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Martin Lewis DOESN’T DO ADS

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FromTheAllotment · 17/04/2020 09:53

(Caps usually all his Grin)

@MNHQ can you take this advert down? Mr MSE is very emphatic that he doesn’t do adverts and therefore if you see one it’s without his permission.

I have tried to get the details:
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Martin Lewis DOESN’T DO ADS
OP posts:
GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 17/04/2020 09:56

I’ve also reported this to Martin Lewis’s fake ads email address.

Awful that mumsnet can allow this!!

MichaelMumsnet · 17/04/2020 10:02

Hi @FromTheAllotment, and thanks for flagging this. We'll take a look now.

Mysterian · 17/04/2020 11:39

It's a company advertising their product with quotes from Martin Lewis. They're not saying he endorses it in any way, but with 6 quotes and a photo of ML they could do more to avoid that happening.

I'm certainly not saying they deliberately made their ad look like ML endorses it.

FromTheAllotment · 17/04/2020 14:05

Quite the opposite- they deliberately set out to make it look like Martin does endorse their product. They’ve used his photo and quoted him without his permission to do so. Have a look at www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/fake-martin-lewis-ads/. This is the kind of thing he asks Google to take down.

(In defence of MN, I think the blue triangle means it’s a google hosted advert, not one that MN has specifically gone into partnership with- I forget the exact techy explanation.)

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Mysterian · 17/04/2020 15:28

@FromTheAllotment I know it does, but I was avoiding saying so directly so there was nothing to sue me about, while hopefully saying it sarcastically enough to imply the opposite.

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