Please help keep Free Entries for TV Competitions

Painkiller

A snippet from the reply I received from an email I sent to ITV last Friday;

"We are testing various forms of entry...

...ITV are obligated to offer a free entry point for all our competitions however, this does not need to be an online method. On this occasion, we permit postal entries"

timmmers

I don't call postal "free" myself. Given the attention ITV have given to disability on the online forms I'd imagine that excluding people with disabilities who can't go to post an entry might carry some weight with them too.
Calls don't pay for a lot of the prizes alone in many TV comps, they are sponsored to hell and back by companies who also contribute.
There's a lot to be said for letting sleeping dogs lie IMO, I'd leave it until they actually change something before harassing them and maybe putting the idea in their heads.

serenity2012

timmmers wrote: »

There's a lot to be said for letting sleeping dogs lie IMO, I'd leave it until they actually change something before harassing them and maybe putting the idea in their heads.

Absolutely! There is no evidence they are considering doing away with online routes. Complaining yet again about something is going to put it in their heads. leave well alone until its time not to and even then there's nothing you can do. The OP is scaremongering.

12LuDo

Stamps are really expensive!!

mjm3346

12LuDo wrote: »

Stamps are really expensive!!

It an acceptable method of "free" entry, there is no charge by the company running the competition for entering (in this case itv).

Clearly an on-line forum will have a majority of people who want to enter on-line but there are probably plenty of people who would prefer a postal free entry route to an on-line one (I know several people who prefer to post off their magazine entries and do not enter them on-line - you can lead a horse etc).