How to waste your money

There must be simpler ways of wasting your money, but this is surely a unique way of doing it:

Ad for a web portal, without the web address

I saw this in today’s The News. The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industry (OICCI) invites us to “walk through the doors of history on a journey into the rich heritage of the Chamber which has been navigating the country’s economy since 1860″. I think this is just swell, given that the country in question came into existence in 1947.

The ‘Overseas’ Investors Chamber was created three years after the war of Independence against imperial British was lost (in 1857), so their loyalties back then can easily be inferred, if not judged. Point being, it is nothing to be proud of.

So a score of 0/10 for delivering the message the ad was supposed to deliver (that ‘we have a website’). And a score of -5/10 for claiming that they have been providing services to a country for well over a 100 years, when the country only recently turned 63.

P.S. The actual website of the Organization in question is very much present at www.oicci.org. A small note on web dev of the site: The website itself is designed entirely in CSS (and not using tables), which is a relief given that the development was done by a Pakistani company (http://www.e-creatorz.com).