Why the Gambling Commission hasn't stopped us
Posted by Julien WinPropertyinFrance.com on January 16, 2009.
It seems like house competitions are dropping like flies these days or craving to revamp themselves. As a result, we got a couple of comments and emails reflecting concerns about the viability of our competition and we’d like to address them:
1. From day one, we stated that we weren’t a lottery or a game of luck and that we didn’t believe in the approach taken by other house competitions. We stuck to the time tested method of spot the ball competitions which have been going on for years in the UK to win supercars. Other competitions have either shut down or revamped into “sort of” what we do (except they are not promoted by a UK Limited company like ours) which raises other legal concerns for them.
2. Unlike those other competitions, we have not received any correspondence from the Gambling Commission asking us to stop our competition and our legal advisors are very confident our competition legal framework is as robust as it gets
3. Our true challenge is to create the proper momentum to distribute the required number of tickets despite the bad publicity brought by the first house competition which was halted. To do this we have expanded the options for people to earn tickets for our competition through our Save, Earn and Win concept and we are now working on some innovative marketing and advertising tactics to promote what we continue to believe is a unique concept…stay tuned for more.
You’ve got as much chance of getting enough punters to buy tickets, than spotting me dowm the Chip shop!
is this still active?
Hi I notice only 11 tickets have been sold in the past few months, is this contest still happening? Great that the GC hasn’t stopped you but if I buy a ticket what’s the most likely outcome?? thanks, george
hi is anyone there??
what’s going on? is this competition still open?
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The action taken to local and national disasters is awesome but it’s a real shame that so many citizens take advantage of the negative situations.
I mean everytime there is an earthquake, a flood, an oil spill – there’s always a group of heartless people who rip off tax payers.
This is in response to reading that 4 of Oprah Winfreys “angels” got busted ripping off the system. Shame on them!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/19/crimesider/entry5251471.shtml