Introduction
Rev Comps is one of the most prominent competitions in the UK, and they are well-known for their car and motorcycle draws. They perform live draws twice a week (Mondays and Thursdays), in which they draw their largest prices. They also run a number of Auto Draws each week, that also include a wide variety of prizes from holidays to kitchen equipment.
Key Information
- URL: revcomps.com
- Organiser: REV CORP LTD
- Type: Competitions & Prize Draws
- Prizes: Cash, Cars, Motorcycles, Other Prizes
Review Summary
Rev Comps is a legitimate competition in the sense that they are running competitions with real prizes, and the winners appear to get prizes they win. And that’s what probably matters to the most of us.
However, there are three points that stick out the most that you should consider before entering: Firstly, Rev Comps is probably one of the least compliant competition I’ve seen (so far) as far as the Gambling Commission’s guidelines about free draws and prize competitions are concerned. Secondly, there appears to be a lack of transparency how the Auto Draws are being performed. Thirdly, their website is in dire need of updates, and poses a genuine security risk to anyone who uses it – in my opinion at least.
Other than the points above, I think they are a very legitimate competition, that might be worth entering if you are willing to overlook the points mentioned in this review – for a chance to win a car or one of the other prizes.
Rev Comps scores a Real Score of 7.3 out of 10. Due to the score, I won’t be linking to their website – as my opinion of Rev Comps is currently neutral.
If you wish to learn more about how I’ve calculated the Real Score for Rev Comps, please see the below sections!
Real Score
Rev Comps is operated by a limited company called REV CORP LTD that was incorporated in 2019. You are easily able to find out necessary information about the business, the competition, how its run, and other relevant information and frequently asked questions you might want to find out before entering.
You are able to find the Live Draw winners easily under the results page. However, this page doesn’t show any of the Auto Draw winners. And there doesn’t appear to be any pictures of the winners. Though, if you click on the results you are able to click through to see the actual Live Draw that was streamed on Facebook at the time to confirm who won and what.
Also, the results pages themselves look like they are done very manually, as from the looks of it the pages themselves are very basic WordPress blog posts with written text on them, rather than automatically generated by an elaborate system where the winners names and ticket numbers would be automatically pulled through. There’s nothing inherently wrong with doing things manually as such, but it gives a more of an ‘old school’ feel to things – almost like pen-and-paper-esque of a system.
Under ‘Entrants’ menu item you are able to see some of the past auto draws, but at the time of writing this I could only see 12 days in the past – and the long list of items is extremely difficult to use.
I’m not sure if they’ve made changes or updated the website recently, but in its current state it’s not a the best for trying to find a specific price or a winner.
Finally, if you are able to find the draw you wanted to find; you are able to see the each ticket and who it was assigned to:
Note: While the above is good for transparency; not everyone will want to have their full name publicly posted in the list of entrants on a competition website. Just be mindful that if you enter any of Rev Comps’ draws your full name will be visible on the results page! Or do what “MR D” did in the screenshot above: Enter a shortened and more anonymous version of your name!
As far as the process of Live Draws go, they are done well! In a similar fashion to how 7days Performance does their live draws, they use lottery machines to draw the ticket numbers while broadcasting a live draw ‘show’. It’s safe to assume one copied the concept from the other (not sure which way around though!)… The fact is, that it makes for an entertaining and transparent draw method – so who cares!
Much like with the draws on 7days Performance; you are able to see the ticket entries already in the live video, and they also call the winner there and then. So there is very little reason to question the legitimacy of the Live Draws.
However, their Auto Draws slightly differ in terms of transparency. As you can see in the screenshot below, their auto draws have some high-value prizes as well, so it would be good to get the same level of transparency in the Auto Draws as you do get with 7days Performance. At least I can’t tell how the draws are even performed, and if there is any proof of these being done properly. The only mention to Auto Draws from Rev Comps’ is as follows: “AUTO draw prizes are drawn using our random draw algorithm, 24/7 as soon as sold out OR on the guaranteed draw date/time shown on the prize page.” What does that mean exactly? No clue. I’m personally slightly dubious about any fancy automated system, as the rest of the website is a very basic WordPress page built with WP Page Builder + WooCommerce + a number of other plugins and customisations.
In an attempt to be somewhat compliant with the Gambling Commission’s guidelines, Rev Comps uses a similar blended approach as 7days Performance does: Offering a free postal entry so that they would be classified as a free draw, but also asking a question so that they could be considered as a prize competition.
As I’ve explained in my blog post about the difference of the two classifications and what Gambling Commission says; there are clear ways to be fully compliant. Rev Comps however, doesn’t fully comply with either.
Firstly, multiple choice questions aren’t even accepted as a valid part of a prize competition as they do not “fit the criteria” according to the Gambling Commission. But where Rev Comps really fails to make an effort is the question itself… The question they use has been the same question for eons, and it’s also an incredibly easy one. It is clearly for the sole purpose of having something on the website for the sake of ‘compliance’ and not being regulated. But it’s also by design a question, that will be so easy to answer so that nobody will be put off from entering the competition. Which again, is not compliant – quite the opposite.
Secondly, the free entry method is problematic. I don’t agree with the postal entry method being a legitimate way to offer free entries in the first place, but the way Rev Comps hides the free entry under the word “terms” (a link that leads to a separate page), is incredibly against the guidelines. The free entry method should be on same level as the paid is, and as prominent as the paid is, and easily found by the visitor. In this case, it’s none of those things (see screenshot below).
