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Archive => Archived Boards => Local Issues => Topic started by: Mike in Marple on February 22, 2011, 08:54:40 AM
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Has anyone seen these 'adverts' that have been sprayed onto the ground all down Market Street & Derby Way?? That's not advertising - that's graffiti!!! >:( >:( >:(
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I agree. That is graffiti. But at least the council know who to send the 'clean-up' bill to.
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I took a look this morning. It looks like a template has been used and the image has been created by spray washing the pavement. The resulting image is the "cleaned" pavement. Of course it's graffiti. I wonder if they might get away with it because of the nature in which the advert has been created?
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Further to my above post, I have emailed Richard Bray via - Richard.Bray@huntersnet.co.uk
I attached the image posted on this forum.
http://www.huntersnet.co.uk/site/pages/contact_us/contact_us.php (http://www.huntersnet.co.uk/site/pages/contact_us/contact_us.php)
I wrote: “I hope your company gets fined for the graffiti you have created. Do you have anything to say in your defence?”
Reply:
Hi - I am sorry you feel this way, I hope the following makes things clearer. I would like to make you aware and that there is not a long term impact to the built environment for the following reasons:
This form of advertising is not illegal as it consists of cleaning a dirty surface with grey water. This is environmentally sound as it helps to promote a brand or service minimising the carbon foot print as less print material is required to have the same impact in a given area.
Organisations such as the police force and nhs have been using this method for sometime. If you require any further information please get in touch.
Kind regards, Richard Bray, Hunters estate agents
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I met the young man this morning and asked him about it. He confirmed that it is 'reverse graffiti' and would disappear naturally in about 10 days. Hardly seems worth the trouble of creating it in the first place! If he really wants to go round cleaning something, our drive could do with washing. :D
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These have been around for years - they often turn up in Manchester. I personally don't really like them, but they are not illegal and I think there are far worse things to get het up over.
Of course, in a town like Marple that isn't used to seeing stuff like this it could easily backfire and put people off using a product / service - I guess that's a chance the Marketing people have to take. If it wasn't massively expensive I guess it would be a good way of promoting local events like the Food and Drink Festival, I'd rather have that than a load of flyers I guess
Alison
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it was there at 6 30 this morning so had it been done in the night its a very cheap form of advertising but not the best idear if everbody did it all of market street would get a good wash
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I've just re-read my post and am slightly shamefaced about the amount of times I said 'i guess' :-[
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Never mind ,
Lisa Alison, I expect that you may have to consider, or suppose, or believe or even postulate instead. ;)
If only the teacher i heard on 5 Live the other was slightly shamefaced about the fact that he used "kinda" and "kindalike" 5 times in the same short sentence.
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I agree. That is graffiti. But at least the council know who to send the 'clean-up' bill to.
I was curious to understand whether or not the council knew and whether it was legal or not, thankfully, according to your messages, the council do know and it is legal.
In terms of business, its an alternative way of advertising because I've seen countless people staring at them and I reckon it could be used for events in Marple like the Food & Wine festival, special occasions.
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Well Alison, I reckon your grammar is not too bad! Seeya!
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::) WHY did I have to use bad english on a thread my mother was on!! I'll never hear the last of it! ::)
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If it wasn't massively expensive I guess it would be a good way of promoting local events like the Food and Drink Festival, I'd rather have that than a load of flyers I guess
I agree with that - a great way to promote a local event. The method itself is quite ingenious.
What really bugs me is the quantity of them - a couple of them I could cope with but there is loads of them!
Also, if I wanted to promote another business outside the front of my shop I'd arrange it. I know it's a public street but it just seems rude and un-courteous for one trader to do that to another.
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If it wasn't massively expensive I guess it would be a good way of promoting local events like the Food and Drink Festival, I'd rather have that than a load of flyers I guess
I agree with that - a great way to promote a local event. The method itself is quite ingenious.
What really bugs me is the quantity of them - a couple of them I could cope with but there is loads of them!
Also, if I wanted to promote another business outside the front of my shop I'd arrange it. I know it's a public street but it just seems rude and un-courteous for one trader to do that to another.
It really is a super idea, certainly puting oe outside anter estate agen s cheeky
Sadly I've seen that they have beed jet-wshed away now. I wonder who did tat (I hpe it wasn't ut o coucil coffrs)
It's not ilega
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Duke Fame: I completely disagree with you. It looked a mess before and it looks a mess now. It's simply graffiti. The company who sprayed the adverts were asked to remove them. Our local council street cleaner informed his boss about the situation and a call was made.
Barbara previously wrote: He confirmed that it is 'reverse graffiti' and would disappear naturally in about 10 days.
Well, that's complete nonsense. Those adverts will be around for many, many months.
I hope nobody still believes our pavements deserve more of this kind of treatment to advertise a local event such as the Marple Food Festival.
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;D Boycott hunters estate agents
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They don't last months - as I said before, I've seen them quite often in Manchester and they do fade and disappear in a matter of weeks.
To be honest what is concerning me more on these boards is the increasing tendancy rather than sharing information and opinions for people to just attack each other or make up conspiracy theories. It's why I hardly ever post any more.
Alison
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Duke Fame: I completely disagree with you. It looked a mess before and it looks a mess now. It's simply graffiti. The company who sprayed the adverts were asked to remove them. Our local council street cleaner informed his boss about the situation and a call was made.
Barbara previously wrote: He confirmed that it is 'reverse graffiti' and would disappear naturally in about 10 days.
Well, that's complete nonsense. Those adverts will be around for many, many months.
I hope nobody still believes our pavements deserve more of this kind of treatment to advertise a local event such as the Marple Food Festival.
It’s exactly how the food festival should be promoted, that’s a great idea.
I’m looking into doing something similar to promote a business venture I’m into, nobody get’s hurt and in the long run, the pavement gets cleaned.
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Please don't start vandalising market street .if you want to advertise take an add local paper or copy of the beacon . support the lo call free papers
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I’m looking into doing something similar to promote a business venture I’m into, nobody get’s hurt and in the long run, the pavement gets cleaned.
Have you noticed that the last business to do it was made to remove them after they were only down for a couple of days? If that's the outcome, it would seem like a waste of money to try it again.
And based on the amount of negative publicity that has arisen for Hunters there is something that gets hurt - your own business!!
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Seems to me like Hunters have got more advertising than they paid for judging by all the extra free publicity they have gained on this forum and elsewhere. They do say there's no such thing as bad publicity. That said I don't think I would use them though.
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I’m looking into doing something similar to promote a business venture I’m into, nobody get’s hurt and in the long run, the pavement gets cleaned.
Have you noticed that the last business to do it was made to remove them after they were only down for a couple of days? If that's the outcome, it would seem like a waste of money to try it again.
And based on the amount of negative publicity that has arisen for Hunters there is something that gets hurt - your own business!!
How were they "made" to remove them?
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Theres now graffiti on the walls at the back of the now closed coop electric shop .
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Theres now graffiti on the walls at the back of the now closed coop electric shop .
'clean' grafitti or old fashioned paint grafitti?
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It was black spray graffiti. It's been removed now.
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Sorry to admit this but I thought the "grafitti" was quite clever and saw no problem with it. It is quite commonplace elsewhere around Manchester.
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Sorry to admit this but I thought the "graffiti" was quite clever and saw no problem with it. It is quite commonplace elsewhere around Manchester.
Dint mean graffiti on derby way was on the wall behind the now closed coop electric shop