Competitions Discussion Thread Part 11

mollylou

Ali1802 wrote: »

Morning all

Just wondering if you can help me I'm not sure where to post, I won 2 tickets yesterday to see the Sorcerors Apprentice preview screening in Leicester Square tomorrow morning. Unfortunately my 90 year old nan has been taken ill (again) and I can't make it.

I really dont want them to go to waste and thought I'd see if anyone on here wants them?

If this is the right place to post, can anyone who's interested PM me and I'll gladly pass on the info you need

Thanks

Alison

sorry to hear about your nan Alison, hope she'll be ok.
Most offers of ticket giveaways seem to be placed in IWIWIW, so you might want to post this in there aswell?

Hope you get another nice win too to make up for the loss of this one

jools182

had an e-mail from toluna.com

are they legit or is it a spam site?

libra10

Toluna are a legitimate site who do surveys.

Type into search 'toluna' for members' comments.

maursie

mollylou wrote: »

It's a little quiet in IWon!IWon!IWon! at the moment, and I'm kind of up to date with the comps I want to do for the next few days, so thought I'd ask a few questions (already asked before I'm sure)...

what is the rhythm of your coming day/week?

do you look forward to some days more than others for prize deliveries (i.e. do you think more prizes are delivered on a particular day of the week than others?)

do you keep some 'comping free' days?

just thinking about how I comp, and wondering how others do! I never really expect prizes on a Monday, and always try and have one or two days a week 'comping free', and lay off the comps for longer periods from time to time when I feel I've been spending too much time on them. I also spend way too much time reading the IWIWIW board! But I think I like to see other people winning as much as I like entering.

Any thoughts?

what i try to do is go through the board by new topics and bookmark the comps i want to enter. this then places them in date order and when i have more time to spare at the weekend i enter as many as i can. this way i can keep up to date with new comps and not missing end dates.

haven't ever noticed a particular day that prizes come in but do like to check my emails on a friday evening as that's when i've had a few wem's.

purplecatlover

question....since we discussed this a couple of times now on another thread.

we have regularly updated threads (puzzler, tab eg) where all comps form that site go into the thread as a new post rather than having a whole new thread to themselves. i knwo this is mainly because the mags have to be bought etc. likewise the daily comps with a different prize each day are posted on one general thread and updated daily (like sugar mag, the all about you, glamour etc etc).

it seems to me that doing that for most sites, (eg itv, gmtv, scifi, company comps, t3, loaded) which have regular comps and add new ones every day or so would make searching for duplicates easier, would mean one thread needs closed, moved and restarted rather than loads of different individual ones.

then if say iw anted to post a gmtv comp ive just noticed, i would simply have to go and search or look back a couple of pages of the gmtv thread to see if its already here. that would hopefully cut out on the number of merges needed and the frustration when you spend ages posting comps because search didnt find them but they do turn out to be on here already anyway lol

would also mean if there is a particular website whos comps you dont often want to enter you can skip that thread or if your short on time you can easily find the ones you favour to enter the newest comps rather than trying to pick them out of the aprox 200 new threads added daily to this board....

i guess in a similar way to how the postal thread works, all new postal comps go on it, we dont duplicate entries because we keep up to date, end date is posted in each individual post so it doesnt matter that thats different for them all, nor that the prize is different, and questions get answered easily and in one place instead of on 10 different threads.

new sites, or sites that comps are infrequent on could and would still be new individual threads or a infrequently updated thread that just gets bumped when there is a new comp.

is there some reason why we dont do that sort of thing that i have missed or am missing in my logic? or has the individual threads for every single comp just gottne to the ammount the are a day because when the comp forum was started it was smaller, and there werent so mnay comps or sites offering comps regularly and such like?

i also know that with say loaded i end up searching and trying to find all its comps when ive logged in once so i dont have the faff of trying to log in frequently, and frequently ill not be able to find the thread i want because there are 30 pages of threads found with the same prize or 50pages found with the same end date, or my searching is just rubbish lol if they were all posted on one thread i could then log in and go back through all those i havent yet entered in maybe 10mins instead of the length of time it currently takes me.

what does anyone else think?

blackmidnight

purplecatlover wrote: »

what does anyone else think?

i think it's fairly easy to search most of the time and that searching threads is actually harder than searching the board as a general.

the problem is with threads is that there often becomes a lof of unncessary chat and also that people who comp by end date would probably find it harder.

i don't really get why some of the comps are all in one place. sugar is at least on the regulars board which makes sense. if there are comps which are open for a day only the thread makes sense as otherwise it would instantly get moved to game over - maybe that's why it's done that way? Glamour i don't really get - surely it should have just been posted once and the put in dailies as the link and question is the same everyday - all it would need is a list at the start to say what each daily prize is and then it wouldn't get bumped everyday.

i like the way it is now but that's just me.

BargainGalore

trendyu is a little :spam:mer

CharlieBilly

Trendyu cretin you spammed forums about 20 times today you stupid numpty

laura16_2

jools182 wrote: »

had an e-mail from toluna.com

are they legit or is it a spam site?

Its legit I am on there however it does seem to take forever to get all the points together.

maursie wrote: »

what i try to do is go through the board by new topics and bookmark the comps i want to enter. this then places them in date order and when i have more time to spare at the weekend i enter as many as i can. this way i can keep up to date with new comps and not missing end dates.

haven't ever noticed a particular day that prizes come in but do like to check my emails on a friday evening as that's when i've had a few wem's.

This seem a very organised way of doing things I think I might try that.

purplecatlover wrote: »

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what does anyone else think?

that makes a lot of sense to me. I'm not very organised with it I just pick a few that I like.

How many competitions do people enter a day roughly?

Sorry about the long post

furndire

BargainGalore wrote: »

trendyu is a little :spam:mer

and that was being very polite BargainGalore - the silly witch