Competitions Discussion Thread Part 7

ktflosspot

ok all you experts ...... (oh HI! by the way x)
There is a comp starting tomorrow and I think I'm getting the hang of this posting malarky but this one is a daily running for 2 weeks. It is seafood fortnight and there is a differnt comp everday but it is the same link every day......(hope you all get it so far ...)

SO if anyone one can post it in the daylies that would be great coz i am really confused about how to do it !!!!
heres the link
http://www.seafish.org/2aweek/whatsnew/detail.asp?newsid=116
Thank you xxx
KT xxx

linda.b_4

Had a phone call today saying I'm one of an hundred people to win a holiday. 6 nights cancun and then on to Orlando all inclusive. Kept asking me for my bank account number! Didn't give him it and have told him to ring back tomorrow. Anyone heard of them? He said the only thing to pay for taxes, which are £397.00. He gave me a website address to look at and prove I won, but it has the name of the previous house owner as the winner.He said he can change the name to mine. Sounds too good to be true and also a bit fishy so probably is! Cheers for any replies.

kipper_2-2

ktflosspot wrote: »

ok all you experts ...... (oh HI! by the way x)
There is a comp starting tomorrow and I think I'm getting the hang of this posting malarky but this one is a daily running for 2 weeks. It is seafood fortnight and there is a differnt comp everday but it is the same link every day......(hope you all get it so far ...)

SO if anyone one can post it in the daylies that would be great coz i am really confused about how to do it !!!!
heres the link
http://www.seafish.org/2aweek/whatsnew/detail.asp?newsid=116
Thank you xxx
KT xxx

Either add it to the bottom of the dailies list in the regular comp board or PM Gilla and she will add it

Tom_H

linda.b wrote: »

Had a phone call today saying I'm one of an hundred people to win a holiday. 6 nights cancun and then on to Orlando all inclusive. Kept asking me for my bank account number! Didn't give him it and have told him to ring back tomorrow. Anyone heard of them? He said the only thing to pay for taxes, which are £397.00. He gave me a website address to look at and prove I won, but it has the name of the previous house owner as the winner.He said he can change the name to mine. Sounds too good to be true and also a bit fishy so probably is! Cheers for any replies.

Avoid avoid avoid!!

Anything that asks for money before it gives you the prize is usually a scam - especially £400 worth of taxes for a holiday (Unless the green party have gotten in while I wasn't paying attention?)

You could google the web address you were given - if it's a scam there'll probably be sites warning if it is a scam - also do you remember entering this comp? When you start winnign things you haven't entered that's another strong sign they're trying to rip you off!

isitenough

( by s0ulassassin) I did go through the comping guide before i started to post comps which was a step on the ladder to getting use to how the site run. I know what your saying but was intended as an update from BAUER itself because i may have got my wires crossed but didn't see it listed above on the comping guide and cannot find it connected in anyway with the companies listed above. Not that i dis-believe anybody who has contacted them before just intended to post an update because i couldn't see BAUER listed

I know some people may jump in feet first without reading up on comping guides and having a quick look through on the T&C's on various sites. I see MSEr also post the T&C's within the post of the thread which i tend to do also if applicable to the competition which is also very useful.

I didn't mean to go over old ground covered and was purely meant as an update to MSEr.

Many thanks, :beer: I know it's been covered in the past but to be honest, it didn't hurt to re-check as T&C's do change without warning. I appreciate the effort and I'm sure everyone else does. I guess there are always so many rules & regs concerning comps and some of the peeps here have been doing this a long time (hence the superb guides etc... :T) that it's not always necessary to re-check as they know they're stuff (I'm still learning slowly!).
You obviously wanted to to be safe entering them all (as I try to do as well!), so thanks for letting us know. :T

As for including T&C's for comps, I'm probably becoming a pain by adding them when they haven't been included in the OP, but after winning a few nice comps in the past (travel/accommodation etc..) I've found it invaluable to have the T&C's posted here as the original page on the participating site can disappear. I found one from April that didn't have T&C's for a holiday comp but I didn't want to bump so haven't added. Anything recent I do though. Just call me a pain in the posterior! :rotfl:

