel Allen likes Audi Galway.

Menas

Its a funny case all right. Funny that these companies think they can pull a fast one like this and then start making a holy show of themselves when caught out.
The negative publicity must be killing them.

jimmii

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Rachel Allen likes Audi Galway.

Shtop the lights.

jetsonx

This whole affair has resulting in Audi Galway looking like a very shabby operator.

Would I buy an Audi from them now ? No Way Jose.

From my experience, in companies where there is a culture of lies and deceit they tend not
be very good companies to do business with anyway.

The best thing they could not now would be to come clean and offer an Audi as a prize with proceeds going to reputable charity. They might be able to redeem themselves. Because if they don't, this fiasco will be at the back of peoples minds for a long time to come.

But whether their management team has the tact and foresight do this is another matter.

anewme

jimmii wrote: »

I wasn't serious.

Sorry!

I'd just be a bit annoyed if it was my Mum or if that lady is genuine.

Yep some people have been taking it a bit too far with their comments , she works for the dealership or "must be connected"., can't crack a smile, etc etc!Someone else said she's too old? To win that prize! Then the person who said no it's not their accounts manager got rounded on as well.

Suppose there's always a few who take a joke too far from behind their keyboard.

Jimoslimos

Why would anyone enter a competition where the "main prize" was an extended test drive, or at best free weekend car rental?

I've seen village GAA club raffles with better prizes...for third place.

jimmii

anewme wrote: »

Sorry!

I'd just be a bit annoyed if it was my Mum or if that lady is genuine.

Yep some people have been taking it a bit too far with their comments , she works for the dealership or "must be connected"., can't crack a smile, etc etc!Someone else said she's too old? To win that prize! Then the person who said no it's not their accounts manager got rounded on as well.

Suppose there's always a few who take a joke too far from behind their keyboard.

Yeh if it does turn out to just be a serious of unfortunate mistakes then you have to feel for her. Either way Audi Ireland screwed up big time no way out of it for them really.

NachoBusiness

I don't get this..
May Lydon won and so Audi announced this on Facebook and asked her to PM them.
Then they say her son actually won but he said that he wanted his mother to win and so they announced her as a result of that.
So then why did they ask her on Facebook to PM them if they had been talking to her son.

I mean surely, most companies you won a car from would, on the back of you saying you would rather that your mother had won the car, tell you that well it's up to you what you do with the prize but we won't be announcing that she won, as she didn't win it, you did...

I can't see any company announcing another person won a competition just because the winner of it wanted them to.

jimmii

NachoBusiness wrote: »

I don't get this..
May Lydon won and so Audi announced this on Facebook and asked her to PM them.
Then they say her son actually won but he said that he wanted her to win.
So then why did they ask her to PM them if they had been talking to her son.

I mean, surely, most companies you won a car from would, on the back of you saying you would rather your mother had the car, tell you that it's up to you what you do with the prize but we won't be announcing she won, as she didn't win it, you did...

I can't see any company announcing another person won a competition just because the winner wanted them to.

This is the question a lot of people have been asking and to date they haven't even attempted to answer it. I guess possibly one person contacted the son and then all they told the social media person was the name of the winner who they assumed had been drawn via the Facebook entries.

anewme

NachoBusiness wrote: »

I don't get this..
May Lydon won and so Audi announced this on Facebook and asked her to PM them.
Then they say her son actually won but he said that he wanted his mother to win and so they announced her as a result of that.
So then why did they ask her on Facebook to PM them if they had been talking to her son.

I mean surely, most companies you won a car from would, on the back of you saying you would rather that your mother had won the car, tell you that well it's up to you what you do with the prize but we won't be announcing that she won, as she didn't win it, you did...

I can't see any company announcing another person won a competition just because the winner of it wanted them to.

Odd all right but there's obvious terms and conditions......maybe the son won and the insuance wouldn't cover him or something, so they announced the mother instead.

It's not a car they win, only as someone else rightly said, an extended test drive.

hatrickpatrick

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Why would anyone enter a competition where the "main prize" was an extended test drive, or at best free weekend car rental?

I've seen village GAA club raffles with better prizes...for third place.

But Audi hasn't been given anything to raffle since those two bags of coal in 1964...

NachoBusiness

anewme wrote: »

It's not a car they win, only as someone else rightly said, an extended test drive.

Ah ffs!

One eyed Jack

jetsonx wrote: »

This whole affair has resulting in Audi Galway looking like a very shabby operator.

Would I buy an Audi from them now ? No Way Jose.

From my experience, in companies where there is a culture of lies and deceit they tend not be very good companies to do business with anyway.

The best thing they could not now would be to come clean and offer an Audi as a prize with proceeds going to reputable charity. They might be able to redeem themselves. Because if they don't, this fiasco will be at the back of peoples minds for a long time to come.

But whether their management team has the tact and foresight do this is another matter.

Truth be told, if they were offering me a good price on an Audi, I wouldn't care what they put up on their social media pages, and I'd care even less what those who were never going to buy and Audi from them in the first place might think!


(nothing against you jetson but money comes before morals for most people, how do you think Apple, Google and thousands of other companies stay in business exactly?)

So many strange things happening lately.

First there was Flight MH370, then that sinkhole/wormhole on Dame Street, and now Mae Lydon?

Aliens are behind this.

munuus

interesting

jetsonx

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Truth be told, if they were offering me a good price on an Audi, I wouldn't care what they put up on their social media

(nothing against you jetson but money comes before morals for most people, how do you think Apple, Google and thousands of other companies stay in business exactly?)

It's not what they put on their Facebook page per se that is the problem.

As a consumer, the shabby and deceitful way in which they have handled this operation would be a big red flag to me.

Because, if I hand over, lets say, 30k for a new Audi and it develops serious transmission problems after a couple of months. I want a supplier that I can trust who will honor a warranty.

And I can guarantee you, if you got a "great deal" on an Audi and you discovered serious problems with it and the dealer did'nt want to know...then you too would discover pretty quickly the value of doing business with trustworthy companies.

rizzodun

jetsonx wrote: »

It's not what they put on their Facebook page per se that is the problem.

As a consumer, the shabby and deceitful way in which they have handled this operation would be a big red flag to me.

Because, if I hand over, lets say, 30k for a new Audi and it develops serious transmission problems after a couple of months. I want a supplier that I can trust who will honor a warranty.

And I can guarantee you, if you got a "great deal" on an Audi and you discovered serious problems with it and the dealer did'nt want to know...then you too would discover pretty quickly the value of doing business with trustworthy businesses.

I second this, on the face of it it's a storm in a teacup, but if they have no problem being deceitful about an extended test drive how do they handle warranty issues or even general servicing?

A: "You need a new belt pulley, not covered under warranty."
C: "Really? I didn't notice any noise or problems...."
A: "Yes, well, it needs doing, €300 parts and labour..."
C: "Oh, well of course, you're the experts"

jetsonx

rizzodun wrote: »

I second this, on the face of it it's a storm in a teacup, but if they have no problem being deceitful about an extended test drive how do they handle warranty issues or even general servicing?

Exactly that is the whole crux of the issue. No one wants to do business with a
pack a liars. This dealer should adopt a redemptive course of action as quick as possible because this situation is now festering. As a company they risk now being known as "the Audi dealer who ran the fake Facebook competition" among the public. This could haunt them for years to come. And I'm sure this perception is not exactly aligned with the brand values of Audi.

padd b1975

May needs to lose the shades.

She looks way too.......shady.