Are TV competitions worth doing

wheezy57

As I havent been well recently I have entered loads of comps on telly but not by phoning up but on my PC. Is it really worth it? How do they select the winner - ??

ankspon

Same here,used pc and lately phone with no luck

gordikin

Praise, vent or warning?

wheezy57

Just a question really. Praise if I won anything, vent if I am not really qualified and warning if I dont!!!!

gordikin

Try the competitions Forum?

gordikin

..and welcome to MSE!

mjm3346

One of many

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1662329

FatAndy

gordikin wrote: »

Praise, vent or warning?

Vent and warning as far as I'm concerned. TV competitions are something of a rip-off, GMTV appears to be the worst not that I watch it much. They'll ask a question something along the lines of "How many heads does a human being have, is it a)One b)Twenty c)Susan Boyle" and then charge £1 a go to enter. The prizes are usually quite decent to encourage viewers to start texting but if they get say 100,000 entries at a quid a pop for a prize of £25,000 then they're laughing.

The OP had the right idea of entering for free on-line but personally I wouldn't bother given the number of enteries they're likely to get. As far as I'm concerned these competitions are just another form of idiot tax.

GrumpyGit_3

wheezy57 wrote: »

As I havent been well recently I have entered loads of comps on telly but not by phoning up but on my PC. Is it really worth it? How do they select the winner - ??

These are national competitions which no doubt attract tens of thousands of entries and usually only have one prize on offer. The chance of winning is going to be pretty remote so personally I'd say this is a waste of time.

Money_maker

Yet we get MSE winners every few weeks or so...

Check out the 'I won, I won' thread.

FatAndy

Money_maker wrote: »

Yet we get MSE winners every few weeks or so...

Check out the 'I won, I won' thread.

Most of the prizes on the 'I won' thread are things like t-shirts, DVDs, books, etc. You've got a much better chance of winning if you enter a competition with a large number of low value prizes than if you enter a competition on GMTV to win a luxury holiday in St. Lucia or £25,000 in cash. Plus most of the competitions on the competitions board don't cost £1 a go to enter.