freebie giveaways in mags etc..has anyone had any ?

ladycatnap

I have won loads of stuff over the years, make up, hair stuff, perfume, smellies i think it's worth having ago. It is just a question of luck. I even won a Kenwood food processor once with one of those " if you are one of the first 77 replies "

nanamags

I too have won quite a few things over the years. My best was a sewing machine worth over £500. I even won a kitchen sink I was hoping for the whole kitchen but got the runner up prize. My latest was a £50 voucher for Tesco. I use the freebie postcards on display in cinemas. All my friends and family collect the cards for me when they see them.

A friend of mine sets aside every Saturday morning to enter all these comps and she uses glitter pens, bright stickies any thing for her entries to stand out. They must work because she has had loads of prizes. She has won a least 1 holiday a year for the past 10 years including her honeymoon.

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angelcake

Blimey coupon mad well done!! I am never lucky with competitions... I wouldn't say I was an unlucky person though cos I have a great family!!

jules99

I have won loads of things over the years. Stopped doing it for years but recently started again. I have won toys, hair products, make up, moisturisers, gift vouchers, a year's supply of maltesers (arrived all at once).
Designer sunglasses recently from New Woman Mag (entered by email). I was a subscriber to the magazine and I received a reply asking me if I was a subscriber.

Other wins for completing questionnaires in magazines where you get entered into a prize draw are £1,000 beauty products to test and keep (New Woman Mag again but that was 6 year's ago). This was the best prize - contained expensive moisturisers and suncreams in 2 large boxes (was so excited). Also a blue large fridge freezer from House Beautiful for completing a questionnaire.

I always use plain postcards. I also have telephoned rather than entered by postcard and have won prizes doing that.

moggins

Loads of stuff, more than I can remember although I did keep a count in my first year of doing competitions and the value of the stuff I won came to just over £9,000.

I haven't done many lately apart from comps to win days out.

kool-mumma

I won six months of baby food from Hipp. It was a freepost address and I entered literlly hundreds of times. they had a draw a month for three months and I won the first one. Think I was costing them too much money!!
My Mum went mad as I was moving out the following week and fifteen hugh boxes arrived and we had no where to store them. Kinda took the shine out of my moment. Had so much baby food i gave lots of it away to friends. A very good win but you would think they could send out vouchers!!!

Coupon-mad

angelcake wrote:

Blimey coupon mad well done!! I am never lucky with competitions... I wouldn't say I was an unlucky person though cos I have a great family!!

You are certainly not unlucky then, angelcake. I am also very lucky with my lovely family!

For anyone thinking of doing comps I would really advise not to bother with the Take-a-Break style mags, where there are loads of weekly comps. Can't think of anyone I know who has won this type of comp, whereas several friends have won things thru' other magazines.

I target mags where they do not have pages and pages of comps and a single-entry coupon at the end! Look for a good chance of winning, sometimes 'ordinary' mags like Woman's Own have 500 of an item to give away, which gives you a good chance of success.

Enter your local paper comps too and anything where the prize is specific (in location or age-group) so as not to attract every reader (e.g. the Butlins one had to be taken at Bognor within specified short-notice dates, which suited me).

Another goodie is a comp with a short time to enter (some local papers allow just a few days). Get into the habit of entering the comp there and then, whilst reading the paper (a bit like how I cut out money-off coupons, leaving a nice hole in the page for my OH to discover later!!! ).

juno

I read in one magazine that they higher the prize value, the fewer entries they have. This was a few years ago though, and it was one of the teens magazines.

mandy_moo_1

I've been doing the comps in Take A Break, Chat and Thats Life for more years than i can remember......never won a thing!!!! :rolleyes:

Coupon-mad

mandy_moo_1 wrote:

I've been doing the comps in Take A Break, Chat and Thats Life for more years than i can remember......never won a thing!!!! :rolleyes:

My point exactly! Now mandy moo, how about a challenge?

Force yourself not to send off the 3 entry forms you've been doing every week and look instead for 3 other competitions you'd like to enter (from your local paper, another mag, an entry coupon picked up from supermarket aisles, etc.)

For, let's say, 3 months, enter 3 of these other comps/freebies every week, using the stamps you would have wasted to TAB etc. Then come back to this thread and tell us what you have won!

:T