myTobago – your questions, review and comment about Tobago

Thanks very much for the great news, and just in time for my hols, only 6 days to go, unfortunately work kept me away last year, so i really looking forward the trip this year.

How many sold so far this month Steve?Do I get another chance to win???
David

David

At this moment in time, you stand more than a 50% chance of winning a ticket - only 7 tickets have been issued for the month.

As you know, the first two weeks of August are the traditional British holiday weeks and it has really shown in the forum - I've almost never known it so quiet. Its not just myTobago - I'm noticing it across virtually all of the sites I manage. Hopefully things will start picking up from now though.

It's getting near the end of the month so get your cc's out and by a ticket!

C'mon folks,only three days left!

Thanks David.

I know that Ausust is the peak holiday month and everyone has got summer holidays on their mind, but frankly I'm astonished at how slack it has been this month. Mind you, we've seen it throughout the site - there have been very few new registrations and/or posts. We have only issued 17 tickets for the month and with 3 prizes on offer, that means each ticket issued so far for the month has an 18% chance of winning.

There is one technical problem which I must apologise for. As mentioned above, I switched to online card processing earlier this month. Well, over the last two days two readers have notified me that their debit cards have been refused. When I tried my own Barclays Connect card, I hit the same problem. No reason why - my merchant account is with Barclays. It can only be that the processing company hasn't ticked all the boxes when setting up the account. Trouble is, they only handle the processing and don't offer support outside normal office hours, so it will be Tuesday before I can get them to sort it. In the meantime, I know that the system will not accept Barclays Connect debit cards or Lloyds/TSB debit cards.

Sorry about that, folks. As far as I know, all Mastercard/VISA/Solo/Switch cards are no problem. If you know different, please let me know. Hopefully we'll have the problem sorted tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, leaving two days before month end.

Steve,I just this mo checked my a/c,my Loyds card has not been debited either,so I had better pay by cc-----oh the effort!Is it worth a topic announcement?
David

Steve,Ihave tried Lloyds visa, mastercard and debit and none of them are accepted.
David

Hi David

I'll contact you by email rather than discuss details of transaction in public.

OK Folks. The Universal Payment Gateway (UPG) that processes the charges claimed it was Barclays, Barclays claimed it was UPG. After to'ing and fro'ing between the two for most of the morning, Barclays finally accepted that they'd cocked up.

As if I don't put enough into this site already, I can confirm that I have just successfully made a donation (but not competition entry, I hasten to add) to the site using my Barclays VISA debit card. So, they seem to have resolved the problem.

My apologies to everyone who has tried to use a debit card. However there is still two days left before the close of the August competition.

Overseas readers please note: the competition closes at midnight BST (British Summer Time = GMT+1 hours) and the prize programme rolls automaticalls, so I have no control or flexibility over the cut-off point. Tickets for competition donations by cheque and/or PayPal have to be entered manually and will always be some hours/days after the donation has been sent.

Hi Steve and David,

so I will try if my Barclays Visa Card will work and rise the chance to win and let not David take all the prizes

Hope that a lot of people do some donation because the site is worth it and all the work you put on it, Steve.

Cheers

My fingers and toes are crossed, but win or lose this is a great site and I'm enjoying checking almost daily to get tidbits of wisdom and also some laughs leading up to our 1st trip to Tobago in Jan. Thanks for all the work, Steve.

Gisella,if I recall correctly you won a prize last year and now one this year!Yet you begrudge a poor old man a moment of joy in at last winning something in this great lottery
David

Dear David,

if you watch the monthly winners of the competition you can see that there are people who won more than 2 times. I guess it is just because of how much they spend.... Maybe you did not make enough donations? No, I'm kidding! I know you do a lot to this site. Don't take me serious.

Sure I wish you luck but I wish myself a little bit more luck

Poor old man

Cheers

Question, is this still open to enter? As i be in tobago during begining off january 07?.

Mike

Hello Mikael

Yes, there is a separate competition each month. It will be running from June to December this year (2006). However, all prizes are valid until the end of 2007 - so if you won a prize(s) in any of the remaining competitions this year, you would be able to claim them during your visit in January 2007.

So, roll up, roll up, people. The start of September has been deadly quite with only 15 tickets issued so far.

Steve Wooler wrote:Hello Mikael

Yes, there is a separate competition each month. It will be running from June to December this year (2006). However, all prizes are valid until the end of 2007 - so if you won a prize(s) in any of the remaining competitions this year, you would be able to claim them during your visit in January 2007.

So, roll up, roll up, people. The start of September has been deadly quite with only 15 tickets issued so far.

Oki good, well donation made!

Well prolly wont win But hey it was defently worth the donation as i have been able to gatherd such amount off good info from this webpage!

C'mon every body,get your cc's working and buy some tickets!!!Otherwise I''ll win another prize
David,65dtg

David

As a further incentive to everyone else, I promise not to enter this month.

Steve H

13 days till C'Ville, when is the drawing???????????

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