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Readers Digest Prize Draw is it a con?

mitcho_uk
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Well I have recieved my letter this morning telling me that I am in with a chance of winning £250,000.
Is this a con?
Whats the catch?
How and why have I been invited?
Is it worth sending the numbers back?
Why dont they just send the numbers in the same envelope as the letter to notify me that i have been selected?
Is this a con?
Whats the catch?
How and why have I been invited?
Is it worth sending the numbers back?
Why dont they just send the numbers in the same envelope as the letter to notify me that i have been selected?
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mitcho_uk wrote:Is this a con?2008 Comping ChallengeWon so far - £3010 Needed - £230Debt free since Oct 20040
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Apparently someone's uncle won - see
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=1253203#post1253203. G0 -
Well, as you don't need to subscribe to anything to enter the prize draw it can't be all that bad. I sent ours back in the NO envelope, better to try than chuck it away and wonder and it doesn't cost anything.. shame i won't get that Jag though0
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I don't believe it, and I don't know why that story would appear on the forum. I have done local press searches for the names the RD publishes as winners in my part of the country, and not one of them has featured on their local papers' websites or archives. Yet it is supposed to be about promoting RD. If you google their names and "winner" or "wins", you'll only get the RD website or something about sending out cheap "gifts". Same in America, no actual cash prize winners can be located. No press coverage, no local news, no TV. "Publicity for Rd"? Nope, it's a scam.0
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I sent back these "lucky numbers " for years and years. Never won as much as a sausage.0
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I live with an aged relative who has spent maybe thousands of pounds on books she neither wants nor needs. They still tell her she is a "finalist". It is outright deception, and conforms to all the styles and habitd of the worst scams, sending out "last notice" and "Immediate" mailings as soon as you reply to one of their letters, and encouraging you to think you REALLY need to order, while actually saying you don't. They are not even selling good value books! Try selling any on EBay!0
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Yes they need investigating,take out an annual subscription and they bombard you with promises and one letter after another with no end,watch out because they renew your subscription without contacting you ,then you get a bill after a couple of copies.[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]To be happy you need to make someone happy.[/FONT]0
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Hi, im not so sure if it is a scam, although the competitions they run are designed to make you think you're in with a better chance of winning if you buy from/subscribe to them. I always enter but never give RD a penny of my money. Apparantly a few years back Which did a report that said a supprisingly few number of people actually respond to the competitions that RD run so the odds of winning are quite high (this info was passed to me by my mother). There's no harm in entering.........you never know!<('@')> Oink0
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Heloo...new person to Comps board here.....
Had to say:
My Mum won £1000 from Readers Digest about 5 years ago....
Since then I always send back the replies but I don't buy anything else apart from the main subscription as I like some of the little articles in the monthly pamphlet thing (and I only bought the subscription on special offer!)Bank Balance: In the black for the moment.
Sainsburys Loan: Cleared July 2010
Credit cards: AMEX Airmiles Card: direct debit set to clear balance monthly
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black-saturn wrote:Yes it is a con. They only want to send you loads of books you dont want. Everyone I know has got one so how can they all have won?
Now I'm a bungalow.... or should that be bunged-below?????????0
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