Richmond Enterprises - Will I Really Win?

Firefly

Out of my hefty Saturday paper fell a blue envelope that read "is this a winning envelope?". My son opened it and told me we had won a prize.

Now I am always the first person to put junk mail, etc in the bin and can't be fooled by the £1.50 per min phone calls ... ... but ....

There is a postal option for this one. Prizes are Audi A4, VCR, DVD, £5k, Bahamas Cruise, £20k, Plasma Screen TV, Barbados Holiday, £2k shopping spree or £50 cash. I have been allocated a winning number.

I know that if it seems too good to be true it usually is, so wondered if anyone had heard of Richmond Enterprises. The address to write to is Claims Dept, Flintshire but no other details mentioned, Google wasnt much help either.

PS max call time 6mins 30secs @ £1.50 min OR send SAE. Your item is worth at least five times the cost of the call.

Any ideas? They must want something from me.

amateur_saver

In a nutshell - NO ! You lose they win.

chinagirl

Write To Them To Say You Want To Claim Your Prize. That Way You Gamble Cost Of A Stamp And Hey-ho, See What Happens.

thor

Firefly wrote:

Out of my hefty Saturday paper fell a blue envelope that read "is this a winning envelope?". My son opened it and told me we had won a prize.

Now I am always the first person to put junk mail, etc in the bin and can't be fooled by the £1.50 per min phone calls ... ... but ....

There is a postal option for this one. Prizes are Audi A4, VCR, DVD, £5k, Bahamas Cruise, £20k, Plasma Screen TV, Barbados Holiday, £2k shopping spree or £50 cash. I have been allocated a winning number.

I know that if it seems too good to be true it usually is, so wondered if anyone had heard of Richmond Enterprises. The address to write to is Claims Dept, Flintshire but no other details mentioned, Google wasnt much help either.

PS max call time 6mins 30secs @ £1.50 min OR send SAE. Your item is worth at least five times the cost of the call.

Any ideas? They must want something from me.

Does it state how many of each of those prizes are on offer? Whenever I am informed that I have 'won' like this, the 1st thing I do is check if there is a postal option and then see which prize there are thousands of. From your list I would guess that there are a couple of cars and a few large cash prizes going which will be won sercretly by people connected to the company offering the prizes in the 1st place. There will be maybe 10 or 20 of the smaller prizes which will be divided among the million or so 'exclusively' contacted by their mailshots and everyone else will get a near worthless Barbados/Bahams holiday voucher which will be nigh on unuseable due to crappy timings/locations/additional fees.
It probably is worth the gamble of a SAE for the smaller prizes if you think that they would be actually considering giving them away.