“My response was, if I don’t hear anything, I’m just informing you now publicly that I will take this to the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) because you’ve run a competition that falls under their rules,” he explained.<\/p>\n
On the 59th day when it became clear no coffee machine would be arriving, Jordan made an official complaint to the ASA and posted on X.<\/p>\n
His post racked up 48,000 likes and was seen more than five million times by social media users.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t expect it to blow up the way that it did if I’m being honest,” Jordan admitted.<\/p>\n
“I thought it might get some eyeballs and maybe make them communicate with me a bit better.<\/p>\n
“I got a response after it had started to snowball.”<\/p>\n
In a public X post, Currys said: “We’re very sorry this has happened and for the inconvenience caused. This isn’t the experience we want anyone to have when taking part in our giveaways.<\/p>\n
“We’re looking into what went wrong with the fulfilment of the prize so we can make sure it doesn’t happen again.”<\/p>\n
The company also confirmed the coffee machine would be sent and delivered the next day, 61 days after the win announcement, along with a goodwill gesture of a voucher and coffee beans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“My response was, if I don’t hear anything, I’m just informing you now publicly that I will take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-543631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}