False or misleading advertising would fall under the remit of the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (
ASAI).
Thanks Leo.
Have you (or has anyone else here) ever submitted a complaint to the ASAI ?
- just wondering if they are actually worthwhile complaining to, or another BAI type set up, who just "play the game".
what do you deem the final authority on what area an address is?
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Well,
Lets try this one, as an example:
Newly built houses on the Howth Road, Killester (Dublin 5), advertised by a certain estate agent, as as being located in Clontarf (Dublin 3).
The houses can be seen (under construction at the time the image was taken) on the following link to street view, on Google Maps. To the right of the houses, are the Killester shops, to the left of the houses, a nice little sign placed by the Dublin City Council, that says .... wait for it ... "Killester Village".
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.371...4!1sJioC5QBQ8TJn0qFnedUyjA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
For me, that's about as final as anyone could possible ask for ... and blatant misleading advertising by the estate agent in question.
Just in case anyone is wondering, I have no conflict of interest here. The estate agent in question is "local", the principals at the estate agency have worked in the area selling houses for over a decade, if not two decades, and this wouldn't be the first time that they'd "made a mistake", in their (and their client's) favour.