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mile · November 2006

...or a scam?

had this sent through email today. (from a work collegue)

http://www.stormhoek.com/webcoupon123.pdf

genuine or fake - you decide

it doesn't mention it on their website.

Scottie_uk · November 2006

I think this is real... all the facts add up...

The terms and conditions are very tipical including the redemption value of 0.00001p (a leagal thing).

Theshers - Wine Rack- Bottums Up- Haddows and the Local are all members of the Thresher Group.

The web site it comes from seems genuine enough and explains that Threshers are not promoting this voucher publicly. This does not look like a copy or a scan either..

Maybee your title should have been Cheap Wine.... but then I suppose 40% is comming free... so it counts as free wine...

Thanks Mile.... The wife loves a bottle of red...

mile · November 2006

yeah - but those thing can be copied, no?

im cynical about things that are too good to be true. :)

you should try it out anyway, report back if you get done for attempted fraud :p

Collie · November 2006

Typically when I want free wine, I invite myself round to other people's house parties so I can quaff all their wine.

So far I've had half a bottle's worth and a good kicking.

mile · November 2006

Collie wrote:

Typically when I want free wine, I invite myself round to other people's house parties so I can quaff all their wine.

So far I've had half a bottle's worth and a good kicking.

i tend to jsut drink vinager, tastes the same to me.

BruceNorton · November 2006

mile wrote:

i tend to jsut drink vinager, tastes the same to me.

Vinegar, pah, whats wrong with meths or turpentine subsitute or do you live in a posh part of town.

murtceps · November 2006

mile wrote:

...or a scam?

had this sent through email today. (from a work collegue)

http://www.stormhoek.com/webcoupon123.pdf

genuine or fake - you decide

it doesn't mention it on their website.

It could well be real, its quite well reported on the net.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/11411/40-off-all-wine-and-champagne-at-th

By releasing this covertly, it cost them a lot less than using an Ad agency.

I for one will be researching where my local Thresher is, and sampling their wares.

http://www.threshers.co.uk/htm/t_storefinder.htm

Should have been this page

gasman · November 2006

And now you've revealed your postcode to the entire internet, we can all come round to your place to get pissed on cheap wine. Yay! :)

Collie · November 2006

Yes, we can have a big party! Like the ones I gate crash. Except this time I'll skip the boozing and go straight to pissing into the plantpot in the corner of the sitting room whilst I'm still sober and able to miss my own shoes. What a fun time we'll all have.

Someone could also get out a Speccy and load up a copy of Stonkers to really round the night off.

Sounds like a plan hey?!

thx1138 · November 2006

apparantley it is legit, they just discussed it on Radio Five Live

misguided_fool · November 2006

I've had a similar voucher through to my work's email.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o148/misguided_fool/voucher.jpg

I tried it in the local store. The girl behind the counter told me to piss off.

mile · November 2006

misguided_fool wrote:

I've had a similar voucher through to my work's email.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o148/misguided_fool/voucher.jpg

I tried it in the local store. The girl behind the counter told me to piss off.

thats quality. i can just hand them out instead of xmas presents this year. :p

gasman · December 2006

The BBC spills the beans:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6198828.stm
I think the moral here is, if you're planning a promotion "for suppliers and their friends", make sure that one of your suppliers isn't one of the country's most celebrated and well-connected bloggers...

guesser · December 2006

loadarubbish, they did it on purpose I'm sure :-P
like someone said it's cheaper than using an ad agency. all these people rushing off to buy discounted wine, and all the news and papers reporting it, they'll be raking it in now, and they get loads of E-mail adresses to spam :-)

jonathan · December 2006

I don't see what all the fuss is about, it's easy enough to make your own wine for something like twenty pence a bottle. I have gallons of the stuff bubbling away in demi-johns and 5-gallon tubs, made from all manner of weird and wonderful ingredients. In fact it's a bit like Willy Wonka's factory here, except for the Oompa-Loompas.

thx1138 · December 2006

jonathan wrote:

I don't see what all the fuss is about, it's easy enough to make your own wine for something like twenty pence a bottle. I have gallons of the stuff bubbling away in demi-johns and 5-gallon tubs, made from all manner of weird and wonderful ingredients. In fact it's a bit like Willy Wonka's factory here, except for the Oompa-Loompas.

I don't like homemade wine as much as beer, I make my own beer quite a bit.

6%, and drinkable, is the strongest i've managed.

I've made 10% and foul, worse than a can of cheap imitation special brew, left to go flat with a drowned wasp in it.

In the bad old days of youth filled rebellness, we used to make magic mushroom beer. 500 shrooms, per 20 pints in the fermentation barrel:D and we sold it for a ?1 a bottle, plus 10pence deposit on the recycled Grolsch bottle. (This was 16 years ago, I can't get prosecuted now can I?)

As for this voucher thing, the cynic in me thinks perhaps it was a deliberate viral ad campaign.

Arjun · December 2006

thx1138 wrote:

In the bad old days of youth filled rebellness, we used to make magic mushroom beer.

Magic mushrooms... ahh...that brings back some rather erm....interesting memories of college days. And of an imaginary cat that followed me wherever I went. :oops:

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