Buy a
Core i5 laptop or a
Toshiba TV, and if your country wins the World Cup Final, we'll refund your money. Simple and to the point, don't you think? Toshiba ran this advertising campaign in Germany, England, Portugal, Italy and Spain in the run-up to the
global football tournament, but now that one of those nations has actually gone and scooped the silverware, refunds seem remarkably hard to come by. As it turns out, the small print on that ad included instructions to see Toshiba's site for further details, which elucidated a requirement that all claimants must register their product by the 17th of June. Naturally, that's now led to a whole heap of peeved Spaniards feeling cheated, and big time consumer association Facua arguing that such a major condition to recovering your cash shouldn't have been hidden away online. In the absence of it being clearly marked on the promotional materials, it argues, Toshiba should honor everyone's receipts irrespective of registration. We're inclined to agree -- maybe the Japanese company can recover any losses from the wages of its cheeky advertising staff.
posted July 14th 2010 2:22PM
@annonymiss
+1 for truth.
I'm nineteen myself and everyone my age in my area is either a junky or a complete waste of space.
No use giving them jobs anyhow, their paycheck is probably just going to be on imported weed anyhow.
Maybe the small print was written in plain English, but as everybody knows Spanish people do not speak English - "no hablan Inglés señor". One tip - learn to speak English.
Lets not forget Toshiba sold US Submarine propeller secrets to the Russians.
They are an evil company!
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