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A quick warning about boffer (a different one)

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  • maybe people should go out and buy one,if it ment that much to them,especially if are simalar things on the market:rolleyes:
  • jacktyler
    jacktyler Posts: 2,402 Forumite
    GracieP wrote: »
    I did read the description and it sounded like two almost identical to two products which are currently on the market. The fact that the product was used on animals, before being adapted for human use, and was now in the testing stages for humans before being put up for sale, makes sense. As just about every single product we use has been used on animals before being tested for humans.

    Bear in mind that the previous freebie was described with the words: Why are we giving these away? Because nobody would pay for them! Which sounds like a joke item but turned out to be real, so that made the ovulation detector give away appear real too. Especially as it was a give away for an item which does exist.

    no, not ovulation detector, USB FORNICATION OPTIMISER.

    when i read the description, i didn't find it remotely credible. i feel sorry for anyone who did.
  • jacktyler wrote: »
    no, not ovulation detector, USB FORNICATION OPTIMISER.

    when i read the description, i didn't find it remotely credible. i feel sorry for anyone who did.

    I thought this was widely know but maybe not :rolleyes:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornication

    Oli
  • GracieP
    GracieP Posts: 1,263 Forumite
    jacktyler wrote: »
    no, not ovulation detector, USB FORNICATION OPTIMISER.

    when i read the description, i didn't find it remotely credible. i feel sorry for anyone who did.

    What was described was an ovulation detector, just in the same way that if I call an item a Dyson and describe a vacuum cleaner I would expect people to guess I was describing a vacuum cleaner, the name is irrelevant. Especially when a supposedly legitimate company would possibly be breaking the law to mean otherwise.
  • KittyPryde
    KittyPryde Posts: 2,623 Forumite
    My problem was not the joke or the non-existent freebie, it was that you took people's details first before they were informed it was a joke. Then when people complained you took the pee. Not professional for a company is it.
  • GracieP wrote: »
    What was described was an ovulation detector, just in the same way that if I call an item a Dyson and describe a vacuum cleaner I would expect people to guess I was describing a vacuum cleaner, the name is irrelevant. Especially when a supposedly legitimate company would possibly be breaking the law to mean otherwise.

    does it really matter seriously?it was obviously a misunderstanding,i think boffer are great,and everyone needs to get off their case :j
  • jacktyler
    jacktyler Posts: 2,402 Forumite
    GracieP wrote: »
    What was described was an ovulation detector, just in the same way that if I call an item a Dyson and describe a vacuum cleaner I would expect people to guess I was describing a vacuum cleaner, the name is irrelevant. Especially when a supposedly legitimate company would possibly be breaking the law to mean otherwise.

    i'm sorry, but the name is completely relevant. and if anyone took the time to read the desrciption (and i quote):

    "since kidnapping people and forcing them to buy stuff of us is a bit extreme. We have decided that you guys will have to help us by manufacturing new customers."

    i'm sorry for those who were genuinely offended, but no amount of excuses will make me believe that anyone who took the time to read this, instead of blindly clicking on a freebie, for a freebie's sake, thought for even one second that this was for real.

    AND FRANKLY, i think it's more of an insult to those trying to conceive to suggest that they were taken in by this nonsense.
  • sjelton
    sjelton Posts: 78 Forumite
    jacktyler wrote: »
    :eek:

    quick, it's oli from boffer! i'll hold him down and you can all jump on him! violent21.gif

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
  • Why do you keep posting these pointless threads on the FREEBIES board?
    Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before
  • cushty2
    cushty2 Posts: 39 Forumite
    maybe people should go out and buy one,if it ment that much to them,especially if are simalar things on the market:rolleyes:
    well said!!! i found it quite funny,maybe i have a odd sense a humour?! : )
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