Competitions News

This section pretty much covers anything and everything to do with comping. From on-pack promotions through to new sites, win a house giveaways and pay to enter prize draws. We also include a few tips and highlight issues that compers need to be aware of whilst entering online competitions.

Popular Sections: Comping Tips, Scams, On Pack Competitions, Automated EntriesBe On TV, Compers In The News, Competition Sites

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What Happens To Used Competition Postcards?

What started off as a mystery text message has now developed into a serious data protection issue for postcard compers. On the 19th April 2008, Midastouch reported that she’d received

April Fools
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Compers To Be Hit By New Competitions Tax

UK compers face the prospect of having to pay tax on their winnings and on their competition entries if new government tax proposals are finalised in The House of Lord.

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Is Too Much Comping Taking The Fun Away?

One of the things we’ve always tried to advocate on Loquax is that comping should be a fun hobby. By entering competitions online you can surf the web, visit fun

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Purely Creative Scratchcard Winner Gets £1million!

An article in The Sunday Mirror reports that lucky Lorna Carr has won £1million from a newspaper scratchcard. She spotted the scratchcard after it fell from her sunday newspaper magazine

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Prize Register Letters Go Localised!

This week compers have been receiving letters from a brand new localised Prize Register service. Stockport, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Wigan, Birmingham, Manchester, Portsmouth, Wolverhampton, Stoke on Trent, Torquay, Sheffield and

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Suspensions, Setting Restrictions, Selling Prizes

Susmans Suspend Their Competition As of 11th January Biltong have stopped their competition. A note on their website states “Unfortunately we have suspended this until further notice due to a

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The BBC To Resume Phone In Comps at 15p!

After an annus horribilis for phone in competitions there’s some good news to start 2008! The BBC have decided to resume premium rate phone in competitions (for example Goal of

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Should Compers Worry About Identity Theft?

From the information you put on social network sites like Facebook to the Government mislaying a few data discs which just so happen to contain 25 million people’s details, identity

Advent Competitions
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The Loquax Advent Competitions Guide!

The start of any month in the comping world brings a bundle of new competitions, but the start of December is a little bit more exciting for compers as it

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Facebook – A New Source of Competitions?

We’ve mentioned YouTube and competitions over the last couple of blog posts, but another social network phenomena is also worth keeping an eye on in terms of competitions and prizes

Be On TV
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ITV Owe Compers £8million!

ITV are the latest broadcaster to announce that they’ve been running competitions where entrants have had no chance of winning. The shows affected are Soapstar Superstar 2007; Ant and Dec’s