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  • MJB992
    MJB992 Posts: 487 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary 100 Posts Name Dropper

    Did you do this over the weekend? There was an issue with their phone lines capping at 100, but by Monday they claimed it was fixed :)

  • Molkomad
    Molkomad Posts: 163 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 100 Posts Name Dropper

    Ah yes I did them over the weekend so that will be why! Thanks - looks like I’ve got a lot more phone calls to make 😬

  • SpanishBlue
    SpanishBlue Posts: 674 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    Same here. I made the maximum at the time100 allowed calls, over the weekend.

    So now I have less than 3 days to make another 300 calls, oh joy!😑

    I much prefer Global's radio competition where you can win similar large amounts, also on a Friday just after 5pm, but they limit you to 12 calls per day.

  • I had a reply from Rayo Support today that I'll quote below:

    ''Our tech team are doing some work on the system to identify people using assistance/apps etc to make entries for them instead of making the individual calls. Everything will be back to normal soon''

    I personally don't believe this. If you (for example) use the Apple shortcuts app to call the MMAW number 100 times consecutively and use the comma method, there is no definitive way they can identify and police this. They are scaremongering. I'm open to other points of view but I don't see how it's possible.

  • Abbafan1972
    Abbafan1972 Posts: 7,210 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    I hope they haven’t discarded entries made over the weekend, I made 53 to get a head start. I have stopped using the comma method. Also I have had a few calls where it’s told me I’ve dialled the wrong number!

    Striving to clear the mortgage before it finishes in Dec 2028 - amount currently owed - £16,087.17
  • jaydeetee
    jaydeetee Posts: 363 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper

    I saved a few entries to enter the Tesco 2-3pm part of MMAW. When I reached what should have been my 400 I have found that I am now approx 25 entries over what should have been my 400.
    It looks likely that the 100 entries I did before the technical problems that had to solved to enable 400 entries have resulted in the deletion of previous entries. I have emailed them but ploughing on with what I now expect will another 100!

  • pate-ci0
    pate-ci0 Posts: 3,617 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 26 February at 9:55PM

    On the bright side, lots more entries to the Tesco draw!

    Edit: Ah, forget that, just read the terms again:

    Each entrant will receive one entry into the additional draw, regardless of how many times they enter.  

  • Entered
    Entered Posts: 11 Forumite
    10 Posts Name Dropper

    What was the question you asked them, that that is in reply to?

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