Ambi Pur "Smelly To Smiley!" contest!

smiley contest got over long back...are u asking the review one?

Yes #extend. 

Yes ND, ofcourse yaar...

Ranjith-oy, no extend vextend

Why Bushra? You completed your review? 

Yes Ranjith...LONG back! It's getting bored in the draft mode

if u submitted already...how will u change date...ur entry will already be there under hidden entries right?

I made some formatting changes & resized pics & there was automatic Date change!

Strangely, when I tried submitting it last night yet again, it was accepted. I should have got an error that the Post is active already...

maybe date change...changes the url too..thats why it got accepted...ur previous entry might show as 404 not found when they show the links in indivine later

But the post's URL is the same! No change in that! Clueless!  

thats weird..but i guess since the previous post was in oct too the month in the url didnt change, if it was in sept then perhaps it'd have changed...not sure though

@Nandini, That's true! I thought of re-submitting my Post yet again to test it. But, don't want my Post 3 times!

Yes! Today is the Last Date for the Vent Clip Review.

The Home Range one is still on (last date not known)

For Vent clip:http://www.indiblogger.in/indistuff/5/

For home range: http://www.indiblogger.in/indistuff/6/

Hope this will help you Shalini :)

Really , is it just me ? 

Its still on , am I I missing something here ??

yea its still on...maybe they forgot to close it

Yes, Saw that the submission-link is still open now...

Apparently, the link is still working 20 hours after it was supposed to stop. Kudos to liberation from rules! (unfortunately that's unfair to the people who followed them). Anyways....

Just a thought - either play by the rules or don't call it a "contest."

many people didnt get the vent...so maybe they are still waiting for entries

Well, then there should be a confirmation mechanism and an enforced cutoff. Maybe, declare the closing date as 1 month from the date when approximately 90-95% of the people have received their item. The courier company should have the stats. There would certainly be some people who would be unlucky enough to miss out on the item even after it being dispatched (stolen on the way, perhaps). We need a declared system; not ad-hoc extensions. It kills the competitive spirit.

I agree with Disha & Arindam.

As the last date for applying for the product was over, I bought them to take part.

If there's a last date for applying for product & also for submitting Post, there should be a last date for Result declaration too!

even in sunsilk review contest there was delay....in anycase..its their contest they have right to make changes if they want

They certainly retain the right to delay or make changes, but all things must bow to basic decorum. They can run their show any which way they please. But we retain the right not to "play along" or remain mute spectators.

Ad-hoc extensions are really "unprofessional." Extensions amount to a bias towards to late entrants and against the people who play by the stated rules. What kind of an affair is that? Not a "contest" - that's for sure.

And about the the delays in publishing results of certain contests - same rules of basic decency apply. What happened in the Colgate contest was very unprofessional.

Sorry to be so blunt.

how is it bias to late entrants?....FYI a review contest is not like other contests i think...cos its for marketing the product too...so they'd like to take in whoever applied..( many people take the samples but donot write the review too i guess )//////////////cant comment on the colgate thing as i dunno what exactly caused the delay.

@Nandini- If only the review of products qualify as "marketing" in your terms, why do you add a link to the product website at the end of your contest related post eg "Smelly to smiley" ? There is a fundamental conceptual error here :) Nevermind. When there's a contest of deadline, it should be both ways- participants and organizers. That's all I can say! 

Whatever caused the delay in Colgate is less relevant. The delay itself was
the problem. People submitted entries on time but results didn't come on time stated. Any contest where people have a chance to win something, has to have a deadline. If people who got their samples really wanted to submit a review, they still can. If they liked what they got, then they should write a review. But missing the deadline should mean missing out on prizes. It's called a contest for something. IB is free to run contests that remain open for months. But it should be mentioned from before. Again, they retain the right to change the rules; we retain the right to oppose.

sammya..both are marketing..but in review u also have the product sample in ur hand so makes it slightly different...

Exactly. People who got there samples should be professional enough to write a review. If not, then they shouldn't take the freebie. I personally wrote reviews to all the stuff I received (barring one item which gave me an allergy - I didn't want to be rude). But a contest should be a real contest.

Shetty, they are still accepting entries Write an imaginary post and submit it here phataphat!

Nope , still alive n kickin ! 

cant see the entries though :s

Anita, which page are you talking about yaar? Even I can't see the entries...

actually its still open..i clicked the thank you notice it took me to submit page :o http://www.indiblogger.in/indistuff_submit.php?id=5

You are right! Yes indeed! People can still submit entries after clicking on the 'ThankYou' notice!

:p agree !

that message is now replaced by THANK YOU , THE RESULTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY.....but on clicking it still took me to submission page

The last date is no where in the picture here now.

But, wish our entries are no longer hidden!

I can't see my entry in 'my indivine posts'. That means, the entries are still hidden!

Yes, waiting for ur entries to be visible...

its better not to take these things very seriously...it will keep blood pressure cool and avoid heart attacks too

'heart attacks': lol!

tension + stress = fussing about =  can cause heart attacks

wait 2-3 months

no one has that link

you were so curious...you actually went to their office to find out the reason behind vent clips entries not showing up?

anybody would be surprised if thats the reason

lol...you wrote very convincingly...for a while i did wonder renie lives in chennai how come hes sending his love from bombay office....anyways okie i'll relax now