Reader's Digest Prize Draw

Magic Monkey

Anyone else receive one of these in the post?

Prize draw for £250,000 - seems like a total scam to get you to subscribe, wondering did anyone else get it too?

(Theres some BS in it about the recipient being "specially selected", etc... :rolleyes:)

MrNuked

I can vouch that this is a complete scam, as my mother subscibed to that stupid magazine and bought numerous things over a long period on the promise of staying in specially selected prize draw which she'd already won stuff (though I don;t think she ever did get anything). Avoid!

daveg

It's a scam. I got one too.

Kalina

I got it last week, apparently only 1% of people in Ireland received it blah blah blah. I put it in the shredder.

AL][EN

Yep its a pure scam my mam's been getting them for years and never won anything!
and your ALWAYS one of the last 32 people in the final final absoulte last ever, never to be repeted once in a lifetime draw for €250,000

Faust

It's a scam but reader's digest is a good read.

Kalina

Those mailings are always a scam but wouldn't you feel like a muppet if somehow you could have won the €250,000. Or even €10,000.
No chance of it though!:rolleyes:

Squall

My dad always gets those things. He has a long running subscription and only ever won €100

Paddy20

It is not a scam. People do win the amounts illustrated. However, Readers Digest being an American Capitalist Business, uses mailshots excessively and really drive people nuts with special offers, competitons, etc, on a neverending basis that works for them and has made their magazine a worldwide success story of marketing by mail.

The magazine itself and a lot of their books are imho actually fair value, but I personally never respond to their competitions even though I am a subscriber for very many years to Readers Digest itself. I bin their mailings as junk mail.

P.:ninja:

Kalina

The magazine itself is a good read, loads of interesting stuff in it. Wouldn't be bothered subscribing but still would buy the odd copy.

ZENER

While this is not directly connected with the original topic I think it has some relevance !

I read recently in a national paper where a well known diamond company (D'Bours or somthin') had sent out envelopes to past and current customers as part of a promotional campaign.

200 of these mailings contained genuine diamonds while the rest contained another not so expensive stone. To their dismay the majority of the recipients threw them in the bin without even opening them !!!

Tinky

eth0_

My brother in law won £20,000 on the prize draw a couple of years ago. It's definitely NOT a scam...it's just very long winded

sceptre

Originally posted by tinky
I read recently in a national paper where a well known diamond company (D'Bours or somthin') had sent out envelopes to past and current customers as part of a promotional campaign.

It was a Dutch diamond merchant. I'm too lazy to search for a link. Chances are that if Reader's Digest were in the habit of putting cash in their mailings people might actually open them. This "you're one of the last 32" stuff is a plain scam.

pigeonbutler

I'm sure people do win the prizes but the Carefully selected thing is M.B.E. (Male Bovine Excrement) My Grandparents have been living with us for a while and both my grandmother and my mother got this "Exclusive offer"

ur mentor

got one here too. carefully selected it said. yet it had wrong last name, right house and estate name, wrong town, right county.
Interesting that the draw for prizes is in Spring 2005. bit of a while away if your holding your breath for €250k.:D

simu

The diamond guys are called de Beers

sceptre

Originally posted by simu
The diamond guys are called de Beers

The diamond guys who dig the things up and control the world market are called DeBeers. The Dutch diamond merchant who found his mailing mistaken for ordinary junk mail is called de Boer (second story with link to Mr de Boer's webpage)

Funny story, heh.

oneweb

We had a subscription to RD for years and years (1980s IIRC) A very good lil mag. Then two or three years ago they sent a letter saying they didn't get the payment, which wasn't the case, dispute ensued, so we didn't renew and haven't had it since
But we kept getting the bloody 'YOU HAVE BEEN ENTERED INTO THE SECOND LAST STAGE OF THE GRAND BIG MAD FINAL DRAW with your special numbers, of which you will get more numbers, on top of the numbers we sent you previously.' until not too long ago :rolleyes:
Always the second last stage, every,single,tiiime, millions of times.