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E: 15/08 - Win a Luxury Rituals Hamper

Bath and Beauty Products worth £56.

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  • lilias
    lilias Posts: 7,902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    People's Postcode Lottery collects personal information when you enter our competitions. We will use this information to send you marketing information and may contact you to discuss possible subscription to the lottery.
  • Blulu
    Blulu Posts: 7,854 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    People's Postcode Lottery is often flagged here as Spammers. Some have said they phone with aggressive sales techniques and that they're very difficult to shake off.
    I am brave, I am bruised
    I am who I'm meant to be
    I'm not scared to be seen
    I make no apology
    THIS IS ME!


    When you talk down to others it says more about you than them.
  • createbeauty
    createbeauty Posts: 2,649 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Blulu wrote: »
    People's Postcode Lottery is often flagged here as Spammers. Some have said they phone with aggressive sales techniques and that they're very difficult to shake off.

    I can say that they have called me before and were quite rude when I told them I didn't want to pay them any money for anything whatsoever.
  • renegadia
    renegadia Posts: 1,921 Forumite
    From VelvetGlove's Comping Guide:
    11 Are there any sites, from experience, which are likely to generate lots of spam?
    There are a few which have come to our collective attention as sites that, when used for comps, seem to generate lots of unwanted postal, email & phone call attention. These are listed below for your information, however, please do remember that this is only the collective opinion of other MSE Compers & does not necessarily reflect upon the sites themselves.

    2minutedraw
    4FreeUK
    ABCWins
    ActiveYou
    Clash Club/Clash media
    Club La Costa
    Consumer Lifestyles
    Consumer Opinions
    Craftomatic Beds (Comps appear to be just a way to get a salesman into your home, especially if vulnerable/alone)
    Emailinform
    EZ Prize Giveaway
    Fair Exchange
    FindAPrize (questions raised if prizes awarded, slight spam, non existant company address, dodgy? Info here & here)
    GetMeATicket
    GetYourBillsPaid
    GreatUKsurveys
    Guide2Win
    InstantPrizeDraw
    Just-Rewards
    Lingscars
    MyConsumer
    MyFamilyUK
    MyOffers
    NoizeMakesEnemies (Care - your profile with name, address, phone number & email appear to be on show with no way to make it private!!)
    Nuts (comps.nuts.co.uk - comps are now run by the data collecting company Data Media & Research Ltd.)
    OffersClick
    OfferX
    Opinioniser
    Optimax (phone calls, letters & emails!)
    PenicuUK.com (linked to Weatherseal below)
    PickUpThe Prizes
    Planet49 (please read here, here, here & here for more information)
    PlayAndWin (beware emails received, see this thread for info)
    Plum Offers
    PostcodeLottery (see here, here, here & here - don't confuse with FreePostcodeLottery who are fine)
    Premier Christian Radio (lots of postal junk mail even when you opt out of future contact)
    Prize4U
    Prizes.UK
    PrizePunch
    PrizeStore
    RewardsToday
    Simple2Win
    SupremeOGlaze (linked to Weatherseal below)
    Space Kitchens (see thread here)
    Tickbox
    Topfox
    Toyhound
    UkPrize
    UK-PrizeDraw
    VoiceInACrowd
    Vouch4me
    WatchMyWallet
    Weatherseal
    Weather Wherever
    Whats On TV (now 'powered by Instant Win 4 Now')
    Willowbrook (chairs) (have pestered with phone calls quite badly on some comps - see here and also here)
    Win 4 Now
    Win24
    Zenith Windows (linked to Weatherseal above)
    Ziinga (beware emails received, see this thread for info)

    It's down to personal choice at the end of it, I know personally I wouldn't though.

    ren
    Golly, I've got the newt pregnant...

    **Gulp**
  • tamalyn
    tamalyn Posts: 2,110 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    these are very rude people, apparently because i entered their ipad competition, i alllowed them to ring me whenever they like! cheeky gits!
    Top wins - £10,000 lottery/daily mirror, £5000 asda vouchers, £1000 washing machine, 2 week canaries cruise, VIP trip to the olympics, 46" 3D TV, personal chef, kitchen aid mixer, £1000 tesco vouchers - latest prize £10,000 road trip with kit Kat
  • i wouldn't enter any of their comps again, i got some very rude language from them when i asked them to stop harassing me with calls...
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