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How many competitions do you enter a day/week?

Just curious. =)
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  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
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    I enter about 10 postcard comps and about 20 online comps per day.
    2008 Comping Challenge
    Won so far - £3010 Needed - £230
    Debt free since Oct 2004
  • Has it been worth your while... as in, have you had much success overall?
  • I've only just started in the last 2 weeks - yet to win a thing!
  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
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    Yes I have won a few things but nothing really big yet. It is worth my while doing them.
    2008 Comping Challenge
    Won so far - £3010 Needed - £230
    Debt free since Oct 2004
  • I enter about 10 postcard comps and about 20 online comps per day.

    Where do you find your comps ??
  • Im a member of Loquax and enter the closing competitions each day so probably enter about 200 comps a week :eek:

    Havent wone anything for a while but have won some good thing like concert tickets, Dvds etc
  • Hi Folks

    I've comping for over eight years and have won many hundreds of prizes in this period although very few from Net comps!

    Its not the quantity that counts its the quality!

    Every week there are dozens of comps in quality magazines and large supermarkets always have plenty of entry forms relating to pruducts. Most of the mag one can be read in WH Smith for nothing (take a pen) and are high value comps.

    Best of all join a club where you can swap with like minded people and who have experience of winning and how to win.

    If anyone wants further information on a comping club to join please PM me with a contact email so I can send you further information.

    Once you train your eye to spot only items/magzines that say "Win This or That" you will start find a selection of better comps.

    Tie-breaker comps are always read altough this is skill you learn as you progress. Prize draws mean just that! They pull a card out on the bin with the other million there!

    Remember the old adage- The more I practise the luckier I get!

    Comperking
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  • dinkie_2
    dinkie_2 Posts: 198 Forumite
    I was thinking about the same earlier ... which are the best competitions to go for, lots of draws or competitions that need more time and effort. Just started doing competitions a couple of weeks ago, spending a few hours a couple of times a week, and then a few quick check-in's with main sites daily, and won first prize in years, which is encouraging! Today wrote a poem and entered it into the Ottakers poetry competition, as my first attempt at putting a bit more effort into competitions that may receive less entries/need more work!

    Great advice. Will look more for magazine and supermarket comps, etc. Makes it even more interesting I think, when have to use brain more, and learn through writing and quizzes and stuff like that.

    Cat
  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
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    I'm a member of loquax and also Uk Competitions. It also hasn't been unknown for me to stand in the magazine section of Asda typing comps into the notebook on my mobile phone. Until you get a funny look from the staff that is :o
    2008 Comping Challenge
    Won so far - £3010 Needed - £230
    Debt free since Oct 2004
  • liney
    liney Posts: 5,121 Forumite
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    You spend £14 quid a week on stamps, plus postcards?
    "On behalf of teachers, I'd like to dedicate this award to Michael Gove and I mean dedicate in the Anglo Saxon sense which means insert roughly into the anus of." My hero, Mr Steer.
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