Competitions Discussion Thread Part 13

Barnabysue

purplecatlover wrote: »

yep i got it today too. i assumed somneone with a bt ip addy had doen something to deserve banning for and thus they blocked it....every time my bt router is restarted i get a new ip addy, so blocking one doesnt necessarily block the person its aimed to block.

My Daughter and I are both with BT and are both getting that message too, it was fine for me on Monday.

Mamzie

I'm aol and am getting it plus a few comments on the threads - will post a link to here


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3075430

pkc_2

purplecatlover wrote: »

yep i got it today too. i assumed somneone with a bt ip addy had doen something to deserve banning for and thus they blocked it....every time my bt router is restarted i get a new ip addy, so blocking one doesnt necessarily block the person its aimed to block.

Nope.. I am on SKYBB and use a VPS in Germany, USA and Netherland and all show same message.


"The server, site, application, or page requested has explicitly denied the IP address of the client computer" ... your machine would be classed as the remote surely

onetreehillgrrl

I find this a really good site to check if it just you or down for everyone:

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

"It's not just you! http://the-beauty-pages.com looks down from here."

Cheddar_2

I was unable to enter comps yesterday because I was out all day - I usually enter all comps which expire the following day.

So there was I this morning, happily entering all comps which expire today (03/03) using the 'End Date' view, and then all of a sudden all the comps for today vanished! "Ah, they must have moved to Game Over", I thought.... but there is no end date search capability in that forum, and when I do a search for "E: 03/03", it comes up with ANYTHING with 03 in the title.

Anyone got any tips on how to search GO for today's ending comps?

Barnabysue

Does it help if you click on the red New Topic view button at the top of the Game Over Thread?

Chyna-s

At the bottom of the page, under Display Option, click on the drop down menu under 'From the' and change from 'Beginning' to 'last year' or last 100 days' . Should reduce the amount returned.

Cheddar_2

Ah thanks - that worked great - sort by thread title, ascending, from last year. Page 252

Not sure why stuff is moved to Game Over before the comps have actually ended... why not the day after?! :undecided

golfings

Just wondering if you thought the following is acceptable by the majority of the people who run the competitions:

We are a family of four and we currently use:

4 different email addresses
2 different postal addresses (ours and my mums)
2 different mobile phone numbers (Just mine and my wife's, my two kids have mobiles but they are a little too young to take a phone call from someone saying they had won a car or a 5* holiday in Bermuda lol)

With not winning much albeit a £6.99 Real Scotland handbook was just wondering if we maybe invalidating our competition entries by using our current "system" Your thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thank you :j

Nuttynel

Maybe - some people use the ips address or something not sure what its called - I only enter in my own name and my own address and have done well
natelle