Observer/Don't be a party pooper !

katex · 02-01-2006, 12:47

Just wondered if anybody had taken advantage of this competition running in our Observer last week ? They have teamed up with Beechams to offer a prize of kettle, 2 mugs and alarm clock to get you through the winter colds !
Not quite sure whether I find this extremely enterprising or just hilariousy amusing. Preferred they'd teamed up with some cosmetic company.
Do you think next will be Verruca plasters so you can still visit the gym or cold sore treatment to enable ya to still snog yer guy whilst out ??
I await with interest.

garinda · 02-01-2006, 12:58

Have you been kissing men whilst they've been 'out' for the count?

We'll be reading about you in the Observer soon if you carry on like that.

katex · 02-01-2006, 15:52

Ya cheeky b. Garinda ! Well, gotta get it anyway I can these days

No just found the competition a little bizarre that's all, and wondered who they would team up next with.

chav1 · 02-01-2006, 16:51

ime waiting for the obserbver to team up with viagra then a one night stand can become an all night stand

SPUGGIE J · 02-01-2006, 18:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by chav1

ime waiting for the obserbver to team up with viagra then a one night stand can become an all night stand

That might become a bone of contention with others.

garinda · 02-01-2006, 18:37

Bonny babies.

Bonny kitties.

Bonny woof woofs.

Bonny carnival Queens.

B***y news is what we want.

SPUGGIE J · 02-01-2006, 21:59

Just need to find something that is earth shattering and life changing in Accy. Then again we might be better searching for a Dodo or a Giant Moa as might be earth shattering on its own.

vitty · 05-01-2006, 15:47

Companies approach as us all the times asking us to run competitions.

We have a rule that prizes must be of a minimum value. Every competition we've run while I've been here has been very popular. We get many postal entries.

xXx

Yes, we run a pet idol contest and a baby contest etc, but again - people love them.

With regards to 'bonny stories' - we do our best ...and, as I always say, if you guys tell us what's going on we will look into it.

Margaret Pilkington · 05-01-2006, 15:55

It would take more than a kettle and Beechams Cold Cure to get me through the winter......a trip to Lanzarote might just do it......! Only joking Vitty.
Do the Observer want a travel writer...? I'd be up for that one.....except they would probably send me to Rawtenstall!

garinda · 05-01-2006, 18:09

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Originally Posted by vitty

Yes, we run a pet idol contest and a baby contest etc, but again - people love them.

Which people?

What percentage of people vote compared to your circulation figures?

Let's have a vote on here, and see how many of us 'love' the bonny baby/toddler/pets competions?

I'm not having a go at you Vitty, unlike that sneaky Dillon, just interested about how many people really do like them.

vitty · 06-01-2006, 00:04

Well, with competitions...the first person into the office on a Monday will find anything from 30-150 letters in total for competitions, and we have two running at once.

It's slightly less bulky in the post from Tuesday to Friday, maybe 20-100. So an approximate gues of between 110 - 550 entries a week.

With the pet idol, we got hundreds of entries, and thousands of votes. We get 15,000+ readers a week, so it is a justified competition to run.

And the baby contest, which is just starting. Though I have no figures (because I wasn't here the lasttime we ran it), I am told it is our most popular competition.

Hope that helps.