> Your ComCom sounds like an equivalent of our Office of Fair
> Trading - do you have an equivalent of our Advertising Standards
> Authority?

Yes, even has the same name

> They don't deal with dodgy business practices, but their thing is
> whether adverts are legal, honest, and not misleading.  In this
> case I reckon they would be easier to persuade that this is all
> wrong

Might be worth a go actually (although advertising is supposed to be
covered by ComCom). The Magnatronic was also advertised, albeit
briefly, on TV, so that would justify a complaint to the Broadcasting
SA

You wouldn't think it would be this hard to get a useless product
off the market would you ?

I've dealt with the BSA once before and thought they did a really
crappy job. My complaint was that a channel advertising "ad-free
and uninterrupted movies" was breaching that by including their
logo on screen, which is very distracting at times. The BSA had
so much trouble even understanding the complaint I looked around
for their government Minister to ask the WTF ? question, but they
don't have one. I lost the complaint on appeal. Still think I'm right,
and so do other viewers. I did get them to stop running competition
marquees across films though, which were really annoying

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