Comping Guide - Getting Started & Other FAQs

lorraine1980

Connie_Dobbs wrote: »

I used to use my own page but friends were complaining so i set up a comp only fb page. It's much easier!

Thank you! Just wanted to get some opinions, I imagine my friends would get annoyed too :rotfl:

Mystic_Charm

You're only permitted to have one FB account. Your friends, and family that don't won't to be bombarded with comps have the option to hide those posts. Can't remember how, but I'm sure somebody will be able to help you with that.

Connie_Dobbs

Mystic_Charm wrote: »

You're only permitted to have one FB account. Your friends, and family that don't won't to be bombarded with comps have the option to hide those posts. Can't remember how, but I'm sure somebody will be able to help you with that.

Can you link me to that rule please?

weeowens

Connie_Dobbs wrote: »

Can you link me to that rule please?

Hope this helps.

http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

Registration and Account Security

Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:

1. You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
2. You will not create more than one personal account.
3. If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.

misswalsh

thanks for this guide. i have entered a few and never won, so i gave up, thinking i had no luck! but im back to comping

VelvetGlove

welcome back to comping misswalsh You are welcome & the very best of luck!

One-Eye

Hi VG,

https://www.watchgeezer.co.uk has requested on their Facebook that the answers to their comps are not posted on forums, so they need to added to the list in post #7 subsection 4.

VelvetGlove

One-Eye wrote: »

Hi VG,

www.watchgeezer.co.uk has requested on their Facebook that the answers to their comps are not posted on forums, so they need to added to the list in post #7 subsection 4.

Hi One-Eye.

Thanks very much for the info, just checked out their FB page & I can see their request. Bless them for being so polite I'll add their site to the list straight away.

imapoorstudent

Here's a tip all you Firefox users. This post suggests that you can't link from MSE anymore toThat's Life:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4058659

There's a good add-on called RefControl which can be found here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

Install it and set the default action to forge. The reason it doesn't allow it is because as part of the request for a page, you send it the referrer address which is the current page you're on. Installing the add-on and setting the forge option will basically change the referrer of every page to the home page of the current site. So for example, when you click a link to a That's Life competition, it will think you came straight from their home page!

Also this will get around a lot of rules the sites put in place. For instance, it's really simple to invalidate all entries which came from a comping site by checking the referrer. I imagine some sites probably do this, especially those who hate these sites...

toniq

Hi Flaming B!

Hope you are well,

Could you add SugarandVice to the do not post list.
They asked on a post where a comp of theirs had been posted,it has now been deleted.

Regards

Toni

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