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Very clever marketing...but is it allowed?
Irn-Bru-Kid
Posts: 614 Forumite
Hi guys,
Not sure where to post this, so thought here was as good a place as any.
Whilst out shopping today, I received in my change a 2p piece that had a sticker on one side. The sticker stated '£46.00 - this is what this would be worth if it was 9ct gold, the name of a pawnbrokers and a freephone number!
This is an extremely clever piece of marketing but are they allowed to do something like this?
Cheers
Not sure where to post this, so thought here was as good a place as any.
Whilst out shopping today, I received in my change a 2p piece that had a sticker on one side. The sticker stated '£46.00 - this is what this would be worth if it was 9ct gold, the name of a pawnbrokers and a freephone number!
This is an extremely clever piece of marketing but are they allowed to do something like this?
Cheers
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oh dont.....
How long before some 'clever' bod in the government comes up with the idea of advertising on all our money!!!!!!!!!0 -
Been done before, a taxi firm somewhere in Scotland I think , about 5 or 6 years ago on £1 coins.0
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POPPYOSCAR wrote: »oh dont.....
How long before some 'clever' bod in the government comes up with the idea of advertising on all our money!!!!!!!!!
Exactly! I think it must be illegal otherwise they would all be at it. Unless of course the pawnbroker came up with it first...may have opened a can of worms here!0 -
i don't think there's a law that states "you must not stick advertising stickers on coins"; so i don't think it'll be illegal.0
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I would think that if it obscured the Queens head there would be a rule against it.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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Clever Marketting? More like annoying!.....0
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No laws as of 2007 but the Mint doesn't like it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/article1848276.ece0 -
peter_the_piper wrote: »I would think that if it obscured the Queens head there would be a rule against it.
Should be a rule that you have to cover her bloody face up..:mad:0
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