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#137877 11-Dec-2013 20:35
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Okay, so tonight was the final of Shortland Street right?  Usual kind of thing - big cliff hanger.  Who lives? Who dies? yada yada...

Well after the show there was a TVNZ advertisement where fans can go to a website to find out clues as to who died.

www.shortlandstreetclues.co.nz

So I went to have a look... and the website they advertise doesn't exist.  Site not found.

I'm watching on Tivo so I went back to check the address.  Yep, I had it right.  But the address they are advertising hasn't even been registered.

Until now.

Any ideas what I should do with it?

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  #950637 11-Dec-2013 20:47
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Cool :)

You could start with a clip of Shorty street and then ... you know what comes next



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  #950638 11-Dec-2013 20:50
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That is brilliant.

You def need to think up something better than a rick roll.


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  #950655 11-Dec-2013 21:21
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GeoffisPure: 

Any ideas what I should do with it? 


Perfect just as it is.  Genius. 



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  #950662 11-Dec-2013 21:23
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Are you sure that's the site they advertised?

http://shortlandstreetclues.tvnz.co.nz/

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  #950670 11-Dec-2013 21:41
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Quite sure ;)


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  #950671 11-Dec-2013 21:41
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Stick some ads on there and make a few bucks on it

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  #950672 11-Dec-2013 21:42
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KevinL: Are you sure that's the site they advertised?

http://shortlandstreetclues.tvnz.co.nz/


Ooopos. check your recording - you might have spent some $$$ on the wrong domain?

EDIT: I see the screenshot!






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  #950673 11-Dec-2013 21:43
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GeoffisPure: Quite sure ;)



 

You need to make it more PR disasterish so they need to buy it from you in a hurry:)

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  #950675 11-Dec-2013 21:46
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Do you have Google Analytics or something to measure the number of visitors and where they are coming from?





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  #950678 11-Dec-2013 21:52
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GeoffisPure: Quite sure ;) 


LOL

Winner.

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  #950682 11-Dec-2013 22:01
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Ideas for trolling:
Make people answer lots of pointless questions for a rickroll.
Have a pointless countdown timer.
Have a signup form that always fails.

Really either way you look at it, by the time you manage to think up and create a good enough troll, TVNZ would have realised their blunder and advertised a new url.
Or they could not and you could have the time of your life trolling TVNZ.




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  #950683 11-Dec-2013 22:02
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freitasm: Do you have Google Analytics or something to measure the number of visitors and where they are coming from?




Nah...  I'm not too clued up on that.
I'm sure TVNZ will pull/edit the advert as soon as they realise their mistake. 

Though surely it would be cheaper for them to just buy the domain off me...

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  #950685 11-Dec-2013 22:03
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GeoffisPure:
freitasm: Do you have Google Analytics or something to measure the number of visitors and where they are coming from?




Nah...  I'm not too clued up on that.
I'm sure TVNZ will pull/edit the advert as soon as they realise their mistake. 

Though surely it would be cheaper for them to just buy the domain off me...


Don't let it go for cheap, you may have a golden ticket there.




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  #950686 11-Dec-2013 22:03
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Damn:

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  #950687 11-Dec-2013 22:03
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That's a shame. It would be good to know how many people ended up there by mistake...

But a good laugh no less. Well done.




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