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davethorp

Totally fair then!

bestpud

We should get that Martin Lewis guy onto this, he's always keen to deal with companies who take the mick. :cool:

:rotfl:

sidsnot

You could always report them to the IPM , I think that is the advice MSE gives to people who believe competitions have not been run fairly,i'm sure they would find it quite amusing that so many people from this forum use them to complain about companies and now they are the ones being investigated.Considering even in their terms and conditions it says that it will be a Santa Icon that needs to be found and it was in fact not an image or icon at all I think they have actually messed up big time and need to admit to that.

davethorp

I've already complained to the ASA who I believe also investigate this kind of issue

cm7

fordred wrote: »

Looks like the problem wasn't so much a browser cache issue, but a server issue.

The images were on the images2 server, which is pointing at the Akamai CDN. It would take time for the CDN to propagate and mirror the changes on their network. This would mean that it depended on luck, and who your DNS provider is. Some DNS responses would have sent you to different servers, which didn't have the content pushed to them yet.

However, if you were a geek and looked at the page source code, you would have seen that images were being requested from the images2 server.

Might I suggest that in future, the images are hosted on a single server (like the main website and the forum) and not on a Content Distribution Network.

No MSE response to this?

davethorp

cm7 wrote: »

No MSE response to this?

MSE didn't respond when users disproved their whole cache theory in two seconds flat as they had tried with multiple browsers.

I highly suspect they are either just ignoring this in the hope it will go away or sticking two fingers in their ears going "lalalalalalalalalalalala we are not listening"

grant1wish

Just got my cheque delivered. Wasn't expecting it soon. Many thanks MSE.

Merry christmas everyone

senileturtle

cm7 wrote: »

No MSE response to this?

MSE don't respond to much even if they've been proven to be incompetent or just plain wrong. Yet they'll hush those they do not approve of double quick at the behest of certain users. Dictatorship much?

bestpud

senileturtle wrote: »

MSE don't respond to much even if they've been proven to be incompetent or just plain wrong. Yet they'll hush those they do not approve of double quick at the behest of certain users. Dictatorship much?

Sadly that is true!