Competitions Discussion Thread Part 11

toniq

I was under the impression if there are text comps up to £1.50 then buy comps to that level were ok, ur comps would suit people that shop at those stores as it wouldn't cost them to enter as they r shopping there anyway. So personally i can't see why they were removed xx

weeowens

I'm not sure either.The Africa comp is still on plus MSE Andrea had cleared them last year.

weeowens

All sorted.Dalkirst had deleted them due to the spend element.He's seeking advice from MSE admin so we might see them back.

grannybiker

Oooh, will look in the trollies for abandoned receipts when I pop in for a couple of odd bits later- defo a no spend then!
LOL!

Marg2k8

There's a comp on the main comps board here - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2503229
that looks to me like if we got together and worked at, we should have a fair shot at one or other of us winning the prize. I'm surprised that it has not generated more interest than it has from people wanting to join in and was wondering why that was. If you have had a first look at a competition and 'thanked' it, do you not tend to go back and look again when there have been several replies? Or pehaps it is because it involves Twitter that is putting people off. Just wondered out of curiosity really.

gerturdeanna

Hi Marg2k8

If you have just thanked the comp, then you wouldn't see any replies - you only see replies if you have subscribed to the thread.

Gert x

beffffff

I think what Marg was trying to say was that another MSE attempt at this is being discussed but not getting as much interest as it could and is that because no-one is looking at the thread after it's been thanked, because it's twitter, or just because people think it's a waste of time....
If it worked then for an evening of tweeting between comps you could be in with a let's say 1 in 30 chance of winning the runner up prize of a 50" TV (if 30 people "joined in", and we got the longest chain) and it seems like good odds compared to some/most comps we enter.

Smits

due to just starting i have a backlog of 200 pages to sift through but it's not changing because more are added each day, i'm stuck at around page 209, when i get it down, i come back and everything has moved back so i'm back at 209 haha.

When you started did you just do the new ones or try and catch up?

Marg2k8

Thanks beffffff, you have explained it so much better than me. That's what I meant.

Smits - I never manage to enter all the comps. Sometimes I try and catch up, but then I give up on ones that I've missed and think I will have a fresh start. Even when I am doing what I consider well at keeping up, I don't enter most of the ones for books, DVD's or children's and baby prizes, I just go for the ones that I would really like to win (such as the TV referred to above), or ones that are for say tickets to a gig that not everyone would be interested in.

furndire

I did the new ones first, using the New Topic Thread, then just did the ones ending the next day for as long as I could. Doing it this way meant the by the end of the month you actually catch up, and you have already done a lot for the following month. Hope this makes sense

The best time to start doing this is at the begining of a month.