Pick My Postcode’s Survey Draw

I had a quick ride up to the moon to tell my family over dinner in a restaurant that I'd won the Nobel prize. The problem was on re-entry I crashed in the Atlantic Ocean and had to swim home.

You're right, they are. 😊

I had that (my first survey and nabbed a whole pound!) and near the end it asked if I had done any of the following in the past month...

Eaten at a restaurant

Won a Nobel Prize

Walked on the moon

Met up with friends and family

Swum across the Atlantic Ocean

Maybe they were added to see if we were paying attention?

The system completes the draws from a database of active account ID numbers using a random number generator and the parameters of the smallest ID number to the largest. It then displays the postcode on the chosen account number as the winner of the draw. All it ‘sees’ is the account numbers of active members, it is not influenced by any other data or outside factors and is as random as a computer can be.

A B26 postcode won on 7th Jan:

https://pickmypostcode.com/past-winners/?postcode=B

If one postcode is entered more than once it is more likely to be selected (like names in a hat). If a certain postcode area (eg. BA1) appears to not win often that is because there aren't many entries for that area. If a postcode area seems to win more often it must mean that there are more entries from that postcode area.

There is no geographical bias in the selection procedure. The computer doesn't know (or care) where anyone lives!

You could give your postcode more chances of coming up by referring your neighbours to us: https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/20-referral-bonus

Postcodes drawn are proportionate to the membership. There's been 7 this month, plus any on the Mini Draw. Certainly not drawing " the same postcodes"

You don't need a dog for the Tails.com offer. I did sign up but wasn't happy with how my dog was after eating it, but if you haven't got a dog you could always make pies when the family come over. Some years ago we bought some big chunky jars of what was labelled as Goulash. On opening them we thought they'd make a good pie filling,and turned out to be excellent. My dad was a really fussy eater but loved steak pies so when they visited we made these and he thought it was very good steak. I don't think I'd get away with dog food with him though.

"No, thanks" covers all reasons as to why you're not interested.

Same here Lol & cat food offers too.

Barrie 🤣🤣

I've not felt right for a couple of days & I have a cold so the new site has given me a virus. 😈 I'm sure that some will believe it

I'm with Lidlicker, apart from the fonts being slightly different and the occasional button being a different shape or shade, there are no massive differences.

Thank you Lidlicker, I was just about to post this exact message.

Pearl, the Bonus Draw is still only one page. Or it should be. Do you know how to take a screenshot? If you do, please take one of how the Bonus Draw page is appearing for you and email us at admin@pickmypostcode.com, letting us know your device make & model and browser type. Thank you.

Personally I don't think anything changed that much (I've had the bonus draw on 3 screens for a long time 🤔). Things weren't changed just because they were bored one day, we'd all be whingeing if everything died because they didn't keep up as technology improved.

Anyway, this is a message from Em (posted a few times on various pages) ....

"Businesses have to keep up with changes to technology. Keeping our site updated will help with things such as Search Engine Optimisation. If a website gets too old, search engines will stop putting it at or near the top of a search. You have to keep updating things every so often so that a website can be kept relevant in search results. I'm afraid that search engines such as Google have had this impact on all companies. We had been running the same version of the site for 9 years, so we had to update it.

There have only been a few slight changes, the overall format of the site is the same. It is just quicker and some design elements have been changed.

At least it should only have some slight differences.

Could you please let me know your device make & model and which browser that you use? I already have a bullet point about sponsored Google ad content not loading on Tech's snag list, but I need to add which devices and browser combinations this is happening for. Thank you"

I prefer ANN's version 😼

ANN 🥴.

For others who didn't see it, 'managing budgets' was the phrase.

I would be screened out. I only have mangy canaries.

I do enough surveys to satisfy respective parties.

Please don't lie on the external surveys. If they think that we are not providing them with honest panellists, they may decide to stop advertising their surveys on our site. It is part of what enables us to be a free prize draw giveaway.

If it's not offering enough for your time, just don't do it. Their system should realise that they are not getting enough responses and hopefully increase what they offer for it, in time.

As a maths teacher I sometimes told students that spelling was not critically important, but I was pleased when science GCSE papers included questions where spelling, punctuation and grammar were to be assessed.

Unfortunately not many people are literate enough to know that the person who wrote something was incorrect, so telling them the newsletter was faulty is like telling them directly that they are substandard too. Bring back spelling tests, learning by rote, ten words to learn every night for registration period next morning…

An ex-colleague whom I am again in contact with told me that years ago he helped a suicidal student at the school where we both worked and was reprimanded as that wasn't his role. Only one senior staff member supported him. Good thing he didn't just let her die.

