kids comic winners lists help please

oddies

I was wondering if anyone could help me or at least point the way..

i enter lots of comic comps for the grandchildren and of course the kids like doing them with me but my Beef is with these comics not listing the winners :mad: i spend a small or should i say a fortune not a small one each year on these from £2.99 - £5.99 for special edition. not including those i have on subs. my friend pm'd me to tell me about a winners list but she could not send as she did not have permission but checked for my grandchildren's names.. this list was as long as your arm apparently dating back since jan and winners not being informed of their prizes. is there any way we could ask/make these comic company's list the winners names and say their town but that's all ? thank you for any advice..ps perhaps "make" is to strong a word but it really does infuriate me :mad: thank you everyone x

mjm3346

You can ask but there is no requirement for them to list them although they should say how you can get them, they could have something like "major prize winners details (name/county) available for 4 weeks after the comp by sending a SAE", but that could be costly if you have to do that for every competition with a "major" prize.

Cap code

how and when information about winners and results will be made available. Promoters must either publish or make available on request the name and county of major prizewinners and, if applicable, their winning entries. Prizewinners must not be compromised by the publication of excessive personal information

mumto2boys

oddies the toddler mags I buy, for instance Friends mag, they list the winners towards the back every week. It says on the competition that winners will be posted in issue xxx too.

oddies

sadly Toxic, Mega, kraze, NG Kids, Dr Who, JW, Go Girl,Girl, Top of The Pops, Beano and a few other i buy do not list winners so you can see what i mean :mad: But thank you sweets i shall start phoning around to these comics see what i can do if anything. i must admit i did have a big win from Mega a Bit Back which My Grandson will be over the Moon with come his Birthday

Alidolly

I wouldn't hold your breath getting anything even if you do win! My daughter was in the Angelina Ballerina mag one month and "should" have received some books. Sent several emails politely asking where they were and never received a response. Daughter was thrilled to see her photo but I was :mad: that they had used it without sending the prize. She's not had THAT mag since

wingobins

I used to post the list of winners in postals too oddies when I posted sparkleworld & pink mag but then they stopped listing the names and just said winners names available on request. On one or two occasions I saw my DD's name and contacted them but they then sent out the prize and appologised. They did once say it might be another child with the same name but the address was ours so it was my DD's. I agree they should print the names again.

oddies

i Have contacted Toxic with this Request But will Also contact all Above comics/Magazines before i contact the rest of comics/Magazines has anyone has any other comments i could add or word it any Better i would be Grateful as i am not very good at wording these kind of things.

Request to comics/Magazine....

Hello
Please could you Help me, i Buy Toxic along with many other comics for my Grandchildren who love your Magazine/comic My Grandson Has toxic, we have Toxic, Mega, Kraze, NG Kids, Jacqueline Wilson, Go Girl, Top of The Pops, Girl Magazine ,Beano, Transformers and others. These comics/Magazines are not cheap Ranging from £2.99 - £5.99 for a Special Edition. is there any way you could start publishing Names of the Winners in your comics If This is Not possible to Publish in the comic/Magazine could you at least say publish a winners List online for say 4 weeks with the Name of child and Age and Town. I feel this should be done by all comics/magazines and i am emailing/contacting all said comic/Magazines to ask politely if this could be done in the future Editions. Also would you kindly Reply to This Request Kind Regards Name added

mjm3346

oddies wrote: »

If This is Not possible to Publish in the comic/Magazine could you at least say publish a winners List online for say 4 weeks with the Name of child and Age and Town. I feel this should be done by all comics/magazines and i am emailing/contacting all said comic/Magazines to ask politely if this could be done in the future Editions. Also would you kindly Reply to This Request Kind Regards Name added

I think it would almost certainly break the CAP code if they provided that much information

Prizewinners must not be compromised by the publication of excessive personal information

Name and county is all the CAP requires and then it's only for major prize winners and can just be "on demand - eg SAE" and not on-line or published.

mjm3346

Toxic is published by Egmont along with several other of the titles and this is in the T&C's that apply to all their competitions unless it states otherwise on an individual competition.

5.5 A list of prizewinners for any Competition is available by sending a request with a stamped addressed envelope, marked with the name of the Competition, to Egmont at the address above after the closing date

Their mags include

Barbie
Dora the Explorer
Disney and Me
Disney Princess
Fireman Sam
Hello Kitty
Thomas & Friends
Thomas Express
Tinker Bell
Toy Story
World of Cars
Ben 10
Disney Infinity
Go Girl
Monster High
TOXIC
All About
We Love Pop

http://www.egmont.co.uk/magazines.asp?page=mags-landing