'Photo' Website down & Letter of Apology

BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-18006334

Holiday firm says Madeleine McCann ad website 'closed'

website criticised for using a photo of Madeleine McCann has been taken down, according to the travel firm whose deals it was promoting.

VoucherDigg.co.uk used a picture of the missing girl in an advert for lowcostholidays.com

Lawrence Hunt, of lowcostholidays.com, said: "VoucherDigg have confirmed that their website has been closed down."

He also said: "VoucherDigg will be issuing a letter of apology for this appalling error."

Lowcostholidays.com had previously said it had no advertising contract with VoucherDigg and had been trying to get the image removed.
'No consent'

It described VoucherDigg as a company that "picked up deals and offers via an affiliate network" which had "previously featured holidays from lowcostholidays.com as well as many other well-known holiday companies".

Consent to feature its holidays had not been given, lowcostholidays.com added.

VoucherDigg has not commented despite being approached repeatedly by the BBC.

Clarence Mitchell, a McCann family spokesman, previously told Sky News that the misuse of the image was "utterly appalling and frankly unforgivable".

The photograph of Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, had been released by her parents soon after she disappeared.

She was nearly four when she vanished from her family's holiday apartment in the Algarve.

Events have been held recently to mark the five-year anniversary of her disappearance - including a church service at her grandparents' church in Liverpool.


Voucherdigg:

http://voucherdigg.uk

We were sorry!

Our editing team made the mistake, that Madeleine McCann’s image was
linked to the discount holidays to Portugal. We are sorry for the
serious wrongdoing that occurred. We unreservedly apologise for the
hurt suffered by Mr. and Mrs. McCann.

We regret our not acting faster to sort things out because of our
editing team and management overseas not being concerned about the
British social news and not realizing the wrongdoing. We realise that
this explanation and simply apologising are not enough, because the
hurt and damage are irretrievable. In the coming days, we shut down
voucherdigg.co.uk to show our sincere apology.

We deeply apologies to Mr. and Mrs. McCann.
We deeply apologies to the society.
We also apologies to the lowcostholidays for the negative brand
affect, who has nothing to do with this issue.

Vourcherdigg.co.uk team

Oh for God's sake, which WUM wrote that? Aleksandr Meerkat? All that's missing is SIMPLES at the end.

And since when did crappy little discount voucher sites run out of student residences have management overseas?

What a load of bollocks.

Just for anyone who doesn't know about Comparethemeerkat, clearly the inspiration
for 'voucherdigg'.

Weird words about apologies to the society.

It's a fake, Pedro - non-UK residents wouldn't recognise it, but anyone in the UK will.

Isn't it odd, Pillock and SWALK were both spotted chatting to 'voucherdigg' last night.

Rothley Pillowcase ‏ @RothleyPillow
@mccannexposure @voucherdigg So it was a sleeper then? Like some of the #mccann cult twunts who crawl outta the t*d pot here & there?


Rothley Pillowcase ‏ @RothleyPillow
@mccannexposure @voucherdigg Mmmm The @metpoliceuk sans GOLD Team should be looking into all this latest bollox A new broom needed 4 #mccan

And how very interesting! Voucherdigg don't speak Meerkat when they are twittering, only when they are 'apologising':


Voucherdigg ‏ @Voucherdigg
Top 10 promotional vouchers & voucher codes... http://www.voucherdigg.co.uk/
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Reply Retweet Favorite
23 Dec 10 Voucherdigg ‏ @Voucherdigg
No one can offer discount codes,vouchers codes like we do! Our discount deals are coming from over 3000 online voucher code shops...
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Reply Retweet Favorite
22 Dec 10 Voucherdigg ‏ @Voucherdigg
Picking out great items is easy with the selection that this online shop offers... http://www.voucherdigg.co.uk/
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Reply Retweet Favorite
22 Dec 10 Voucherdigg ‏ @Voucherdigg
Enjoy the best discounts online at this shop... It’s not a dream! It is possible to get a 25% off voucher code..

No sign of problems with the English language there, are there?

These public apologies are NOT written on the firm's corporate logo's.
There is no mention of any sanctions against the "perpertrator"
Everybody could have written this and linked to a website already down.

We were sorry!

Our editing team made the mistake, that Madeleine McCann’s image was
linked to the discount holidays to Portugal. We are sorry for the
serious wrongdoing that occurred. We unreservedly apologise for the
hurt suffered by Mr. and Mrs. McCann.

We regret our not acting faster to sort things out because of our
editing team and management overseas not being concerned about the
British social news and not realizing the wrongdoing. We realise that
this explanation and simply apologising are not enough, because the
hurt and damage are irretrievable. In the coming days, we shut down
voucherdigg.co.uk to show our sincere apology.

We deeply apologies to Mr. and Mrs. McCann.
We deeply apologies to the society.
We also apologies to the lowcostholidays for the negative brand
affect, who has nothing to do with this issue.

