Results of Grand Draw for 5 x £50 Homebase vouchers
Posted by Danny Carey in Cottage tales | 16 comments
Homebase potting bench
Danny here. Fiona opened the Homebase Grand Draw on May 11th and it ran until the end of the month. As she said, “the five lucky winners will each receive a £50 voucher. The vouchers can be used throughout the store. As you know, they have a huge range of other products too.” You can read her article here.
This morning I ran the drawing of the prize vouchers. There were 136 entries (including my invalid one), which were comments on her article. One entrant Tweeted and also posted a comment (1 entry).
The method of selecting the winners was as simple as can be, technically speaking.
I used Excel and the function =RANDBETWEEN(1,136)
Every time you initialise the spreadsheet, it generates a different random number.
Also, I printed off the comments. The printout shows them automatically numbered, which avoids human error. The winning numbers correspond to the comments where 1 = the first comment and 136 = the last comment.
These are the winners in the order in which they “came out of the hat”:
94 Sue on May 12th
72 Peter Wallace on May 12th
30 Sandra on May 11th
46 Jobless Pilot on May 11th
82 Julie on May 12th
Congratulations to the five winners. Fiona will email you for your postal address and the vouchers should be in the post within the next few days.
I think these £50 vouchers are a really worthwhile prize and our thanks goes to Homebase for sponsoring the draw.
Commiserations to the 130 disappointed people. But many thanks for joining in the spirit and thanks also for some enjoyable comments.
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Congrats to all the winners – have fun choosing. I shall still be reading every day for lots of inspiration. Thank you all for having the time to share such lovely things.
And I think it’s me. Nearly dropped into Homebase to see if they still had those lovely potting benches to put my name on one!!
Many thanks! Very much looking forward to hearing from you!!
Thank you so much for pulling my name out of the ‘hat’. I am absolutely thrilled. I never expected to win one of the vouchers.(It is me isn’t it – there isn’t more than one Sandra is there?
Congratulations to all the winners. Have fun spending the vouchers.
I really didn’t expect that – thank you so much!! 😀