Comping and win a house competitions sadly aren’t perfect and does attract it’s fair share of cheating and scams. The best way to beat the scammers is let everyone know how they work and how to avoid them. In this section we highlight various issues and also share rulings from ASA (Advertising Standards Agency) when competitions are involved.
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Could the end of the Unclaimed Prize Register and Purely Creative Scratchcards be in sight? There’s interesting times ahead for the DM PLC owned Purely Creative Limited, Strike Lucky Games
The Institute of Sales Promotion (ISP) have finally started warning promoters about cheating in online competitions. They have issued advice to companies that run competitions to tighten up their terms
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have upheld a complaint made about prize promotions from Premier Data Logistics Ltd and Club La Costa – the people behind the 2minute Draw. The
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
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
So you spend hour after hour entering competitions, visiting sites and finding answers – how would you feel then if the prize was won by someone who’d never even visited
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
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
Breakfast TV broadcaster GMTV have been fined £2million by Ofcom over the competition phone-in scandal which allowed people to enter competitions via premium rate phone lines, yet they had no
One of the drawbacks to comping is that there is always someone out there ready to try and cash in on people’s vulnerability and desire to win. One such company
GMTV have taken to steps to regain public confidence in their company and competitions by announcing a series of measures to compensate entrants to their competitions (full statement). The company
Have you received anything from The Winners Club? If yes and you’ve been tempted to take up their offer of “your prize” then a quick read of a recent ‘Investigates’