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Eircom are Systematic Liars - Its Official

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  • 03-09-2002 4:01pm
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    spongebob
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    Eircom alone account for Over 25% of advertising complaints in Ireland at present. This is a staggering statistic. Surely it should be possible for a large and supposedly respected organisation such as Eircom to vet their ads to make them compliant with the ASAI objective that they be "'legal, decent, honest and truthful". No wonder that Soula Evans fled to Greece, her record is a disgrace to the marketing 'profession' .

    To make it worse, almost All of the complaints were upheld. It seems that Eircom were lying on the Radio , on the Internet and by Direct mail during the period.

    Fortunately, it also seems that the Irish public are not taking this systematic abuse of their intelligence by a barely regulated monopoly lying down.


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    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    Page 3 (about one quarter of same) referred to the latest ASAI report.

    Did anybody see how Eugene, allegedly a 'journalist' , glossed over the Eircom complaints and went for Naked women and Ballygowan instead...with a second article about Dell. Ballygowan attracted one compliant by the way.

    Dell only had 2 complaints against them , 50% upheld....a gracious apology was made for that too rather than the obfuscation and bluster which characterises 100% of Eircoms responses.

    Eircom had 6 complaints against them almost 90% upheld. Not a proper apology in sight anywhere.

    In your article you deliberately left the impression that other communications companies had complaints in against them; this is not so. Eircom collected 100% of the complaints about communications companies.

    Vodafone and O2, for example, 2 of the largest advertisers in the state attracted NO complaints during the period covered by the report.

    You then left the distinct impression in your main article that Dell were the subject of complaints about Telecommunications and Internet. This is manifestly wrong and a gross insult to Dell. The complaints about them referred to a PRESS and a TV ad designed to sell COMPUTERS. You then wrote a fine piece (not) about one of these complaints during which no mention was made of Telecommunications or Internet issues because they were never mentioned in any complaint about Dell. Yet you left that in the main piece.

    Your articles are pathetic and misleading Eugene, I can think of a good word to describe you which does not begin with a 'j' but an 'a' .

    Wipe that nose!

    M


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