Ticket Competitions 2024

[morph100]

Back on the cheese train, choo choo

[angelin]

And it doesnt show you what the goldenticket looks like?

[angelin]

Someone calm me down is the wrapper of the dark chocolate golden?

[clarkete]

6 hours ago, DareToDibble said:

 

 

Through some googling, you're right.

No idea if this is a legitimate reaction or not but who cares, IMAGINE finding this.

Well found👍

 

So that looks like inside initial wrapper I think, rather than in the foil? 

[sisco]

49 minutes ago, morph100 said:

Back on the cheese train, choo choo

Is it an entry for every block you buy?

[glast0gal]

7 hours ago, DareToDibble said:

 

 

Through some googling, you're right.

No idea if this is a legitimate reaction or not but who cares, IMAGINE finding this.

I’m debating if it’s somewhat staged as, with the Tony’s bars, you can lift the wrapper just enough to see if it’s just foil there or if there’s anything else. However, these guys were the first winners last year so how would they have known that’s what the winning paper insert would have looked like? I suppose by comparing it to the other bars they bought and seeing that it looked different? Okay…I’ll take my tin foil hat off now.

 

Raging at the cheddar competition - I just bought some cheese the other day so got loads of it in my fridge! I know you can freeze the stuff but I can’t bring myself to overpurchase something when the high likelihood is that I’ll be left with blocks upon blocks of cheddar. So I suppose I’ve just increased all your chances by a tiny margin! I do wish they’d do more creative competitions sometimes - must be hard seeing these food and drink competitions and being a sober vegan (unsure of how large the overlapping section of the Venn diagram for these two lifestyles would be but ho hum).

[Doohickey]

14 minutes ago, sisco said:

Is it an entry for every block you buy?

 

It says in the T&C's, its an entry for each transaction. So if you buy 4 blocks of cheese, pay for them separately and swipe your card each time, or it will end up being one entry for the lot.

[Gnomicide]

48 minutes ago, angelin said:

And it doesnt show you what the goldenticket looks like?

I could only grab blurred screen shots but it gives you an idea...

 

 

[BillieBobs]

30 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

I could only grab blurred screen shots but it gives you an idea...

 

 

Looks like it’s slotted between the wrapper and the foil 

[clarkete]

58 minutes ago, BillieBobs said:

Looks like it’s slotted between the wrapper and the foil 

Good detective work by you and @Gnomicide 

[angelin]

So really you could look for it in the shop?

[glast0gal]

1 hour ago, angelin said:

So really you could look for it in the shop?

I was thinking this to myself. Feasibly, one could do exactly that. But would anyone do that? In every shop I’ve seen the bars in, they’ve been right next to a till where there’s been a member of staff. I’m assuming this is to try and stop people doing exactly that? If someone wades through them and declares them to be, essentially, useless then that’s loss of bars of chocolate a charity shop (!) is going to struggle to sell if word spreads enough.

[clarkete]

1 hour ago, angelin said:

So really you could look for it in the shop?

 

By taking the wrappers off?

 

From chocolate bars in a charity shop?   🤯

[Crazyfool01]

not a chance of any fraud happening or going to happen .... ive just opened one of those bars and theres no chance of seeing anything without opening it fully , the odds are pretty long in this competition anyway and even longer that someone manages to sneak open a bar thats placed by the till and find those hardly found golden tickets without anyone noticing . wrap it back up and then hand it to a staff member to scan once already opened 

[clarkete]

21 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

not a chance of any fraud happening or going to happen .... ive just opened one of those bars and theres no chance of seeing anything without opening it fully , the odds are pretty long in this competition anyway and even longer that someone manages to sneak open a bar thats placed by the till and find those hardly found golden tickets without anyone noticing . wrap it back up and then hand it to a staff member to scan once already opened 

Tbh I like that its the opportunity to support a decent cause, I can get a couple of treats to give to family (they all very much like the chocolate) and there's a tiny frisson of excitement that it may contain a special surprise.

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, clarkete said:

Tbh I like that its the opportunity to support a decent cause, I can get a couple of treats to give to family (they all very much like the chocolate) and there's a tiny frisson of excitement that it may contain a special surprise.

I like it 🙂 4 bars in and no ticket but donation to charity so what’s to grumble , the odds are low anyway 

[incident]

26 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

not a chance of any fraud happening or going to happen .... ive just opened one of those bars and theres no chance of seeing anything without opening it fully , the odds are pretty long in this competition anyway and even longer that someone manages to sneak open a bar thats placed by the till and find those hardly found golden tickets without anyone noticing . wrap it back up and then hand it to a staff member to scan once already opened 

While you couldn't guarantee anything, there is a couple things that could be checked without opening the bar to try and identify winning bars.

 

Firstly, just the feel - if you've got "hands on" a few different bars, then it's possible that one of them just feels slightly different with the extra piece of card inside. That's what I reckon happened with that video - they probably guessed that this felt different and so got the phone out to record in case it really was a winnner (if it's not that, then they were recording themselves on probably less than a 0.01% chance in which case I despair of the world).

