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Free (£70) tastelondon card, 2,000 available
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1. It was the first 2000 entrants.
2. If you got a confirmation message you probably got through.
3. Give them 24 hours at least to send out confirmation emails. Then complain if you do not get one. You are wasting time complaining now when you probably got through.
Sorted.
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just rang them people at Taste London and they said:
All the people who entered and got through (meaning "you have been entered into the draw") will MOST probably have got the free 2000 membership thing so that's good news!
Also you will find out probably in the next 48 hrs MAX if you have won BY EMAIL so check your inbox, and junkmail too.
Hope this helps! Also if you're not succesful, you do still get 1 month's free membership anyway without having to sign up again.
Hope this helps xx
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well I hope everyone who got the draw page get them
and I guess a month's free regardless is a nice little bonus, shame I wont be able to use it as I wont be going to London this month, but will be a lot over the summer
I think you can get a free month anyway through Time Out or one of the other offers out there so if you don't have success with this perhaps try there?
Aaargh. I tried from 1:58 to 2:40 and couldn't even get the website loaded. When it did eventually load (at 2:40) all 2,000 had gone and I only got the free months card. Shame because I work in London and eat here a lot. You think they might have anticipated a high demand!
OK well I'm sorry if you are think you are spoilt but for me this is like going out expecting to get pizza and being served a burger! I wouldn't have wasted 15 minutes trying to enter if it was a draw as I don't see the point in entering it! I am not going to waste another 15 minutes of my life entering again just because someone posts saying that they haven't actually gone through! That is what people are moaning about! I didn't try until 2pm and it took me 15 minutes from then so personally I will continue to moan because I'm not happy!
If I went out expecting a "free" pizza and got given a "free" burger, I still wouldn't have anything to moan about. I wager that whilst hunting for your "free" pizza/burger and moaning about not getting your "free" pizza/burger you are sat at your work seat. So perhaps it isn't "free" and you are actually getting paid for it! Now that's Moneysaving!
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just rang them people at Taste London and they said:
All the people who entered and got through (meaning "you have been entered into the draw") will MOST probably have got the free 2000 membership thing so that's good news!
Also you will find out probably in the next 48 hrs MAX if you have won BY EMAIL so check your inbox, and junkmail too.
Hope this helps! Also if you're not succesful, you do still get 1 month's free membership anyway without having to sign up again.
If I went out expecting a "free" pizza and got given a "free" burger, I still wouldn't have anything to moan about. I wager that whilst hunting for your "free" pizza/burger and moaning about not getting your "free" pizza/burger you are sat at your work seat. So perhaps it isn't "free" and you are actually getting paid for it! Now that's Moneysaving!
Actually I'm on my lunch and am veggie so yes I would still complain but I get your point. Still I think its valid for people to vent if they are honestly annoyed about something and I was!
No problemo - had too many questions floating around in my head so thought I'd ring them since it's free phone!
Good luck to everyone and thanks for all the info from everyone else x
Everyone should calm down and stop complaining - you started with nothing so if you get nothing then nothing lost (apart from "15 minutes of my time" - why not send them an invoice for your efforts ).
If I get one of the 2000 cards, great, if not C'est la vie.
Now, what would be funny is if all the multiple entries that we all placed as we were not sure if our entries had gone through due to server issue were discounted due to not playing by their rules.
Look this isn't Martin's fault - they had no reason to believe it would be an email harvesting scheme (and we have no evidence to prove this yet either).
It was a free offer and we should all stop blaming MSE!
moan moan moan I'm being given a chance to win something for free moan moan moan
listen to yourselves! It's like a bloody playground for the spoilt.... "I was trying from 1:50" Well there you go then, it said from 14:00
I happen to agree with you Mr Egg. Lot of hot air about nothing.
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Originally Posted by gismo1554
OK well I'm sorry if you are think you are spoilt but for me this is like going out expecting to get pizza and being served a burger! I wouldn't have wasted 15 minutes trying to enter if it was a draw as I don't see the point in entering it! I am not going to waste another 15 minutes of my life entering again just because someone posts saying that they haven't actually gone through! That is what people are moaning about! I didn't try until 2pm and it took me 15 minutes from then so personally I will continue to moan because I'm not happy!
Gismo - In fairness you shouldn't have expected anything, surely you didn't think it was a surefire thing that you'd be one of the lucky 2000? Are you aware how many people use this site/receive the email?? I don't care how prepared they 'could' have been, there's no way they would even consider upgrading their infrastructure for a one-off deal. It defies business sense. You win some, you lose some - hopefully we are both lucky, but I'm not going to get irate and lose any sleep over it. It has cost me nothing and there's every possibility I could benefit for a whole year. If not, nothing changes.
To me the whole 'draw' thing sounds like a misunderstanding... What's with all the mistrust and talk of suing?? I'm sure Martin is well aware he is answerable and therefore would not be daft enough to recommend some two-bit operation. From what I gather TasteLondon is an established and well regarded business.
What do they get from this?? LOTS of publicity. And good on them I say, take a loss on the freebies to get thousands of extra hits. It seems to have done the trick - I wasn't even aware of TL prior to today.
Good luck all!
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Waah! waah! I want it for free! I want it now, I don't want to wait, and I don't want my email address used, and they said it was "first come first served from 2:00" and I took the day off work I WAS HERE FIRST AT 1:50 and now the site's gone down, but when it's working I've put my name in 65 times and my mum's name and my boyfriend's name and my girlfriend's name and my mates' names. What a waste of my precious life. Waaaaaah!
I wanted to write this in response to the many comments that have been placed regarding our third birthday giveaway.
Firstly, I would like to apologise unreservedly for the server issues that we experienced at roughly 1:55pm today. Despite a number of calls to our hosting company prior to launch, and being assured that the site would not crash, as you will no doubt be aware the site went down for roughly 20 minutes – and only returned intermittently after that.
Secondly, just to clarify, there was no prize draw. The first 2,000 applicants will all receive complimentary tastelondon memberships. We work in an honest and transparent way, and I have just come off the telephone from our web developer who is building a page which will illustrate those 2,000 names. I am sure that many of you reading this will see your names appear (obviously no other personal data will appear), so hopefully this will dispel any thoughts that we are simply hand-picking winners, or worse still not sending memberships out. We were guilty of using the wrong terminology, and for that I apologise.
Every other person that entered their details will receive a free one month membership. The system should have changed to reflect this after the 2,000 memberships had gone, but unfortunately we could not access the system as our servers had gone down.
I felt compelled to write this in response to many of the comments that have been placed above. At worst we have encountered technical difficulties, and perhaps been a little naive regarding the response rate, but we have certainly not been guilty of anything worse than this, and I hope that when you receive your memberships (either one month or 12 months) that you all thoroughly enjoy using them.
Please feel free to e-mail any comments to me directly, I will answer all queries personally.
oh i hope i get one - I got through at 2:04pm , but after I read the message sayng no one had got them yet and retry I did and after I entered details it said it was for a months membership - I wonder which one I will get now
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