{"id":5948,"date":"2013-08-07T10:28:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T00:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2016-02-23T16:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T05:19:25","slug":"update-templates-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2013\/08\/update-templates-or-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning despite poor template use"},"content":{"rendered":"

I may soon be $5,000 richer.<\/p>\n

\"Australian<\/a>

Money pouring into my email – a lovely idea!<\/p><\/div>\n

Then again, I may not be as I know my chances of winning a competition are somewhat less than 100%!<\/p>\n

Reading the competition terms…<\/h2>\n

I just entered a competition, after looking through the terms. I don’t read the terms in full but I always check if there are unexpected uses of my email address before I give it to someone.<\/p>\n

In this case, adding me to a single mailing list was acceptable so I entered.<\/p>\n

However, I also noted a few things in the terms that were silly.<\/p>\n

I think they have used a generic set of competition\u00a0terms, adding in a few\u00a0specific details but leaving everything else as it was in the template<\/a>. To me, this looks like they were too lazy to bother writing or editing their terms.<\/p>\n

Let’s assume they had permission to use that template rather than breaching copyright<\/a> by copying someone else’s terms. They could still face legal issues if something in the template doesn’t apply to their current situation – like how winners are notified.<\/p>\n

Dubious terms<\/h2>\n

To enter, I gave my name and email address – no postal address or phone number.<\/p>\n

According to the terms, if I win, I will be ‘contacted by phone and email’. Interesting idea given they don’t have my phone number…<\/p>\n

A single prize of $5,000 is on offer to the winner. Yet, ‘the prize… is not transferable\u00a0as cash.’<\/p>\n

This competition is ‘only open to everyone worldwide…’ The use of only and everyone doesn’t quite work\u00a0 – presumably it makes more sense for competitions\u00a0where ‘only open to customers’ or ‘only open to Australian residents’. A quick read of the completed sentence<\/a> could have shown the wisdom of deleting ‘only’.<\/p>\n

[Tweet “Not editing a template to use it appears lazy.”]<\/p>\n

Have you ever seen\u00a0someone use a template without thinking to update all the relevant details in it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Was the result funny or did it damage the business’ reputation\u00a0(or both!)?<\/p>\n

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I may soon be $5,000 richer. Then again, I may not be as I know my chances of winning a competition are somewhat less than 100%! Reading the competition terms… I just entered a competition, after looking through the terms. I don’t read the terms in full but I always check if there are unexpected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1425,53],"tags":[1540,204,547,1376],"class_list":["post-5948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-communications","category-business-info-tools","tag-edit","tag-generic","tag-specific","tag-template"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t