False advertising

ok freedom air is giving away free return flights.

how come when i click on there website from google it keeps coming up with "this page cannot be displayed"? im sure its the right URL, i think ive been ripped off.

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1 Did you get that offer via email only? If so, it's likely to be a hoax.
2 Probably their server is overrun with people wanting free fares. I can't get to the freedomair main page at all.

It's an "8th Birthday present" and was mentioned in the herald, especially seeing as it came out the same day as Virgin Blue's announcement....

reason no. 2 is priobably the most likely answer - danm special offers.

On the nose, by a length, & backing a winner.
Top marks Heather, straight past GO collect $200 & you can leave early today .

I've heard that it's "free", but...

You still have to book a ticket. If your name is not chosen to be free, you still have to stick to your contract and pay for that flight. Something along those lines anyways.....

omigod, it is so good to see you again! what happened to you?! have you been ok?

Had my nose in a book lately.... heard of the cross stitch series? i read screw all, but mum recommended it, so i thought i'd bring it in to while away the hours... worked... i could hardly put the damn thing down! I was in constant antisipation of what was going to happen next...... now i'm waiting on part two for mum to send up.... :o) Oh, and music, and real estate cert too. Finally got one of my songs recorded yesterday, and it sounds really cool. :o)

phew. that is a relief. we were really worried about you for a while there!
when is the audition?

Audition? The NZ idol one? Not sure yet - looking at end of november, early december... i'm hoping the later the better - i lost my voice a few weeks ago, and still find it quite hard on my upper register, and my voice is pretty bad at the moment. But getting there. Recording was for university entrance thing... hope they like it too! :o) Still trying to figure out what song to sing for the audition....

better start sucking on lemons - you wouldn't want to end up like cossima.

I think she had what i had. I was amazed at how well she did it. When i lost my voice, it was like i could talk, but get over a certain volume, or a certain range, and it was like someone put the mute on. Nothing came out.... sucked, big time. I'd start singing to something, and then not hit half the notes adn realise just how much i actually sing in a day.....

woah. slow down girl you could get noddies.

by the way...nice icon.

Nice icon to you too. :o) Great minds think alike as they say... and what's with the sucking lemons? Good to keep winter sore throats away? Or just good for vocal cords?

Don't sing crap like Carly Bindings, sing good stuff like Brooke Fraser!!!

There is a product i've found really useful for sore throats, made by the comvita company, it's called Fortacold and tastes like sticky liquid dandylion oil mixed with jet fuel, but it works really well, its only 7or8 dollars from Pac'n'Save full of goodies like Manuka honey and Tea Tree oil, it tastes fucken horrible but it works really quick.

//omigod, it is so good to see you again!

and what doe sthis have to do with getting a free planet ticket???

departure taxes....

the one item that encourages over-stayers.

False advertising is when something in an advertisement is deliberately false. If Freedom Air have a promotion and their website doesn't work when you try to advertise it, that's not false advertising.

Yea the false advertising bit is that it wasn't COMPLETELY Free since there was still booking fees and stuff

well they sold out before i could even fucken get a chance to participate - Why the hell did there site fucken "time out" - fucken hell I WAS RIPPED OFF.

apparently they didn't think they need to do much preparation to their network infrastructure, or greatly underestimated how many people would try. nice one.

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To their credit, it appears they did try.

"Freedom Air had prepared for an increase in visitors to its site by tripling its web server facilities, increasing its internet load capacity by 1200% and increasing its internet bandwidth. But the huge numbers of people trying to hit the site at the same time caused delays in access. "

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