Aldi Not Following It's Own Rules In Facebook Competition

cali_eire

So Aldi has been running a competition to find their number one Irish fan to celebrate reaching 100,000 page likes.

Here was the competition in a nutshell "Submit a picture or video of you, your family or friends posing with a favourite Aldi product demonstrating why you are Aldi's no.1 fan. We will pick the most entertaining picture or video and the winner will receive one year's free shopping in Aldi Ireland worth €5,200." So quite an attractive first prize. They also offered 10 runners up €100 vouchers each.

Last night they began to announce winners on their Facebook page and all the winners were as expected funny or cute. However, apparently there is some disquiet building on the Facebook site among some people (I presume) who entered the competition saying that a couple of the winners announced so far didnt follow one of Aldi's rules of the competition and shouldn't have been picked - namely "Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult in photographs". Personally, I think it seems a silly rule and disregarding it causes no real harm however I guess I would be upset if I had entered and followed the rules exactly only to see them disregarded. I would have expected a German company to follow it's own rules They do reserve the right to make changes "Promoter may in its sole discretion cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the promotion" but I still think they could have handled this better.

The Hill Billy

Sorry but the topic is not relevant to this forum.

Closed.

tHB