Is it too much pickled herrings and schnapps, or do the designers at Rice get more mad with each passing year? Rice are such a great company to work with - their staff are fun, friendly and full of well meant advice - not your run of the mill sales people. I guess it comes from being such a fun, creative company with a strong ethical base, and so I now think of the people we deal with there as friends. Together, we have been putting together a competition to run on Lucy at Attic24's blog and below are some of the photos which have come out of today's shoot.
I say Rice are always full of good advice, the one thing which turns out to be not quiet true is that the little paper stars used to decorate the plates below are "easy to make". Thanks for that one, Helene - it turns out they require the paper mastery of an origami expert. Once they are made up, they look beautiful so, all in all, I am glad I persevered. I think we might turn them into a drinking game ... break out the schnapps.
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Hi. Found you via BYW. Beautiful photos! Wish your store was closer to me here in the US Midwest.
Hi - we have started to get a fair few enquiries form the US but we're still a bit too small to offer US shipping! I'll check out your blog too! Thanks for the nice comments - I love the photography bit of my job!
After reading about rules of what constitutes a 'giveaway' in the UK rather than a competition I would say the situation is unclear here.
This is what I have read on cybher.com which seeks to clarify the difference between a competition and a giveaway.
"There are a number of online competitions that ask people to ‘leave a comment’ to enter and from which the promoter or owner of the website will choose the ‘best’ or ‘their favourite’ as the winner. This is not acceptable under the CAP code. You must include clear judging criteria so entrants understand what the judges will be looking for and therefore have a fair chance of winning. If you’re planning a photography competition, for example, are you judging on technical merit, or composition or just content? If a number of great shots are submitted what will be the deciding factor? The ‘best entry’ or ‘our favourite entry’ isn’t specific enough for it to be judged fairly.
When selecting winners of a competition, the CAP code stipulates that you must include at least one independent person in the judging process. An independent person cannot be anyone that works for you or with you, it can’t be the intern, your spouse or your mum. This person must have no vested interest in the outcome and should be qualified in some way to judge the competition. For example if it’s a recipe competition, ask a local chef to act as your independent person."
The original rules as set out on the blog entry seem to show that it is a giveaway, (although I am still not sure how the commercial aspect links in) rather than a competition. It says 'Mark will use a random generator to choose someone from the results list of survey monkey’. The issue I have with the procedure for picking the winner is the comment from Mark, which was added to the blog post as an edit and which was first posted as a comment to the blog, which says "Wow - such great comments and nice things said - I am going to have a lot of fun compiling a list of my favourites - and thank you again Lucy for running the competition - both Rice and us are really excited! Mark @ fig1" This comment was pasted in underneath the rules of the competition and could be perceived by some as being part of them, for that reason alone.
The above statement seems to suggest that rather than being picked randomly, the winner of the ‘giveaway’ will be chosen not randomly, but after you have made a list of favourites. This means that you are running a competition where you have failed to give the criteria for judging purposes. If this is the case that the ‘giveaway’ is not actually a ‘giveaway’ but a competition, you must also have an independent person involved in the judging. Yet there is no notification of this. If you are not using a list of favourites to determine the winner, you fail to say what they will be used for. Either way there is a lack of clarity about how the winner is picked and who by and if there is an element of competition.
It seems to be as a bystander trying to understand how it all works that I actually don’t get whether you are running a competition (it seems likely) or a giveaway as you say. It seems if a competition, then you are breaking the rules by not providing clarity on what they are in full and by not explaining how a winner is picked and who by. At any rate it is not clear!
Hi Anonymous! I published your comment as I can see how you are confused by this. No, the winner is absolutely picked at random with no judgement call on "quality of comment" made at all. Simply a random entry from all the entrants, as she said in her post. I had simply commented to Lucy that I found some of the comments quite good fun and was enjoying reading them - we were just enjoying the generally positive reaction. I've emailed Lucy and asked here to take that particular comment out as I can see how you would be confusing - which is why I also decided to publish your comment in full so that I could clarify it here as well. All the best and thank you for your feedback.
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