Daily Mail

hjb123

A while since I ordered a free Sudoku CDROM from the Daily Mail, all I had to do was send an SAE, which I did. Today I received back a Beatles Interviews CD. They put a note in saying that they had no more of the free gift I requested and hoped that I would accept a Beatles CD instead. I am not a Beatles fan and never will be, it wouldnt have been as bad if they had sent one of the other free CDROMs but no they have to send a Beatles CD!

surfcat

Good for them. I'm no fan of the Hate Mail but I think they probably couldn't do much about this. Demand probably exceeded supply so they sent you what they had left. Perhaps you could give it to someone as a small gift?

Secret_Lady

hjb123 wrote:

A while since I ordered a free Sudoku CDROM from the Daily Mail, all I had to do was send an SAE, which I did. Today I received back a Beatles Interviews CD. They put a note in saying that they had no more of the free gift I requested and hoped that I would accept a Beatles CD instead. I am not a Beatles fan and never will be, it wouldnt have been as bad if they had sent one of the other free CDROMs but no they have to send a Beatles CD!

I'd love it....wish I'd seen it in the Daily Mail.... :j

hjb123

I have so far tried giving it to 4 people, they have all said no thanks!

IvanOpinion

:rotfl: :rotfl: especially since the suduko CD probably sounded better than the Beatles ever did ... guess I am not a Beatles fan either

Ivan

surfcat

search on google:

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/spotlight/sudukoindex

I haven't tried it but they have a free download of 100 sudukos of varying abilities.

Backbiter

the BNP Mail did the same to me with a 'free DVD' offer, which involved collecting tokens and sending in a £1.50 stamped jiffy bag. In my case it also involved buying the paper in Turkey at vastly inflated prices. The offer was for one of 5 top DVDs, any of which I'd have been happy with. When it arrived, my 'free' DVD was 'The Golden Child' with Eddie Murphy, which regularly pops up in any list of the worst films of all time. Supplies of the advertised 5 films had run out, so were replaced with unwatchable garbage.

You can do Sudoku for free twice a day on this German newspaper site:
http://www.handelsblatt.com/rd/framesets/sudoku/
You can choose from 'leicht' (easy) and 'mittel' (moderate), and you can play all the others they've published since August, so that's 180 or so free ones.
To check if you're right click 'Spiel überprüfen'. The message 'Ihre Lösung ist richtig' with a smiley means you completed it correctly.

gizmoleeds

Backbiter wrote:

the BNP Mail did the same to me with a 'free DVD' offer

Well I knew the Mail was right-wing, but I didn't realise they were that right-wing! :rotfl:

What was the DVD - "Adolf Hitler - the legend"?













BTW: I know you're not a racist really

trisontana

The Daily Mail seem to do this over and over again. They encourage people to buy the paper and sometimes require them to collect dozens of tokens. The readers apply for the offer and are told that "due to unprecedented demand" they supplies of the goods have ran out and they people have to either wait for weeks for new supplies , or are offered something completely different. You would have thought by now a bit of forward planning would be put in place to cope for this regularly occurring "unprecedented demand". The ASA have rebuked them a few times for not being able to deliver what was promised.

Becles

On the recent free diamond earrings and free crystal glasses promotion, I noticed that you can pre-register on a premium rate number. People who pre-register get their orders fulfilled first, then stock is allocated to the others.

I refused to pre-register due to the high call costs for the earrings, so I'm wondering what I'll get now!

hjb123

Becles wrote:

I refused to pre-register due to the high call costs for the earrings, so I'm wondering what I'll get now!

You will probably get a life sized cut out of the Beetles!