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Archives for September 2014

Anyone having issues with Click To Win Today?
Getting the following error on most entries domain / ckey mismatch (nnelAQrAhgbGxtxKsBqLnEDR1Y0vMU7X)
Have you ever refused or returned a prize.
I just wondered if any of you have ever returned a prize? I really really really want to see a particular show and was thrilled when I got an email today saying I had won tickets for it. When I told my partner, his face dropped and and admitted he has got us tickets to celebrate my birthday in November. The tickets I have…
Have I won or is this a standard email from The Guardian?
Hi I hope that someone can help me with this. I love the competitions board and all that post. It helps keep my sane, when I live with ill health. So thank you all who post! Today I received an email, which comes from theGuardian. It says, Congratulations ******! You are one of our lucky Guardian Extra winners of a 12…
Got really excited for a minute....
So a delivery guy just knocked on the door, I see he has a huge box, and I think oh wow I wonder what that is, what win could it be..... Nope it's for next door :(
Roboform Question
I've had RoboForm for a while now with no problems. I have a 2 week holiday.....and it's playing up big time! It seems to only fill some forms out...eg - Netmums clicked and filled without probs and some Guardian are not working too. Any ideas anybody please? Ta v Much :)
How long to win?
I've literally just started entering things today again after a long break (was disheartened as did it did a while & didn't win anything!) How long did it take you to get your first win, how often do you seem to win & how long per day do you spend entering?
Anyone had a message from number 0114 2521203
Just had call and a message from the above number saying that they have received the photograph from the photographer but wanted to know which paper they wanted to put it into?? Think they said it was "cute kids" but not sure Confused as little one has not had a photo done for the paper but they asked for me by name
good read wins
how long do they generally take? obviously as they are all sent from different people/places/different class post etc there will be variations but are they usually quite quick? now won 3 from there :D
Anyone else having this RC/Twitter issue?
Lately, perhaps for the last couple of weeks or so, when I retweet within RC I often get an error message: "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!" When I go to my Twitter page, the retweet shows, and I can copy the url from there. But when I click from the RC link, prob around 30% of them pull the error message. Is it just me?…
Sky/Virgin package wins
We are currently on Virgin Media and I am just curious to know a couple of things. If you win a prize and you are already with that company do they cancel your payments for a year then when it's finished you pay again? Is this the same if you are not on the full package that the prize is? Have anyone ever won a package and…
What do the Travel/Hotel Companies Achieve?
I'm so sorry if this has been asked before. When companies give away, for example, two week holidays to somewhere exotic with everything included, what do they gain from it? Sometimes the win is with a third party (e.g. Best Loved Hotels give away weekends). It's just something I always wondered!
How well are people doing with Twitter competitions?
Hey, I have a twitter account for competitions (so I don't spam my main account) and I have entered hundreds of these "follow and retweet" competitions. Although as of yet, I haven't won any. I was wondering if anyone else has had better luck with Twitter? :)
Postal Board Feedback
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for posting i really love the new lay out and i found it a lot quicker to navigate we just need the mag dailies all on one place and off the main board then it would be ideal :) thanks again all,Wishing you all loads of luck on the run up to xmas and beyond xx
Just wondering.....
....what you do whilst comping? Watch television? Have the radio on? Chant lucky mantras? Just being nosey :) I'm currently listening to War of the Worlds (Jeff Wayne) whilst merrily comping.
I'm lost sorry (postal comps)
Hi Guys, I'm sorry if this is obvious, but I've lost where the current ITV postal comps are - they don't seem to be on the old postal thread or on the new forum (the seems to be a gap between when the one ended and the other started). Can you point me in the right direct please? Many thanks in advance :)
iPads and spam/comp emails - a little warning!
I just wanted to send a word of warning out to my fellow compers who use iPads to comp, if like me you get loads of emails due to the flaws in online comping of not ticking the right boxes, having to subscribe to enter etc please make sure you delete or unsubscribe them. I have learnt my lesson tonight, I noticed the iPad…
Trouble with mag comps
The trouble with mag comps is.. Well none of them seem to be saving my address properly, they miss out my house number every time I save, it just dissapears. It is driving me looopy! Does anyone else have this problem? xx
posted in wrong place
wrong place please delete
reporting self promo
ive reported in the past with no problem today when i reported one i recieved in the standard emaill saying in future could you provide links to why you think its self promotion how ma i supposed to do that if its just a gut feeling i thought the point was for us to report it then the mods sort all the rest out
Quick Q about the click to wins.
I do the magazin daileys or click to wins (sorry, I get confused with whats what), basically the ones with a load of prizes shown, you click, enter your email address and the captcha and thats it. Some of the, you fill th form, click, it then takes you to the next prize in the line. Some you click and it takes you back to…

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