Vourcherdigg.co.uk team

Reading that. my immediate reaction was that someone whose first language is not English wrote it; even some of the less erudite antis can write better than that. The construction, syntax etc are bad. LL

bb1 wrote:

IT'S WRITTEN IN MEERKAT

Reported, cruelty to meerkats! LL

I get emails written like that from Aleksandr Orlov for knowing to choose compare the market and not compare the meerkat, LL.

I got a Sergei Meerkat as a thanking you gift for knowing difference and emails keeping me updated of progress across Europe of thanking you gift.

It's a brilliant ad campaign, it invented a whole new language.

WHICH IS WHAT THAT SO-CALLED 'APOLOGY' IS WRITTEN IN


All you ever wanted to know about compare the meerkat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Orlov_(advertising)

A hounder asks:

I mean how did the mccanns learn of this?

No-one knew anything at all about it, till Chucky ran around telling the world and demanding, LOOKAMEE!!!! EVERYONE LOOKAMEE!!!

I expect the media saw it on Tony's blog, or here, and then contacted the McCanns.

The culprit should be easy to find; just look for someone who lives in student residences in East Anglia WHO SPEAKS MEERKAT.

The BBC can be very easily be tricked

I agree with comments above

I am sure the BBC know it is a load of bollox, Rose, but the stupid thing simply isn't worth the effort of pursuing any further.

Maybe the press will, if it's a slack news day.

Yes, I agree:

"I am sure the BBC know it is a load of bollox, Rose, but the stupid thing simply isn't worth the effort of pursuing any further.

Maybe the press will, if it's a slack news day."

I assume whoever wrote that nonsense of an 'apology' is a fan of compare the meerkat....

I have try and do everything I can to help Sergei get better after he end up in hospital after comparethemarket.com compare credit card, but nothing I do seem to work. Then I have brain waving's. I create-state-of-the-arts Facebook application where you can make Sergei get well soon card. How excite.

How excite indeed! I wonder if Sergei has been moonlighting in the voucher business.

http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/now-isnt-that-coincidence-whilst-you.html

Indeed, Tony. It was noticed that it was HLM and ZoePillock who were cosy cosy with voucherdigg

Some forker decide to have a 'laugh' at the expense of Madeleine McCann? Wouldn't be the first time they'd done that, would it?

Then got scared when their unfunny 'joke' hit the headlines?

SWALK is forever boasting about her linguistic skills - bet she can speak Meerkat

BWAHAHAHA.

Somebody on MM wants to know WHO brought attention to the photo on that Holiday Site. So far no one has pointed the finger at CarlyMichelle.
The consensus of opinion is that it has brought Media attention to The Search for Madeleine Fund and Kate's new paperback book which will bring in more money to The Fund.

I think we should give CarlyMichelle a round of applause. Well done Carly.

Oh my very dear, so they are...

What was also "lucky" with the discovery of this image was the fact that it was done at a week-end


Oh, this is the best one:


Who first discovered the photo....how did it come to their notice? Reason being, IF the mcteam started this all up, for the obvious furore, poor me/us thing, give us some more money, look the other way, not this way, we still need front of shop to promote Kate's next biggest flop ..sorry, fictional bewk, then they wouldn't just hope that someone would be scanning holiday ads to discover the photo on the off chance.

No, the discovery needed precise timing, to promote the book and all the rest, so who was steered to make the discovery. How did the holiday ad come to someone's notice ?

I've tried to find the origin of the discovery, but can't.

Anybody know?



How quickly they forget! It was one of their own - have they succeeded in blanking that small detail from their 'minds'?



And boy! was she pleased with herself, running round demanding LOOKAMEE!!!!! EVERYONE LOOKAMEE!!!!



Then

They want to know what happened? Then they should go and ask Chucky, as she is the forker who started all this.

Stunning. How have they managed to wipe that from their minds? It was only a couple of days ago.
Okay, don't answer that. They haven't got minds.

It's stunning, they seem to have no memory of what actually happened on their own site last weekend.

Is it goldfish who supposedly have memory spans of two seconds? Because they seem to suffer from the same problem.

Anything goes, Bonny. Churn out shite and then forget they said it when it no longer suits them. This is why their Campaign of Hate will always fail. Not that it ever had any chance. And this is why it is not possible to debate with them. They always come back with lies. And no amount of Links to the Truth will ever alter that. They just don't want to know.

I see someone on MM has finally looked up the whois and seen the same info as the rest of the world has had for days now.

REGISTRY WHOIS FOR VOUCHERDIGG.CO.UK

Domain name:
voucherdigg.co.uk

Registrant:
Voucher Digg Group

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
CB32F University Village
Norwich
England
NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom

Registrar:
GoDaddy.com, LLP. [Tag = GODADDY]

Getting close to home now, is it?

Lord spare us, one of the forkers is actually congratulating the one who finally used whois.

Brilliant Wintabells...are'nt you clever!
UUM, does that mean it was a Student was involved?

No, it means someone linked to that address was involved, no necessarily a student.

How on earth did it take them, what, five days, to do that?

https://jatyk2.forumotion.co.uk/t1599p15-star-mccanns-horror-at-holiday-ad-merged

Lunchtime last Tuesday......