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Spotting Fake Twitter Competitions!

Posted on: November 29th, 2010

Last week we blogged about WETcreative and their mysterious iPad Twitter competition that vanished forever leaving many twitter compers believing that it was in fact a bogus giveaway. Well now there’s another name joining them! This week it’s the turn of @Treasurechase. They were running a competition to win £250 of Selfridges vouchers. To take …

WETcreative and The Mystery of The iPad Twitter Competition

Posted on: November 20th, 2010

Late on Friday we received a message on Twitter regarding problems with a recent iPad competition that had appearing on the social network. The message read “Please RT and unfollow @WETcreative for running a dodgy ipad competition #unfollowfriday”. Naturally intrigued we looked deeper and found that a number of compers were annoyed by the competition. …

Hairy Bikers Go All Morecambe & Wise for Christmas Comp!

Posted on: November 15th, 2010

One of the most iconic sketches from comedy heroes Morecambe and Wise was Breakfast with The Stripper. In the sketch Eric and Ernie prepared their breakfast in hilarious fashion. Paying homage to this are The Hairy Bikers who have created the following video to promote a competition from Orion Books. Watch the clip and then …

Are You a Walkers Extra Crunchy Video Winner?

Posted on: November 15th, 2010

Earlier this year Walkers Crisps invited people to take part in an Extra Crunchy Video Competition. The idea was to video yourself taking a bag of Extra Crunch crisps and then passing them on so that Walkers could then cobble together a video showing lots of people sharing. And here’s the video! Don’t forget that …

Win The A-Team Van at Play.com

Posted on: November 10th, 2010

The battle for coolest prize of 2010 has been won by Play.com as they’re celebrating the release of The A-Team on DVD and Blu-ray by giving you the chance to win The A-Team van! It’s an original 1981 GMC Van and features all the mod cons, including a widescreen TV, LED lighting and a DVD …

Make a Day of #FreebieFriday on Twitter!

Posted on: November 5th, 2010

Friday is a big day for compers who hang out on Twitter as it’s the day when a lot of brands run competitions. Some have dubbed it #FreebieFriday which is good news for compers, but not good for our poor @Loquax account trying to retweet the competitions to you. Whilst we try and make sure …

Denied A Giant Gummi Bear By Firebox

Posted on: November 2nd, 2010

We don’t enter that many competitions, but gadgets and drink gizmo site Drinkstuff.com posted up a Facebook competition yesterday with the prize being a large gummi bear. Who could resist! In order to enter the competition you had to “have a guess at how many calories are in a Gummy Bear?”. The prize was “The …

Next Baby Boutique Model Competition Is Real!

Posted on: November 2nd, 2010

The Next Baby Boutique Model Competition has hit more problems due to messages being posted around Facebook that the competition is in fact fake. People have been posting on their walls warning other users that it’s not being run by Next and this has caused mass panic and widespread hysteria. People are reposting messages on …

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