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Make Me A Winner - General Chat
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Did anyone win today?1
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Yes....two rings, Brummie lad won
£80,000 tomorrow11 -
cagsd said:Well I've just given the lady at my local library a laugh... My phone rang on the dot of 4pm from a private number... Heart thumping, I answered "make me a winner!" Only to be greeted with, "hello, I'm just ringing to let you know the book you reserved has arrived" 🤣🤣
Oh well, I'd sooner it was that than answer hello and lose the chance of ££££s 🤣2 -
justasimpleton said:Didoow said:I’m not sure what you want them to be more transparent about.They tell you how many times you can enter via text and you can see how many times you’ve entered that way, and you can enter online and it will tell you when you’ve exceeded the limit. Is it something else you want them to be transparent about?
It's something that's required by the Gambling Commission so that they can check to see if they are still within in the rules relating it to being a prize draw and not a lottery (by way of offering free entries)3 -
Didoow said:justasimpleton said:Didoow said:I’m not sure what you want them to be more transparent about.They tell you how many times you can enter via text and you can see how many times you’ve entered that way, and you can enter online and it will tell you when you’ve exceeded the limit. Is it something else you want them to be transparent about?
It's something that's required by the Gambling Commission so that they can check to see if they are still within in the rules relating it to being a prize draw and not a lottery (by way of offering free entries)
From the blurb on site that handles some/all Bauer Media competitions among other things
*****'s Winner Picker imports text, postal, online and IVR* competition entries and will quickly select a winner so this can be announced on air immediately. The platform ensures that winners are picked randomly, making the whole process transparent, compliant and efficient.
*I looked it up Interactive voice response or IVR is an automated business phone system feature that interacts with callers and gathers information by giving them choices via a menu
When ITV accidentally omitted a very small number of free entries it was ITV who discovered and self-reported the issue when they discovered it some time later - there would be no point in deliberately omitting the free entries as it makes no difference how a winner actually entered and being able to ovoid GC control allows these competitions to run as they do (the smaller on-line "raffle" type things may be another matter)1 -
MargateAdam said:cagsd said:Well I've just given the lady at my local library a laugh... My phone rang on the dot of 4pm from a private number... Heart thumping, I answered "make me a winner!" Only to be greeted with, "hello, I'm just ringing to let you know the book you reserved has arrived" 🤣🤣
Oh well, I'd sooner it was that than answer hello and lose the chance of ££££s 🤣4 -
Any winner today?1
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Dunno, things fall apart when Bridger isn't around!3
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3 rings…”hello”
£90,000....Friday9 -
Apologies, as HeyJude kindly posts details of the call for make me a winner regularly, even if I do listen to this call, I do leave it for HeyJude to post. If it is getting to past 11pm, and HeyJude has not managed to post any day, I will post.8
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