Every now and again, people encounter strange stuff and are kind enough to send us a tip or ask us to investigate further. A kind reader did exactly that with the ZOL advert above that’s been running in the newspapers for at least 2 days now. There’s something quite uncool about this ad. Hint: it’s the kind of thing that will keep potential customers away.
If you can spot what’s really strange in this picture and put the answer as a comment below, we have a gift for you: a list of 23 gift voucher codes to redeem game apps from the iTunes US Store.
The iPhone users (who also like gaming 😉 ) among you will love the gift. And as for the rest of us – I use Android myself – we can just comment anyway and get it right so we all know. We’ll close the giveaway at end of day today. if you need a larger version of the picture just click it.
Today’s giveaway is thanks to Stanely Choto
Update:
We’ve done the draw and the winning comment is the one by Violet Machoko. Like most of you noted it’s the 100MB for $100. The correct prices are here.
Comments
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The graphics. All coupon cards above the $100 card have their amounts graphically added(evidently in green and some unfortunately overlaid over the others)
Poor design. Now, who wants my voucher?
100mb for $100… yeah right 🙂
also, orange text isn’t really that cool … hahaha
there’s an unfinished word or phrase thats on the advert making the phrase “the coolest…”
The amounts on the cards have been added poorly. They overlap onto the next card in some cases.
$100 for 100MB and the amounts for $35 and $60 are graphically added………… poor advert indeed
Well the dalmation is wearing shades. That’s never good.
Um. $100 for 100MB?! That’s a dollar a Meg. Even an Econet data bundle is only 10 cents / MB. And a uMax 100MB card is only 5 bucks! I mean, probably they just photo shopped the wrong dollar amount onto the 100MB card. But proof reading would have been a good idea. They should hire @mschoto as their proof reader!
I have sent them my application for the job! No response yet lol…
They have only indicated that $100 gets you 100mb without showing the data that you get with the other amounts.
The amounts on the cards overlap onto the next card and $100 for 100MB.
@f34e978e8f77ee2904d52ae494ab1fbf:disqus please contact us on admin@techzim.co.zw to claim your price. You can also contact the writer directly on kabweza@ the same domain.
Is it because its a lady? People responded way before she did and she merely repeated what they said.
@L.S.M Kabwesa Thank you so much for choosing me as the winner!! @6ca350b646c3489dab5a1e412c76c6c5:disqus Violet is a Man. (Bsc. Infor (Hons), MBA
rofl!!! dude… names in a hat!
1) That dog does not have an upper set of teeth
2) Those cards with green values do not actually have those values, all have been POORLY pasted in.
3) One can only wonder if $5 will get you only 5MB since 100MB is going for $100
5) That dog is not cool at all.
LOL. This is actually a very poor ad to be honest.
them glasses on the dog
rofl.. dude that dog’s donned those shades since we started knowing it! no.
its not clear wether the cards are on the grass or not, the dog’s in black and white yet the shades in color? the dog doesnt look like it liked the whole idea, looks like its saying $100 for 100mb? really? typa thing
The Ou at the right is an unfinished word …we can only wonder what it is
$100 for 100MB
Those denominations are not consistent or proportional to anything.
Definitely stock images used for the cards,and they never tried to properly align them…:( quite sad. I mean even the regular eye can note the overlap.
I know! I know! they did not put up a “Borehole Water” sign for their green grass… lol other than that, their cards don’t make sense.
dogs don’t browse the web ! why have a dog in there for an advert meant for humans? only a dog can’t resist the offer.
it’s not a virtue for dog to be doggy but the doggines of dog to be dog makes it a dog.where the dogs at?
1$ per MB is that the coolest thing? 100$ = 100MB
100MB for $100 that’s extortion..lol
I do appreciate the modest reminder that attention to detail is of uttermost importance. Needless to say, let me take this opportunity to correct a few facts.
The ZOLspot Scratch cards are available in the following denominations and for the value stated.
100Mb for $5
225Mb for $10
500Mb for $20
1Gb for $35
2Gb for $60
4Gb for $100
**notice that for $100 you get up to as low as 25cents a Megabyte.
We apologize to our customers for this clumsy add.
So you still can not get your maths right??? 2.5 cents per MB not 25 cents! LOL!
FAIL!
“…
4Gb for $100
**notice that for $100 you get up to as low as 25cents a Megabyte.
We apologize to our customers for this clumsy add.
”
You don’t get much worse than 25c per megabyte! I’m sure you meant to say 2.5c/MB 😛 And while we’re at it, “advert” is shortened to “ad” NOT “add”.
I’d normally let the spelling bit go, but you DID mention attention to detail 😉
The dog has a white tongue…some photoshop at work?
Photo shop can bite you hard when you’ve rushed the touch up.
Wow $100 for 100mb – that is 10 x a very expensive v sat rate.
Please show us what we get for $5, $, $25 etc
They have taken an old advert and they have put new prices how lame couldnt they just do another one
$100 for 100MB
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to a famous blogger if you aren’t already 😉 Cheers!