Remind anyone of Quakers Oats comp?

Sunny_Saver

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo04nSxlnxI/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1qulpwc55393b

Looks like a food blogger won, who worked as a food photographer I was told, which is against the T&Cs. Some people commented this and received abusive PMs from the blogger’s friends.

I didn’t enter- !!!!!! it’s a microwave meal why would I bother with all that throwing rice around and doing hearts. I’d just stick it in the microwave and heat for 2 minutes. Plus I only ever buy it if there’s a yellow sticker on it, so not sure if I’m that interested in the product 🤗🤗🤗

Sunny_Saver

Blimey she seemed to write an essay on the product https://www.instagram.com/p/BoKmOu1gZ8o/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=2fpyixal4nou

mjm3346

Was the Quaker one where people were getting bothered because in a judged competition the "professionals", who were perfectly entitled to enter, were unsurprisingly often judged to provide the best entries?


In this case if she was not a paid professional photographer she was entitled to enter and win - I don't have access to her tax records to know if she has been paid as a photographer or not and I very much doubt that anyone saying she has been actually has any evidence to support their allegations.

Some people seem to struggle if they do not win and instead of simply moving on they look to find fault - I don't try to find out who won a competition so would rarely know anyway but certainly wouldn't be spending my time looking into them.

I didn’t enter- !!!!!! it’s a microwave meal why would I bother with all that throwing rice around and doing hearts.

Maybe because the prize was worth £1,000?

hdh74

I think perhaps in this case someone being a food blogger who supposedly helped produce a cookbook makes it a bit of a grey area.
For some blogging is a full-time and pretty lucrative job and for others a totally unpaid hobby. And I don't know how much input she had in said book. Apparently the T&C in this comp excluded 'users who receive advertising revenue from photographs' - which would seem to be relevant to some bloggers.
One would hope the prize providers would check entrants had adhered to whatever their T&Cs are, though of course that's not always the case. But where it could be a grey area then one would give them the prerogative to make a call.

I do think there's a bit of 'us and them' sometimes between bloggers (or influencers I think they are now) and non-bloggers. Some companies do seem to pick bloggers for prizes since they will get good publicity and some bloggers seem to pick other bloggers. I have seen a few blogs that have clearly been set-up to get free stuff and for no other obvious reason, which is a bit irritating, since it seems to work... But the unfair few seem to make everyone suspect in the eyes of some compers. And there are some compers who are always on the lookout for something to call foul about.

I have never had the interest to check out the credentials of anyone who wins anything either. But when I once won a judged baking photo comp with a tight brief I was amazed how many messages I got giving me the third degree on all sorts to check out if I was really entitiled to my prize. As it happened I knew I was spot on so it was only an irritation, and that prize was worth about £300 so not huge but clearly enough to bring out the 'is it fair though?' brigade. I also had people just saying that other bakes should have won because they were better, when I could clearly see that yes, they were, but they hadn't fulfilled all the instructions. I just kept out of that. And slipped off to enjoy my prize. I have to say though, that that particular comp had the tightest brief and clearest t&c I've ever seen for that sort of comp and that was the reason I entered, as I could see very clearly what I had to do. I tend to avoid ones that are in any way vague as to the judging criteria because they nearly always upset someone.