Competitions Discussion Thread Part 10

kisto

Matryoshka wrote: »

Lucky girl. I'm way, way, way behind Going to do closing tomorrow before I hit the sack (sigh). Any tips? I only work part-time so should be on the level.

I enter comps in exactly the same way as toniq and essentially I'm just going to echo everything she has said (as it's good advice)! I don't like doing it by end date because comps often close early and it feels like a rushed way of comping. Like toniq says... you'll need to put in a bit of an effort to switch from entering by "end date" to "thread start time" but I think it took me about a weekend to do it.

Now, each time I come on here, I go to the bottom of the forum and on the drop down I choose sorted by "Thread Start Time". I then start with the most recently posted comp and work my way back to where I got yesterday (and I'll know when I have reached that point because the posts will have been thanked). If I get tired or bored I just write down the date/time of the post I got to (or another option is to subscribe to it) so that I know how far I got to. When I come back next I go to where I left off.

If I come across a comp that is not working, or needs more answers, I subscribe to it and come back to it another time.

I'm still managing to enter over 100 comps a day doing it this way.

Comping this way doesn't suit everyone, but it works well for me and I'm winning prizes regularly!

Matryoshka

Thanks toniq and kisto :T

kisto

hollowhead wrote: »

Sorry to be a pain:(but can someone guide me to the link which tells you how to list the comps by closing date have read it somewhere and have done a search but can't find it.

Go to: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=72 and about 1/3 way down the page there is a yellow bar with rectangular buttons... the last button says "End Date View" click that.

Or try this link: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=72&order=desc&sort=title&daysprune=-1

You will then get all the posts ordered by their titles (which start E: 31/12 ) so all the posts beginning with E: 3x/xx will appear first in alphanumerical order ... then all the posts that start E: 2x/xx .... then all the posts that start E: 1x/xx and so on).

What you won't get is posts month/date ordered like this 31/01 , 30/01, 29/01 28/01 27/01 26/01 because the forum software doesn't handle the sorting like that!

jojo1969

there is someone else with the same name:( so cant do that no more will just have to wait for emails or post lol own up you joannes out there cause you have done very well lol luckily havnt got too excited as the few prizes were not worth winning lol

butterfly2001

i cant search my name i share it with an award medalist swimmer lol

System

I share mine with an international rugby player and a news reader. Helps me to hide in Google as the first 5000 hits are about them

mightymolly

oh I see what you mean, so you search for Joe Bloggs winner in Google and it will tell you if you've won that competition - is that right?

Dalkirst

Why is this on the main board?

Mamzie

because they thought the BGs may be a bit bored now that search is working...

(sorry...)

egghead

just wondered if these comps were any good?


win 4 now ?

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