........have you won????

mahamageehad

Has anyone reading this actually won anything on those text subscription lines?? You know the ones....
"for jst E6 a week you'll be entered into a draw to win a car/holiday/concert ticket"

Or what about those free scratchcards that come free with newspapers and magazines, if you get three matching symbols you win, wow amazing, you've won...call this number now to claim your prize at E4 a minute! Has anyone actually ever claimed one of these prizes??

Or is it all a scam??!?

Just curious, i've always thought they were just a scam but maybe they've made someone here happy?? Thanks guys!

AlmightyCushion

Never tried them.

Thrill

I've always ignored them.

mahamageehad

hhhmmm.... but surely if everyone ignores thhem, theres thousands of unclaimed prizes to be claimed out there somewher..? thats presuming of course that there actually were prizes available in the 1st place!:D

galwayrush

Yeah, ignore them.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I have enough sense to ignore them!

The guy

Nope, don't enter those scams.

dan719

A little OT but every time I log into bebo I am told I have just won an Audi A4, I have a fleet of the things at this stage.:eek:

mahamageehad

haha ya i get them as well!! But can it jst be false advertising or somewhere out there is there actually an audi up for grabs?? Surely false advertising on that scale would be ignored and would be punished???

Thomas_S_Hunterson

The best way to win them is to form a syndicate with say 9 of your mates. That gives you 10 times the normal chances of winning. Then if you win a prize, you can split it between you and make a tidy profit. With those increased odds, you're guaranteed to win after a few weeks.

Chinafoot

My cousin won €20,000 on one of those things about 4 years ago. He went to Australia for a year. He always was a jammy git.

Mimikyu

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mahamageehad

Chinafoot wrote: »

My cousin won €20,000 on one of those things about 4 years ago. He went to Australia for a year. He always was a jammy git.

wow really?? Was that a text subscription thing tho or a scratchcard thing??

Chinafoot

mahamageehad wrote: »

wow really?? Was that a text subscription thing tho or a scratchcard thing??

Text thing. It was a quiz type thing, I assume it was a subscription service and they sent him questions. He said he spent a fortune on it but I guess it was worth it in the end.

Suaimhneach

I won a phone in a competiton ages ago. But a compeition is different to a subscription service.

Danbo!

most of the scratchcard prizes are holiday vouchers like e200 off an e80,000 holiday that the company chooses dates times hotels etc, so no one ever uses them

sparksfly

I won two packets of carrott seeds once on a scratch card (that fell out of a magazine) and the phone call to get my claim number only cost me 8.40 euro.