CHRISTMAS ADS FOR 2016

Now that is some pet cat!!!! LL

That's very well done! I suspect a green screen was used, but the family are good, they look as if they really have found an injured tiger lying on a bed - wanting to help, but not entirely happy about this!

Cute.

Fury as greedy shoppers snap up Aldi’s Kevin the Carrot charity toys and stick them on eBay

The dolls which raise money for Barnardo's sold out straight away and started to appear at inflated prices on the selling site within hours.

The doll was priced at £2.99 with proceeds going to charity but shoppers were buying dozens

But it was sold out within half an hour as the doll’s value rocketed because of its rarity value with some shops receiving supplies of only 30 dolls.

Shoppers have been left fuming after greedy customers snapped up armfuls of the dolls and then stuck them on eBay asking for as much as £30 per doll.

And the store got it in the neck as well for not placing a limit on how many dolls each shopper could buy.

Becca Gibbs wrote on the store's Facebook page: “Aldi, can you contact eBay and stop the little scumbags buying the whole lot and putting them on eBay please.

"It's a charity product for goodness sake. Let Christmas be about glad tidings not profit-making."

Emz Goodband wrote: “I’m babysitting today for a friend and was looking forward to going to the store tomorrow to pick up a Kevin the carrot for my boys.

“I guess I won’t bother now if Aldi hasn’t limited the amount you can buy because they are now on eBay for a massive profit. Disappointed.”

Natasha Lawless said: “Just been in Manchester Market Street one and watched a woman buy every single one – 26 in total – obviously going to sell them on Ebay.

“Unfortunately they did not put a cap on them so she was allowed. Staff on the till were gutted because they wanted to buy them for their kids.”

Ebay have 232 listings for Kevin the Carrot dolls on their UK website with most being sold for about £20.

The cheeky character became a hit in the chain’s Christmas ad as it appeared to poke fun at upmarket brand John Lewis, famous for its lavish Christmas adverts.

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Aldi probably didn't expect its customers to be such greedy, money-grubbing sh*ts......

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UK shoppers warned over fake wands and other goods
ITV
12 hours ago

During one haul, 83,000 unauthentic goods were confiscated at UK airports across a six-day period.



I have to ask- what on earth is a 'real' wand? Aren't they all fake?

I have no idea, Bonny.

That one is sweet.

However, for the second year in a row, I deeply dislike the House of Fraser ad:



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I personally find it jangly, sharp-edged and rather ugly....maybe it works with the market its aiming at? Though I am none too sure just what that market is.

The meerkats, to be exact Oleg and his girlfriend, celebrate snow and Christmas.   LL

I like the meerkats....I am none too sure about Santa with Alzheimer's, though....

The Santa one is terribly sad..... 

lily wrote:The Santa one is terribly sad..... 

It is, the voice of the little girl is actually that of a girl who lost a relative to the disease.   LL

Oh, poor thing.