Social media comp "winners" random or not

andrew71

Call me cynical but anybody else think some times winners are not randomly chosen?
Take for example a competition on twitter ran by a company called Diamond Whites to win a Hot Tub. They've announced the winner which is great and congratulations to them, but the winner hasn't posted anything since 2019. 

nelie

No, I won thermals for snowbaording and as my profile picture is us snowboarding I think this is why I won. 
I've also won goggles and a hemlet - again snowboarding. 
I think sometimes they choose profiles and then maybe randomly pick from appropiate people. (But I don't want to speculate) :P 

mjm3346

Same as almost any competition whether it's on FB or not - the winner selections are as random as a promoter chooses to make them - it is just much harder to know if something might be fishy if it is not a social media competition. (officially against the rules of course) 

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just because they havent posted, doesnt mean they arent actively entering competitions though? 

ikkle87

andrew71 said:

Call me cynical but anybody else think some times winners are not randomly chosen?
Take for example a competition on twitter ran by a company called Diamond Whites to win a Hot Tub. They've announced the winner which is great and congratulations to them, but the winner hasn't posted anything since 2019. 

She actually entered and won, and responded on instagram. Just happens to have the same username on twitter.

redfox5

I'm not sure. I tend to win lots of books on Twitter & I used to win a few on Goodreads when they were open to the UK. Could be random or could be because I talk about books in my bio and have links to Goodreads & Bookcrossing, where you can see that I review books. But then less people tend to enter book comps so could be random. 

strawbubbi

I've won two comps on Facebook (a local one, and one from Bambino Mio for reusable nappies), and none on Instagram although I find keeping up with my notifications so difficult now so may of missed someone I won...

Just_a_girl

I use to work somewhere that run competitions on social media, I was constantly having to justify picking random winners as per the terms and conditions and ASA Law, but always they wanted someone who was relevant to the brand. Mostly, I was able to to push the random draw if it was done on my day in the office, but I can say that on the days I wasn't in a winner would be selected on who the management thought was the most relevant.....so yeah, I think it happens prob more than people realise!

grannybiker

Just_a_girl said:

I use to work somewhere that run competitions on social media, I was constantly having to justify picking random winners as per the terms and conditions and ASA Law, but always they wanted someone who was relevant to the brand. Mostly, I was able to to push the random draw if it was done on my day in the office, but I can say that on the days I wasn't in a winner would be selected on who the management thought was the most relevant.....so yeah, I think it happens prob more than people realise!

Oh no, does this mean we all need to hone our begging letter skills, specific to the brand? 

SwishFlares

unpopular opinion maybe, but i do not believe any competitions hosted on blog sites are randomly picked. At best i think the ones that are chosen at random are the exceptions that prove the rule. I do not enter them. 

redfox5

SwishFlares said:

unpopular opinion maybe, but i do not believe any competitions hosted on blog sites are randomly picked. At best i think the ones that are chosen at random are the exceptions that prove the rule. I do not enter them. 

Most of the bloggers use Gleam/RC though and I was under the impression they picked the winners at random when it ended. I could be wrong about this? 
I have won a few things from blogs but I think I must have been random as didn't have anything specific to the prise on my account.