McCain Archives

Making complaints / Purchase & instant win

11/07/2018

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...

McCain Great Village Raffle - how many prizes were actually won?

Making complaints

08/02/2018

Less than 1% of prizes awarded in the McCain Great British Raffle

Back in February 2017, I blogged about the McCain Great British raffle. A big budget promotion with a £3 million prize fund (28,515 prizes in total). It seemed too good to be true didn’t...

Instant wins & daily draws / Purchase & instant win

22/03/2017

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...