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British Breakaway holidays
Swanlander
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We have been advised we are runners up in a holiday competition in second place in an Instagram competition we entered last week. We have won two nights in a four star hotel but the voice mail we received says we have to pay and pre book breakfast now. Is this a scam?
November 2010 - a Jamie Oliver book
December 2010 - a pair of earrings. A silk scarf - both on the daily Spin to Win competition.
Animated snow leopard and Meerkat Manor goodie bag from Discovery TV
£10 in local photo contest
December 2010 - a pair of earrings. A silk scarf - both on the daily Spin to Win competition.
Animated snow leopard and Meerkat Manor goodie bag from Discovery TV
£10 in local photo contest
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If I had won a comp for a holiday and had to pay up front for food I would tell them where to shove it.
I do it just for fun and whatever I win is a bonus0 -
I had the same call last week, i told them i wasn't interested as they wanted my money there and then, I've had exactly the same call again today...Oh I do love a good win, Even if its not me winning..0
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thanks to all posters
PARKRUN - The only time the ladies chase me!
I've changed my facebook username to NOBODY so when I enter FB comps I press the "Like" button it will say NOBODY likes this1 -
I had the same some months back, never took them up on it, I am not paying for a so called competition win!
The breakfast were £17.99 per person each day ..
That would of cost us the best part of £75........not a comp win really when you look at it that way!2011 & 2012 - Many Fantastic Prizes - thank you to all posters 2021 7 small prizes 2022 1 small clever pots win2023 £50 Yours Mag 2024 £100 Thats Life, book win, Thats Life Crime, June, £100 Codebreakers, December Elf The Musical tickets and an overnight stay in Newport 20250 -
I had the same today, however I’m not sure I entered a competition on Instagram? Can anyone remember entering a competition? Thx0
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This highlights an interesting quirk of how TrustPilot operates.eyeballpaul said:
There are 7 reviews posted, all with 1*, but this gives a rating of 2.3!
According to their help page:
"We use a Bayesian average in the calculation, to make sure that a business with fewer reviews starts off with a balanced TrustScore. This means that we automatically include the value of 7 reviews worth 3.5 stars each in all TrustScore calculations. As a business collects more reviews, this becomes a smaller factor in the calculation."
"Bayesian" isn't the word beginning with B that I'd use for their method!!
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I had a call and told them to email me because I was busy. It didn't tell them my email address but they already knew it. I guess I must have entered my email address and mobile number with them somewhere! Since paying to have a prize is not really a prize I haven't taken them up on their 'kind' offer of a runners up prize!Quod said:I had the same today, however I’m not sure I entered a competition on Instagram? Can anyone remember entering a competition? Thx0 -
I've just had this voicemail! My phone blocked the call as suspected spam. Yeah I'm not feeling paying for breakfast as part of a "runner up prize". Did anyone do it?Back to Comping 2022!
Wins:
Jan 22: Lawn Feed/Vegetable Seeds, Uncle Ben's Rice, Sculpted by Aimee Mascara
Feb 22: Rainbow Lab & Nature Lab kits, Decode 3-in-1 Makeup Remover, Furthermoore early proof copy, a Furthermoor chocolate bar and a gold foil print, Hollywood Bowl VIP Pass for 6, Drinkmate, World Book Day Book.
March 22: Kindle EBook, Whiskey at Home set, Motorpoint Rugby Ball, Shame of Life Cards (IWin), Jameson Set.
August 22: Years supply CeraVe Products0 -
I got a call today. I can’t work out how they profit apart from the breakfast being expensive. Would love to know if anyone took them up on this.0
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Also got this call today.. hung up when they started talking about paying for breakfast as i remembered this post.
Also the background was a super busy call centre. Would a prize winner be called from a call centre?
Has anyone accepted this?sieze the carp0
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