Issue 267 of ComputerActive! magazine (15-28th May 2008) contains a letter in the ConsumerActive! section from Bob Mclean. Bob writes in to express his concern that SVP did not have stocks of promotional items (specifically an LCD photo frame) advertised for the Wild Wednesday promotion. In brief summary, the advice from ConsumerActive suggests that the promotion could have been perfectly legitimate - but it’s virtually impossible to know if it were not - and that new regulations shortly to come into force would be relevant to this promotion had there not been adequate stocks and information that there was limited availability.
Here’s what we’d like to say in response to that article.