As a competition that has been running for years now, there is plenty of information available of Rev Comps’ track record. And as they appear to be constantly selling out on tickets (at least on some of the prizes), it appears to be very safe to enter one of their draws as they are unlikely to disappear any time soon. Though, going through and checking the winners is a bit laborous due to how their website works currently.
Rev Comps has a great selection of cars (most of the time), and there quite commonly is at least one ‘main prize’ car with a larger cash alternative, which would be the choice to go for if you were looking to win a life-changing amount of money.
As an example, at the time of writing this review you could win an R8, or take £70,000 in cash.
The odds of winning one of Rev Comps’ draws are better than other competitions, due to the draws having less available tickets when comparing to other competitions. However, if you adjust the odds based on the monetary value spend – the competition suddenly has similar odds to other competitions. While the higher ticket costs may increase the minimum cost of entering one of the competitions, if you for example spend £10 on a ticket in Rev Comps or £10 on multiple tickets on 7days Performance – your odds are suddenly roughly the same.
Due to the odds being decent, and the some of the prizes being high value, I think Rev Comps can be good value! Granted, due to the ticket costs being higher you are always forced to spend a bit more than if you were to enter other competitions. But if you are someone who always spend £10-20 in one go for a punt, it really doesn’t matter as long as you stick to 1-3 tickets at a time.
And even if the ticket prizes for some of their competitions are RIDICULOUS – the odds get ridiculous as well. As an example: Even if £149.97 for a ticket for a chance to win a used 2018 BMW sounds nuts, 1 in 399 chance sounds equally nuts. They seem to keep the value of prize, cost of entering, and the odds of winning very balanced (but do check each time before entering!).
Finally, Rev Comps also offers ‘Early Bird’ discounts, and pledges to not do any discounts to push the last ticket sales. Which is a nice touch, and you can use this to get even more value by entering into the main draws early enough. Unfortunately, some other competitions do discounts towards the end of the prize draw in case they haven’t sold all the tickets – in hopes of making some money – but in doing so screwing the other customers who may have already entered for a higher cost! Luckily, with Rev Comps you can enter any of the draws as early as you like, and not to have to worry about that.
Rev Comps has a page dedicated to their donations and charity work, and at the time of writing this review they’ve raised more than £500k for charities. However, there is no other proof as such other than an image and a bit of text, but I’m fairly sure we can take their word for it. Some of the sums are also quite hefty donations, and for good causes too!
As the page did not specify how much goes to charity and only says “a portion of profits”, I thought I’d have a look at their Companies House filings… Only to find out that actually they’ve not submitted their balance sheet as a part of the return, so it’s not easy to figure out how much they made money, and how much of this was donated. Something new every day, didn’t know there was a loophole that you can use so others can’t see your revenue! 
This appears to be normal for other companies and competitions from the looks of it, as 7days Performance and Dream Car Giveaways have also opted out as well from publishing how much profit they made.
I apologise if the following makes no sense or sounds like technical jargon, but the following does have to be pointed out! And this is also why I’m scoring the lowest possible score for the bonus point.
The following caught my eye from their Live Draw video from the 28th of October 2024: As per the screenshot below, there are 28 updates pending to WordPress, and the plugins installed. At the time of writing this review, the current WordPress version is 6.6.2 – and by looking at the website source code Rev Comps is still running on version 6.3.X which is more than a year old now. Also, the theme they used to make the website (Bridge) will most likely be out of date, in addition to most or all of the plugins – adding up to the 28 updates pending in total. Please note these are not cumulative updates, just 28 different things that need updating. Therefore, the actual amount of updates pending could be well in the hundreds!
Now you may ask: Why does this matter?
Well, allow me to elaborate! WordPress is an extremely open platform that allows websites (like this one!) to be created for very little to no cost, by people who may or may not have any experience in making websites. As it’s also a platform that currently over 40% of websites use, it’s also a platform that gets hacked frequently. There are some extremely serious security flaws that get exposed too frequently as well… But luckily WordPress does also frequently updated! Which is exactly the reason why you seriously need to keep your core WordPress and any themes and plugins you may be using up to date!
With all of the above being said; I need to ask: Would you knowingly save your name, email, address, and card details with a website that is months or years out of date – that is running on a platform that frequently has issues with security breaches and highly relies on being always up-to-date to combat these? I’d hope not!
In all sincerity, I hope they just get these issues sorted ASAP. But until they do, they won’t be scoring any points in this ‘Bonus Point’ section. I emphatise with the fact that it might be a right ol’ pain in the backside to update a WordPress website that has lots of customisations going for it as any update potentially breaks half the site… But come on guys, you can do it! Do it for your customers. You owe them that. And if you don’t know how to sort your website out, just go on Fiverr and pay someone to sort it out for you for a few hundred bob.
Notes
For the most parts it was very easy to find all the required information for this review. However, I was personally a bit disappointed by not being able to learn how the Auto Draws were performed, from an otherwise very transparent and legit competition (not just as someone who is in the process of reviewing a competition, but personally as someone who has entered some of these competitions and Auto Draws). I think I’ll still personally keep an eye out for prizes in the Live Draws that I might want to enter for, but I won’t be entering for a chance to win one of the Auto Draw prizes.
What I wasn’t expecting to find was how ‘old school’ and relaxed they are in terms of how everything is run and operated. This obviously is fine for most parts and makes for a good down-to-earth image as the operation isn’t overly polished. That being said; there are some serious issues with being this relaxed when it comes to websites and how secure they are (as per the Bonus section above).
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