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Archives for September 2016

Clicks to Win...are they worth it?
Does anyone do the click to win competitions? Is it worth the effort? Any advice?
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Message from Capital re iPhone7 + £200 competition
Just received this email from Capital re this comp https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5528835 Thank you for entering our competition to win an iPhone 7 and £200 with Karhoo. Unfortunately, an error occurred with the competition so we haven’t been able to count your entry. But we wouldn’t want you to miss out…
Childrens mags
Where are the childrens magazines posted? If at all. I have 4 very young grandchildren. boys and girls and would love to win stuff for them , eg peppa pig , thomas tank , girls mags Thanks R.....
Reluctant to post comps
Hi All, I started this little hobby in mid August. I had to leave my full time job unexpectantly to become a carer to my daughter and am now at home everyday. i was finding this really difficult and this site has been a welcome distraction to the way my life has suddenly become. Ive had some fab prizes already and really…
Am I really wasting my time?
I've been comping for a good few years now, ever since I had glandular fever and was stuck in bed bored. Unfortunately for me I haven't been very consistent with it so I haven't won very much. I enjoy it, and it's always quite fun when there is a photo comp and I have to get outside and make a bit of a fool of myself to…
No winner announced after 1month
Hello guys, I was wondering how long it normally takes for a winner to be announced - is 1 month normal? There was a Channel 4 competition on Twitter for a tech bundle - it has ended August 28th and the winner was supposed to be announced on @C4winners account - still nothing. I have tweeted them and didn't get a response.…
latest windows update
This has taken nearly 3 hours to install and has wiped out the old IE version and Edge does not support roboform. will now do all my comping on Firefly oops Firefox.
TAB comps
If you have entered all your answers and submitted then why if you go back to the entry page it let's you enter again? Other mags say we have already received your entry. Makes me wonder if my entries are being recorded?
Thanking posters - do we all do it???
I'm just curious to know whether everyone 'thanks' the original poster for posting the competition if they enter it? I noticed that some are posting that they have won a particular post, but they are not listed as thanking the original poster. I thank the poster if I enter the competition and all the contributors if they…
Just a moan about being asked to "tag" ...
I've noticed that an increasing number of companies/comp runners are making "tagging" a requirement to enter comps. One that comes to mind is the regular Wallis one, who've just started asking for this. Must admit, I don't enter a lot of these as I don't want to bother others (unless it's a great prize :o ). Does it put…
Subscribe to Emails
Hi all, I've been comping for a little while... I sort of thought that companies might favour entrants who DO sign up to all of the newsletters, partner newsletters, etc that their competitions promote via tick boxes. Obviously now I'm getting about 430574502753290432 emails a day which I have no interest in! Fortunately…
Help please :)
Hi all I'm new to comping and need a bit of help please :) On the alphabetical list of daily comps can you enter them all even though alot seem to be doing the same competition? So is it one entry per comp or per site? Hope you get what I mean. Many thanks.
The baby website dairy acting strange
Dairy competition from thebabywebsite.com has started acting strange from yesterday. Everytime I click the competition items pop- up appear from the behind. Anyone else has this problem?
FB boo boo
Just realised that i have been sharing to friends not public :( boo :( i know they shouldn't ask you to share,,,
Beware Just Eat Competition
I had a competition in my inbox saying juat eat were giving away lots of prizes. It looked slightly suspicious but as it's my main e-mail that I use for juat eat I clixked through. The link it led to was…
Tombola free fivers login to claim before oct 28th!
https://www.tombola.co.uk/promotion/freefiverseptember2016/claim A Mon 19th September B Tue 20th September C Thur 22th September D Fri 23th September E, F Mon 26th September G Tue 27th September H Thur 29th September I, J Fri 30th September K Sun 2nd October First letter of your surname Date you can claim L Mon 3rd October…
Site issues?
Anyone having intermittent probs with the site or is it just me? Seems slow to load and sometimes I am getting an error msg...
Sorry another twitter question
Just to put my mind at ease, for those who have won on twitter, when it says F&RT do you put the #tags that they have like #Win #Manicmondays etc or do you just click the retweet button and then hit send? Ive not won anything yet, and so its hard to know whether that's just my bad luck or if I'm not even on the list, which…
Roboform not working?
My Roboform won't fill any forms in. I've disabled it and re-enabled it in Chrome but it still won't fill anything in. Any thoughts? Thanks :)

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