Comping Guide - Getting Started & Other FAQs

toniq

Just realised I was already in the do not post guide....................

fire**fly

hi VG, we now have 4 BG's on comps board & have had for a few weeks now,
Board Guides : 4
Glad, Misslayed, I Love comps, sarah1972

(pm also sent you).

VelvetGlove

Helloooooo!

Board Guide has been updated today with the new BGs (Thanks for the pm fire**fly x)

(Belated congrats to them )

cornishpasty1

VelvetGlove wrote: »

Posting Comps

11 Are there any sites, from experience, which are likely to generate lots of spam?
There are a few which have come to our collective attention as sites that, when used for comps, seem to generate lots of unwanted postal, email & phone call attention. These are listed below for your information, however, please do remember this is the collective opinion of other MSE Compers & does not necessarily reflect upon the sites themselves.

2minutedraw
4FreeUK
ABCWins
ActiveYou
BonAccordLife (spam calls, info here)
Bouncing-Babies
Cashillion
Catalink
Clash Club
Clash media
Club La Costa
Consumer Lifestyles
Consumer Opinions
Craftomatic Beds (Comps appear to be just a way to get a salesman into your home, especially if vulnerable/alone)
Emailinform
eGENTIC (see Planet49 below)
EZ Prize Giveaway
Fair Exchange
FindAPrize (questions raised if prizes awarded, slight spam, non existant company address? Info here & here)
Foresters (pestered with calls and even salesmen turning up. See here and here for more info)
Freeb.ie
GetMeATicket
GetYourBillsPaid
GreatUKsurveys
Guide2Win
HelloMagazine (offers.hellomagazine.com - comps on this URL have caused spam to some compers, be aware!)
InstantPrizeDraw
Just-Rewards
Lingscars
MyConsumer
MyFamilyUK
MyOffers
NoizeMakesEnemies (Care - your profile with name, address, phone number & email appear to be on show with no way to make it private!)
Nuts (comps.nuts.co.uk - comps on this URL run by data collecting co. Data Media & Research Ltd.)
OffersClick
OfferX
Opinioniser
Optical Express (have pestered with calls, more info here and here - scroll to posts 12 Nov'12 onwards)
Optimax
PenicuUK.com (linked to Weatherseal below)
PickUpThe Prizes
Planet49 (please read here, here, here & here for more info, aka: eGENTIC )
PlayAndWin (beware emails received, see this thread for info)
Plum Offers
PostcodeLottery (see here, here, here & here - don't confuse with FreePostcodeLottery who are fine)
Premier Christian Radio (postal junk mail even when you opt out)
Prize4U
Prizes.UK
PrizePunch
PrizeStore
RewardsToday
Sandersons Blinds (various comp sites but prize is for blinds from this company, Thomas Sanderson - pestered very badly, read here for more info)
ShopBe
Simple2Win
SoapBoxSurvey
SoFreebies
Space Kitchens (see thread here)
SupremeOGlaze (linked to Weatherseal below)TheStarPrize
Swooosh
Tickbox
Topfox
Toyhound
UKDailyDeals
UkPrize
UK-PrizeDraw
Vaniki
VoiceInACrowd
Vouch4me
WatchMyWallet
Weatherseal
Weather Wherever
Whats On TV (now 'powered by Instant Win 4 Now')
Willowbrook (chairs) (pestered with phone calls quite badly on some comps - see here and also here)
Win 4 Now
Win24
YouLoveFreebies
Zenith Windows (linked to Weatherseal above)
Ziinga (beware emails received, see this thread for info)

Do you think help-link should be put on the list (from comments by hididdlediddle in post 4)?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5627609

One-Eye

cornishpasty1 wrote: »

Do you think help-link should be put on the list (from comments by hididdlediddle in post 4)?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5627609

I don't think they should be put on the list. If you enter their comp and remove the tick from the "more info" box they do not spam you. The person who was spammed asked for a boiler quotation - it was not because of entering their comp.

missprice

cornishpasty1 wrote: »

Do you think help-link should be put on the list (from comments by hididdlediddle in post 4)?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5627609

One-Eye wrote: »

I don't think they should be put on the list. If you enter their comp and remove the tick from the "more info" box they do not spam you. The person who was spammed asked for a boiler quotation - it was not because of entering their comp.

Can't find full list, is help-link on it? If. Not I will post this months. Many thanks and if someone posts a link to the list i will save it so I don't have to ask again :rotfl:

One-Eye

missprice wrote: »

Can't find full list, is help-link on it? If. Not I will post this months. Many thanks and if someone posts a link to the list i will save it so I don't have to ask again :rotfl:

help-link has not been added.

Quickest way to the list is to scroll up slightly from https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/12238015#Comment_12238015

fire**fly

hi VG, please could you add
http://tastetheseasons.co.uk/
to the
please DO NOT post competitions at the request of the owner.
pm sent you.

site owner
Find all posts by tastetheseasons
note that our competitions are for readers of Taste the Seasons only.
Entries submitted via competition websites and forums
will NOT be accepted.

message also sent to BG Misslayed, for information
& forum team.

VelvetGlove

Received a pm to add a site to the: 4 Do any sites not want their comps/answers posted?

• TasteTheSeasons.co.uk - Don't post comps

Thanks to fire**fly for letting me know




To find this part of the Guide and the 'spam list', in the first post of the thread you can roll down to the section 'Posting Comps' and click on that heading. Automatically it will jump down the thread to there and can scroll down to 4 which is the 'don't post comps/answers' and 11 which is our spam list.

VelvetGlove

Hi All,

Just had an email from Photobucket to say they want $399.99 a year to reinstate 3rd party hosting (what I use to display the images in the Guide).

I'll be looking for another solution this weekend - as Photobucket isn't a possibility if they want to charge! I'll get it sorted as soon as I can but if anyone has somewhere they use for stuff like this please let me know