r0cafella Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 More on the St James Park advertising. Have to say, am not surprised. http://nufcdaily.wordpress.com/2013/...lie-yet-again/ The club lie yet again! Not coming down any time soon You will remember last week that I did an article about how Sports Direct do not pay any advertising for the hideous boards that adorn St James’ Park, and I reported how someone was interested in buying the space for local businesses and even the Sir Bobby Robson foundation. While I did not hold out much hope that the person in question would get very far with his endeavour, what I didn’t expect (but probably should have expected) is that the club have misled the fans once again. This is the article posted on The Mag, outlining the issue, “Last week I wrote an article about making an offer to sponsor some of the advertising boards around the ground and I nominated Sir Bobby Robson’s Charity to be advertised. May I start off by saying thank you to everyone who made an offer to help. The offers altogether were in the region of about £3,000 EVERY HOME GAME!!!!! This followed Newcastle United directors stating in the minutes of a fans forum; ‘The club explained that the advertising boards in question were installed with Sports Direct branding as a showcase for unused space. Sports Direct don’t pay but it would be sold if other advertisers wanted the space.’ After my original email to the club and 5 unanswered voicemails left for people in the marketing department of the club, I heard nothing back. That is until now… I was contacted by someone high up in the marketing department of the club (I have their name but won’t publish it here) and this is exactly what I was told; “The club hold back ALL advertising boards, both L.E.D and normal boards, for official partners who pay a lot of money to keep them there”. The person instantly dismissed me when I spoke of the Sir Bobby Foundation and said that is something they would not do. Not once was a price discussed in this very short phone call so they did not want to know if I was willing to pay £1 or £1million per board, that didn’t matter to them. So basically the club has lied (shock horror) in either their recent meeting with NUST & Co at the Fans Forum, where they stated “Sports Direct advertises for free”, or alternatively to me on the phone when they said, “official partners pay a lot of money to keep them there”. Please note he did say that official partners included Thomas Cook and Puma.” There are lies entangled within this situation somewhere, either from the marketing department, or from the club representatives who were answering questions to the fan’s forum. Either way, the club has, once again, been proven to be misleading the fans once more. If the official partners are paying money to “hold back ALL the boards” then why would they want Sports Direct being plastered on it? Surely if our official sponsors are paying for the boards, they would want their own logo adorning the board? To tell you the truth, I’m not surprised. This club is rotten to the core and they are showing themselves up time and time again. What do you think? Who is lying to whom? Did the club reps lie when they said they would sell to advertisers? Or did the marketing rep lie when they said official sponsors pay for the boards? Shock Horror! I don't think anyone expected anything other than this. It's good to see the club bullshit being exposed, too bad we don't see any such work from the Chronicle etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoot Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 That just doesn't surprise me one little bit to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 They should just have said originally something like "Mike Ashley uses the advertising space as a benefit of owning the club". It's annoying, but people would have had a harder time showing it up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Agreed. I think it's investigation like this that will raise awareness. Would be good if one of the local rags got ahold of it, but then again - they have to tow the club line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Pretending nobody else wanted the space was one of the stupidest PR moves I've ever seen. Not that it's surprising. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Pretending nobody else wanted the space was one of the stupidest PR moves I've ever seen. Not that it's surprising. Aye our commercial and PR departments are clearly non existent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanSkÃrare Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 I sent an email to [email protected] (the customer service mail-adress on nufcdirect.com) asking who'd receive my money if I bought this season's strip. I said I wanted to buy the strip, but only if Newcastle United rather than Sports Direct benefited from it, which was difficult to tell from the website as it's seemingly being run by SD. I was given a reference number and promised an answer within 1-5 working days. This was on the 8th of September. Since then, I've mailed them three times asking for an answer. I know it's not the biggest problem, but if supporters buying from the club online shop are actually aiding SD rather than Newcastle United, they (we) deserve to know so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 I sent an email to [email protected] (the customer service mail-adress on nufcdirect.com) asking who'd receive my money if I bought this season's strip. I said I wanted to buy the strip, but only if Newcastle United rather than Sports Direct benefited from it, which was difficult to tell from the website as it's seemingly being run by SD. I was given a reference number and promised an answer within 1-5 working days. This was on the 8th of September. Since then, I've mailed them three times asking for an answer. I know it's not the biggest problem, but if supporters buying from the club online shop are actually aiding SD rather than Newcastle United, they (we) deserve to know so. The silence speaks volumes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NG32 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 or just bad customer service, if his shop isn't up to much then he wont be spending millions on a top notch customer services department. Funny enough I wonder how many complaints SD get Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 The customer service is shit in general Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 do you even know what you're condescending anymore? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest icemanblue Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 do you even know what you're condescending anymore? I do. This time, it was directed at neesy's assertion that 'the silence speaks volumes', because of an (as yet) unanswered email. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 oh, i know what you meant aye Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 do you even know what you're condescending anymore? I do. This time, it was directed at neesy's assertion that 'the silence speaks volumes', because of an (as yet) unanswered email. Wouldn't have expected any less tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest icemanblue Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 I'm glad that it's been cleared up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 So he sacked Hughton for much less, appointed an inferior manager, or at least someone on par with Hughton when it came to achievement, and now refuses to sack him after watching him almost take us down last year, with record home defeats. I am slowly leaning more and more towards the Ashley conspiracy theorists who say he truly doesn't give a f00k. He doesn't. Nothing's gonna change, people. Not unless we actually go down. Sigh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 I'm glad that it's been cleared up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alan-pardew-reveals-spoken-mike-6133991?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Didn't Ryder say that he hadn't met him after the game. Either way ,seems odd, Window licker Ryder was wrong? Good heavens, whatever next? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrettNUFC Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Don't know why people take his word as gospel, massive bellend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slippery Sam Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 So he sacked Hughton for much less, appointed an inferior manager, or at least someone on par with Hughton when it came to achievement, and now refuses to sack him after watching him almost take us down last year, with record home defeats. I am slowly leaning more and more towards the Ashley conspiracy theorists who say he truly doesn't give a f00k. He doesn't. Nothing's gonna change, people. Not unless we actually go down. Sigh. He does give a fuck, like. Only just, though. As long as NUFC stay in the prem he is happy. He's been fucked over at least twice since he bought the club, though. Once when he didn't do due diligence and again when his chum Llambias talked him into giving Pardew a super-long contract. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Good point. I have blocked out the fact that Pardew has 7 more years left on this contract. This club is truly insane. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J7 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 or just bad customer service, if his shop isn't up to much then he wont be spending millions on a top notch customer services department. Funny enough I wonder how many complaints SD get I got an email off the club trying to sell a shit plastic rain coat about 2 minutes after a defeat and sent a simple "FUCK OFF" back. Sports Direct got back saying they would respond within 1-5 working days too. Still waiting on a reply. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanSkÃrare Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 or just bad customer service, if his shop isn't up to much then he wont be spending millions on a top notch customer services department. Funny enough I wonder how many complaints SD get I got an email off the club trying to sell a s*** plastic rain coat about 2 minutes after a defeat and sent a simple "f*** OFF" back. Sports Direct got back saying they would respond within 1-5 working days too. Still waiting on a reply. Part of me wish I'd have gone down that route as well instead of some desperate "BE HONEST WITH US" question that Ashley has now printed and plasted in his office as a dart board. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 The Mag have been looking into whether the money from NUFC shops etc goes to the club or CuntsDirect. http://www.themag.co.uk/the-mag-articles/does-the-money-go-to-newcastle-united-or-sports-direct-when-you-buy-from-the-club-shop/#comment-1070021220 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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