Littlewoods Advert?

his_missus

My mum always told us she bought the presents and sent them to Santa to deliver. If we were naughty, Santa would send our gifts to good children.

When these kind of adverts come on for catalogues etc. me and DH spend more time reading the small print to find out the APR and incredulating (is that a word?) at the expense/debating how the cheeky so-and-sos can justify their rates etc that we don't really take note of the ad's content.

Will make more effort to watch it next time, sounds vile though if it is just a guilt trip for parents (or should that be mums?) Luckily we have no kids just 4 cats and as long as they each have a box/large gift bag (primani ones are their faves)/large piece of screwed up wrapping, they're happy kitties. Mind you, if my 2 young nieces are anything to go by, most kids would be happy with that too

shellsuit

The advert is a load of crap anyway.

If 'Mum' had £2K to spend on presents for everyone, I'm quite sure the last place she would buy them from would be the Littlewoods catalogue.

If Mum didn't have £2K to spend, but wanted to spend that much on presents for everyone, there is NO WAY Littlewoods would let a new customer have a £2K credit limit.

It's all scrollocks, and I agree, who on earth buys relatives high value electricals for Christmas from Littlewoods?! There will be people out there who DO buy that kind of thing for friends and family, but not from a catalogue!

I didn't think of the Santa thing to be honest, only because my eldest 2 are 15 and 13 and my youngest is 2 so doesn't understand, but I do see why that is wrong and out of order too.

Lastly, the thing that pee's me off the most about it, is WHAT ABOUT DAD?!

big5

I detest that advert, glad to see I'm not the only one.

[Deleted User]

Thanks everyone! pleased you all agree, I also wish Martin would follow this one up. Thanks again!.

TOOMUCHWORRY

Thank you for this thread. I watched the ad last night and my immediate thought was how awful it was to encourage people into even more debt than they probably already are.
I also didnt think of the 'what about Santa' issue - so am pleased others have raised it.
Agree with all that has been said so far - totally , totally wrong message being put out by littlewoods. Shame on them.

kiss_me_now9

I'm rarely one to get riled up over adverts or 'child' issues (21 year old with no dreams of kids for the next few years!) but this one gets my goat. It's just so blatant and detestable... Hate it.

[Deleted User]

Thanks for your msgs all, really pleased that so many people feel the same, we just need more people to get on board, join the fb group, not sure if Martin has a view on this yet, but if anyone knows please advise.
Thanks

nzseries1

It made the Daily Mail Better late than never
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066039/Littlewoods-Facebook-users-complain-TV-Christmas-advert.html

[Deleted User]

Thanks for the link!. Well done to the people that supported the FB group.

Also keep this thread going srong please!. :-)

kippers

I hate it too. The only good that has come out of this is it provoked a big discussion with my dd's aged 11 & 13 yrs about it. This is what they said.....

My dd's said they think these children are spoilt as they get what they want and they think their parents probably spend money on the kids rather than spending time with them. They also said that christmas isn't a time to spend loads of money on people and then spend years in debt trying to pay it off, these people should save a bit each month towards xmas so they have no debt on xmas day! (Their words not mine)

.......................Oooooh i didn't think my money saving ways were rubbing off on my children, but obviously they are....i'm so proud of them!