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Originally Posted by Henkesghost
So a huge organisation like Virgin are using MediaBoy as a patsy?  Think that's a bit too cloak and dagger fantasy tbh. Think we have to appreciate that this is a rumour thread not a fact thread. MediaBoy's rumours for the most part lead to nothing, because they are just that rumours. It's kind of him to do so despite his "sources" generally being wrong. |
I don't think it's too far fetched. Last year the Coming Soon Thread had significant views:
Volume 1 - 325,820
Volume 2 - 168,700
Volume 3 - 266,950
Volume 4 - 267,698
Total - 1,029,168
This is the exact type of place to post information if you want to get it out and about. Over 1 million views, mainly from Virgin TV fanatics. Don't underestimate word of mouth. Remember when Virgin are launching new products they often approach bloggers such as Media Boy to do testing. Virgin know that way whatever the new product is likely to get good positive exposure via blogs and forums.
How often do we see posts from people here, Digital Spy, Virgin Community Forum and Facebook suggesting they've just been speaking with retentions, customer services or a sales rep at Virgin who confirmed X, Y and Z is in the pipeline. It then turns out to be false information. It happens all the time. Search the various threads on this forum, there's examples of this everywhere.
Media Boy isn't alone in being fed incorrect information, it's rife.
Oh and for anyone who thinks my views are biased because I have SKY, I only switched from Virgin to SKY about 2 weeks ago. Anyone who are regular visitors and reads my posts will know I've been raising this issue for months and months. I may have changed provider, but my opinions on Virgin have not changed.