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BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
News BT's offer of free return flights for customers who signed up for one of its consumer broadband packages has hit problems reminiscent of the infamous Hoover free flights fiasco. BT is adamant that the problem isn't on the scale of Hoover's, whose...
[September 3, 2004, 16:30]
BT's Flights Of Fancy
Leader Hoover effectively invented this kind of promotion in the early 1990s when it started giving away two free flights to America to any customer spending over £100. The offer was hugely popular, Hoover couldn't cope with the demand, and the whole...
[January 14, 2005, 14:00]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
News BT must also avoid repeating the experience of Hoover, which in the early 1990s ran a promotion where anyone who spent more than £100 on a Hoover product got a free flight to America. But the promotion proved a disaster, as Hoover hasn't...
[May 11, 2004, 11:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback Remeber Hoover? BT Broadband & Free Flight Offer. Did things go to plan? I would be interested to know how many Free Flights there where? Or is there no such thing as a Free Flight? Harry Does.
[September 1, 2004, 14:03]
BT Defends Free Flights Offer
News When the initial delays hit the BT offer there were comparisons to the Hoover free-flights debacle in the 1990s when customers who spent over £100 were offered two free transatlantic flights -- up to 100,000 people didn't get their flights and the...
[October 6, 2004, 17:10]
Post Office Blamed For BT Flight Problems
News The situation has been compared to the infamous Hoover offer of the early 1990s when many people struggled to get a free flight to America. Rise Travel, the company handling BT's offer of free flights for new broadband customers, has blamed the...
[September 9, 2004, 17:00]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback If I was one of the many companies using Rise Travel for these promotions I would be very concerned and would be asking for some hard facts about the original resourcing of the offers; why they are taking on multiple offers when they cannot...
[October 3, 2004, 10:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is a daring piece of promotion, given that Hoover tried it in the past and ended up having to sell the company to sort out the repercussions, but the sums obviously look tempting -- I had a similar offer yesterday from First Direct plugging...
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback I just hope that this Free Flight Promotion is better orgainized than the know Infamous Hoover Flight Fiasco. At one time there were more writs flying than Hoover Customers! It was a Fiasco from start to the end!
[May 15, 2004, 10:36]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Remeber Hoover & the Infamous Hoover Free Flight offer Harry Does. Harry refers Landround Travel 'FREE FLIGHT' offer to ASA.
[June 10, 2006, 23:07]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Maytag owners of Hoover Europe at the time of the Hoover Flights Fiasco, workers at their Newton HQ, Iowa, USA, have been on Strike. They will resume talks on the 23 June 2004. The amazing thing on hearing the news today, the 18 June 2004 their...
[June 18, 2004, 19:46]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Hoover Royal Warrant removal. A request to Her Majesty The Queen on the removal of Hoover's Royal Warrant. BBC Documentary on the Hoover Flight Fiasco. Following the recent
[June 18, 2004, 9:15]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Maytag Harry & Hoover. For Maytag over the know Infamous Hoover Flight Fiasco. Marketing Insiders are all talking about the Harry Effect, has Harry put Newton on the Map. Maytag are just Wild about Harry, like the song go's.
[August 4, 2004, 21:13]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Hoover still Number One in the Blunder stakes. The Infamous Hoover Free Flight Fiasco still ranks as the Largest corporate Marketing Blunder. Hoover are still number One & have not been toppled in the BLUNDER stakes.
[August 3, 2004, 12:46]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Ten years after the Infamous Hoover Free Flight Fiasco & the ASA needs to wait for complaints to come in? It's Hoover all over again! AVON CALLING? Avon gets rapped over 27 complaints on it's Free phone offer?
[August 3, 2004, 12:09]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Hoover " Fiasco" Free Flight BBC with out doubt the Largest Marketing Blunder in the World. There will probably never ever be another Hoover. The fear of another Hoover will keep all those MARKETING Guru's in jobs for life.
[June 29, 2004, 17:54]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Hoover seem to be more famous these day's for the Know Infamous Hoover Flight Fiasco. When you say Hoover these days you no longer think of Vacuums but " Flights"& " Fiasco". It would seem Maytag, Hoover Europe owners at the time, still own Hoover...
[June 28, 2004, 13:10]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Hoover flight offer used,TV adds to sell this offer, many complaints were made to the ASA on this subject? The ISP, ( Institute of Sales Promotions), also made a complaint to the ASA on Hoover? Yet the ASA has not made a judgement or commented on...
[June 27, 2004, 8:00]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Candy & The Hoover Royal Warrant? Since Candy purchased Hoover from USA owners Maytag, why did the Royal Warrant get passed on. Candy did not want the liabilty of the Hoover Flight Fiasco? Clearley Hoover did not behave in a way that they should...
[June 26, 2004, 14:33]
BT Hoovers Up Broadband Punters With 'free' Flights
Talkback Candy the company that purchased Hoover Europe in 1995 after the Flight Offer from Maytag Corp who still own Hoover in the USA. It would seem that Candy have never made a comment on the Hoover Fiasco?
[June 23, 2004, 10:16]
