Rules for Competitions

[Gromit]

Just been looking at the Ofcom Code.

Rule 2.11 clearly states:

Competitions should be conducted fairly, prizes should be described accurately and rules should be clear and appropriately made known.(See Rule 1.28 in Section One: Protecting the Under-Eighteens.)

Whether UK internet sites are subject to Ofcom's code is not clear. If the above rule was broken on Television or Radio, the company involved could be fined.

[A.Guest]

And your point is . . . .?

[Gromit]

Changing the rules after a competition has concluded is not conducting a competition fairly and the rules are not clear.

[jno]

the competition rules were clear. It's just that the contest seems not to have been won.

At about the same time, and no doubt entirely coincidentally, some vouchers went to the winner of what appears to have been another contest altogether. This one had never been announced, so I don't suppose anyone could have entered it or have acquired grounds for complaint about its conduct. At any rate it is not on the scale of the global Blue Peter scandal.

[9-lives-DOC]

Still a stitch up though.