Pay to enter competitions – are they gambling?
We’ve all seen ‘win a house’ competitions in the news – but lately there’s been a worrying increase in the number of companies hosting ‘pay to enter’ competitions to win prizes ranging from toys...
Category: Purchase & instant win
How to organise quallies, receipts & POPs
Even though comping has moved on a lot in the past decade or so, with most prize draws and comps promoted mainly online, the hobby still involves a fair bit of paperwork. I enter...
McCain and Highland Spring promotions: ASA complaints upheld
The Advertising Standards Authority have finally published their ruling on the McCain Great Village Raffle, concluding it wasn’t run fairly and McCain ‘exaggerated’ the chance of winning. I’ve written about the Great Village Raffle...
Right on the Money: comping on the cheap
Did you see me on BBC One’s Right on the Money? You can watch it on BBC iPlayer until 20th August 2017. The money-saving show came to the rescue of Yvonne in Liverpool, who was frittering...
Misleading instant win promotions
I’ve been entering competitions for twenty years (and blogging about them for eight years), and I’ve spent too much of that time reading Terms & Conditions! I like T&Cs to be easily accessible and clearly written, so people can read...
The truth about Walkers Spell and Go
Certainly the most controversial promotion of 2016 so far, the main Walkers Spell and Go instant win promotion finally drew to a close at the end of July. Last week it was revealed by the Daily...
