E: 30/06 Win a magnum pleasure card

purplebutterfly

I'm with spacebabe on that one! Nearly all my entries have been between 1am-6am and I'm not exactly a high-roller as far as this comp goes :rotfl:

I'm not sure that there is any good time to enter, to be honest. I've had a win from 4pm - when I assumed loads of folk would be entering - and also from 10am, with nothing from the preceeding 9am draw or subsequent 11am draw.

It's just down to luck, unfortunately

Thriftkitten

Well after a belly full of magnums, I have fell asleep in chocolate, almond icecream heaven and havent entered at all at night, with no wins at all I may just give it a go for a few nights and see if I can cope with the school run in the morning, lol

Thriftkitten

My daughter used to drive me nuts on sweety day(fridays) for a magnum, which I used to say was too expensive, as they get 50p each, one good thing is she will NEVER ask me again after this comp ends hahaha!!
even the neighbours kids are sick of me chasing after them offering them one.
Cardinal sin happened tonight, my daughter had a new friend round to play and she coaxed her into having a magnum, but i made them promise to return the stick, low and behold my youngest came in with stick in hand stating the friend had chucked it in the hedge and she had climbed in to retieve it!!! Ahh thats my gal! that one simply has to be a winner!!:rotfl:

purplebutterfly

Thriftkitten wrote: »

Cardinal sin happened tonight, my daughter had a new friend round to play and she coaxed her into having a magnum, but i made them promise to return the stick, low and behold my youngest came in with stick in hand stating the friend had chucked it in the hedge and she had climbed in to retieve it!!! Ahh thats my gal! that one simply has to be a winner!!:rotfl:

Aw bless her - you have to win something to reward her for dedication to the cause! :rotfl:

One of my rats is dying of terminal cancer, so he is allowed to eat all the things that are normally banned from their strictly healthy diet. As a result, he thinks he has already died and gone to heaven because he gets to chomp on Magnums every day!

He's about the only person not yet sick of the damned things :rotfl:

Thriftkitten

purplebutterfly wrote: »

Aw bless her - you have to win something to reward her for dedication to the cause! :rotfl:

One of my rats is dying of terminal cancer, so he is allowed to eat all the things that are normally banned from their strictly healthy diet. As a result, he thinks he has already died and gone to heaven because he gets to chomp on Magnums every day!

He's about the only person not yet sick of the damned things :rotfl:

Ahh bless his ratty little heart, may he enjoy his time in chockie icecream heaven:A

orange_plastic

spacebabe103 wrote: »

Thriftkitten don't get too hooked on entering in the early hours. I thought I would give that a go and didn't win a thing despite entering 3/4 times during the night for a couple of weeks. I have had three wins, two around 8/9pm and 1 at 12pm. To be honest, I think more people enter during the night as they think less people will be entering then!

So far the wins have had which I have tracked the entry times of are:

1-2am - 2 wins
2-3am - 1 win
4-5am - 1 win (on a Saturday)
6-7am - 1 win (on a Saturday)
9-10am - 1 win

However I have only started entering during the day in the past week, which skews the statistics.

cestlavie

orange_plastic wrote: »

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If one spends £1000 on Magnums one gets approx. 2000 of them. There are 2184 draws in this promotion, so it is possible that whoever did so stayed well within the rules of the competition. Similarly 450 cards is quite attainable over 2184 draws. I am still getting about 1 win in 8 and I assume the number of entries has been increasing over the duration of the promotion. My first three entries each won £20, so I do not doubt a win rate of 1 in 6 over the three months.

I am not saying that I think it fair that a few people seem to have dominated the competition and been a bit greedy, I'm just playing Devil's Advocate because I think some people on this forum seem to want a witchhunt. We need to look at statistics rather than having kneejerk reactions. The average prize win is £20.50, so one would expect 450 wins to have an approximate value of £9225. The total prize fund is £1,119,300, so the combined winnings of these two represents about 1.6% of the total prize fund; not enough that they should be blamed for the lack of winnings that some people have been complaining about on this forum.

Had I realised earlier that this competition had a financial return of around 300-400%, I admit that I would have invested rather more than £40 in it. Actually more than 400% - I have had £140 return on the £22 of sticks that have been drawn upto this morning, so that's more like 600%... it's crazy!

well said. i am sure several big winners have big freezers and many friends! i am also sure some others have big wallets and big tactics... but there really is no point getting your knickers in a twist that some have managed to make the competition work for them and the idea that they have deprived poor kiddies from eating ice-cream by clearing supermarket shelves is absurd! the point of competitions is MARKETING. on that, at least magnum have done well. unfortunately they have undone themselves by a truly awful-i-cannot-believe-how-dreadful-they-are customer service which means that anyone who has won from this promotion won't recall the rosy glow of winning and feel all warm and lovely towards magnum, but will instead curse them right up to the moment they try and use their "pleasure" card in a shop and find it refused. (memo to magnum and everyone else : no-one wants these pre-loaded cards! bring back cheques!.) anyhow, the fault with this promotion lies nto with the people "abusing" it, but firmly with unilever who did not cover all their bases. as anyone who has done competitions for a long enough knows there are rules that could have been easily applied! eg they could have restricted it to 1 entry per person per day. in which you have to give your name and address with each entry.
yes, mulitple sims or emails could still be used, but less easily. does this happen often? oh, yes! in another comp, demanding 1 entry per person, i know someone who entered from 26 different addresses.. i suppose all were friends and family, but they equally may have had a big property portfolio from all their previous winnings. unfortunately for them i won. with one address and one entry. lady luck on my side.
good luck to you all
and calm down, dears, it's only a competition... another one will be along shortly.

evelyn192

Arghhh its broke again, dont know if me code has gone in, anyone else? Aometimes I set me alarm for in the night but I fall asleep waiting for reply and then the phone gets lost in the bed ha ha

toejumper

just entered a code at 12.19. went through with no problems, also got an email.

Giggleswick

Compliance.Org wrote: »

I've written a formal letter to Birds Eye with regard to the cheating issue and also phoned them. They have promised to investigate big winners before despatching any money. From mail I have received it seems the two biggest winners are a Carolyn ???? from the London area and a Neil ???? from Grimsby, Lincs. Surnames deleted as per the Data Protection Act. It's my understanding that both have won around 450 cards. This amount would seem to be excessive though no suggestion of cheating is implied. What I would say is Bird's Eye should have terms and conditions in place to prevent this monopolising of prizes. It would seem plain that these two individuals have cleared stores of flashed packs, presumably numerous times. If a participant won shall we say once every half dozen goes, that would mean 2,700 Magnum have been bought by each of them. I would suggest a 1 in 6 win rate is probably not acheivable. Therefore it's likely they have bought 4,000 - 5,000 Magnums each.

Is that fair? Is it in the spirit of the competition? I leave you to judge but I have let Bird's Eye know my feelings in no uncertain terms. Competitions like this should be available and present an equal opportunity to all customers. Not be a private piggy bank for the avericious who have more money than they clearly need and still wish to add to it.

That's really interesting for a couple of reasons.

1) Bird's Eye aren't running this comp - Unilever/Walls is.
2) How would they know to mention these two people out of all the entrants? or did you mention their names? and if so where did you get their names from?

I'm all ears........