Ad of the Day: Trainline’s Metro cover wrap takes aim at overcharging ticket machines
The ticket seller highlights that journeys can be twice as expensive if paid for at the station.
Metro wrap / Mother
Digital rail and travel platform Trainline wants commuters to know that if they wait to purchase tickets at stations, they might be in for a heftier price tag than if they were to buy online.
Using the BBC and Which? as references, it claims that commuters are, on average, paying 52% more than the equivalent ticket available on Trainline.
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To really hit home, Trainline took out a full cover wrap of the Metro newspaper, which is frequently available to pick up for free at train stations.
The print ad, by Mother, gives a ticket machine a menacing persona, calling it ‘Sticky Fingers’ and claiming the 800lbs metal dispenser is now on the run after being outed for swindling people out of money.
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