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wyrdness
10-11-09, 03:40 PM
Take a look at their website. They have a fishnet-wearing Santa, with a fag and cans of lager, ****ing over their logo.

And check out the turkeys at the bottom of the page.

www.phones4u.co.uk (http://www.phones4u.co.uk)

Either their website has been hacked, or else this is a great publicity stunt.

Edit: In case it's removed, you can see the pictures here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/phones4u_santa/
_Stretchie_
10-11-09, 03:43 PM
Strange...
fizzwheel
10-11-09, 03:44 PM
Pmsl
CheGuevara
10-11-09, 03:46 PM
Tres weird.
plowsie
10-11-09, 03:46 PM
Genius, absolutely top draw that is.
Amanda
10-11-09, 03:48 PM
They have th pictures on the screens of the phones too. I like the look of the snowmen fighting, one has decapitated the other!!!!
BournemouthBen
10-11-09, 03:48 PM
haha, nice Crimbo spirit right there.
CheGuevara
10-11-09, 03:56 PM
Somebody is gonna be working late tonight...
Owenski
10-11-09, 03:56 PM
wft indeed, excellent.
Amanda
10-11-09, 03:58 PM
Hahaha - just spoke to Customer Service asking if this was their idea of a new advertising campaign and they know nothing about it. She went off to check and came back saying it definitely is not their advertising campaign and that the IT department are looking into it. They apologised for any distress caused. lol

Love it!!!! Think the website will go down any minute now .....
CheGuevara
10-11-09, 04:01 PM
Hahaha - just spoke to Customer Service asking if this was their idea of a new advertising campaign and they know nothing about it. She went off to check and came back saying it definitely is not their advertising campaign and that the IT department are looking into it. They apologised for any distress caused. lol

Love it!!!! Think the website will go down any minute now .....


Spoilsport! Who knows how far it could have gone :)
Amanda
10-11-09, 04:03 PM
Hahaha - it would not have lasted long. I was intrigued to get it from the horse's mouth!


.....and its still going strong.
plowsie
10-11-09, 04:08 PM
Hahaha - just spoke to Customer Service asking if this was their idea of a new advertising campaign and they know nothing about it. She went off to check and came back saying it definitely is not their advertising campaign and that the IT department are looking into it. They apologised for any distress caused. lol

Love it!!!! Think the website will go down any minute now .....
Gah, boroff!
Amanda
10-11-09, 04:11 PM
Still there so I recon its a publicity stunt! Must be or they would have stopped it by now?
Juju
10-11-09, 05:34 PM
It's down now I think, but to be honest, phones4u are the biggest collection of clowns pockets I have ever come across. If I had the technical skills to mangle their website, I'd have done it 10 years ago.
Scoobs
10-11-09, 05:41 PM
clowns pockets

What a gem. That's mine from now on. You're all clown pockets. :lol:
Amanda
10-11-09, 06:24 PM
It's down now I think, but to be honest, phones4u are the biggest collection of clowns pockets I have ever come across. If I had the technical skills to mangle their website, I'd have done it 10 years ago.


Nope its still there! Brilliant
ethariel
10-11-09, 06:24 PM
Class if it's a hack, brilliant marketing if not, still up just now and not a cached page :)
Warthog
10-11-09, 06:28 PM
Teeheehee :lol:
Kinvig
11-11-09, 09:52 AM
Still there so I recon its a publicity stunt! Must be or they would have stopped it by now?

Yup - it's a 5 minute job to remove the offending graphics and replace them with ones from a backup.

Pity, I can't stand that place & was hoping that some mischief had been undertaken. Instead allwe've done is raised their profile by discussing, then visiting, their website.
wyrdness
11-11-09, 10:45 AM
Yup - it's a 5 minute job to remove the offending graphics and replace them with ones from a backup.

Pity, I can't stand that place & was hoping that some mischief had been undertaken. Instead allwe've done is raised their profile by discussing, then visiting, their website.

Yes, it looks like it's definitely a publicity stunt, and a very good one at that.

Like you, I can't stand them and would never buy anything from them (or from any other company with 4U in their name), but you've got to admit that it's great marketing.
mattSV
11-11-09, 11:23 AM
Way to go, Billy Boy.
Von Teese
11-11-09, 12:04 PM
Ewwww! Have you seen the top of the screen where the reindeer have been killed and their heads mounted on the wall as trophies, some with their tongues hanging out! Naaaastie!
wyrdness
11-11-09, 12:32 PM
Ewwww! Have you seen the top of the screen where the reindeer have been killed and their heads mounted on the wall as trophies, some with their tongues hanging out! Naaaastie!

I thought that was a nice touch
Kinvig
11-11-09, 09:54 PM
they've updated the top image:

http://www.phones4u.co.uk/Images/top_temp.gif

and I've just realised, it's not phones 4 u that I can't stand but the carphonewhorehouse....apols!