Entering "Premium" rate text competitions off the telly

[Anonymous]

Topic.

I've entered competitions on TV before from Britain's Got Talent, X Factor and stuff, but they always say "texts cost £1.53 plus standard network rate", I have unlimited texts on my O2 contract tariff, are these included or still charged?

I don't know why I bother though really, I never win anything! I've even entered a competition on Channel 5 to win a trip to Australia to meet the cast of Neighbours (seeing as I am in love with half the women on there, lol) and didn't win!

[Anonymous]

No they are not included in your bundle.

They are premium texts.

You can however enter these competitions from their website for free.

[Anonymous]

Also it may be worth checking the T&C's of the competition. Usually the company organising the competition gets its cash not only from the cost of entry (hence why they allow web entries for free a lot of the time) but also by selling your contact info to other companies, who will then send you advertising or promotional texts / emails.

Unless this sort of thing doesn't bother you, but I just hate those spammy messages so I never enter those competitions (also had an experience of a tv phone in where a house-mate had already arranged with the producer to be the one called and asked a question, and therefore win the prize, which made me pretty angry when I heard about it).

[Anonymous]

A few years ago I rang Who Wants To Be a Millionaire to try and get on that, I got some obscure question that I would;ve had to Google or Wikipedia the answer to, and they only give you 3 seconds to answer so I didn't have time for either.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

A few years ago I rang Who Wants To Be a Millionaire to try and get on that, I got some obscure question that I would;ve had to Google or Wikipedia the answer to, and they only give you 3 seconds to answer so I didn't have time for either.

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ok ive got to ask !

What was the question ?

[Anonymous]

I can't remember!