Raffle Winners Celebrate New Beginnings with Premyo sa Resibo
Press Release January 23, 2009
Raffle Winners Celebrate New Beginnings with Premyo sa Resibo
BIR Commissioner SIXTO S. ESQUIVIAS IV with Ms. Zonnie Espiritu, December 19, 2008 Christmas Draw winner of ONE MILLION PESOS.
BIR Commissioner SIXTO S. ESQUIVIAS IV with Mr. George Pastolero, December 19, 2008 Christmas Draw winner of a Brand New Toyota Vios.
New year is a time for new beginnings and nowhere is this more true than for the three lucky winners of Premyo sa Resibo, who shared stories of renewed faith, the birth of a long cherished dream and even reassurance from an uncertain future.
Public relations consultant Zonnie Dejuras Espiritu was not a regular church-goer but her daughter urging her to attend first Friday mass resulted in an unexpected blessing as she received a call that she had won the P1 million grand prize in Premyo sa Resibo.
The feeling that this was a miracle became even stronger as she struggled for days to find the winning receipt, only to discover it hidden among bills during the Feast of the Black Nazarene.
“I was there at 9 in the morning and I was just praying that I could find it. None of my family and friends knew that I was stressed because I didn’t want them to be upset,” narrated Zonnie.
“That evening at home, I was looking for my phone bill and I found it near the TV. I turned on the TV and I was opening the envelope I could hear them saying they were bringing the Nazarene in the Church. Then, tinignan ko at halos himatayin ako. Ilang araw kong hinahanap and that day, nakuha ko. Totoo nga ang Nazareno,” she declared.
Zonnie is setting aside the money to assure the future of her three children and is looking at investment opportunities for her P1 million prize.
For Jorge Pastolero, who won a brand new Toyota Vios, the prize will be a gift to his wife Princess Mae, who has dreamed of putting up her own business. The sale of the car will allow the couple to build a sari-sari store which his wife will manage.
As for Charlemagne Marin, who won P100,000, the prize helps ease his worries about a possible slowdown this year, owing to the economic crisis. As a seismic surveyor dependent on overseas projects, he plans to save his prize money.
“I’m so happy because this really helps a lot during this time of financial crisis,” he said. “There might be limited expansion so for now, save lang muna ng save.”
2009 welcomes an even bigger Premyo sa Resibo, with more raffle draws to increase your chances of winning. Starting December 20, daily draws is giving away P5,000 to two lucky winners, also 2 lucky winners gets P25,000 in weekly draws and P1 million every two weeks.
To qualify, consumers only need to text the following information using their mobile phone: PSR
Receipts over P100 may be entered as multiple raffle entries in Premyo Sa Resibo as well. Every P100 increment sent with the same information above to 9778 earns 1 entry to the raffle.
A maximum of 600 raffle entries can be issued per text entry receipt. Each raffle entry costs P2.50.
Consumers can also enter their SM Official Receipts in the raffle by visiting the Bills Payment Counter or approaching SM customer service personnel for more information.
All Premyo Sa Resibo winners will be notified and contacted by an official Philweb representative only coming from telephone number (02) 886-5995.
Premyo sa Resibo, an SMS-based raffle project undertaken to support the efforts of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to plug leakages in the tax collection system, has awarded more than P123 million and has engaged more than 136 million entries since 2006.
According to the BIR, the Premyo sa Resibo program was put in place to motivate consumers to demand an official receipt for all their purchases and to encourage professionals, private businesses and commercial establishments to register their official receipts and to issue these to their customers and clients.
For more information on the rules and regulations of the SMS-based promo, visit: http://www.premyosaresibo.com.ph
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