Postal, Text and Phone Competitions - Part 22

PhilB47

lizd31 wrote: »

Text GOLD B to 78444

texts cost £1.50 + SNR

OR postal entry which ends 01/06

Send your answer (B: FLOWER) name & phone number on a postcard to:-

GOLD 2
PO BOX 8162
DERBY
DE1 9GU

Where did this comp come from lizd31 ?.

jimsten1980

I have always wondered how the people running the competitions register our entries. If we send off our postcards, is there a warehouse of people entering our name and answers onto a computer? The same computer our text entries get entered on to? Or are our postcard entries directed straight into the recycle bin? I would be really interested in finding out. Would also like to know if our free ITV entries are AS likely to win as a paid text entry. Would love to hear peoples thoughts.

James

ness13

PRIZE: 1 x an overnight stay at one of Z Hotels properties on the first Friday of every month until March 2015. Choose from properties in Liverpool, Glasgow, London Piccadilly, London Soho or London Victoria.

Terms: Starting June 2014 and ending in March 2015. Stays should be booked at least 48 hours in advance. Subject to availability. The prize is valid for two adukts sharing a standard double room. Z Hotels will pay up to £50 per person travel in total throughout the next 12 months. No cash alternative and no transferring of the prize.

Send a postcard with your name, address and phone number to:

Z Hotel Mini Break Competition
PO Box 12581
Sutton Coldfield
B73 9BX

or

Call 0911 719 0807 (Calls cost 82p/minute from a BT landline plus network extras and last 2.5 minutes)

or

Text DXBREAK followed by your email address, name and address to 86660. (Texts cost £2 plus your usual network rate)

Scorpioangel

Rather odd dates to take the prize if the closing date precludes taking it in the first two months! Also, as the first available month to take the prize would be August 2014 then there are only 8 months of stays available so where does the 23 months come in?

ness13 wrote: »

PRIZE: 1 x an overnight stay at one of Z Hotels properties on the first Friday of every month until March 2015. Choose from properties in Liverpool, Glasgow, London Piccadilly, London Soho or London Victoria.

Terms: Starting June 2014 and ending in March 2015. Stays should be booked at least 48 hours in advance. Subject to availability. The prize is valid for two adukts sharing a standard double room. Z Hotels will pay up to £50 per person travel in total throughout the next 23 months. No cash alternative and no transferring of the prize.

Send a postcard with your name, address and phone number to:

Z Hotel Mini Break Competition
PO Box 12581
Sutton Coldfield
B73 9BX

or

Call 0911 719 0807 (Calls cost 82p/minute from a BT landline plus network extras and last 2.5 minutes)

or

Text DXBREAK followed by your email address, name and address to 86660. (Texts cost £2 plus your usual network rate)

annie0103

PhilB47 wrote: »

Where did this comp come from lizd31 ?.

The competition came from Gold tv channel, here are the t's and c's....


http://gold.uktv.co.uk/article/3500-cash-competition-terms-conditions/

I've just watched an episode of Porridge and the comp came up in the break.

Scorpioangel

As I have won from numerous postcard entries where there are also text and phone entry available I can say that they are not going in the bin, how they deal with the processing I don't know though.

jimsten1980 wrote: »

I have always wondered how the people running the competitions register our entries. If we send off our postcards, is there a warehouse of people entering our name and answers onto a computer? The same computer our text entries get entered on to? Or are our postcard entries directed straight into the recycle bin? I would be really interested in finding out. Would also like to know if our free ITV entries are AS likely to win as a paid text entry. Would love to hear peoples thoughts.

James

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ness13

Scorpioangel wrote: »

Rather odd dates to take the prize if the closing date precludes taking it in the first two months! Also, as the first available month to take the prize would be August 2014 then there are only 8 months of stays available so where does the 23 months come in?

It was a typo, it should say "12 months". The rest is as quoted in the newspaper.

NBLondon

Scorpioangel wrote: »

As I have won from numerous postcard entries where there are also text and phone entry available I can say that they are not going in the bin, how they deal with the processing I don't know though.

Some years back I was a temp at a well-known tabloid and yes - one of the things I did was type in coupon entries for giveaways (or cut and paste e-mail entries) into a database. Possibly they may have moved to using scanners and text recognition to speed it up.

I've also had a postcard win from TVEasy so they don't bin them.