Why, oh why, do ESB spend money on advertising ?

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Some class of relation of mine works there and reckons the 80K pa figure quoted understates the reality.

I know a Danish graduate who was working there and was on something like 60k. It was his first job.
 
OP - Have you considered giving the head office a call and trying to talk to whoever is responsible?
 
There are other providers out there, airtricity for one that can supply you. So the ESB might be trying to win back airtricity's customers?
 
OP - Have you considered giving the head office a call and trying to talk to whoever is responsible?

No, feel free to do so and let us know how you get on.
 
There are other providers out there, airtricity for one that can supply you. So the ESB might be trying to win back airtricity's customers?

How, by telling us they exist? Are they offering to match or beat Airtricity prices in the ads or something?
 
There are other providers out there, airtricity for one that can supply you. So the ESB might be trying to win back airtricity's customers?

So they are doing business to business advertising on national television?
What a great idea
 
They spend, or have spent money creating and running those ad's to create their brand image which evidence would suggest has been very effective as I believe it was post no. 26 before a competitor's name was suggested. ESB would have been aware of the proposed deregulation of the market for decades.

I've never had problems with their Customer service tbh have have few problems with their service either, and while I'm not one of the lucky on the €80K average, wouldn't mind being one!!!
 
I've never had problems with their Customer service tbh have have few problems with their service either, and while I'm not one of the lucky on the €80K average, wouldn't mind being one!!!


Do you have any idea how long it takes to get a commercial building permanently hooked up to the ESB network, even those in urban areas adjacent to ESB cables?

We're talking years, not months. A lot of new buildings have to run on back-up generators for their first few months until the ESB bother to hook them up.
 
I can second that. It took over 6 months to get a service for an existing house relocated a whole 10 meters. It took a complaint to the regulator to get any action from ESB.
 
No, feel free to do so and let us know how you get on.
I'm not sure why you'd expect me to solve your problem for you. But I guess your response gives a pretty clear indication how strongly you feel about the issue.

What chance do you think there is of them taking the call?
Cold-calling any large organisation is difficult, and it might well be difficult to find the right person. But I'd bet a fiver that if you can navigate through a few layers to get to the right person, you could have a useful and enlightening discussion, if that's what the OP really wants of course.
 
Remember this from the 1980's?


I don't understand why ESB do advertise now that I am all grown up either.

But that "going back" ad was brilliant, I loved it when I was a teenager, and I still love it now - thanks for posting it.
 
If you google "ESB advertising" you will get plenty hits outlining various ESB campaigns. This is a recent advertising campaign. The rationale and objectives of the campaingn are clearly stated.

 
I'm not sure why you'd expect me to solve your problem for you. But I guess your response gives a pretty clear indication how strongly you feel about the issue.
Complainer, I never asked for a resolution, or indeed for you, personally, to resolve, merely a question I posted - see the title of my op, it does have a questionmark at the end of the title, does it not? As for how strong I feel about the "issue" as you put it, I merely looked for other posters opinions on my thoughts, hardly a crime, and certainly not against the posting guidelines?
 
I get it now. You don't actually want to know the answer to your question - you just want to jump on the anti-public-sector bandwagon - right?
 
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