E: 21/10 "Thornton's Giveaway"

Former_MSE_Zorica · 10 October 2014 at 5:05PM

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Giveaway started: 14 October 2014

What's this about?

We've teamed up with chocolatiers Thorntons and have blagged 60 boxes of their 60th Anniversary Continental Box (RRP £15, current price £10) to give away.

What to do

To try for one, just reply to this (click on 'post reply') and say:

"Gimme free Thorntons!"

To do this you need to join the Forum (if you haven't already, when you click reply you'll be taken through the process. It's free, of course).

APPEAL: Please ONLY reply to this thread if you will check your private messages NEXT week (Fri 24 October).

Bear in mind 180 names are being picked and there are only 60 boxes (because sadly not everyone gets in touch, so doing it this way helps to speed up the administration process), so you'll have to get in quick.

Also, please DON'T email in, as your name won't be counted. Nor include your contact details in this thread as, for your own safety, we don't allow personal details on the public forum so your post may be deleted.

This giveaway appears in the weekly email (if you don't already get the email go to www.moneysavingexpert.com/tips) and will close at 11am on Tuesday 21 October, so please get your posts in before then.

The giveaway has a strict one entry per household policy and entries can be deemed ineligible without any explanation or notification.

Info from Thorntons

Much-loved British chocolate maker Thorntons has a very special new range of Thorntons famous Continental chocolates this year, as it celebrates its 60th birthday.

Thorntons has launched a very special Birthday Box (RRP £15) along with a Continental Collection Box (RRP £30) that brings back four exquisite recipes from years gone by, including Apricot Parfait and Brandy Noisette.

How will the people be chosen?

180 people will be picked at random (we've a special little computer programme to do it) and a private message will be sent to each of their winning usernames requesting their USERNAME, FULL NAME and ADDRESS details (there'll be an email address to send this information to, we don't want it done via private messages).

The FIRST 60 people to get back to us will win a box of chocolates.

When will I get the box

Thorntons will send them out directly though, to aid administration, this won't happen until all 60 winners have provided their name and address. So it may take several weeks between the giveaway's end and actual receipt. This thread will be updated to let winners know when they have been sent out.

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Former_MSE_Zorica · 14 October 2014 at 3:32PM

Terms & Conditions

1. This prize draw is open to residents of the UK aged 18 years or over, except employees of the Money Supermarket group (including MoneySavingExpert.com), or family members of such employees. In order to take part in the prize draw, entrants must have a MoneySavingExpert.com Forum account, which is enabled for posting (those who wish to enter but who do not presently have a MoneySavingExpert.com Forum account can register for one, free of charge, at forums.moneysavingexpert.com/register.php).
2. Details of how to enter form part of the terms and conditions. It is a condition of entry that all rules are accepted as final and that the entrant agrees to abide by these rules. The decision of the Promoter is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The Promoter reserves the right to modify the Promotion at any time without prior notice.
3. The prize draw will be run on a designated MoneySavingExpert.com Forum thread (at http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5081211) (the “Designated Thread”). In order to enter, users will need to be registered to the Forum and post on the Designated Thread using the phrase: “Gimme free Thorntons”.
4. The prize draw will open at 1530hrs (UK-time) on Tuesday 14th October 2014, and will end at 1530hrs on 21st October 2014 (“Closing”). It will also appear in the weekly email (if you don't already get the email go to https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/tips).
5. The prize is the Continental 60th Birthday Chocolate Box (the “Prize”) provided by Thorntons, priced at £10.00 as of 1600 hrs on Monday 13th October 2014.
6. All entrants will be placed into a randomiser, of which 180 will be selected and contacted by the Promoter via the MoneySavingExpert.com Forum’s Private Message facility.
7. Potential winners will be required to respond to the designated email address within seven days of being contacted. The first 60 recipients of the Private Message to contact the email address with their name, Forum username and postal address will be the winners and receive the Prize. If incomplete information is submitted, the Promoter reserves the right to award that prize to an alternative winner in accordance with these terms and conditions (i.e. to the 61st person to email their details to the designated email address.).
8. A maximum of one Prize is available per household. The Promoter reserves the right to withhold a Prize or Prizes if, in its fair judgement, it appears that the same person or same household has ‘won’ more than one Prize, and/or to require reasonable proof from the winner(s) in question that they are not the same person and/or do not share a household.
9. Late, incomplete, corrupt entries, or entries sent through agencies and third parties, will not be accepted. No responsibility can be accepted for lost entries. The Promoter in particular cannot accept any responsibility for delayed entries due to device or internet connectivity issues.
10. Prizes will be dispatched to winners directly from Thorntons and aren’t available in stores.
11. These prize draw terms and conditions incorporate our Full Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
12. Promoter: MoneySavingExpert.com Limited, 19-22 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1HY