Free Postcode Lottery Exposed — 100% Free Daily Prize Draw
Free Postcode Lottery Review
If you’ve got the time and live in the UK, Freepostcodelottery.com (PickMyPostcode.com currently) might provide a bit of entertainment each day and it’s free. This isn’t a game that is going to make you rich with the average jackpot around £210 shared by anyone with that specific postcode. There are other prizes associated with referrals and product advertisements – more about that shortly, but for now, let’s look at the game itself.
How does the Game work at Freepostcodelottery.com?
It doesn’t get much more straightforward. We have reviewed a similar service already. Players register their email address and postcode. Each day a draw takes place from the postcodes registered. There is a winner every day. The catch is, players have 24 hours to claim their prize and that means popping into the site once a day to check to see if you’ve won the £70. If the prize is unclaimed, the pot grows each day by the same amount until it’s won.
Free Postcode Lottery and Winning
Players simply click on “Collect” and their winnings are sent to their email address using the PayPal system. But remember, you have to click on Collect during the 24 hour period after the draw otherwise – you don’t get any winnings.
How Do They Do?
Chris Holbrook set up and owns the site. He generates advertisers that fund the game plus other mini-jackpots and chances at prizes. Players have to visit the site every day and it’s almost impossible not to stop and read a few of the ads. I admit – I followed up on one. Chris is very upfront that any revenue left over from paying out prizes, he keeps.
Free Postcode Lottery’s Site
The site itself is very noisy, filled with social media (twitter comments), testimonials, and yes of course – advertisements. Even the charities listed there are only for advertising purposes. The good news is the place to sign in to check your postcode is at the top, so the choice is yours on how much time you want to spend checking the rest of the site out.
Customer Service and Freepostcodelottery.com
All the rules and other info on how this site operates are at the very bottom of the page. Click on Contact Us and finally, a menu bar comes up. The only contact details for Free Postcode Lottery is an online form. There is no snail mail, no online chat, no email address, or phone number. Then again, this is a free service that actually looks like it doesn’t flood your inbox with spam.
What’s with the “Website of the Year”?
Listed on Chris’ site is an announcement that his site won the 2014 website of the year in the category of communities. This is for “the website with the highest average score on content, navigation, design and recommendation intention”. Though the awards are only for UK web sites, the company that runs it is based in the Netherlands. They give two awards in each category, one being the most popular vote and the other technical (which is what freepostcodelottery.com won).
The Bottom Line
This isn’t a game that is going to get you rich at the same time, it does payout daily and doesn’t cost anything to play. It could get a little tedious popping in daily to check out the winning postcode and it would get annoying to miss one day and there’s your postcode.
Pros:
Free
Daily
Free
Cons:
Must have a UK Postcode
Small jackpots
Must have a UK Postcode
Not being a resident in the UK hence no postcode to use, we didn’t get too deep into checking out what actually happens when players are in and out of the site. If you play here, we’d love to hear from you. Not the blather on freepostcodelottery.com’s site, but your direct comments here!
Peter Lidster
It’s a bit of fun for 2 mins of daily checking to see if your postcode has won. It costs you nothing and gives you the chance to win a few pounds, what’s not to like!
Sandra Stephens
It’s great and it’s genuine..though I’ve never won despite being in it since it was set up. However plenty of people win regularly, it is definitely not a scam.
We are like one happy little family over there and Chris is brilliant.
bevsmith
It’s free. I’ve not won yet, but it doesn’t cost me anything to play. Don’t know what people are moaning about it for. It’s a bit of harmless fun.
Spencer Price
Unfortunately it’s a scam!
After winning £10 i was told somebody else has claimed my prize however, as i’m the only property in my postcode i caught them in a trap.
They became very silent after this and never payed my measly £10 which leaves me to believe it must be a scam.
Free money doesn’t exist!!
Adrian
Anyone can register with any postcode so it’s irrelevant whether there is one property or 1,000 with the same postcode.
It’s not a scam. Loads of people have been paid out and anyone who runs a website with advertising knows how much money the site is making.
Just don’t read the FB comments section on the site if you want to keep your sanity!
Spencer. We explained to you that someone else claimed your prize with your postcode. It is entirely possible that someone used your postcode when they registered but don’t live there any more, or even at all. We don’t require you to prove you live at a particular postcode, just that you only register one of them. If you look on our site you will see thousands of winners, many of whom have left comments through Facebook confirming that this is not, as your libelous comments suggests, a scam. Had you have not been so rude and quick to leave misleading reviews everywhere we would have paid you the “measly £10” as a good will gesture.
Penelope Welch
You are not the only at your postcode there can be a number of houses in that block or road. The identifying additional number would be your house number. Which is why you have to fill that in when you are sending something via say Hermes or when you go to a shop and take something back they will ask for Post code and house name and often road. But they should have that as a safe check I would have thought so that was useful info to put up – thanks.
Darren Kent
The new update to their site is good, much better although the entire site is still heavy, especially on computers with little resources.
I’ve been registered for about a year, it seems “ok”, but I honestly believe that I’m simply wasting my time with it. If I do win anything, the prize will be small.
I also HATE the fact that any money you’ve made from completing offers etc, you won’t receive a penny of it until you win a cash prize, and only then will it be paid out… but that’s if you ever win!
I’m about to close my account / stop using it. I’ve won over £200 on playing Bingo in the past few weeks so I guess FPL and keep my £15 as I’m leaving.