Purchase-necessary promotions: just one receipt, or one receipt per entry?
The dilemma of the purchase-necessary promotion. Is it OK to buy once, then enter every day – or do you need a new receipt for every entry?
Category: Purchase & instant win
Why Baileys only gave away 157 of their 3,000 prize hampers
The Baileys Instant Win advertised 3,000 prize hampers – so why were only 157 actually given away?
A guide to ‘Purchase Necessary’ promotions
A guide to instant win promotions, competitions and prize draws where a purchase is required
What is a winning moment promotion?
Winning moments promotions usually give you the best chance of a prize in an instant win competition – but how do they work?
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...
