Vodafone ad banned after suggesting customers could leave contracts at any time - MSE News

Former_MSE_Callum · 10 October 2018 at 8:42AM

A Vodafone advert has been banned after the advertising watchdog said it misleadingly implied that customers could leave a phone contract after the first 30 days...

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[Deleted User] · 10 October 2018 at 9:24AM

Only surprised it took so long.

pmduk · 10 October 2018 at 10:55AM

Another sop to the nannying brigade, I understood the ad to mean you could leave within the first 30 days, I'm sure I'm not the only one to pay attention to things these days

Anthorn · 10 October 2018 at 11:28AM

Silliness.

By the same token my 3 year service guarantee on my cooker is misleading because it implies that I can still get service after it has expired: It doesn't actually say that I will not get service after the service guarantee has expired and I will have to pay for it.

Maybe the "advertising watchdog" (Advertising Standards Authority) didn't have anything else to do!

Vodafone ad banned after suggesting customers could leave contracts at any time - MSE News

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