Competitions Discussion Thread Part 8

cathyj

judy2357 wrote: »

Im not sure if this is the right place to post, but can I just a question about email comps? What I want to know is when putting the answer do you just put the answer for instance "red" or do you put "answer: red" or doesnt it matter either way. Many thanks for your help.

Hi

I do the same as almac with roughly the same template, which I have found works well, it has all the info that they would need.

hjb123

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judy2357 wrote: »

Im not sure if this is the right place to post, but can I just a question about email comps? What I want to know is when putting the answer do you just put the answer for instance "red" or do you put "answer: red" or doesnt it matter either way. Many thanks for your help.

I have a standard thing that I copy and paste for email competitions that looks abit like:


Name
House Name
Village
Town
Postcode

email address

home phone number
mobile number

date of birth




I tend to put the answer at the beginning of the email but dont normally put answer - normally just the answer

Tom_H

I alwas put (as per judys example) "answer: red" but I don't think this wil make a differnce to be honest, I assume it works in most cases like this:

They'll have a filter system on the email which will pull out all the emails with the correct subject (this is why you should always make sure you get he subject correct - the smallest error could discount your entry!) then an e-mail will be picked at random and probably checked manualy, as the vast majority of entrys will be correct anyway!

I'm not 100% sure, but that's how I'd do it! even if they do filter by correct answer in the body of the e-mail - it would have to search the whole e-mail so having the word "answer" in front would be irrelivent.

So in summary - either way should be fine!

superhez

On the same lines, if a question is an a,b or c answer and you have to e-mail or fill it in a from, do you put for example

A

A) red

or just red ?

cathyj

superhez wrote: »

On the same lines, if a question is an a,b or c answer and you have to e-mail or fill it in a from, do you put for example

A

A) red

or just red ?

I personally would put a)red

hjb123

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superhez wrote: »

On the same lines, if a question is an a,b or c answer and you have to e-mail or fill it in a from, do you put for example

A

A) red

or just red ?

I normally just put the answer - ie in the example you have give I would just put 'red'

Nicky63

I don't need to ask if any of you have received the email from Ramada Docklands because I can see you have in the list of emails included in it!! Yup another one :mad:

I have emailed them expressing my disgust and thought you may all like the heads up on it!

VelvetGlove

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Afternoon folks! I'm after some assistance with the Comping Guide please

Just trying to catch up with comps & came across this thread where the comp organiser would prefer the answers not to be posted on the site & it is something that isn't already in the Guide. I thought it might help us all if there was a list we could refer back to for these types of sites...?

So I am asking for help identifying the sites which prefer answers not to be posted:

• Allinlondon.co.uk 'The Friday Four' - Do not post answers
• mumszone.co.uk - Do not post answers
• lawandmore.co.uk - Do not post any info other than a link to the comp on their site
• Any others.....?

Once the info is gathered, I'll put it into the Posting Comps Section, under a suitable heading like " Do any sites not want their comps/answers posted?"

Thanks for your help with this!

Edit - Thanks kipper, have updated those!

kipper_2-2

Rrickys is lawandmore.co.uk

Wokkies is mumszone.co.uk

Tom_H

Just a thought,

Has anyone on here ever won any of those competitions where you subscribe to a news letter, and they pick a newsletter subscriber every month to give a prize? So you only enter your e-mail address once, and it menas your entered into monthly draws indefinatly. It's just for some reason I don't trust most of them! But if they are genuine I figure some one on here would have won one by now!!

Hope I've made clear what I mean there!!