E: 18/12 Quidco Lost Reindeer - Win A Share of £20K

fallen121

I have been to the cabin dozens and dozens and dozens of times and always it is "sorry.....". Got my daughter to play, she is miles better than me and has never won anything either. Beginning to think this is a bit of a con.

mjm3346

fallen121 wrote: »

I have been to the cabin dozens and dozens and dozens of times and always it is "sorry.....". Got my daughter to play, she is miles better than me and has never won anything either. Beginning to think this is a bit of a con.

Just because you or no one you know has won doesn't make it a con - if the prizes are evenly spread out there are around 450 a day available and over 7,000,000 members who could be playing (and each person can win more than once).

diddlydoop

Ive won a £1 :-) took me about 20 goes

annaleize

I've played literally hundreds of times and nothing. Never win anything on their games

fallen121

mjm3346 wrote: »

Just because you or no one you know has won doesn't make it a con - if the prizes are evenly spread out there are around 450 a day available and over 7,000,000 members who could be playing (and each person can win more than once).

So far one person has come on here to say they've won £1. I would have expected more people to say they'd won something, even if it was just 25p, given that a fair few of Quidco's 7,000,000ish members use this site.


I've now played this for 3 days. I've even tried different devices, different IP numbers different ISPs and different locations to see if it would make a difference. It's possible that you may only win if you get a "clear round" in the sense that you get to the end without missing any gifts on the way as I sometimes do, but my daughter never misses one and she's struck out as well. I've won more on scratchcards than this thing. And I don't buy scratchcards very often!


Given the odds you've stated, I would reckon that the average person realistically has got more chance of finding a Jane Austen engraved £5 note than winning here!


When I say it's a "con", I'm not necessarily moaning that I didn't win. I'm happy for ANYONE to win, but I've yet to see much evidence of this happening, on here at least. And this thread ranks second highest on Google for people searching for the game.


If you ran a tombola and sold 900 tickets, to keep people interested you would need to give them at least a 1/5 chance (180 prizes). If you reduced that to 1/25 you might not need as many prizes, but people wouldn't exactly be queuing up for tickets and you wouldn't make much money.


People's interest soon wanes if the odds of winning are next to nothing. Which begs the question - why run a game which most people won't win if all it garners you is poor publicity? It would make more sense to have more winners and smaller prizes.

zenseeker

I can't be bothered with this one. The game is easy, but annoying, and after so many goes I haven't won a thing. Too time consuming for such small rewards.

mjm3346

fallen121 wrote: »

So far one person has come on here to say they've won £1. I would have expected more people to say they'd won something, even if it was just 25p, given that a fair few of Quidco's 7,000,000ish members use this site.

"Few" is the operative word, this thread has just over 2,200 views and that will include multiple views by the same people and just the curious who are not even quidco members but even being really generous and treating them all as quidco users and the views being unique it represents less then 0.032% of their customer base.

Assuming just 0.5% of quidco members actually play the game and the 184 thanks on this post represent people who might post if they won (most people don't), it is still a tiny proportion at 0.526%.

(Minimum prize is £1)

If you ran a tombola and sold 900 tickets, to keep people interested you would need to give them at least a 1/5 chance (180 prizes). If you reduced that to 1/25 you might not need as many prizes, but people wouldn't exactly be queuing up for tickets and you wouldn't make much money.

A free to enter internet competition can easily have tens of thousands of entries or more for one prize (a daily for just 1 pack of 4 AA batteries usually has between 350 to 400 entries and a homebargains £100 voucher -one prize- had two FB posts and they both had over 39,000 likes each).

fallen121

mjm3346 wrote: »

A free to enter internet competition can easily have tens of thousands of entries or more for one prize (a daily for just 1 pack of 4 AA batteries usually has between 350 to 400 entries and a homebargains £100 voucher -one prize- had two FB posts and they both had over 39,000 likes each).

Look, you obviously want to pick me apart and I'm fine with that. I'm no mathematical genius but regardless of what percentage of Quidco users read this forum however many times, people will soon figure out for themselves that this is not a good use of their time.


"Liking" a Facebook post takes seconds. It's a bit different than playing a game.


The previous poster proves my point. People are getting tired of endlessly playing this game when there's no realistic chance of getting anything out of it. That was the point of my tombola analogy. The development costs of the game and the prize are easily being covered by the money provided by the sponsors, so it isn't costing Quidco anything. However, I am certainly viewing them in a less than positive light right now. The time I spent playing their stupid game was wasted - I won't be taking much notice of any promotions they run in the future because they are likely to offer similarly hopeless chances of winning anything.


My last 3 trades at Fonebank had the cashback declined for no valid reason I could see and I bought an Xmas present costing £200+ at Powertool world who I see are no longer an affiliate so no prizes for guessing that the £11 that tracked on that won't end up in my pocket either. You can only dangle empty promises in front of people for so long before they don't come back.

mjm3346

People are getting tired of endlessly playing this game when there's no realistic chance of getting anything out of it

Almost everyone who plays the game will probably be a normal Quidco user who might give it a few goes whenever they visit the site, just by weight of numbers they will probably win many of the 6,000+ instant prizes and be happy if they do and not bothered if they don't.
This prize structure with various different games has been run many times so obviously works for quidco.

Lockie21

I have done Quidco competitions before, similar to this, I have always won but this one does feel different. I don't know many people who have won and it is a bit surprising because this forum is usually buzzing with people who have won even ssmall amounts.