TinTac's series of summer events is off to a good start

The first of our summer evenings took place at the Castle in Wandsworth on the 9th May and by all accounts was a roaring success. Thanks to Tony Samuel for these few pictures from the night. If anyone else has any pictures they'd like to share then do let us know.

Plans for the second event are well underway. For information about date and location add your name to the list and we will keep you posted.

Summer evenings at The Castle

The 9th May sees the first in a series of evenings at The Castle in Wandsworth hosted by TinTac. We're expecting a good turn out and if you happen to be in the area that evening do come along. For full details and to download a flyer that will save you £2 on the door, follow the link to TinTac summer events.

Prizedraw coming to an end this month

Our last prize draw (at least for a while) will take place on the 1st May 2009 at noon.

We've enjoyed running the draw and it has definitely helped TinTac reach an audience it would otherwise have missed. But now we've decided to put our efforts behind other methods of spreading the word.

One of these new avenues is a series of evening gatherings during the summer months.

20% off all TinTac messenger bags and totes

TinTac are currently running a promotion (starting Feb 1 2009) that cuts 20% off the normal price of any of its bags - including Concert Collection bags. Follow the credit crunch link to find the voucher code that you insert at the shopping cart checkout.

Why didn't I get an email telling me the outcome of the draw?

We haven't had that question from anybody yet but we're expecting it at some point. For some inexplicable reason a few regular participants in the draw have opted out of receiving any emails from us. But as that is the only way we alert all participants — winners or losers — it means we can't let them know how they've done. They may as well not have bothered to enter at all.

By the same token, other time wasters spoil their chances by entering multiple times in the same round. And this in spite of our clear statement that it's "one entry per person, per round". It's not just their own time they're wasting either. It takes us a lot of time to weed out the multiple entrants and otherwise spoiled entries before the draw takes place.

While we remove multiple entrants from the draw, we still send them a results email (assuming they haven't opted out, of course). Otherwise our reminder of 'one entry per person' would simply be received by those entrants who already honour that request. And what we want, of course, is to impress on everyone that we do everything we can to make sure that their one entry counts and isn't being diluted by multiple entries from other participants.

September winners in our messenger bag prizedraw

Julie Davies from Bangor and Eileen Hobson from Branksome near Bournemouth are this month's winners. Julie was the 255th person to enter the round and 255 was the random number that came up in the draw. Eileen won by dint of being the first to choose the most popular bag choice in the round. The early worm catches the bag - Eileen will probably be the only person that understands that reference.

Two win bag in August 2008 prize draw

The winners in the last round of the free monthly prize draw for one of our bags - canvas messenger bag or rucksack bag - are Clair Brown and Jennet O'Donnel. Jennet won for choosing what subsequently proved to be the most popular bag in the round. Clair just had the luck of the draw: she was the 230th entry and that was the number generated by the random number generator at Research Randomizer.

There were no losers; all entrants received details of a discount voucher worth 20% off any of the bags on the site.