Are competitions bound to cough up?

shane86

While gambling/raffles are certainly obliged to cough up the prize, what about text to win comps to non premium lines?

Monday of last week I won 2 DVDs on a Spin 103 text in, and have yet to receive them. Havent bothered calling them, I will if its not there when I get home today. But can they simply refuse? If they were sent out and lost in the post is it my TS?

One of them was Scarface :mad:

Icequeen

shane86 wrote:

While gambling/raffles are certainly obliged to cough up the prize, what about text to win comps to non premium lines?

Monday of last week I won 2 DVDs on a Spin 103 text in, and have yet to receive them. Havent bothered calling them, I will if its not there when I get home today. But can they simply refuse? If they were sent out and lost in the post is it my TS?

One of them was Scarface :mad:

AFAIK since all the sh#t in britain about permium lines still taking and charging for calls even after the competition had closed they are now classed as lotteries and as such are bound by the rules of a lottery so ireland went with that too.

homah_7ft

I'd say if you contact them with an email they will send your prize on. It would be poor publicity otherwise.

Rb

Spin1038 will certainly pay up on prizes, get in touch with them to let them know you still haven't received it.

brianthebard

Jaysus it's only been a week or two, calm down OP. My sister won a few cds from the RTE2 evening show but it took a month to be delivered. Most of these things take between a month and six weeks to arrive. Don't sweat it!

PeakOutput

radio stations take ages to send stuff out...what happens is the presenters are told how and what to give away the winners names go into a book/computer and then the person who deals with the prizes goes threw the book and mass mails the prizes so it can take quite a while

connundrum

I won 20 quid credit off them before and they didn't pay up. Just as I was about to write and complain I won a trip to Barcelona off them... which kinda made up for it. Kinda.

deisemum

Most competition rules state to allow 28 days for receipt of prize. It might be no harm keeping details of the competition and chasing it up after a month.

A lot of competitions involve PR and marketing people who receive a list of competition winners from the radio stations, magazines etc. Some of these PR and marketing people are very slow and blaise and often have to be chased up.

I won a very big prize in a national newspaper in December but the newspaper never contacted me to say I was the winner. I only found out through the various suppliers who were dealing with the different parts of the prize. Other times I've received nice deliveries or post.