John Lewis advert gets pulled

[d00d]

@Maree

@d00d

It’s a disgrace, I mean the advert is bad enough, but nanny orders JL to pull it!

What happened to freedom of speech.

But they weren’t told to withdraw it because of it’s controversial content.

They were told to withdraw it because it was misleading and implied John Lewis insurance would cover intentional damage by children, which it doesn’t.

“This advert has been withdrawn because the Financial Conduct Authority considers the content to be potentially misleading and could cause customers to be confused about John Lewis’s new home contents insurance offering.”

We don’t want to give companies freedom of speech to misrepresent their products in order to sell them.

Oh I see.

I thought it was just maybe regarded un-pc or something.

[Maree]

@d00d

@Maree

@d00d

It’s a disgrace, I mean the advert is bad enough, but nanny orders JL to pull it!

What happened to freedom of speech.

But they weren’t told to withdraw it because of it’s controversial content.

They were told to withdraw it because it was misleading and implied John Lewis insurance would cover intentional damage by children, which it doesn’t.

“This advert has been withdrawn because the Financial Conduct Authority considers the content to be potentially misleading and could cause customers to be confused about John Lewis’s new home contents insurance offering.”

We don’t want to give companies freedom of speech to misrepresent their products in order to sell them.

Oh I see.

I thought it was just maybe regarded un-pc or something.

Yes, it certainly was by an awful lot of people

I didn’t have a problem with it from that point of view and while the kids behaviour got on my nerves I wouldn’t have demanded it got withdrawn for that

But I thinking being made to withdraw it because it’s misleading is fair enough

Mind you, John Lewis got a lot of free publicity over it, didn’t they?

[d00d]

@Maree

John Lewis got a lot of free publicity over it, didn’t they?

Yep … and it’s that time of year for a controversial JL xmas ad.

[Twink55]

JUST A WARNING…
I got my home contents cover years ago , via my bank, who it seems obviously got paid for the number of policies it sold! That arrangement has now come to an end so they offered to quote me on a new policy. The original quote was for £27 per month & is now down to £9 per month, so it sounded good …BUT
there are now excesses of up to £350 for damaged goods that I have to pay.
You now need an expert to understand what you home contents insurance covers and what it doesn’t!

[Maree]

@Twink55

JUST A WARNING…
I got my home contents cover years ago , via my bank, who it seems obviously got paid for the number of policies it sold! That arrangement has now come to an end so they offered to quote me on a new policy. The original quote was for £27 per month & is now down to £9 per month, so it sounded good …BUT
there are now excesses of up to £350 for damaged goods that I have to pay.
You now need an expert to understand what you home contents insurance covers and what it doesn’t!

That’s interesting, thank you, you’ve gotta read the small print

I don’t think the damage this kid in the advert did would have come to £350, unless that case was Ming, so does the John Lewis use an excess?