Comments on: ASA pings Love Calculator – but it is still out there http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/some-not-all-love-calculator-ads-closed-down-by-asa/ NZ Internet, Media and Business Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:09:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mobile Messenger http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/some-not-all-love-calculator-ads-closed-down-by-asa/#comment-10514 Mobile Messenger Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:28:54 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/some-not-all-love-calculator-ads-closed-down-by-asa/#comment-10514 We at Mobile Messenger would like to assist you with your concern or complaint. If you need assistance in regards to being unsubscribed or other related issues, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please call 1300-766 915 Monday to Friday 0900 – 1700 EST or email We at Mobile Messenger would like to assist you with your concern or complaint. If you need assistance in regards to being unsubscribed or other related issues, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please call 1300-766 915 Monday to Friday 0900 – 1700 EST or email

]]> By: gehan g http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/some-not-all-love-calculator-ads-closed-down-by-asa/#comment-10272 gehan g Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:27:29 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/some-not-all-love-calculator-ads-closed-down-by-asa/#comment-10272 I've been getting many text messages (spam) tonight, as is a bunch of other customers all hocking websites for the damn company. Is the parent company hosted in NZ? Look at this thread: http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080307202132AAqivot The only link I can find is one of their websites links to www.romanceclass.com which is owned by a lady in Mass. USA. But I think they just ripped off the text of her website I don't think she has any part of it. Lisa Shea? I’ve been getting many text messages (spam) tonight, as is a bunch of other customers all hocking websites for the damn company. Is the parent company hosted in NZ?

Look at this thread:
http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080307202132AAqivot

The only link I can find is one of their websites links to http://www.romanceclass.com which is owned by a lady in Mass. USA. But I think they just ripped off the text of her website I don’t think she has any part of it. Lisa Shea?

]]> By: Juha http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/some-not-all-love-calculator-ads-closed-down-by-asa/#comment-1836 Juha Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:31:34 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/some-not-all-love-calculator-ads-closed-down-by-asa/#comment-1836 Oh oh... I see what the ASA upheld. It's <strong>not</strong> the fact Cellular Dreams used deceptive marketing, but the notice that the site would be closed down. Oh oh… I see what the ASA upheld. It’s not the fact Cellular Dreams used deceptive marketing, but the notice that the site would be closed down.

]]> By: Juha http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/some-not-all-love-calculator-ads-closed-down-by-asa/#comment-1835 Juha Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:21:20 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/some-not-all-love-calculator-ads-closed-down-by-asa/#comment-1835 Wow. I'm stunned by this, because I spoke the Commerce Commission about the ads, and was told there was no reason to act on them. as they don't breach the Fair Trading Act. The deceptive nature of the offer is neither here nor there, because people are told what they sign up for on the last screen, in tiny type. I know NZ is ideologically very much hands off and caveat emptor but as the Lovecalculator stuff is aimed at one thing only - fleecing people through deceptive marketing - I expected there were grounds to act, just like the ACCC in Australia had. If NZ is going to be this lax, it'll work as invite for internet scammers of all kinds... lucky we have such low population and bad broadband penetration making the country a less attractive proposition than many other places. Wow. I’m stunned by this, because I spoke the Commerce Commission about the ads, and was told there was no reason to act on them. as they don’t breach the Fair Trading Act.

The deceptive nature of the offer is neither here nor there, because people are told what they sign up for on the last screen, in tiny type.

I know NZ is ideologically very much hands off and caveat emptor but as the Lovecalculator stuff is aimed at one thing only – fleecing people through deceptive marketing – I expected there were grounds to act, just like the ACCC in Australia had.

If NZ is going to be this lax, it’ll work as invite for internet scammers of all kinds… lucky we have such low population and bad broadband penetration making the country a less attractive proposition than many other places.

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