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Website promises to help bush fire victims – but only if enough if it gets enough Facebook likes

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An Australian online shopping site has apologised for using the bush fire crisis to try to build the number of followers for its Facebook page.

Gold Coast-based Sellitonline.com.au promised to donate generators to help those in Tasmania without power – if there were enough likes for its page.

It posted a message saying: “What we need you do do is get everyone of your friends to join sellitonline Facebook page and the more people we get will determine how many generators we donate.”

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Source: Screengrab via Condescending Corporate Brand Page on Facebook

The post quickly drew criticism with one poster saying “Don’t manipulate social media for your own benefit”. Another added more bluntly: “Fuck off with your opportunistic marketing trying to take advantage of other people’s tragedy.”

The post has since been removed from the brand’s Facebook page.

A spokesman for Sellitonline told Mumbrella: “We apologise if anyone was offended. We will be making a donation anyway.”

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