E: 30/06 Win a magnum pleasure card

brook_son

Last night and this morning tried to enter some codes but all are not recognised - they are easy to read anyone else had this problem?

kimmy393

Yep I have two here that definitely state that they start with
7KG... which seems wrong as my other sticks started HF, and one of them is 11 characteristic long; when it should be 10. Tried to put HF at beginning and take off certain letters but no luck. ARGGHHHH. So given up and binned em.

orange_plastic

I've just read the T&C's on the back of a box of White Magnums I bought yesterday and they say:

"4. Codes valid for one use. Only one entry per phone number or e-mail address in each draw."

I wondered whether they had changed the rules so they wouldn't have to disappoint any cheats, after all disappointing anyone would be contrary to the purpose of their marketing promotion. I checked on a White Magnum wrapper I bought as a single at the end of May and kept to put the sticks in. It says the same thing for the UK T&C's but says "per IP address" in the Irish T&C's. Interesting that they managed to put "IP address" rather than "ISP address" on the packet but online it still says "ISP address".

The online T&C's still say "per ISP address". I suspect that in the case of conflicting rules, the decision would rule in favour of the entrant.


On a lighter note, I didn't start entering this comp until the end of May, but my fist entry won £20, my second entry won £20 and my third entry won £20! Imagine my very mild disappointment when my next 24 entries 'only' made £40 - a return of just 333%. I'm entering 6 or 7 sticks a day now and finding the odds are still favourable, though I wish I'd started in April! I've read this entire forum and I can't believe people are moaning about an opportunity in which the average return seems to be around 800% with a couple of months wait. Free money: "They're not giving me enough. I don't want to wait for it. Moan, moan, moan!" I'm happy - I just want another £50 and I can get my daughter a brand new bike for her birthday rather than an eBay one...

orange_plastic

kimmy393 wrote: »

Yep I have two here that definitely state that they start with
7KG... which seems wrong as my other sticks started HF, and one of them is 11 characteristic long; when it should be 10. Tried to put HF at beginning and take off certain letters but no luck. ARGGHHHH. So given up and binned em.

You're welcome to send them to me!

I have found that quite often it is easier to read the impression rather than the ink. If you wet the surface slightly and hold the stick at an angle to the light the characters show really clearly. Apparent 11 character codes tend to have an H that looks like two I's or an I and a T. I have noticed that there are no O's or 0's, only Q's.

I've stopped buying the Almond Magnums because the print on their sticks seems much less clear than the Classic and White. I haven't tried the Ecuador Dark ones cos they're £3 a box, though I might treat myself...

My sticks have started with RS6, RSV, FMV, FMW, RSJ, RSI, HDN, HDN, HD6, HFD. I don't think it's really important unless trying to guess codes, which I think would take longer than earning £1 to buy a box!

orange_plastic

orange_plastic wrote: »

my fist entry won £20

I hope people realise I meant "my first entry", nothing more painful...:eek:

orange_plastic

As I have a domain name I receive every email to any address @ my domain name, ie infinite email addresses. Don't worry, I'm not going to swamp any draws! I think I would lose money as the odds decrease per entry and I may risk losing all winning entries if the one-entry-per-draw rules are deemed to have been broken. However I am now using sequential email addresses, so each entry has a unique email, justin33@, justin34@, and so on. I note the number on the stick just in case they pull that one on us at some point, though I don't think they will, and note the day and time I enter and any amount won on a piece of paper so see when most wins occur. This will also be invaluable when it comes to matching up winning codes with cards whenever they arrive. I advise anyone else with a domain name to do the same.

The results of my research into which draws produce most wins? Well, I only started using sequential email adresses with stick no. 27 on Thurs 18th in the 1-2am draw and I won £10 with that one. I haven't heard anything from sticks 28 to 52 yet, so that's about as inconsequential as you can get!

I'm generally entering 8-9pm, 9-10pm, 4-5am, 5-6am and 6-7am, plus other odd ones on a whim, so... erm, please everybody stop entering those draws.

Or something.

DawnChorus_2

As you seem to be talking to yourself I thought i'd say...


MOST INTERESTING


No wins to report - Boo Hoo :rolleyes:

pugsley29

£10 win overnight :j

The terms seem to have been written by someone inexperienced, any court of law could have implied terms into them, as could any entrant. As I have said before single magnums have always said one per sms, and per email, so they contradicted the terms online and could have been enforceable against the company.

interestingly the person that sued magnum to get their cards (I assume under breach of contract law) got their cards through last week but special post lol, I was thinking online the same lines myself, but will wait to see if I get some cards next week before I proceed.

As for the moaning, when you decide on your spending for the week on promises from Magnum supervisors and no cards arrive it can cause financial difficulty for some people.

orange_plastic

pugsley29 wrote: »

As for the moaning, when you decide on your spending for the week on promises from Magnum supervisors and no cards arrive it can cause financial difficulty for some people.

Yeah, fair enough. I guess I'm used to dealing with banks, so I expect that! I'm in financial difficulty, but I'm treating the Magnum comp as a welcome bonus rather than an income. I am consciously trying hard not to spend the cards before I've got them though...

orange_plastic

Ooh, another thing I noticed yesterday! Asda's self-service tills have a magnetic strip reader for people who have cards without a chip... okay, for cards without a chip (most people are too big to slide through the slot). Assuming Asda takes Mastercard (which I forgot to check), I believe that means the cards can be spent in Asda.