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February 2015 T Is for THOUSANDS! Lucky Andrea Goodheart Took Delivery of a £5,000 Cash Prize Just Before Christmas… All Thanks to Compers News and Compers Update FAIR PLAY FOR COMPERS Comping Crusader MEMBER-ONLY PRIZES! MEMBER OFFER The Comping Crusader True Comper Awards Compers Update Est. If you’ve got a comping problem, Hurry, our first prize category 28-day Trial Offer! our Crusader is here to help – is closing very soon – Available today – see page 7 see pages 2 & 3 see pages 8 & 9 CN Join us at CompersNews.com Britain’s Biggest Competitions Magazine February 2015 T is for THOUSANDS! Lucky Andrea Goodheart took delivery of a £5,000 cash prize just before Christmas… all thanks to Compers News and Compers Update. One piece of advice we always give here at Compers much longer than expected to sort everything out. News is: always try to get your entries in early. So Fingers crossed we’ll be able to announce the winners you can’t blame your editor for muttering under his in next month’s issue though, so watch this space! breath over the Christmas and New Year break as his Thanks to everyone for all your entries. The enormous Inbox strained under literally HUNDREDS of last- popularity of the competition took us all completely minute entries for our A-Z of Prizes competition. by surprise and it’s been fantastic seeing and reading We had hoped to bring you the results of our A-Z about your thousands and thousands of A-Z wins. quest in this month’s issue, but we received so many One last-minute entry that caught our eye came entries – THOUSANDS in all – that it’s taking us from Andrea Goodheart… her prize of thousands of pounds matched the thousands of entries we received, so it seems a fitting photo for this month’s PICK OF THE MONTH front cover. “This photo was taken the day before Christmas Eve when I received my £5,000 cheque from Arrowwords Goo-ing magazine”, Andrea told us. “I entered using the info from Compers Update and sent a postcard so my subscription to your mid-monthly bulletin is definitely always going to be renewed!” Thanks for telling us about your great prize Andrea, and glad to WON For Gold be of service! January usually only means one thing in the wonderful world of comping… the launch of the year’s big Easter promotions! And this Compers News members have reported year is no exception, with both Lindt and Our Latest Wins these BIG prizes since our last issue! Cadbury once again getting in on the act. 1. £2,500 Co-operative Travel voucher Unique codes on Lindt Gold Bunnies could 2. £2,000 cash win you a £10,000 holiday of your choice, 3. Stunning £1,500 gold ring THIS MONTH and you’ll be up to £1,000 better off if you’re 4. £1,000 Love2shop gift voucher lucky (or should that be unlucky?) enough to 5. £1,000 John Lewis shopping spree find a Goo-less Cadbury Crème Egg between now and Easter. And if you need even more encouragement, here is just a small selection of the other prizes our And if these comps sound familiar, it’s readers have told us about during the past month! the third year running that they’ve both Center Parcs family break, FOUR £100 Co-op shopping vouchers, Hotpoint washing machine, appeared – so Lindt and Cadbury £100 Asda gift voucher, hot air balloon flight, £500 M&S gift voucher, KitchenAid Artisan stand must be happy with the extra sales. mixer, £300 Hand Picked Collection gift voucher, FOUR more £150 jewellery vouchers from Regina Blitz, luxury Christmas hamper, THREE more £500 shopping vouchers from Velvet, FOUR £100 Check out this month’s Listings fuel cards from Mars, iPhone 6, £500 BHS spending spree, THREE iPad Airs, luxury spa break, £150 File starting on page 14 for Selfridges voucher, case of wine, £750 bathroom makeover, iPad Mini, £100 worth of Theatre Tokens, full details of these – and designer handbag, London pub tour, £250 cash, £500 worth of Barbour products, £100 Waitrose hundreds more – great shopping voucher, £200 House of Fraser gift card, Xbox One console, £300 Brand Alley gift voucher, new comps. plus LOTS of festive jumpers from Budweiser, cuddly koalas from Cushelle and much, much more… Remember, these are all GENUINE prizes won by current Compers News members! You tell us about dozens of new prizes EVERY SINGLE DAY, so we don’t need to rely on dusty testimonials or general press releases. And with so many prizes coming our way, the next Compers News winner could be YOU! MORE COMPETITIONS. MORE ADVICE. MORE WINNERS. Write to Steve at: Compers News, PO Box 8763, Nottingham NG2 9BS or Editor’s Comment email