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Sunday Express Star Trek Tshirt Offer basically lies
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happy_to_be_here
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Hi everyone, just felt like venting about the offer in todays Sunday Express. I specifically bought one for the offer but when I got to the only WH Smith open in my city today they informed me they had only received 4 tshirts!
I just find it so annoying that they are able to get out of it by saying on their t&c's 'subject to availability' when they supplied only 4. I would have thought city centre branches would receive maybe 100 while ones in town centres would get maybe 50-75?
Has anyone else tried to redeem this offer and been let down?
I just find it so annoying that they are able to get out of it by saying on their t&c's 'subject to availability' when they supplied only 4. I would have thought city centre branches would receive maybe 100 while ones in town centres would get maybe 50-75?
Has anyone else tried to redeem this offer and been let down?
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happy_to_be_here wrote: »Hi everyone, just felt like venting about the offer in todays Sunday Express. I specifically bought one for the offer but when I got to the only WH Smith open in my city today they informed me they had only received 4 tshirts!
I just find it so annoying that they are able to get out of it by saying on their t&c's 'subject to availability' when they supplied only 4. I would have thought city centre branches would receive maybe 100 while ones in town centres would get maybe 50-75?
Has anyone else tried to redeem this offer and been let down?
TBH I have been let down by their offers time and time again, unless it's been for an item that the store would normally hold in stock; special items such as gardening gloves, were never received by the store at all.Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily DickinsonJanice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear0 -
TBH I have been let down by their offers time and time again, unless it's been for an item that the store would normally hold in stock; special items such as gardening gloves, were never received by the store at all.
I don't understand how they are allowed to do this-is it not false advertising?0 -
happy_to_be_here wrote: »Has anyone else tried to redeem this offer and been let down?
An awful lot of people by the sound of it
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/free-star-trek-t-shirt-sunday-express-redeem-w-h-smith-1543694?page=30 -
shaun_from_Africa wrote: »An awful lot of people by the sound of it
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/free-star-trek-t-shirt-sunday-express-redeem-w-h-smith-1543694?page=3
It's just rubbish :mad:0 -
happy_to_be_here wrote: »I don't understand how they are allowed to do this-is it not false advertising?
They cover their backs with phrases like 'subject to availability'.Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily DickinsonJanice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear0 -
Sunday Express = shit."Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.0
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fluffnutter wrote: »Sunday Express = shit.
:rotfl: thanks for that!0 -
It's not false advertising, no, but a look at sales for previous weeks would tell give them a fair idea how many to expect this week and they could provide a proportional number of t-shirts. With only 4 going to your store I don't think they've done that.Bought, not Brought0
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Hmmm isnt a requirement for offers like this that they have adequate stock to meet demand taking into account the price vs whats on offer, and the scale of the advertising?
For example a local store doing a promo of buying a book and getting the no 1 bestseller free, probably isnt going to have huge demand. A national paper advertising something which is likely classed as a collectible, especially one from Star Trek which has a HUGE fan base.....the only way i'd expect 4 t-shirts to be sent is if they only sold 1 paper locally (because the purpose of the free item is to sell more papers - not less).
Might be worth a complaint to ASA/TS. Not that it will probably get the OP his t-shirt, but it may be enough for them to get a telling off (or perhaps fined if they're repeat offenders).You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride0 -
fluffnutter wrote: »Sunday Express = shit.
It's little better than the daily wail!There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.0
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