Home Bargains comp - More chance of a £20k lottery win?

cagsd

Just been looking at this week's "win £100 worth of shopping at Home Bargains" - I'm always amazed at how many entries they have and this one currently has almost 40,000 likes - and it hit me that you could well have more chance of winning one of the 1,000 £20k raffle prizes on this week's lotto!!! Apparently Lotto sales are now down to around 16 million a week, so by my reckoning that gives you around one in 16,000 chance of winning one of those raffle prizes - compared to one in 40,000 of winning a trolley full of HB shopping that you didn't even know you needed

Just thought I'd share that useless snippet of info.

Barnabysue

On the comps page?

mummyfrugal

hi only just seen this on my way out but wanted to let you know i won on this a little while ago and like you i thought it was very small odds (im Ellie Bromilow on facebook and if you look back somewhere there is a photo of what i won)

never lose the faith, you never know whats round the corner thats what i say and as long as its free to enter you have nothing to lose but about 30 seconds to click n comment x

Luckyone

cagsd wrote: »

Just been looking at this week's "win £100 worth of shopping at Home Bargains" - I'm always amazed at how many entries they have and this one currently has almost 40,000 likes - and it hit me that you could well have more chance of winning one of the 1,000 £20k raffle prizes on this week's lotto!!! Apparently Lotto sales are now down to around 16 million a week, so by my reckoning that gives you around one in 16,000 chance of winning one of those raffle prizes - compared to one in 40,000 of winning a trolley full of HB shopping that you didn't even know you needed

Just thought I'd share that useless snippet of info.

Requested a move to Compers Chat With Dalkrist

Daza

Also on normal Wed & Sat draws there are only 50 raffle winners
It is only the first 2 Saturday draws where there are 1000 raffle winners

cagsd

Luckyone wrote: »

Requested a move to Compers Chat With Dalkrist

Thank you, didn't realise I'd posted it on main board :o:o

Luckyone

cagsd wrote: »

Thank you, didn't realise I'd posted it on main board :o:o

Don't worry it's easily done have done it myself & no doubt will do it again at some point :beer:

13rebecca13

mummyfrugal wrote: »

hi only just seen this on my way out but wanted to let you know i won on this a little while ago and like you i thought it was very small odds (im Ellie Bromilow on facebook and if you look back somewhere there is a photo of what i won)

never lose the faith, you never know whats round the corner thats what i say and as long as its free to enter you have nothing to lose but about 30 seconds to click n comment x

just saw your win..woooooow! fingers crossed for me :P

mjm3346

cagsd wrote: »

Just been looking at this week's "win £100 worth of shopping at Home Bargains" - I'm always amazed at how many entries they have and this one currently has almost 40,000 likes - and it hit me that you could well have more chance of winning one of the 1,000 £20k raffle prizes on this week's lotto!!! Apparently Lotto sales are now down to around 16 million a week, so by my reckoning that gives you around one in 16,000 chance of winning one of those raffle prizes - compared to one in 40,000 of winning a trolley full of HB shopping that you didn't even know you needed

Just thought I'd share that useless snippet of info.

Sales were around 23,521,220 for the first £2 sat so about 23,500 to 1 for a raffle prize - on a normal sat they expect the odds to be 320,000 and on a wed 180,000.
(Ticket sales dropped about a third for the first £2 wed draw and the new reduced prize for 5 + bonus didn't even reach £18,000.)

cagsd

Oh I know, I'm well aware that they're not having 1,000 winners every week, it's just a publicity stunt to try and keep people paying and playing. I wasn't saying anything about lotto odds in general, I was more stating surprise at the kind of figures that are entering for the H&B vouchers tbh, and the low odds of actually winning that!
Well done to you mummyfrugal on your win, I'm still keeping my fingers crossed!

mjm3346

cagsd wrote: »

I was more stating surprise at the kind of figures that are entering for the H&B vouchers tbh, and the low odds of actually winning that!

I wonder if the HB ones are getting some sort of automated/group entries, they can leap to 20,000 plus likes in under an hour of a comp being posted and end up with over 40,000 while Iceland, also a like for £100, get less than 18,000 entries.