 

Secondly, weight. If someone (which obviously would have to be a shop worker) can put each bar on the scales, then they should all be within a couple grams of each other - so the extra bit of card will probably add enough overall to make a winning bar the heaviest in the batch. It won't be enough that's perceptible to a normal person picking it up, but I'd assume most branches have decent quality scales to hand that can be quite precise.

 

But tbh even within all that - given the number of Oxfam shops out there, the chances that any one of them even has a winning bar to start with is slightly less than 1% so I doubt it'd be worth going to that trouble to start with.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

24 minutes ago, incident said:

While you couldn't guarantee anything, there is a couple things that could be checked without opening the bar to try and identify winning bars.

 

Firstly, just the feel - if you've got "hands on" a few different bars, then it's possible that one of them just feels slightly different with the extra piece of card inside. That's what I reckon happened with that video - they probably guessed that this felt different and so got the phone out to record in case it really was a winnner (if it's not that, then they were recording themselves on probably less than a 0.01% chance in which case I despair of the world).

 

Secondly, weight. If someone (which obviously would have to be a shop worker) can put each bar on the scales, then they should all be within a couple grams of each other - so the extra bit of card will probably add enough overall to make a winning bar the heaviest in the batch. It won't be enough that's perceptible to a normal person picking it up, but I'd assume most branches have decent quality scales to hand that can be quite precise.

 

But tbh even within all that - given the number of Oxfam shops out there, the chances that any one of them even has a winning bar to start with is slightly less than 1% so I doubt it'd be worth going to that trouble to start with.

 

I am toying with buying one of these bars (I hope to limit it to that). I'm not too sure whether the Oxfam shop near me will allow me to bring in my sensitive drug scales and check all the bars out. Maybe I should 'get something' on the shop manager and blackmail them into letting me weigh the bars. Desperate times result in desperate measures! 

[sisco]

1 hour ago, Crazyfool01 said:

not a chance of any fraud happening or going to happen .... ive just opened one of those bars and theres no chance of seeing anything without opening it fully , the odds are pretty long in this competition anyway and even longer that someone manages to sneak open a bar thats placed by the till and find those hardly found golden tickets without anyone noticing . wrap it back up and then hand it to a staff member to scan once already opened 

As a fraud investigator I can confirm… there’s always a chance 😂

[sinhala]

I've just bought  the chocolate and am saving it for later.

I found the cheese and pilsner in the co-op but neither had glasto competition markings on them. I think the cheese has a round sticker, but what about the brooklyn pilsner - does that have special markings or is it any can ? 

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, sisco said:

As a fraud investigator I can confirm… there’s always a chance 😂

Hold my hands up …. I’m just trying to delay people while I go to every branch with my scales 

[sedra]

It’s a nice warmish sunny day in Bournemouth so think I will wander down to the local co-op to purchase beer and cheese- you never know!

[clarkete]

1 hour ago, incident said:

While you couldn't guarantee anything, there is a couple things that could be checked without opening the bar to try and identify winning bars.

 

Firstly, just the feel - if you've got "hands on" a few different bars, then it's possible that one of them just feels slightly different with the extra piece of card inside. That's what I reckon happened with that video - they probably guessed that this felt different and so got the phone out to record in case it really was a winnner (if it's not that, then they were recording themselves on probably less than a 0.01% chance in which case I despair of the world).

 

Secondly, weight. If someone (which obviously would have to be a shop worker) can put each bar on the scales, then they should all be within a couple grams of each other - so the extra bit of card will probably add enough overall to make a winning bar the heaviest in the batch. It won't be enough that's perceptible to a normal person picking it up, but I'd assume most branches have decent quality scales to hand that can be quite precise.

 

But tbh even within all that - given the number of Oxfam shops out there, the chances that any one of them even has a winning bar to start with is slightly less than 1% so I doubt it'd be worth going to that trouble to start with.

I think you'd need yog's specialist scales and to have done a control to check the weight of regular bars are always 180g.

 

The ticket is probably only going to add 2.5% to the weight and that's for decent quality paper. 

[incident]

1 minute ago, clarkete said:

I think you'd need yog's specialist scales and to have done a control to check the weight of regular bars are always 180g.

 

The ticket is probably only going to add 2.5% to the weight and that's for decent quality paper. 

Not suggesting it's a perfect system.

 

But there'll be some validity to it - not a guaranteed win by any means but it'd certainly massively help the odds.

[clarkete]

8 minutes ago, incident said:

Not suggesting it's a perfect system.

 

But there'll be some validity to it - not a guaranteed win by any means but it'd certainly massively help the odds.

I'm not convinced it's any more refined than Veruca Salt's method, which I've double checked and relied on her dad getting his  factory workers to open loads of bars 😊