Any thoughts?

mjm3346

Luckyone wrote: »

I thought it was not legal to discriminate against any group of people I.E compers?

xxx

No, it is fine not to allow compers to enter, although by entering everyone becomes a comper so gets disqualified?

It is against the law to discriminate against anyone because of:

• age
• being or becoming a transsexual person
• being married or in a civil partnership
• being pregnant or having a child
• disability
• race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin
• religion, belief or lack of religion/belief
• sex
• sexual orientation

These are called ‘protected characteristics’.


You’re protected from discrimination in these situations:

• at work
• in education
• as a consumer
• when using public services
• when buying or renting property
• as a member or guest of a private club or association

WeAreGhosts

think you are all jumping the gun a bit

from fb page

Akufu Absolutely. As long as I'm able to message you, view your profile, you have an avatar your entry is accepted. We had nearly 8000 entries from twitter profiles with no previous tweets and no information at all. It could be absolutely anybody - id rather a genuine person win.

Luckyone

Now it gets even more complicated I'm disabled & a comper & I want to win a Surface 2

:rotfl:

Luckyone

WeAreGhosts wrote: »

think you are all jumping the gun a bit

from fb page

Akufu Absolutely. As long as I'm able to message you, view your profile, you have an avatar your entry is accepted. We had nearly 8000 entries from twitter profiles with no previous tweets and no information at all. It could be absolutely anybody - id rather a genuine person win.

Then when the RC randomly picks one of the above re draw

Simple

mjm3346

I thought I had read about this being cancelled before, it was posted on the original comp thread

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4970298

Autumnella

Seems like a cop-out to me. All that traffic, then just cancel the comp on the last day, twice! Will they ever give this prize away?

mjm3346

Autumnella wrote: »

Seems like a cop-out to me. All that traffic, then just cancel the comp on the last day, twice! Will they ever give this prize away?

Don't think it has been cancelled twice, it was cancelled earlier in June and not restarted.

eyeballpaul

Terms & Conditions

1. By participating in a Akufu Online competition or giveaway, you fully agree and accept the Terms and Conditions of the site as well as the individual terms and conditions of the specific competition.
2. Akufu online competitions and giveaways are for 18 and over only.
3. All prizes are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
4. Dedicated social media accounts for entering competitions are not representative of the person entering and are not in ‘good faith’ therefore these entries will be marked as void.
5. No cash alternative will be offered for any prizes.
6. Prizes can only be delivered to a valid address.
7. The prize draw decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
8. If the prize remains unclaimed 28 days after the end of the competition the competition will be marked as void.
9. If the above rules are broken the competition can be marked as void at any time.

weeowens

SallyHarrison666 wrote: »

I for one applaud their stance on this,it proves promoters are wising up to the people who have no interest in the actual product at all and just want something for nothing.

Im positive they wont be bothered in the slightest if people dont enter their promotions again!.

What they are saying is that they do not want the professional comper entering and imho quite rightly so!.

Just as facebook like and shares do not equate into brand loyalty neither do people who enter for anything and everything and ruin a promoters well intended campaign, as has happened here!!!.

I personally know of several promoters on fb who discard L&S entries and indeed any entries from people with the word "comp", "prize winner" and other similar names in their title along with people who insist on putting "MSE" in between their fb name as this identifies them as one of the above.

Well said :rotfl:

Just as an aside though what is a "professional comper"

How does a company spot those terrible entrants that should be excluded?

Am I one of them?

weeowens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional