Company offering prize and not awarding it after saying i'm a winner.

Isthisforreal99

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81877630#Comment_81877630

They will carry on as long as there are gullible people thinking that these social media competitions are legit.

born_again

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81878181#Comment_81878181

This disclaimer was also on another post from a Social media site.

https://rafflepress.com/facebook-contest-rules/

https://www.facebook.com/policies_center/pages_groups_events

If you use your Page, group or event to announce or administer a promotion (a contest, giveaway or sweepstakes) you must ensure that your promotion complies with applicable legal and regulatory requirements (ex: providing entrants a copy of the promotion’s official rules, disclosing offer terms and eligibility requirements, and registering your promotion with the relevant authorities). You must also require participants to (a) fully release and hold Meta harmless from liability, and (b) acknowledge that the promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Meta. Your promotion must not require or incentivise participants to share, repost, tag others or in any other way publicise your promotion. Note that Meta will not assist you in administering a promotion. Should you use our services to administer your promotion, you do so at your own risk.

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81878389#Comment_81878389

We get the idea, it's never Facebook's fault if their site is used to promote fraudulent or misleading competitions.

They use the same argument when they are used to promote pretty much anything, free speech, innit.

Ergates

A large US company run a by a tech-bro is not acting in a socially responsible and/or ethical manner?

Whatever next?!?

Grumpy_chap

This whole competition, and the requirement for entrants to submit their story / tale of woe as to why they are the most worthy really does seem like a great big scam / phishing exercise.

Rather than just a competition for a draw from the hat, which would only be able to get your contact details which is all probably public domain anyway, this idea for a competition based on "merit" gets the individual to share a whole load of information which can be sold forward to all sorts of potential cold call schemes.

shadowwebs

Thanks everyone. I did think they were acting a bit suspicious myself, like I had spotted the Trust Pilot reviews were all 5 star and from people that have never reviewed anything before or since.

Check a Trade has no reviews for them, even though on their own website they claim to have installed many thousands of projects for customers.

shadowwebs

The company is Emyra Solar. The competition is on the site: https://emyrasolar.co.uk/christmas

eskbanker

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81878951#Comment_81878951

I noticed that they've only been a Checkatrade member since October 2025, and also that they claim many thousands of successful jobs but might argue that these aren't all (any?) in the UK, given their claim to be operating in ten countries.

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81878956#Comment_81878956

The fact that they will still allow you to enter your details, 6 weeks after the "giveaway" ended, does rather suggest that it's a phishing site.

QrizB

I knew I recognised the name! Emyra Solar were also in a "I wouldn't touch that with someone else's bargepole" thread on Green and Ethical:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6652136/solar-quote