Has Orange Done A Hoover

by Fairplay1 | September 8, 2007 at 01:20 pm
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Has Orange done a Hoover with its free flight offer. The promotion was launched last week and already has some 10,000 applicants. New & existing customer can sign up to a £30 a month contracts are eligible for a free flight. The daddy of all free flight promotions was the know infamous Hoover free flight promotion. Over 200,000 applicants got there tickets, however another 350,000 may have been owed flights. It cost Hoover's parent the giant Maytag corporation over £48. million. Harry Cichy lead the litigation against Hoover. A BBC documentary was made part of the Trouble At The Top series, 'Hoover Flights Fiasco, produced by Angela Chan in 2003. Cichy said: "Sometimes when a offer is to good to be true, it is , Hoover was that offer."

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