Competitions Discussion Thread Part 10

fire**fly

weeowen67 wrote: »

The other problem I see with posting a load of text in a comps post is that any comments can be lost off the screen view.I can be a bit quick when entering and have missed relevant comments because they are way down the page behind a big picture and loads of text.

weeowen67 wrote: »

I'm glad that admin has reinforced this point.I've always felt it was covered in this post re copying text......... http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1148799
I lot of people copy pictures directly from the promotors sites and post them on here.Some of the regulars have started to use stock/copyright pictures so maybe this gets round the hotlinking problem but I remain doubtful.
Each to their own but I've not tended to post large amounts of text or pictures but when I've mentioned this I felt I was knocked back.Hopefully we wll all adhere to this admin rule as not do so may put the future of this section of MSE in jeopardy.
I'd not imagine that the smileys etc are covered by this and should be ok.

thanks weeowen, will make sure piccies are only little ones if i use them :beer:

weeowens

I think it's not so much the size that MSE has a problem with but where they are from.For a web site owner to put things on his site bandwith is required.Any pictures that we put on here that are hosted elsewhere reduce that sites owners ability to operate as he would wish as his bandwith is being used elsewhere.At least this is how I understand it.
Sites such as Photobucket etc are fine on here as that is their expressed purpose ie to host pictures for others to access.

isitenough

I do agree with the pictures comment and the text - to a degree. Text is important if it's relevant T&C's - specially dates etc...Not everyone can access the T&C's and they do disappear after the comp has finished. But yes, a limit as to what we can put has always been pointed out but people ignore it.

kirstdibby

Hi im hoping someone may know what i have done and how to undo as i am stuck! i was entering an ITV competition with the 2 word image that you enter at the bottom and must have accidently clikced on something as the image just disappeared and couldnt get it back so i closed down the tab and tried again but no luck then when i tried to enter another ITV comp the image wasnt there either so dont know what i have done- has anyone done this before and do you know how to solve it as cant enter the comps with out the image!?

Thanks kirsty

Amilucky?

kirstyandy wrote: »

Hi im hoping someone may know what i have done and how to undo as i am stuck! i was entering an ITV competition with the 2 word image that you enter at the bottom and must have accidently clikced on something as the image just disappeared and couldnt get it back so i closed down the tab and tried again but no luck then when i tried to enter another ITV comp the image wasnt there either so dont know what i have done- has anyone done this before and do you know how to solve it as cant enter the comps with out the image!?

Thanks kirsty

If your are using ff you may have blocked the images go to Tools > Options > Content > Load Images Automatically? and delete anything in the second box

Best of Luck

kirstdibby

Thank you so much
That worked! didnt even know you could block images but i will be much more careful from now on and try not to be so clumsy!

hannoja

RuBy wrote: »

I entered one of many competitions of their site today, and received an email:

Thanks for signing up to Findmepoker.com. The full search capabilities of the site will become live over the next few months, while we sign more and more casinos up to our service. It will always remain FREE to our users, we anticipate the site to fully launch in January 2010.
In the interim, we will send you one of our limited edition Findmepoker.com pens, as a thank you for signing up. Please note these are limited to 1 per user.
www.findmepoker.com the online portal for real life poker!
We will be in touch soon,

Customer services at FindMePoker.com.




I never at any stage signed up to this site, so I queried this and was told it was an automatic sign up from Myfamilyuk.


Be careful , The prizes do seem to be too good to be true and now I know they are.


Who knows what other sites they have given my details to.

Hi RuBy

I posted some comps. earlier for myfamilyuk and someone asked if it was 'spammy'.
I had no reason to think so, it's not on the list of ones to watch in the Comping Guide (near end of post 7), and seems to be regularly posted without issues... It also checks out okay with Norton and Google on LinkExtend, but I did more digging and arrived here.

May I ask what kind of comp. it was that you entered? The reason I ask is that the only other posts I can find on MSE which suggest it's spammy are on holiday comps. here and here. Maybe it's not MyFamily, but the particular sites that each comp. is for..?

ginjim wrote: »

myfamilyuk are now an affiliated link site
so its gone quite spammy

Is this for anything on there, or certain 'types' of comps..? (holidays, win at the bingo, or whatever..).

Their T&Cs include things like:

When you register your details (your real first name, last name, postal address, e-mail address and other relevant information) you agree to have those details validated, receive advertiser and prize draw offers and questionnaires by e-mail.

Sorry for the long post. Just trying to find out if it's definitely one to avoid. If so, I'll send VelvetGlove a PM to ask for it to be added to the 'dodgy list'.

Amilucky?

It appears that Myfamily are another permission marketing company and one of those sites that share there prizes, if the prizes seem to good to be true it's because the prize is shared between numerous sites and even though the comp is on all of the sites there is only one prize winner

do a search on the big prizes and you will see them on the permission marketing sites like MyOffers, Fair Exchange, Getmeaticket, Win 4 Now etc

My family Win a Mini Cooper
http://www.myfamilyuk.com/Competitions/Latest-Offers/competitions-win-a-mini-cooper.html

!!!!!!! Win a Mini Cooper
http://!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/win-a-car

MyOffers Win a Mini Cooper
http://www.myoffers.co.uk/win-a-mini-cooper-7918-4.asp

Instant!!!!!!! Win a Mini Cooper
http://www.instant!!!!!!!.co.uk/competition/mini_coop?ID=null

Coincidence I think not the !!!!!'s are because the sites have been blocked by mse :rolleyes:

The myfamilys win a £5,000 Spanish holiday was linked to Club La Costa & Fair Exchange - PDV Ltd
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1981447

Fair Exchange Club La Costa and PDV LTD are on the sites to avoid list so if myfamily are prepared to share information with known spam sites then I think that they should also be on the list of sites to avoid

incidentlly Fair Exchange are still running the win a £5,000 Spanish holiday comp on there site http://www.fair-exchange.com/reg/q/76027.html

if you decide to enter I wish you the very best of luck!

the myfamily site has been added on to my sites to avoid list and I won't be entering any of there competitions again

The_3rd_Zebu

I wonder how many entries those sites receive for those competitions.

isitenough

Re: the Classic Car magazine competitions recently posted by elver man and answer investigated by missielizzie!
I did post on one but didn't want to bump anymore so am posting the comment here.
Could be the Jan issue we have to wait for to find the answer, as they usually run a month ahead of the current date (ie. December is out in November etc...). What do you reckon? Is that logical or has my mellow birds got to me?!