Every 6th order is free

Every 6th order is free.

It's that simple: you order as usual with delivery to Germany and tick the newsletter box at checkout. If you are already subscribed to our newsletter, you take part automatically. We count all participating orders in the order in which they reach us. Every sixth one gets its money back, up to €300, automatically to your payment method, usually within a few hours of your order. Whether your order was one of them, you will find out by e-mail with the refund. There is nothing else you need to do. Each person can win once.

Four questions, four answers:

Can I see whether I have won before I pay? No. Counting happens automatically shortly after the order, usually within an hour; if you have won, you will receive an e-mail. Nobody finds out anything beforehand, which is what keeps it fair for everyone.

What about codes and ongoing offers? They count as normal. Free is free, up to €300. There is no minimum order value.

I'm already a newsletter subscriber. Do I still need to tick the box? No, your order takes part automatically when you order with the subscribed e-mail address. Ticking the box doesn't hurt, though.

What happens if I send something back from an order I received for free? You can return items as with any other order. If the win has already given you back everything you paid by PayPal or card, a return changes nothing. Otherwise, a return gets you in total the price of the returned items plus the win on the items you keep (maximum €300), minus the prize refund you have already received.

Terms and conditions "Every 6th order is free"

1. Organiser

The organiser of the promotion "Every 6th order is free" is AReO Handel GmbH, Regina-Ullmann-Straße 45, 81927 München (Amtsgericht München, HRB 282189) (hereinafter "we"). The promotion is not connected to PayPal, Viva.com or any other payment service provider.

2. Period

The promotion runs from 10 November 2026 up to and including 22 November 2026 (the order date is decisive). We will announce an earlier end or an extension on this page. Orders placed before such an announcement still take part in any case.

3. Who takes part

All orders placed on dirndl.com during the promotion period take part if they meet all of the following conditions:

• The customer is at least 18 years old and orders as a consumer.
• The delivery address is in Germany and the order goes through the dirndl.com checkout. Orders placed through our international service provider Global-e (delivery outside Germany) do not take part.
• At checkout, the box "Subscribe to the newsletter and take part in 'Every 6th order is free'" is ticked, or the e-mail address used is already subscribed to our newsletter at the time of the order.
• An amount was paid for the order by PayPal or card. Orders with no amount paid (for example, paid in full with a gift card) do not take part.

There is no minimum order value. Orders with campaign codes or from ongoing offers take part as well; the amount actually paid is what counts.

Taking part is linked to subscribing to our newsletter: you take part, and we may send you our newsletter. If you do not want the newsletter, you can order as usual without ticking the box, at the same prices, and you will not take part. If our newsletter requires confirmation by e-mail (double opt-in), we only send the newsletter after this confirmation; participation in the promotion begins as soon as the box is ticked. The newsletter can be unsubscribed at any time via the link in every e-mail. Refunds already received are not affected; orders placed after unsubscribing no longer take part.

Employees of the organiser and of the service providers involved in the promotion (in particular warehouse and shipping), as well as their relatives, are excluded from taking part. Also excluded are commercial customers and resellers, test orders, and orders that are cancelled before they are numbered. A cancellation or withdrawal after numbering does not change the number assigned; a prize refund already received is credited in accordance with section 6.

4. How counting works

All participating orders are numbered consecutively in the order in which they are received, across all customers; the order time recorded in our shop system is decisive. Numbering takes place in regular runs, usually within an hour of the order; an order whose payment is only recorded in our system later is placed in the next run. Every order whose running number is divisible by 6 wins. There is no draw, and neither we nor participants can influence the sequence. Counting refers to all participating orders in the shop, not to the orders of a single person. Whether an order has won is only determined when it is numbered; no information about this is given beforehand, not even on request. The numbering is noted on the order and can be disclosed on request for your own order.

One win per participant. Each person can win at most once during the promotion period. After a win, further orders by the same person no longer take part in the count and receive no number. Orders with the same e-mail address, the same customer account or the same delivery address (surname, street with house number and postcode) count as the same person.

5. The prize

The prize is the refund of the amount paid for the order, including shipping costs, up to a maximum of €300 per order. Portions paid with gift cards or credit are not refunded; when paying with several payment methods, the refund is made to these one after another, starting with the largest amount, in each case up to the amount paid with it. The refund is made automatically, usually within a few hours of the order, to the payment method used for the order; until the amount is visible there, further working days may pass depending on the provider. Winners are notified by e-mail at the address given with the order. Payout in any other form, transfer to other persons or crediting against other orders is not possible. If the amount paid exceeds €300, the part above that remains paid.

6. Withdrawal and returns

The statutory right of withdrawal and our return rules continue to apply unchanged. The prize is the advance refund of the purchase price for the items you keep. If you return items from a winning order, the prize is recalculated on the items you keep (maximum €300), and the refund already received is credited against the repayment. In total you therefore receive the purchase price of the returned items plus the prize on the items you keep, never less than you are entitled to by law, but also no amount twice. If the prize refund has already repaid the entire amount paid by PayPal or card, a return changes nothing about this; there is then neither a further payment nor a claim for repayment. Otherwise, a return gets you in total the purchase price of the returned items plus the prize on the items you keep (maximum €300), minus the prize refund already received. If an order is cancelled before it is numbered, it does not take part in the count; a cancellation or withdrawal after numbering does not change the number assigned (section 3). If no prize refund had been paid out at the time of cancellation, it lapses and the person does not count as a winner.

7. Exclusion of participants

We may exclude participants who violate these terms, who use several customer accounts, variant spellings of addresses or false information to win more than once, or who interfere with the count. In such cases we may reclaim a refund already made.

8. Data protection

To run the promotion, we process the order data (order number, order date, amount paid, country and address of delivery, e-mail address, customer account) and the newsletter status. The legal basis for running the promotion is the performance of the agreement entered into by taking part (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); we process the newsletter subscription in accordance with our privacy policy (dirndl.com/en/policies/privacy-policy). Data is not passed on to third parties beyond the service providers needed to handle the promotion (shop operation, payment processing, shipping). To enforce the rule "one win per participant", we additionally store, for winning orders, pseudonymised checksums of the e-mail address, customer account and delivery address (keyed procedure, only we can attribute them; the legal basis is our legitimate interest in preventing multiple wins, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); we delete these checksums no later than twelve months after the end of the promotion. The numbering is stored as a note on the order and is subject to the same retention periods as the order data (up to ten years under commercial and tax law).

9. Miscellaneous

The promotion is a prize promotion with an advertising purpose. No fee is charged for taking part; the prices of the goods are the same with and without taking part. The determination of the winning numbers on the basis of the documented order sequence is binding; recourse to the courts is excluded to that extent. Should individual provisions be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is not affected. The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies; mandatory consumer protection provisions remain unaffected.

Last updated: 10 November 2026