Warning- purely creative competition scam

OnTheUp_2-2 · 14 February 2010 at 1:28PM

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I just want to warn everyone about Purely Creative and there con competitions. I did one of the tests competitions and spent £12 on their replys and one a so called designer watch. Well 3 months later no money, no watch

FIRST EMAIL

Sent: 03 December 2009 12:05
To: 'elizabeth.morgan@purelycreative.co.uk'
Subject: Watch claim form

Please find attached my watch claim form. I initially ticked recorded delivery, but have elected to go for standard delivery. Please could you email me when it has been despatched so that I know when to expect it.

Thank you

SECOND EMAIL

Sun 24/01/2010 21:46

Elizabeth,

You noted receipt of this email and have stated that the request was being processed. Please could you confirm at what stage this process currently is as it is now almost two months old??

Thank you

Dominic Doyle

THIRD EMAIL
Tue 02/02/2010 14:10

I am yet to receive a reply regarding my "query". I have still not received the watch that was due to me. As far as I am concerned I have paid for the said text messages, which were at a substantial cost to the value of a cheap non designer watch, to have not even received it.
If I do not hear from you promptly I will report you to trading standards and will take the pleasure in cutting and pasting these emails to MoneySavingExpert so that others can avoid the con.

FOURTH EMAIL
14/02/2010

Elizabeth,

It is now 14/02/2010- 9 weeks since I submitted my claim form and 3 months since I paid £12 in text messages for a prize I have never received. I have also paid a further £1.10 for postage. You have only ever replied to my first email stating that my order was being processed and I have contacted you on 4 separate occasions since.

I am absolutely disgusted with Purely Creative and your scam competitions. Even more so in that you stated we had won a “designer watch”, which in fact is a cheap unknown brand.

I just hope that other people learn from my mistake.

bigpound · 14 February 2010 at 10:54PM

Could you tell everyone the start of the story, it's a bit confusing just hearing it from the middle.

CHR15 · 15 February 2010 at 11:26AM

Purely Creative are all over the Internet with well documented pages of this scam.

Nobody was winning anything, they simply sell cheap tat, the sort of watches you see in those amusement arcade grabber machines, but they make the gullible think they are winning something.

Good luck in eventually receiving your watch..... but I wouldn't go using it to tell the time!!!

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2010/01/watchdog-takes-scratchcard-fir.html

OnTheUp_2-2 · 24 February 2010 at 11:53AM

I know I feel like acomplete idiot for being sucked in.

Basically we did a scratch card and won... text the number and eventually found we had won a designer watch. Sent off the form recorded delivery but have never got the watch

triticale · 24 February 2010 at 12:02PM

If the scratch cards are free then where would the money come from for decent prizes?

I feel for those who have lost out, but people really need to start thinking logically where things like this are concerned.

OnTheUp_2-2 · 24 February 2010 at 12:23PM

well the scratch cards are free but the text to claim are not, they are like £1.50 per text and you receive several!

nuramo · 16 August 2010 at 2:50PM

OnTheUp wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I just want to warn everyone about Purely Creative and there con competitions. I did one of the tests competitions and spent £12 on their replys and one a so called designer watch. Well 3 months later no money, no watch

FIRST EMAIL

Sent: 03 December 2009 12:05
To: 'elizabeth.morgan@purelycreative.co.uk'
Subject: Watch claim form

Please find attached my watch claim form. I initially ticked recorded delivery, but have elected to go for standard delivery. Please could you email me when it has been despatched so that I know when to expect it.

Thank you

SECOND EMAIL

Sun 24/01/2010 21:46

Elizabeth,

You noted receipt of this email and have stated that the request was being processed. Please could you confirm at what stage this process currently is as it is now almost two months old??

Thank you

Dominic Doyle

THIRD EMAIL
Tue 02/02/2010 14:10

I am yet to receive a reply regarding my "query". I have still not received the watch that was due to me. As far as I am concerned I have paid for the said text messages, which were at a substantial cost to the value of a cheap non designer watch, to have not even received it.
If I do not hear from you promptly I will report you to trading standards and will take the pleasure in cutting and pasting these emails to MoneySavingExpert so that others can avoid the con.

FOURTH EMAIL
14/02/2010

Elizabeth,

It is now 14/02/2010- 9 weeks since I submitted my claim form and 3 months since I paid £12 in text messages for a prize I have never received. I have also paid a further £1.10 for postage. You have only ever replied to my first email stating that my order was being processed and I have contacted you on 4 separate occasions since.

I am absolutely disgusted with Purely Creative and your scam competitions. Even more so in that you stated we had won a “designer watch”, which in fact is a cheap unknown brand.

I just hope that other people learn from my mistake.

hi guys it seems everyone faces the same problem,I won 2 matching symbols (BALLOONS) FOR 5stars hotel in turkey for 2,and three (GRAPES) for 10.00 pound. I rang to get my claim number and I posted with 2nd class loose stamp with envelope since july 27th But the only reward I received was 15.00 pounds phone bills + Connection charges + 17.5 vat.
I range them again and I was given the email to contact which is support@purelycrative.com,I wrote to them but no answer until today.I think this company does n't exist because how can everyone wins?and every winner has the same problem of getting the reward?

CHR15 · 16 August 2010 at 3:16PM

Are you going to throw in the towel now and accept it is nonsense (even if you did receive the tat worth less than you have paid to receive it)??

dinerouk · 15 January 2011 at 4:28PM

I sent an email to their support address and the letters changed before my eyes, deliberately misspelling it. Wonderful what they'll get up to the swindling !!!!!!!s!