Prize Draw Promoters To Face The High Court
Could the end of the Unclaimed Prize Register and Purely Creative Scratchcards be in sight? There’s interesting times ahead for the DM PLC owned Purely Creative Limited, Strike Lucky Games Limited, McIntyre & Dodd Marketing Limited, The Winners Club Limited, and Dodd Marketing Limited as the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has issued High Court [...]
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Reveal Magazine Threaten Compers Over Prize Admin Error
Every comper hopes for a surprise Lucky Winning Envelope (LWE) dropping through their door each morning, but a different kind of postal surprise revealed itself to a number of compers recently, thanks to Reveal Magazine. They all received a letter explaining “due to an administrative error” a cheque was sent to them representing the value [...]
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Gambling Commission Delay Devon Estate Competition Winner
On October 12th we told you that the Gambling Commission were starting to take an interest in win a house competitions. We also told you the 16th October would be the date when the winner of The Oldborough Estate. However, little did we know that The Gambling Commission would intervene in the competition and this [...]
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The BBC Fined £400,000 for Faking Comp Winners
The BBC have been fined a record £400,000 by Ofcom for faking competition winners. Eight different TV and radio programmes were mentioned in the ruling including shows by Jo Whiley, Russell Brand and Liz Kershaw as well as Sports Relief and even Children in Need. The fine was handed out as competition entrants were invited [...]
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GMTV Act On Competition Scandal
GMTV have taken to steps to regain public confidence in their company and competitions by announcing a series of measures to compensate entrants to their competitions (full statement). The company suspended their phone in and online competitions in April 2007 following revelations that thousands of people who entered their phone competitions had no chance of [...]
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