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Best advent prizes

which companies have offered the best and the worst prizes.


The Daily Mirror and Delicious magazine have been very good
I do it just for fun and whatever I win is a bonus

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  • LeeRits
    LeeRits Posts: 659 Forumite
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    edited 22 December 2015 at 11:47PM
    Good:
    Mapei - some average prizes but some great ones like tablets, camera's and a HDTV
    Broadband Choices - Couple of average ones but mostly good tech prizes
    John West - Mostly good prizes
    Jet2 - A holiday each day? Fantastic! Shame I didn't win, did miss one of the holidays by 3 minutes! I entered at 6:04pm and the winner was picked at 6:07pm :(

    Average:
    Amazon - A couple of big ones (City Holiday), A few average (signed cd's) and loads of daily deals/adverts.

    Bad:
    Virgin - I thought a big company like this would at least throw out a holiday or flights or something really good. Mostly rubbish (IMO) or virgin exprience days
    Sony Xperia - I think they only had about 3 competitions didn't they? The rest of it was adverts/advice!

    There have been more, but they are the ones that spring to mind for me
  • hertzyabazas
    hertzyabazas Posts: 33,988 Forumite
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    Scottish Friendly, Whistles and Gentlemans Journal have been consistently good. Although the mind boggles that a £25 shopping voucher or T-shirt gets a lot more thanks than an iPad, Xbox One etc.

    Ephotozine standard of prizes have been a let down. It wasn't too long ago they gave away a camera every day. Few and far between this year.
  • Ramada and Avis haven't been bad as well as AXA who have seem to have multiple prizes on any given day (they had 7 Amazon Fire Tablets one day and 4 Garmin Bike Computers another for example). Although, I won on the Ramada one and have to wait 14 days for them to email to tell me how to exchange the reward points for the prize. Not sure why they can't just give the prize!
    :easter:
  • rawr123
    rawr123 Posts: 234 Forumite
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    I think Go Think Big had a good advent - no huge prizes but most were worth at least £100. Emma Bridgewater's disappointed me - most days it was only a mug
    Thank you to everyone that posts on here
    prizeless for a year :(
  • Zanzib
    Zanzib Posts: 5,376 Forumite
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    The White Company was very poor, in fact no better than last year, it was mostly instore offers, and a number in specific stores, so useless unless you lived near them and intended to shop there.

    Superdrug was good, a reasonable prize every day.
  • hornetgirl
    hornetgirl Posts: 6,155 Forumite
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    I liked the Oasis one, very pretty and festive, with OK prizes too.
  • I like superdrug and emerald street they had good prizes
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