RuthMarianna

linda.b wrote: »

Had a phone call today saying I'm one of an hundred people to win a holiday. 6 nights cancun and then on to Orlando all inclusive. Kept asking me for my bank account number! Didn't give him it and have told him to ring back tomorrow. Anyone heard of them? He said the only thing to pay for taxes, which are £397.00. He gave me a website address to look at and prove I won, but it has the name of the previous house owner as the winner.He said he can change the name to mine. Sounds too good to be true and also a bit fishy so probably is! Cheers for any replies.

Yup I fell for this one. Ok it is not a total scam but you get talked into paying for a holiday that sounds too good to be true. When there you have to go to time share talks. What worried me was when I checked online loads of people said it was dodgy and nearly impossible to get your money back. I did get mine back but finding out how to was difficult and I lost sleep worrying about it. This is not a prize more a promotion. Makes you wonder why when the guy eventually responded to my Email with a phone call he offered to half the price.

Cheeky_Chicken

s0ulassassin wrote: »

9 Can I enter the radio station / newspaper comps on more than one of the radio station / newspaper websites?
In the past we have had winners that have entered across all the websites in a group of radio stations, (so there is usually more than 1 prize across all the sites), some have even won twice & received the same prize from different stations!

The groups we know this to be true of are the GCAP group of radio stations, the EMAP group of radio stations & Newsquest Newspaper Network group papers. It would be a good idea though, to check the T & C of a comp as it can’t be guaranteed that they won’t change this in the future!
CARE: some newspaper comps can only entered once across the whole group, the OP will give mention this if they know this to be the case.

I did go through the comping guide before i started to post comps which was a step on the ladder to getting use to how the site run. I know what your saying but was intended as an update from BAUER itself because i may have got my wires crossed but didn't see it listed above on the comping guide and cannot find it connected in anyway with the companies listed above. Not that i dis-believe anybody who has contacted them before just intended to post an update because i couldn't see BAUER listed

I know some people may jump in feet first without reading up on comping guides and having a quick look through on the T&C's on various sites. I see MSEr also post the T&C's within the post of the thread which i tend to do also if applicable to the competition which is also very useful.

I didn't mean to go over old ground covered and was purely meant as an update to MSEr.

Ah I see, from your post I thought you were asking about multiple entries generally - I didn't realise you'd spotted there was one site missing from the FAQ!

It might be better if you posted it in the guide though - this thread will get moved to game over when it gets too long, whereas that one will stay on the main board

stargirl90

s0ulassassin wrote: »

Just received this to confirm:

[FONT=&quot]"No all entries are entered into the same database so you would have had 2 chances to win"[/FONT]

Unlimited entries across the board and once again sorry if its already been discussed and confirmed before but just wanted to get an update from the company itself just incase the T&C's did change or not

Also gives the newbies a chance to enter if they were unsure themselves

Just wanted to say thanks for this, s0ulassasin - I always spend time (waste time?!) entering them all and it's good to know I'm not just disqualifying myself! :rotfl: I was pretty sure it was allowed but it's good to get clear confirmation xxx

lilias

linda.b wrote: »

Had a phone call today saying I'm one of an hundred people to win a holiday. 6 nights cancun and then on to Orlando all inclusive. Kept asking me for my bank account number! Didn't give him it and have told him to ring back tomorrow. Anyone heard of them? He said the only thing to pay for taxes, which are £397.00. He gave me a website address to look at and prove I won, but it has the name of the previous house owner as the winner.He said he can change the name to mine. Sounds too good to be true and also a bit fishy so probably is! Cheers for any replies.

Someone else got the same call today

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=13905863#post13905863

jipjip1

lilias wrote: »

Someone else got the same call today

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=13905863#post13905863

I just got this call as well, hung up quickly :rotfl: