E: DAILY until 25/01 Win a House in Bradford (Opens on 2nd Nov)

jeanmd

timmmers wrote: »

I bet if I check the page views now it will have dropped as people lost interest...also reducing ad income.

Ok, this made me curious so I made a note of the page views yesterday evening. There's been over 400 views in twentyfour hours (Yes I do get bored sometimes). This has been on so long that I would think most of them are people entering rather then coming on for a nosey or leaving a comment. I do find it strange that so few are thanking the provider of the answer. We seem to have a lot of mystery visitors to this tread. :eek:

I am still being positive about this.

bizywizy

maybe it is just the 4 of us playing this then LOL

Todays answer is timothy west

madtreelizard

bizywizy wrote: »

maybe it is just the 4 of us playing this then LOL

I have only recently discovered this competition so I still have the initial excitement about it Was it a lot busier when it began?

timmmers

jeanmd wrote: »

Ok, this made me curious so I made a note of the page views yesterday evening. There's been over 400 views in twentyfour hours (Yes I do get bored sometimes). This has been on so long that I would think most of them are people entering rather then coming on for a nosey or leaving a comment. I do find it strange that so few are thanking the provider of the answer. We seem to have a lot of mystery visitors to this tread. :eek:

I am still being positive about this.

I meant page views for their site, not this thread. Currently that's lookig like 741 visits per day (estimated)

If that's even close to correct that's not good. Quite a few come from India according to Alexa too...20%+ :rotfl:

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chopandchange

I'm still doing it too, though not always bothering to use my thanks button. Will do so from now on!

mjm3346

Thanks to the posts above I have looked at this more closely and my enthusiam has dipped quite a bit.

They state on the website in order to legally give the house away they need to raise £900,000:eek:

Simple math over 21 weeks thats almost £43,000 a week, over £6,000 a day. If it ran for a year they would still need almost £2,500 a day.

I doubt the advertisers they have (no big nationals with large advertising budgets), would be spending more than £50/week and a dozen of them would only raise £12,600 over 21 weeks or just over £31,000 in a year before deduction of running costs.

If you have the time to spare and do not miss out on entering a competition with a guaranteed prize then no harm in going for it.

timmmers

Exactly what I think. It's a bit of a mad optimistic scheme and probably doomed to fail ...but as th T&C specify a lesser prize should that happen, and it's free...what's to lose entering ....nothing much.

The funny part for me was them patenting the thing...and intending to do more when this one looks far from a done deal yet?

I hope they do more and this works...but as you said...major advertisers and huge publicity would be required. Bunny homes won't fund it.

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bizywizy

Todays answer is

boynton

jeanmd

The week 9 finalist is J Lee. Hope it's someone on mse.

chopandchange

Just bumping to point out that the end date on this thread still needs updating.