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THE ADVERTISING STANDARDS Authority of Ireland has upheld a complaint against an advertisement for breast massages that claims it reduced the risk of breast cancer and increased breast sizes.
A complaint was made to the ASAI about Nature & Harmony‘s text advertisement to customers which made the following claims:
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1. Acupuncture for headaches and migraines
2. Breast massage for women with hands and machine
Benefits of breast massage:
1: Breast Massage Reduces The Risk Of Breast Cancer
2: Increases Breast Size
3: Prevents Sagging
4: Helps You Look Younger
5: Increases Pleasure
6: Lifts Stress and Depression
More benefits clink the link http://natureharmony.ie/services/
Full price 20 minutes €40, special offer price €30 only. €120 for 6 sessions. €220 for 12 sessions. If you are a male, you can recommend your girlfriend/wife to be here to try it. These two offers will be…
The complaint said that ”the claims had no scientific basis and could not be supported”.
The advertisers apologised and advised that they did not want to break any laws. They said that they would cooperate with the ASAI and would change their advertising.
The Committee noted that the advertisers had expressed a willingness to amend their advertising, but had not yet done so. The Committee noted that they had not provided any substantiation for the claims made in their advertising.
On the company’s website, which offers alternative therapeutic services, it currently advertises it breast massage service as:
Other complaints
The Authority also upheld complaints against a beauty site for advertising mink-fur lashes as “cruelty free”.
The Bia Belle Beauty site claimed said in the FAQ section of its site: ”Are the lashes cruelty-free? Yes, all of our lashes are made cruelty-free.” The description for the ‘Lolly’ lashes was: “3D Faux Mink Category” and “cruelty-free”.
Four complaints were made about the advertisement.
Objections were raised against the mink lashes as ‘cruelty-free’ on the grounds that it was not possible that hair obtained from a mink, a wild animal, could be ‘cruelty-free’ as it was being caged. One complainant referred to the fact that the lashes were imported from China where animal cruelty laws did not compare to those in the EU.
One complainant objected to the description of the ‘Lolly’ lashes as faux mink when the advertisers had stated in a conversation on Instagram that the ‘Lolly’ lashes were mink.
The company said that in talks with its suppliers it had received the following cruelty-free guarantee:
Our mink fur eyelash is made of 100% mink fur. The mink has not been killed, the hair is only cut down. It’s cruelty-free. We hereby certify!
They said that the description of the product as faux-mink was a genuine mistake.
The ASAI upheld the complaints against the “cruelty-free” description. In relation to the description of the ‘Lolly’ lashes as “faux mink”, the ASAI noted that this had been an error which had been corrected.
Based on information supplied by the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, which was that an animal fur product was “incompatible” with the principle of “cruelty-free” and therefore, such a product could never claim to be a “cruelty-free” product, the complaints were upheld.
The ASAI also upheld a complaint against a Limerick gym/bootcamp advert for using before-and-after images.
A complaint was made against Andrew Beatty Fitness in Limerick, which claimed that the advertisers had copied the content of his advertising from another source, including a similar webpage. The complaint said that this was misleading, as it didn’t advertise the results of the fitness campaign.
The company replied to explain that “they worked with another company who licence their templates to gym owners”, which resulted in similarities.
The ASAI upheld the complaint: “The Complaints Committee noted that substantiation had not been provided to show that the featured customers had achieved their results through working with the advertisers.”
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iPad is without doubt one of the best devices I have ever owned, I love it.
You love it? Wow.
I would guess most people had held out for the last 2-3 months on buying an iPad as the new models were being announced last week.
iPad sales had seen a massive drop in their last earnings report too. It will be even bigger this time next year, people don’t own large-screened phones and use tablets too, it’s pointless. I could see the point of owning both when the iPhone screens were tiny, not now though.
I would imagine people change phones more often than they change a tablet, so the top-end of the tablet market may be suffering some saturation at the moment before it settles into a normal renewal cycle.
I’m genuinely surprised how little iTunes contributes to their income.
Android is still too buggy , there are too many cheap android devices that can’t perform basic tasks.
Anyone can operate an iPad whether they are 3 or 83 , the older generation have embraced apple tech much easier than android!
Get yourself a Samsung. So much better. Ive used ipads before the Samsung. So slow. Im not surprised sales are falling.
I would totally agree.
The fact that you cannot add SD card memory was my turning point.
The 10.1″ Galaxy NOTE 2014 would kick any IPad in performance.
I prefer using the Samsung. Haven’t used the ipad since.
Tablets are used more for watching TV on. Ipads are far too restrictive in what you can and can’t watch.
An android with mobdro and you’re good to go.
Writing this on an iPad that’s 3 1/2 yrs old although it can’t be updated anymore it’s still one of The best bits of Tech I’ve ever owned
I wish they’d change the iTunes interface, it’s such a pain in the hole.
Is the large version of iphone 6 being used as an alternative to the ipad mini?
Yes, I would imagine you are correct. Certainly wouldn’t be a massive difference now between the phones and the iPad mini.
Great phone by the way, the Samsung killer I would say.
Is Apple the cult Tom cruise and John travolta are involved in. (Wrote on my iPhone)
Some people might be holding out for the new iPads, but Apple has been losing ground to Android-based tablets for the past two years: http://blog.globalwebindex.net/Android-dominates-tablet
I’d say they’re fine losing market share to the €100 Android tablets that you see knocking about, the people buying those were unlikely to get an iPad. I’d like to see a breakdown of the flagship tablet market.
Wasn’t Apple heavily dependant on iPod sales at one stage too…
Love Apple computers, don’t like their phones!
That’s odd in the last apple story there was a guy who’s friend worked in a mobile phone shop and apparently they couldn’t sell any iPhones at all.
I was sure that was a reliable source for sales figures.
Being a user of both, I can definitely say that Apple is to restrictive and therefore useless in a lot of ways. Once they have you, they want to enslave you into buying all their products. To many frustrations. Would definitely not recommended Apple. Don’t become an Apple zombie!
Have both myself also , but do not find any real restrictions on IOS. Depends how you use them I suppose. Both are great, but if generally find Apple a better interface and build quality.
I haven’t come across an interesting new app for ages. It’s good to see the hardware improving but the software people seem to have hit a brick wall. It seems to me that the industry needs more personal information from us to develop but we are getting more careful and taking the privacy option where possible. The U2 album fiasco showed that what we want is not what they want to give us. We want to draw back from the always on connected world and to pick and choose how we interact.
Htc have a new range of tablets Comming out on November 3rd and if they are anything like the HTC One M8 phone They will storm the tablet Charts.Sd card will mean a lot more storage freed up on the tablet itself.
HTC One M7 & M8 are great phones but unfortunately they do not sell very well HTC made a big loss on the M7, have improved with the M8, but still nowhere near the likes of Samsung.
Don’t really like Apple myself(except I-tunes, where theres no choice) think Sony is much better all round.
I think the fizz has left Apple recently, it’s not big news anymore.
Always used iPhones but today i upgraded to an S5. Vodafone are out of stock with no date for new iPhone 6 handsets and it would have cost me 250 blips. S5 is free with the same if not better specs. Total no brainer
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