GirlyGeek
Well-Known Member
Don't know if I am allowed to name and shame the company?
Just got a call on my salon phone saying that "** ***** Group" were calling on behalf of my local asda store. They are setting up a 5ft by 4ft advertising board and have space for 8 adverts and are calling local salons to see if they want a space.
Now I have asked in asda before about leaving a notice or something but at the moment they don't have an indoor advertising space. They have a few posters outside but they are paid advertising and are all full.
This naturally made me suspicious. I asked where abouts the board would be going and she said "To the left of the cash machine - near the store entrance" ... Now at our Asda the cash machine is to the left of the store entrance and the only thing to the left of it is a busy main road. This therefore made me think that it sounded fake and so I informed the lady I wasn't interested and ended the call.
She did mention during the explanation of the board that it wouldn't be free advertising so it seems to me like it may be a possible scam.
Have any of you seen this before? If it was a real company then oops - hope I didn't offend the lady on the phone.
Be on guard people - double check the number they are calling from in google etc. before agreeing to anything paid with someone who you haven't contacted yourself xx
Just got a call on my salon phone saying that "** ***** Group" were calling on behalf of my local asda store. They are setting up a 5ft by 4ft advertising board and have space for 8 adverts and are calling local salons to see if they want a space.
Now I have asked in asda before about leaving a notice or something but at the moment they don't have an indoor advertising space. They have a few posters outside but they are paid advertising and are all full.
This naturally made me suspicious. I asked where abouts the board would be going and she said "To the left of the cash machine - near the store entrance" ... Now at our Asda the cash machine is to the left of the store entrance and the only thing to the left of it is a busy main road. This therefore made me think that it sounded fake and so I informed the lady I wasn't interested and ended the call.
She did mention during the explanation of the board that it wouldn't be free advertising so it seems to me like it may be a possible scam.
Have any of you seen this before? If it was a real company then oops - hope I didn't offend the lady on the phone.
Be on guard people - double check the number they are calling from in google etc. before agreeing to anything paid with someone who you haven't contacted yourself xx