him via: [email protected] Comping Crusader closed the competition and awarded the prize. Why did they change it to another strange time - so they could sort out THE QUIETEST MONTH? the competition before they went home? Plenty of people As many compers will know the first couple of As you may have read on this month’s front page, were upset by this, and it was actually a non-comper who months of the year are by far the quietest in the another reason for this not-so-quiet period at complained to the ASA. This was their ruling:- comping calendar as many promoters take stock the Compers News office was the avalanche We have considered your complaint, and think you have after the rush of 31st December closing dates, and of last-minute entries for our exclusive A-Z of a valid point. With a view to acting quickly, we will ask try to eke out their promotional budgets until the Prizes competition, which closed at the end of Last Minute Network Ltd to provide us with an assurance start of the new financial year in April. I’m happy December. We ended up with literally thousands that they will not change the closing date of future to report that this year’s hiatus doesn’t seem quite of entries – an astounding response – so thank competitions unless this is in line with the advertising as bad as usual though, and we’re already seeing you for sharing all your photographs with us. Code we administer. some nice new comps – and prizes! – appearing. If everything goes to plan, we’ll announce the Take a look at this month’s Listings File for all the names of the lucky winners in next month’s So really lastminute.com have got away with a telling off, latest details. issue. By the way, if you entered our A-Z and asked not to do it again. I would like to see the ASA competition by post and included a SAE for the given the power to make a company award an additional Although it may seem a quiet time for everyone return of your photographs, we’ll be sending the prize. It feels like a weak victory, but if we don’t report reading this it is always, on the contrary, a busy photos back once the winners have been drawn every case, how will the ASA know the size of the problems time here at Compers News. Holiday deadlines and officially confirmed so please bear with us a we face? My only advice for competitions on social play havoc with our usual schedules, and we have little longer. media would be to enter as soon as possible, in case the to spend more time unearthing the fewer comps competition suddenly changes or disappears. that are still out there. It’s also the period when we All of those last-minute entries did get us a bit undertake our biggest research task of the year – worried about our new True Comper Awards The next competition had a closing date which was the annual Whitaker’s Almanack quiz. This year’s competition though (you can read full details extended. A Chatterbox forum user found a competition on edition was published a few weeks later than usual on pages 8 & 9). If you’re planning on entering, the Poundland website on the 8th September with a closing as they wanted to include the results of the Scottish then please remember there are MONTHLY date of the 30th September 2014. There were lots of lovely Independence referendum, and this in turn gave closing dates so it’s important that you don’t prizes, five first prizes of iPads and a year’s supply of VO5 us a lot less time than usual for research. We still leave everything until the very last minute this styling products for 50 runner-ups. Purchase of two specific VO5 products was required to enter, and straight away managed it though – after wading through 1,182 time around. In fact, our first awards category members were reporting that it was very difficult to find pages of very serious facts and figures many, many closes on 28th February – which isn’t very long the product in their local Poundland store. Many members times – and you’ll find our suggested answers in at all – so make sure you don’t miss out. The made a special trip to other Poundland branches to find the this month’s Listings File. main prizes really DO fall into the ‘money can’t product quickly, because of the short closing date. buy’ category, and we’ve got a brilliant day with As far as I’m aware we’re the last major comping lots of surprises planned for all of our lucky True Suddenly on 26th September a Chatterbox user noticed magazine that takes the time and effort to undertake Comper Award winners! that the online terms and conditions had changed.
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