When I worked for the local council I pointed out errors whenever I saw them, believing that was the correct thing to do. However, my boss thought differently and told me not to do so in future. So when I saw a mistake on election instructions (telling postal voters to vote for three candidates when it should have been only one) I did as I was told and said nothing. The mistake was noticed before the postal votes were sent out so they all had to be redone. I wasn't pleased that I hadn't said anything but nor did I enjoy being told that being correct didn't matter.

@Em. Yes, Em, it was the NT. The 70+ yo gentleman volunteer wrote to the CEO or whatever she is, after being ignored by people lower down the line. Her response was to 'sack' him! The semi-literate who put the newsletter or email together is obviously more useful than someone doing something out of a strong sense of purpose who just happens to be literate. I would think they should be thankful someone tried to save them the embarrassment of sending something out which was so poorly written.

Kat, was it the National Trust which had poor English, grammar and punctuation on a newsletter/email? They obviously need to rethink which staff member they give that to. That person can do another job like greeting visitors at one of their sites instead of writing things incorrectly. It's bad for a large, well known company like that,

Stinger, please don't lie on the external surveys. If they think that we are not providing them with honest panellists, they may decide to stop advertising their surveys on our site.

Omg I didn't even find out who it was for .... 1st qq was my age ... 4 .... got 5p !!!

Try this ....

Go to yr account and under surveys start deleting all yr responses to the PMP page qq.

This will reset yr offerings.

Will take a while so do 10/20 at a time.

I've seen "Royal Rhapsody" at Warners. Here's a tip - when the podgy Freddie comes on, try not to think about Peter Kay.

I know what you mean about Warners pricing for the non-included bits. Buy a cup of tea and a slice of cake and you've in effect paid for the evening dinner.

Entertainment sounds really good - glad you had a nice break.

Shyboy, Sorry for your loss ££££££!. :-( ..

maddadof, there is a second card that doesn't work - Glo's.

Shyboy, The answer is- have a second card, that does not work ;-). Glad you and Glo had a nice time..

Beth, at the moment we are going on five mystery tours. Hopefully there will be a call any day to book Thursford, Christmas and New Year. The card got bit of a bashing in Warners because Glo saw the jewellery cabinets. Didn't have starter solenoids there though.

I do love your accounts, Shyboy, they give me all the adventures without any of the packing, rushiing around and laundry to do afterwards. How many holidays are we going on together this year?

Interesting Shyboy, I quite fancy one of those Warners breaks, but Mrs Pac' keeps telling me I wouldn't like it ?

Every postcode you see in all 9 daily draws is a winner.

Go to the Winners Results pages to see 15 years worth of winners.

Go to the Winners Map to see those near you who have claimed.

We pay winners every working day. The system completes the draws from a database of active account ID numbers using a random number generator and the parameters of the smallest ID number to the largest. It then displays the postcode on the chosen account number as the winner of the draw. All it ‘sees’ is the account numbers of active members, it is not influenced by any other data or outside factors and is as random as a computer can be.

Keep checking and never give up hope.

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Good thing this isn't the NT.

I lost interest at question 6 !

😂

Thank you for flagging this up to us. We're all only human, after all. I have passed this on to my colleagues along with your account ID number so that they can find which Question ID you were shown today.

As the external surveys are advertised across many sites, there could be many people completing the surveys at once, potentially hundreds, and it is possible that your demographic bracket could reach its quota at any point, while you are in the middle of the survey or even at the end.

TBF, John F does say he qualified for the survey so, it's not just the basic age etc questions. However, I do wonder how many people do think that bit is still classed as being 'screened out' .

How far in do you get? If you get kicked out after only giving your age & location, that's not really being screened out for all surveys. That just means you haven't necessarily met their demographic for a particular survey.

Our FAQs tell members what to do if they do not receive anything after our 72 hour update period has lapsed:

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/89-surveys

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/category/102-surveys

The ones I've managed to start this weekend suddenly end and not redirected back. I'm just assuming it's the dodgy Warner's wifi and the so called dangerous sites.

If it's not credited after 72 hours then contact admin@pickmypostcode.com with the full details (screenshot helpful but not obligatory) and they will credit the screenout bonus.

As these are external surveys, admin won't know there's been a problem unless you let them know.

Gaudi favoured curves. He also built features to resemble nature. In Sagrada Familia the pillars are not vertical, sloping gently such as to remove any need for buttresses, and their shape resembles trees.

😂

I was reading up on the walls recently and yes, it enables a single brick wall to be built without buttresses and still have the strength where often you'd need a double row.

Where i worked in Lymington, there are several walls like that - we had one in our yard. I’m sure it made them more stable, especially taller walls.

