Association Burton

geminilady

pesky_princess wrote: »

I won this comp too on Tueday 25th Feb - it said at time it was a comp to win a bottle of champagne for the weekend! BUT I actually live in Burton - my twitter and fb profile shows this too, I was asked to message them on fb to claim my prize which I did, sent them a nice message saying thank you and I was real chuffed to have won...... I only entered it because I was actually going to be in town that Saturday night as it was my husbands birthday - perfect!
I got no answer to my pm on fb whatsoever... I then messaged them again on the Friday hoping they would reply before Saturday night, but NOTHING again!!! disgusting!! I don't understand why they offering prizes and then just ignoring winners... and especially as I live in burton so they not exactly ignoring me because I am not local! (not that they have an excuse to ignore non local winners!)
Im not going to pursue it simply because they are not worth my time, and I wont be going to their club now again - ive been there several times before... they not getting any more of my money again! :mad:

Why did you not go in the club and collect it?I presume they would only need your twitter ID.

pesky_princess

I wouldn't have just gone in on a Saturday night asking for my champagne prize... who knows who is actually running the comps.. if I tried to ask any staff they prob wouldn't have known what I was talking about and I wouldn't fancy making an idiot out of myself! lol I would have expected a reply to my pm on how I should claim it - they told me to pm them then just ignored me when I did - they clearly don't want to actually give away any prizes do they! :cool: ah well....

DavidHolland3103

The competition I entered was previous. I made the point that they specifically stated in later prizes that the competition was to collect from the club, whereas my competition had ended and I had been informed I was a winner before any tweets regarding the location of the prize...

claire21

They have a new comp running on fb and tw

Blulu

2 thoughts...

1) Should I message them and send them the link to this thread?

2) Should we add them to the banned/spam list?

What do peeps think?

Blu X

robbies_gal

add them to banned i reckon they clearly dont honour their prize even to locals

cagsd

Blulu wrote: »

2 thoughts...

1) Should I message them and send them the link to this thread?

2) Should we add them to the banned/spam list?

What do peeps think?

Blu X

Not that I've had any contact with them, but I'd say no to the above questions.


1. I never like the idea of drawing "outside parties" into threads on here, it makes me feel like we'd be spied on! I know that's daft as it's a publicly viewable forum, but I'd prefer to keep companies out of it.


2. I wouldn't ban their comps, and they aren't really spammers, but what might be an idea is if anyone lists a future competition of theirs, they could link to this thread or make a note that prizes are likely to have to be collected in the club itself.


Just my opinion

robbies_gal

if the prize ever materialises?

DavidHolland3103

Sorry to bump this again, but had a chat with the ASA the other day to send across all the evidence I have (screenshots, conversations with their manager, T&C's (or lack of) etc) and they seemed genuinely interested and like there could be a case there...

Anyone had any experience with the ASA and how long they take to respond to claims etc?