MTN’s SMS competition under fire

Of course it will continue as is : Why risk loosing income?

MTN will probably come out and say they can find no fault, even after first denying that the ranking could be retrieved using a URL, pulling the URL, and then admitting that it did actually exist.
 
I think the bloke who won the car spent R50,000 on sms's. And this is one person.
I would like to know how much profit MTN made!!
Good way of getting the public to pay for promoting your product. I wish I could get my customers to pay my advertising bill:D
 
At some point MTN stopped valuing their customers. I don't think they really care - they will probably reply with a stock press release without actually bothering to do anything.

I do think that this SMS competition will be minor once the magnitude of their current billing problems becomes known :-)
 
So how long will we have to wait for another article on: "Idiot created R30'000 bill on cellphone in hope to win MTN competition." De ja vu, Vodacom Competition?
 
chubster said:
So how long will we have to wait for another article on: "Idiot created R30'000 bill on cellphone in hope to win MTN competition." De ja vu, Vodacom Competition?
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More like "Idiot spent R30,000 - knowing MTN competition was rigged, and some one in-the-know spent R30,007.50 and won competition"
 
they should ban these things all together, either pay a set amount to enter a competition (i.e. Pay R 1 000, and you could win the bond), or sms competition should have a max amount that an entry could cost (R1.00 +-)

R7.50 per sms, is a raffle/lottery, no matter how much they spin this skill-based card.

Congrats MTN, you've found a loophole that allows you to screw your customers! Give a decent bonus to the chop who figured out that loophole.
 
BrendanD said:
The lack of corporate ethics in this country is depressing.
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Its all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

If they loose one or two subscribers, it ok, because 5 more are joining, thanks to the growing requirement to be "in-touch"
 
This is excellent - anyone that is foolish enough to be an MTN customer already knows the feeling of paying for nothing :d
 
zamicro said:
WTF! Did the person with the most sms entries won? Is that how the compo worked?
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What? Did MTN forget to tell you how it worked?

This whole competition was a :

To MTN

Happy birthday. Here is lots of $$$.

Love
MTN.
 
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Whether it's MTN or Vodacom or Cell C. They are all about the profit and not customer service.
 
The only reason i am with cellc is in the hope it will bring more competision to the market. we need more people leaving one of them, so the one can up its game and mabe the other will follow
 
Weasley you realize the cell market is all about collusion right? Don't you think 4 cell operators would have brought the price down?

How many do we need for serious price drops? 20-50-100 companies?
 
Bizkit87 said:
they should ban these things all together, either pay a set amount to enter a competition (i.e. Pay R 1 000, and you could win the bond), or sms competition should have a max amount that an entry could cost (R1.00 +-)

R7.50 per sms, is a raffle/lottery, no matter how much they spin this skill-based card.

Congrats MTN, you've found a loophole that allows you to screw your customers! Give a decent bonus to the chop who figured out that loophole.
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If they introduce some sort of skill in the competition, then they can get away with a lottery. Where they go wrong is that they try and generate a huge amount of entries and few of these are then allowed actually to enter.

In that sense it's just a revenue generation exercise and should be banned.
 
killadoob said:
Weasley you realize the cell market is all about collusion right? Don't you think 4 cell operators would have brought the price down?

How many do we need for serious price drops? 20-50-100 companies?
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Price fixing mate. Lets not forget that the big guns like to meet outside the SA borders, where they can talk freely. Just look at the row that erupted over the JZ meeting diary and how the company resisted. Sadly I think it's rather widespread.

Other than that, London ring a bell to anyone ;)
 
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