Comments on: Deceptive Practices Will Never Go Away

By: L Jones

L Jones — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:56:54 +0000

My daughter, 13yrs old, was duped by this crowd who used the facebook website to “catch” people with a €1,000 Pennys voucher, she lost €20 before I realized what was going on.

Very sneaky operators to say the least.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:22:46 +0000

These scumbags are advertising on TV3 now also.

By: Teresa Scanlon

Teresa Scanlon — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:13:43 +0000

Not only is PC world used; IKEA is now used as well. I have been charged 14 euro on my meteor bill last month as they tell me I signed for a free voucher for IKEA.
I have contacted Comreg and Meteor and Meteor gave me the number 57052 to stop.
I will definetly follow this one up. This is a scam of the highest order and should be stopped by Comreg or others. Who is actually looking out for the consumer?
Teresa

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:25:04 +0000

I’m at an advanced stage of complaint with Regtel following a prizeclub.ie missrepresentation of a Harvey Norman competition/draw.
I will be detailing a number of grounds for complaint but apart from ignoring my STOP message sent immediately once I realised I was duped, I will be complaining on the specific grounds of misleading/misrepresentation of a third party.

By: Nicky O'Connell

Nicky O'Connell — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:59:48 +0000

Here’s another one for you – quite sophisticated in its use of attractive image slideshow to distract customers from reading the copy carefully. My partner got bitten by this one yesterday (10th Jan 2010).
http://www.prizeclub.ie/ikea_dublin_store4/?sid=1171&bid=3&gclid=CJTz–WGnJ8CFUgA4wodXRNkIw

For anyone taken in by this, please note that it is not true that
“To unsubscribe send stop to 50150″. In fact this leads to a further text message that needs to be carefully read. You have to send a further text msg to actually unsubscribe …. and yet another if you want to stop them sending msgs!! I’ve lodged a complaint with the Gardai.

By: Free Sat Nav

Free Sat Nav — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:42:10 +0000

There’s a couple of things I would say about this.

Firstly I would have thought Adwords would not allow the ad in the first place as it uses a company’s name. Am I correct?

Secondly there are so many of these subscription things going around on the net and as much as I hate them people need to be more aware of what they are doing before the sign up.

PC would must be pretty peeved at this.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:28:20 +0000

Hi Mick

Actually this isn’t PC World at all. It’s a Premium-Rate Message company using PC World brand name. So I wouldn’t take this out on PC World at all.

Thanks for dropping by though
Rgds
Richard

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:18:05 +0000

Thanks for the info. PC World have just lost a customer. If this is how low they will go.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:25:51 +0000

Interesting site Dan

I liked your coverage of Wave – good summary I thought.

Thanks for dropping by, rgds
Richard

By: Dankoozy

Dankoozy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:09:34 +0000

every industry has a dirty side to it..

By: Rita M

Rita M — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:25:47 +0000

Interesting post. I agree with you comlpetely; it’s misleading, unfair and a complete rip-off in more ways than one.

Thanks for the great info!

Rita