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 sad person abusing this great competition”. Loquax has contacted Biltong and are hoping to find out what has happened. Why anyone would abuse this competition is [...]
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AceGamez Do Have Prize Winners
Loquax has received a number of emails today from the latest competition winners at computer game review site AceGamez. This is obviously in response to a note we’ve had on Loquax about if anyone won prizes with this site.
We can safely say that they do! Here are just a few of the emails we [...]
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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 the Month on Match of the Day and Popmaster on Radio 2), however call costs are capped at just 15p!
The news follows publication of The [...]
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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 - and that is of course Facebook. Today we’ve added a new competition which offers Facebook users the chance to win a trip to see [...]
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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 Saturday Night Takeaway 2005 and 2006; and Ant and Dec’s Gameshow Marathon 2005. All SMS text and red button voting on ITV programmes have been [...]
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