Txt 8555 New Zealand wins Lazarus Award for refusing to die

Published by Ewan on Thursday 1st February 2007, 11:03 | Filed under: Mobile, Mobile Marketing, SMS

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Something tells me that Txt 8555 isn’t that popular with the New Zealand Consumers’ Institute…

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The Lazarus Award, for a product that refuses to die, went to Txt 8555 competitions. Russell said the “rampant vagabond” text-message competition charged entrants $3 for every message sent to them by the company and then awarded them a prize lower than the value of what they had spent on their phone bill.

Just do a Google for Txt 8555 and you’ll see all the complaints.

Thanks for sending this Dafyd!

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