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That's Life CTWs

They seem to have changed the format so that now they tell you which ones to enter! It's no longer set out as pages, for example, 1 - 13 but as 7 or so competitions on one page which as you enter them you are then presented with more to enter but if you reach a stage where you don't want to enter what is shown then that's your lot. I hope I'm making myself clear - it all feels a bit mad! Has anyone else found this?
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  • hdh74
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    Yes, I don't like it at all.
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  • mjm3346
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    At least one of the other sites has been doing that for months, I suspect they will all end up that way.
  • Good. I need an excuse to stop wasting my life on them! Thanks all :D
  • mjm3346
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    Good. I need an excuse to stop wasting my life on them! Thanks all :D


    Just had a further look and they are not nice especially if you only want to enter a few but from the index page you can still select each page but it means each competition you want to enter must then be opened (and closed) in a new tab.
  • Thanks mjm. I'm already questioning whether it's worth doing them but doing every one in a new tab? Not going to happen! This might be just the push I need!
  • hamsterfan1
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    dound this with mobile mag dailies too
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  • Blulu
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    The way I do these this is not a problem. I open a click to win page, for example, That's Life. I keep that page open as my working page. So in this case it is page 1 of 13. Then I go through that page and click on the ones I want to enter with my mouse wheel. This opens each one I click on in a new tab, but my working page stays open. Then I do the same with page 2, and a few more pages, until I have a good row of tabs to work on. Then I quickly go through the tabs one by one entering each comp and closing the tab. When I get back to my working page, and carry on from where I'd stopped. I hope that makes sense. I'm probably making it sound more complicated than it is. Try it to see if you can make sense of it. I think it's the quickest way to do the CTWs, and it doesn't matter what format the landing page takes, because once you've entered you close that page anyway.

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  • Thanks for that Blu - I'll give that a try tomorrow :)
  • hdh74
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    Also the closer ones seem to hang on 'processing' for ages since that site changed. All these tweaks are really slowing things down.
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  • Blulu wrote: »
    The way I do these this is not a problem. I open a click to win page, for example, That's Life. I keep that page open as my working page. So in this case it is page 1 of 13. Then I go through that page and click on the ones I want to enter with my mouse wheel. This opens each one I click on in a new tab, but my working page stays open. Then I do the same with page 2, and a few more pages, until I have a good row of tabs to work on. Then I quickly go through the tabs one by one entering each comp and closing the tab. When I get back to my working page, and carry on from where I'd stopped. I hope that makes sense. I'm probably making it sound more complicated than it is. Try it to see if you can make sense of it. I think it's the quickest way to do the CTWs, and it doesn't matter what format the landing page takes, because once you've entered you close that page anyway.

    Blu X

    This is exactly how I was doing it when they first started, I now do it slightly differently which I find is a bit quicker. I do the first one and then it takes you to the ones it suggests you enter, I enter all the ones that I want to enter in turn until the ones presented are ones I don't want to enter. I then go through each page and open each one that is left I want to enter in a new tab, when I have all tabs open I then enter and close each tab. This way you don't need to open and close as many tabs and makes the job slightly quicker. I hope I made sense, I know what I mean anyway :p
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