Competition providers not giving out the prize

thetoothfairy

I really don't think it's the fact that it's in America - it's just the person who seemingly needs to issue the voucher is based there - it is a voucher for use on their website, which is shipped from England. I think my last message was a bit misleading so sorry about that. They just seem absolutely incompetent to be honest which is surprising for a company like fitflop!

cinders59

I won Blue Monday comp on Lily O'Brien which ended 19th January, there were 5 winners in total

They asked for my address which I gave, 3 weeks later sent a message as not recieved and was told allow 28 days.

2 weeks after that sent another reminder and they appologised and said would be sent out in a couple of days

Still not recieved it

bennetski100

This is my thoughts with many of the competitions. They are jusyt after clicks and newsletter signups. Think a lot of the comps, especially instagram ones are just scams

cinders59

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81937189#Comment_81937189

eventually recieved it after numerous complaints on 2nd April

Mr_Benn

Ive always been curious about 2 things with these competitions.

Firstly, if you dont click the box to say ' im happy to receive lots of your spam emails' , do you think that really affects you winning ?

Secondly, if you can enter by phone, email and postal - how do they choose the winner? The only way I can think if fair is they would have to somehow print out, or enter electronically enter, all the entries and then pick one. But I cant see them doing that?

mjm3346

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81962252#Comment_81962252

If a site is legit taking marketing info makes no difference.

From over 10 years ago (ofcom site) so the tool may have changed but the same principals will apply

ITV operates an independently developed winner selector tool under licence from a third party.
This is known as inner Selector’ and is a market leading solution used for managing many
competitions across the UK. The Winner Selector works by taking in all entries to a competition
from each entry route, and assigning a unique random number to every entry. This is done
independently of the original entry method, and assures that each entry has the same chance of

being selected, irrespective of the method of entry.