Swindon Advertiser: most-reported complaints
- Complaints in recent reviews
- 50% of 16 recent reviews analysed
- Most-reported issue
- Other 88% of complaints
- Company replies
- 0% of negative reviews, typically within a day
- TrustScore
- 1.9 from 16 total reviews
- Review window analysed
- 2023-04-09 to 2026-07-14 16 reviews
- Sector
- Other sectors
Automated analysis of 16 public Trustpilot reviews published 2023-04-09 to 2026-07-14. TrustScore 1.9 from 16 total reviews — see the Trustpilot page. Quick answer: is Swindon Advertiser legit? Issues below reflect what reviewers reported, not findings of wrongdoing.
Reviewers most often report issues categorized as 'Other,' which accounted for 88% of the 8 complaints identified in the 16 reviews analyzed. One example of this feedback questions why a story heading is uploaded only to require payment for the full content. A trend cannot be established yet due to not enough reviews.
Trustpilot lists this business as no longer collecting reviews. New reviews are not currently being gathered for its profile. See the Trustpilot page for the current status.
Not enough reviews to establish a trend.
What are the most common complaints about Swindon Advertiser?
| Issue | Share | Count | Trend | By month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 88% | 7 |
Other
7 reports · 88% of complaints“why upload the story heading then go ha give me money to read more.”
2 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.
“There a joke there website is rubbish it's full of adverts and you can't read nothing at all”
2 readers marked this review helpful on Trustpilot.
“Refused to remove a false report and left my family exposed to danger.”
The company has not claimed its Trustpilot profile. We last checked this profile on 2026-11-10 and found 0 new reviews. These are facts Trustpilot publishes about the profile, as of our last harvest.
Forum footprint: 4 MoneySavingExpert forum discussions mention this company (browse). Roughly 0 of the top, relevance-sorted search results were posted in the last 90 days — an approximate figure by construction, not a true recency count. Recent thread titles: “E: 16/10 Noon Be An Editor Of The Swindon Advertiser (Must Go On Air)”, “Swindon - win Topshop vouchers”, “FGW - Train travel from £1 - promo code”.
Elsewhere: 2.9★ on Google (17 reviews, as of November 2026)
Sector benchmark: other makes up 88% of this company’s complaints vs a 23% median across 307 ranked companies in its sector.
Review velocity: 6 of this company’s 16 Trustpilot reviews (38%) were written in the last 12 months.
Sector table: Other sectors in the UK
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Method: reviews are classified into a fixed complaint taxonomy by an automated reader; every category shown is backed by at least two verbatim quotes from distinct reviews. Trends are computed from dated review counts only. Negative reviews are deliberately over-sampled for evidence depth; headline percentages use an unbiased recent sample only. Report updated 2026-10-05.