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Old Jun 9, 2002 | 06:14 PM
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I must admit I am tempted by this one, after all I spend enough on the lottery each week and the odds are far worse than 1 in 2000! Anyone else been tempted?
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Old Jun 9, 2002 | 08:25 PM
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£25 x 2000 = £50,000

So the maths works then and is leaving plenty for them to run the company on.

The only T&C I'm concerned about is the data protection - you have to opt out of marketing. I believe this contravenes the 1998 data protection act, but as all other companies do it then what the hell?

What happens to your money if the competition doesn't go ahead? It is unclear. I have mailed 'em.

If they respond in a good way, they'll have my 25 quid.


Failing that, do you think we can get 1000 scoobynetters to pay 25 quid to have 1/1000 stake in an STI
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Old Jun 10, 2002 | 08:37 AM
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If the competition doesn't go ahead, money is refunded. Just got a mail through.

I'm giving it a punt.
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Old Jun 10, 2002 | 09:10 AM
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Me Too...

http://www.topprize.co.uk/tpPresent.aspx for info...
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Old Jun 10, 2002 | 10:54 AM
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would be quite funny if a scoobynetter won! preferably me ;-)
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Old Jun 10, 2002 | 10:54 AM
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...............ah Daniel Sun,....... They have a stand at Terminal 4 at HEathrow airport as well, where you can see the car they have on offer at that particular time, I suppose so many business men go thru the airport it makes sense to get a few web entries as well.... entered a few times, never won though !
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Old Jun 10, 2002 | 10:56 AM
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ive had a go, worth a little try, im sure the winner wont be too far from home.

In reply to the earlier post yes im sure we will havea go at winning 1000-1 hows about everyone puts in £50, 500-1
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Old Jun 10, 2002 | 12:22 PM
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there was a story on this in autocar or what car a few years back

one of the journos entered the comp in the airport for I think a lambo or porker, it was 100 quid I think - and he won! jees thats all I can remember, sure someelse knows the whole story

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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 08:46 AM
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Think the one you're on about above with the Heathrow/Lambo connection is best of the best, but looking at their site, a lot of it is Left Hand Drive stuff! :-(

Think better link is:
http://www.topprize.co.uk/tpPresent.aspx

(gives the current car)

<Edit!: also, this one appears to be UK only, hmmm...........)

[Edited by bluesntwos - 6/11/2002 8:48:08 AM]

[Edited by bluesntwos - 6/11/2002 8:49:02 AM]
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 09:45 AM
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Whats better though, Scooby at £25, or Porsche(etc) at £70?

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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 10:01 AM
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You've got to be in it to win it !
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 10:14 AM
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True, right..................
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 10:25 AM
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they make money on it though! 25 x 2000 = 50000
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 10:39 AM
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yeah but costs them 80k a year for online gambling licence i looked into doing it myself
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 10:46 AM
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Good grief!

some risk then.
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:23 PM
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If anyone has any questions, go ahead..............

(We are the directors of Top Prize UK).

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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:34 PM
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Managed to break the website !

Field 'tblEntryTicket.AddressLine2' cannot be a zero-length string.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Field 'tblEntryTicket.AddressLine2' cannot be a zero-length string.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[OleDbException (0x80004005): Field 'tblEntryTicket.AddressLine2' cannot be a zero-length string.]
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextE rrorHandling(Int32 hr) +41
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextF orSingleResult(tagDBPARAMS dbParams, Object& executeResult) +154
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandText( Object& executeResult) +92
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommand(Comm andBehavior behavior, Object& executeResult) +65
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteReaderIntern al(CommandBehavior behavior, String method) +112
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() +54
TopPrizeLimited.tpBuy1.linkbutton2_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
System.Web.UI.WebControls.LinkButton.OnClick(Event Args e) +108
System.Web.UI.WebControls.LinkButton.System.Web.UI .IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +57
System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEve ntHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +18
System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCol lection postData) +138
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +1263




--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.0.3705.209; ASP.NET Version:1.0.3705.0
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:38 PM
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Fair one! :-(

Just an inredibly unfriendly way of saying you have to entera value in these fields, e.g: the full address etc, also note that your phone number needs to be entered as all numbers!

(no spaces, no brackets)

Sorry for the hassle, thanks for the QA!
;-)
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:43 PM
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One of the options for the questions is wrong, the o-60 time is 5.5 secs, but the nearest option is 5.2?

This means no-one can win it as you will all be wrong.

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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:46 PM
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5.5 for for 0-62. Nowhere on the subaru site does it gives a time for 0-60.
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:53 PM
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Look in the info they give on page 1. They want you to answer the questions from there.

Regardless of what the actual time is, the figure they give is what they want you to answer, but the option they give is wrong.

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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:53 PM
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Aha!

Above the questions, it says "according to Subaru uk..."

If you go to Subarus website, and click on the link to the STi, the presentation runs through and gives all the answers, including 0 -60 as 5.2 secs!.

The reason this was done is because there are so many different figures floating about in mags etc,etc we needed a definitive set.
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:55 PM
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Nuts, youre right.

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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:58 PM
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Do I and dark get a prize for spotting the mistake !!!!
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 12:59 PM
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And me!

Going to enter anyway!

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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 01:04 PM
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Does anyone know when the draw date for the competition is?

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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 01:04 PM
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Duly altered, apologies to all for being total donuts!


(mmm......donuts)
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 01:06 PM
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Front page says 0-62 is 5.5, therefore you can safely assume the 0-60 required is slightly less (ie 5.3) ??!!
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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 01:11 PM
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LP, the draw date, as stated in the terms and conditions will be when the required number of tickets (in the case of the scoob draw, 2000) are sold.

Nobody need fear being ripped off, because as also stated in the terms and cons, if the tickets sales arent reached, a full refund will be given to all who entered.

We are NOT in this to rip people off, or for a scam.

When the winner is drawn, we will be only to happy to post details here as well as our own site if you guys want?.

Basically, we're both car nuts, have had/have fun cars ourselves, so it seemed like a logical progression to turn an interest/obesession into a business.


Take it easy,

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Old Jun 11, 2002 | 01:22 PM
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Sounds good,

No offence meant.

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