Just announced, the Advertising Standards Authority will now have online advertising in its scope of authority. As I have pointed out before any complaints about adverts on a company’s own website were, until now, under the authority of the Trading Standards Authority.
This change makes a lot of sense and will mean my future complaints [...]
Funny conversation at the golf course last night…
Man at front of queue gestures at bracelets on sale at the counter. The packaging says “Embedded Holographic Technology” and “May improve your strength and swing” etc.
Man at front of queue: Do those really work then?
Boy behind counter: Yeah, I wear one all the time.
Me: Yeah, wearing a [...]
In preparation for my pursuit of the claims made by the purveyors of magnetic bracelets I decided to Google “Clinical Trial Magnet Therapy” in an attempt to find some proper trials and evidence. Conversely if you Google “Magnetic Healing” you’ll find thousands of hits for sales of the devices, their claims and no evidence.
My top [...]
Following on from my success with my ASA complaint about the Tourmaline bracelet I am now going all out to remove as many similar adverts from as many webstores as possible.
I’ve short-listed 20 websites in the UK that are currently selling these products and have initiated a conversation with the Trading Standards Institute.
Minus Ions are [...]
I can’t believe I forgot to blog about this!
A well known UK internet shop that specialises in gifts/gadgets sent me an email before Christmas advertising the latest additions to its catalogue. The main part of the image-based email was a large advert for a watch. Particularly a watch that looked exactly like this one here [...]