Competitions Discussion Thread Part 13

onetreehillgrrl

weeowens wrote: »

I must be having a daft moment but what site is this in regard to?

"Hello,
I have been entering lots of competitions recently and I came across the "mywinninghomes" website, it apparently gives lots of prizes every month, seems almost too good to be true, unless there is a catch.

I wondered if anyone else has heard of it or registered to compete.

Merlinthe."

The posts got moved from comps. board and then got spreadeagled in here. It looks as if Browntoa is talking to himself

weeowens

Cheers for the help onetreehillgrrl
I'm missing a few bits with spending less time on here or maybe I'm just getting dafter :-)

Amilucky?

onetreehillgrrl wrote: »

"Hello,
I have been entering lots of competitions recently and I came across the "mywinninghomes" website, it apparently gives lots of prizes every month, seems almost too good to be true, unless there is a catch.

I wondered if anyone else has heard of it or registered to compete.

Merlinthe."

The posts got moved from comps. board and then got spreadeagled in here. It looks as if Browntoa is talking to himself

I'd be very wary of this site if I was you as the promoter is Silver Fern Services Ltd

see the last comp that was posted on mse
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1273929

and the ASA Adjudication on Silver Fern Services Ltd and the comp posted on mse
http://www.asa.org.uk/Asa-Action/Adjudications/2009/7/Silver-Fern-Services-Ltd/TF_ADJ_46474.aspx

LizB62

purplecatlover wrote: »

we discussed things and agreed to disagree where necessary but still attempt to understand and hear what each other were saying

since it was brought up earlier as well i wanted to point that out. perhaps i should have come and made that clear in public at the time, sorry for not doing so and thus leaving people to assume we hadnt sorted our differences.

and thank you

Well, I guess this will all come out in the wash as I still don't really understand the new rules - even after re-reading Andrea's post from the other day.
I don't get to post many comps anyway as I just don't seem to be fast enough, and don't want to tread on anyone's toes for the regular posters, so will just get through the comps as best I can and might have to get more selective about which ones I enter if I find it's taking longer.

Also, for PCL's quote:
about dailies.....if things are being posted every day i will not be replacing links every day. sorry to anyone (else) who misses out because a comp is moved to game over on the morning of the day it supposedly ends, or because they dont make it anywhere that day other than dailies but i dont have the time to swap that many links every single day.

If the individual comps only last for one day, then would anything need to go in the dailies thread?

Maybe the more pressing issue is comps geting moved to GO before they should?
Perhaps there could be some way of automating it for BGs so they all get moved as soon as their end date has passed.
That still wouldn't fix the issue with guessed end dates, but might help for the majority of conversations.

QPR10

IF anyone hasn't received their giftcard prize yet. I've finally managed to find someone who can sort it out

Send a copy of your winning e-mail to
[EMAIL="dubcustomerservice@carlson.com"]dubcustomerservice@carlson.com[/EMAIL]

Attn of Jennifer

QPR10

Had a call from Oxfordshire Press about having a subscription to Prize Draw Centre.

I probably couldn't afford the subscription just wondering if anyone had used this & what they thought.

If I'm not allowed to post this please feel free to delete

weeowens

I'd just use MSE.A lot of promotors do not allow third party entry.Save your money.I'll pm a BG to move this to discussion.Sent to dalkirst

Quote........

No, you can join the Prize Draw Centre for just £1.95 a week, that's less than you would pay for a coffee in most shopping centres, and we'll find a lot more competitions than you could find in a day's normal shopping.

purplecatlover

LizB62 wrote: »

Well, I guess this will all come out in the wash as I still don't really understand the new rules - even after re-reading Andrea's post from the other day.
I don't get to post many comps anyway as I just don't seem to be fast enough, and don't want to tread on anyone's toes for the regular posters, so will just get through the comps as best I can and might have to get more selective about which ones I enter if I find it's taking longer.

Also, for PCL's quote:
about dailies.....if things are being posted every day i will not be replacing links every day. sorry to anyone (else) who misses out because a comp is moved to game over on the morning of the day it supposedly ends, or because they dont make it anywhere that day other than dailies but i dont have the time to swap that many links every single day.

If the individual comps only last for one day, then would anything need to go in the dailies thread?

Maybe the more pressing issue is comps geting moved to GO before they should?
Perhaps there could be some way of automating it for BGs so they all get moved as soon as their end date has passed.
That still wouldn't fix the issue with guessed end dates, but might help for the majority of conversations.

ill repeat myself again, the issue is not JUST comps being moved to game over

ive been trying to come up with some way to keep everyone happy with dailies....posting them everyday does not work for anyone except those who enter comps by newly posted threads. if todays argos eg is posted this morning as E:27/01 then people who enter by end next day, so today are entering E:28/01 miss it. if its posted with end date of E:28 to avoid that then people who enter by E27 today miss it as wont find it until tomorrow. its not soley comps moving to game over early that makes end date compers miss them.

fortuna93

Is anyone else having trouble with the star comps?
Getting this message on all of them:
The page you requested is currently unavailable

For some reason the page you are trying to access http://www.thestar.co.uk/campaign/RenderCampaignDetail.aspx?CampaignDefinitionID=4387 is currently unavailable.
From here you can visit our homepage or go back to the page you were last on.

weeowens

They've changed the site format to the new style.I'll try & edit some the links later.You need to enter via...... http://www.thestar.co.uk/lifestyle/competitions