Could you use Izal, or the latest plastic currency note instead?

PS believe it or not a wavy or S-shaped crinkle crankle wall uses less bricks than a straight wall.

111 surveys in a quick few minute session just now - 97 went straight to an issue & 14x 5p's. Luckily I flew through them all due to instant screenouts so 70p consolation wasn't too bad.

Either way, that's some serious issues hehehe ;p

Su.O.

I do try to pass technical issues on to them where I can.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/156-technical-issues-with-external-surveys

With the permission of the member, of course.

No worries Em. I pretty much guessed it was the reason - and yes, their tech is diabolical going by mistakes/freezes/dead ends etc etc

Su.O.

Sometimes you will be screened out due to the answers that you gave on previous surveys where the external, third party company's system knows what demographic bracket you fit into from past answers and knows that you are not eligible for that survey. However, their system is not supposed to show you surveys which you are not eligible to complete but sadly their level of technology is not always at the level that we here at PMP or you our members would wish it to be. Sorry about that.

Just got another 6 - all to an issue again. Think I need to clear my cookies for this site & hope it clears their issues ;p

Su.O.

Nope, didn't help hahaha :D

Sometimes you'll be screened out of an external survey because you do not meet the demographic requirements. These could be anything such as age range, gender, location, employment status, where you shop etc. Or it could be that the bracket that you fit in to has had enough responses. The external surveys like to have an even amount of answers from each and each bracket type does not get completed at the same rate.

As the external surveys are advertised across many sites, there could be many people completing the surveys at once, potentially hundreds, and it is possible that your bracket could reach its quota at any point, while you are in the middle of the survey or even at the end.

Members are under no obligation to complete, or try to complete, external surveys as they have no impact on our draws. It is up to you, each member, whether you want to give them a try or not.

We all get screened out if our demographic is full. You don’t need to try any it upsets you. Just check the 9 draws and hope to be lucky. 😊

Kat - my thoughts too!

Last year we went to Canaries. Did an overnight stop before the flight out and when we arrived at the hotel at the far end, my wife realised that she'd folded up her PJs and tucked them under the pillow at the Gatwick hotel.

Actively considering Warners Bembridge later this year, but not until it warms up a bit.

I managed not to blame csikiedit for my failure to put either of my jackets or hats in the car before our recent trip to the airport. Found a jacket in a second-hand shop in Barcelona a few days into the week's holiday (we had shared various garments until then). Was glad of it on return as it was a lot cooler here than there.

No nightie, sounds like the good YOUNG days! Before Deep heat, Vick & Radox!🤣

Mostly sounds good Shyboy at least the food and entertainment.Ihope you escaped the dreadful weather too!

Am I to understand that Glo blamed you for not reminding her to pack a nightshirt.

I think some have missed the point - ‘reducing the victims of crime’ meant (to me) going to the victims of muggers, shoplifters etc and wiping them out, not the perpetrators! Must be my cockeyed understanding.

Csikijanos, In South Africa we passed a gang of prisoners with guards, out in the outback on the road from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town. They had a big pot of tar, a heating genny and tools and were repairing the road. Their outback roads put our motorways to shame. Lessons to be learned?

Pearl. They've already done that where I live. There are so many things that were illegal but police do nothing about any more. I'm sure it's happening all over but I see so much of it here.

@BMS - How about if all the criminals targeted the same individual without knowing it was Chuck Norris?

They would do it again, would they.

One way of reducing crime would be to abolish some of the laws that have made things illegal. Then fewer laws could be broken = fewer crimes.

it would sort the government out if all the criminals were to target them and leave the rest of the population alone, but then the government has already taken off those already, so they don't have anything left to steal.

Suppose that all crimes targeted the same victim. That would significantly reduce the number of victims of crime. But I'm not sure it would be any improvement. It would be rather unfair on that poor victim, compared to having crimes spread across a larger number of victims.

@ Shyboy," au naturel ". Hope you enjoy the rest of your trip, safe journey back..

Was impressed in Romania to see men in two types of uniform involved in reconstruction work. One group doing the building labour, the other keeping an eye on them and carrying arms in case. 'Paying their debt to society' actually had some meaning.

Just grab & hang a passing yob, the one spitting outside your door whilst his dog 💩 s***s on the step. Just as an example to others of the same ilk! 🤬

ANN 🤣🤣 Beth will be happy with that too 😅

The government have gone with c already. Tax everyone, remove as many benefits as they can from people , wreck the NHS and the economy, and that should rapidly reduce the number of victims of crime. They don't even need my help. If I was to deal with it I'd be starting with the worst criminals... people who speak too loudly as they're passing my house, or parking on the pavement outside the window, going down to murder and other lesser crimes.