Most common ways of winning prizes

lol I'm just being observational Jessica! It's like one competition the other day which I didn't enter but the question was something along the lines of what was your favourite stories your mother read you at bed time, some woman starts replying with well stories were very special to me since I was suffering with having Chemotherapy as a child etc etc..... Just find that kinda stuff really unnecessary.

I don't think the people are gaining themselves more entries into the comp by constantly retweeting, I think the companies just love the amount of desperation shown to go along with how much advertising they are getting from it by people spamming Twitter doing it. A lot of companies clearly show favourtism when picking out their winners and don't follow their own rules regarding a random draw. Not all, just some.

You have done well this year. I've had 2 small prizes. Only ever won 3 things in total on Twitter, one of them was never delivered to me as I think the American girl didn't bother sending it. And another prize I won I had taken back off me because I didn't reply within 1 hour to the company even though the rules didn't state it.

Instead of writing sob stories, I think you have to give them what they want, which is often surprisingly ordinary every day stories.
Like the women recently who won a Suzuki car with her short story about her 40 year old hubby who'd only just passed his driving test.
That beat a whole load of well written and ridiculous long boring sob stories.

Why? Because people like the ordinary, they can related to it, and that's why dumb programs like Big Brother are so popular on TV.