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tastelondon wrote: »

Dear All

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.

Matt Turner
Director
[EMAIL="mattturner@tastelondon.co.uk"]mattturner@tastelondon.co.uk[/EMAIL]

Dear All

Thank you for your replies, and again many apologies for the problems that we faced this afternoon - I can understand that this must have been extremely frustrating for many of you.

We have put together the winners list - which you can now see at http://www.tastelondon.co.uk/winnerslist.html to search the list hold down 'Ctrl F' and type in your name.

There may be some duplicates on this - in which case these will be removed and one membership only sent to the named person, and thus the list will move up to add up to 2,000 people. We wanted to post the link asap to dispel any fears that people may have regarding 'cherry-picking' winners or indeed not sending winners' packs out.

If you are not on this list you will still receive a one month membership.

Whether it is the one month or one year membership I do hope that you enjoy it and please feel free to send me any feedback

Kind Regards

Matt Turner
Director

mattturner@tastelondon.co.uk

nathanhill69

Impressively quick winners list compile, many thanks.

Darn didn't win a years membership even though I got a confirmation screen saying I had - must have been a victim of the servers.

Oh well, such is life.

r2d25aa

thankyou very much

distinction99

Get in.... I'm on the list!!

jamespir

dont see my name there shame

Starliteprism

Yayness...Hubbie is on the list!:)

loserface

damn, didn't get it. I see so many duplicates too. Wow, no idea how some people managed to enter FIVE times and I couldnt even do it once.

jamespir

have to wait and see i f they remove the quite obvious duplicates

sams247

Well, I was told I'd made the draw, but I am not on the list, so I shall go and feel a little sad now...... but well done to those who made it - it is a great offer and no bad feelings

jamespir

sams247 wrote: »

Well, I was told I'd made the draw, but I am not on the list, so I shall go and feel a little sad now...... but well done to those who made it - it is a great offer and no bad feelings

yeah but theres quite a few duplicates so when thyre removed you never no