Dose anyone still bother about D.O.B lotto?

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  • FoxyRhino
    FoxyRhino Posts: 66 Forumite
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    I see they now have a couple of raffles to win.
    £800 in tickets for a £430 watch
    £1500 in tickets for a £800 phone
    £437 in tickets for a £250 voucher
    Someone if making money from this.

    Except currently they have sold
    81 tickets (£162)for the watch with draw tomorrow
    15 tickets (£150) for the phone with draw in 3 weeks
    54 tickets (£135) for the voucher with draw in 3 days time

    He has accounted for this in the T and C S though (which is understandable as you wouldn't want to make a loss on a raffle)

    4.1 If the Number of Entries to the Competition does not exceed the maximum number of entries at the closing date, the Competition will either close and the proceeds will either be deemed sufficient to award the prize at the sole discretion of doblotto, or the remaining funds will be allocated as a cash/voucher prize to a winner after the deduction of any expenses and marketing fees.
  • System
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    edited 17 June 2019 at 1:18PM
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  • dobbiesloan
    dobbiesloan Posts: 2,211 Forumite
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    I_never_win_anything wrote: »
    if you're prepared to fork out £3.99 a month .
    If you put £4 a month into a bank account then you are guaranteed £48 a year. A lot easier than trying to win £50 from this lot.
    I noticed the other day that 63 of the members had a birthday that day. You need to be 18 to join so the year thy were born would need to be 1 each from 1948-2001 for them all to have a chance to win £50
    GONE ENGLAND
  • dobbiesloan
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    edited 11 April 2019 at 5:41PM
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    I think I have found a way for one of us to get the phone for free.
    Clicking through from today’s draw they state that there are only going to be a Max of 150 tickets issued for the draw and they have 134 left. So like me, if you do the Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel you will most likely have loads of 1st class stamps lying around. So what 134 of us have to do is send them our details on an unenclosed postcard with one of our free stamps on it.
    GONE ENGLAND
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  • dobbiesloan
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    I_never_win_anything wrote: »
    Careful, now.


    If you put the postcard in an envelope, it will be invalid.

    "Free Entry Route - If you wish to enter any of our competitions for free then you must send an unenclosed postcard via First Class post stating: Which competition you would like to take part in, the answer to the question specific to that particular competition along with your personal details..."

    Don't know why it has to be first class but I also have books and books of stamps to use up some time. (I wasn't going to bother with any of the competitions, but I might send in a few postcard entries.)
    Thanks edited now.

    Not that it appeals to me, but the 'Pamper Hamper' state-of-play looks a bit weird: 125 tickets maximum, with 122 still available, but there are 6 people entered in the draw!?

    Thanks edited now. You are allowed 5 entries Max.
    GONE ENGLAND
  • FoxyRhino
    FoxyRhino Posts: 66 Forumite
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    Second 1000pts win for me in a month :j
    (although I'm still waiting for the first win and the winning email now says it may be up to 60 days before I receive my money)
  • FoxyRhino
    FoxyRhino Posts: 66 Forumite
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    I did notice that both yesterday (when I won for second time) and today that there have been 2 winners for the 1000 point draw.

    I have theories about why this is.
  • dobbiesloan
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    There are currently 1217 members in the 500pts draw.Todays draw is: 27/07/1983. Winners 0.
    how do they get away with drawing dates that are not in the draw?
    GONE ENGLAND
  • FoxyRhino
    FoxyRhino Posts: 66 Forumite
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    dobbiesloan wrote: »
    There are currently 1217 members in the 500pts draw.Todays draw is: 27/07/1983. Winners 0.
    how do they get away with drawing dates that are not in the draw?

    If it's showing as no winners, it means no-one has claimed the prize yet for today.
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