Competitions Discussion Thread Part 14

mrssjs

mrssjs wrote: »

Hi all, just looking for a little advice, we're due to move house soon, when do you think would be a good time to stop entering comps at our current address?

Could anyone help please?

iwannabeonthebeach

mrssjs wrote: »

Could anyone help please?

when you're in the new house? thats what I did anyway

wingobins

When you move house you can also ask post office to re-direct your mail to new address (costs around £3) that way you wont miss out on anything important.

princessmoneysaver

It's a lot more than £3 wingo, I've just paid my Dad's when he moved a few weeks ago & it was over £40 HTH x

mrssjs

Thanks, we are going to pay for re-direction, but it doesn't work for couriers, so you know when I receive those really BIG unexpected prizes?!? Yeah, right :rotfl::rotfl:

princessmoneysaver

There is nothing you can do sadly, when I moved last year I started entering comps with my new address for about 3 months before we moved. I guess we were lucky as we knew our new address 6 months before we moved.

fire**fly

mrssjs wrote: »

Could anyone help please?

hi, i went on all the web sites i was subscribed to about 3 weeks before we were due to move & amended all my address details with the new address,
i then went to the post office to ask for re direction for a month (costs a bit of money, but worth it)
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=600008&mediaId=600047
then when the month was up i redid it for another month
(just in case)

hth x

wingobins

princessmoneysaver wrote: »

It's a lot more than £3 wingo, I've just paid my Dad's when he moved a few weeks ago & it was over £40 HTH x

Ooops!! I hadn't realised! It was around £3 when I last moved house but that was about 9yrs ago!

mrssjs wrote: »

Thanks, we are going to pay for re-direction, but it doesn't work for couriers, so you know when I receive those really BIG unexpected prizes?!? Yeah, right :rotfl::rotfl:

Forgotten about couriers! Lets just hope your new tennants are very trustworthy!

fire**fly

mrssjs wrote: »

Thanks, we are going to pay for re-direction, but it doesn't work for couriers, so you know when I receive those really BIG unexpected prizes?!? Yeah, right :rotfl::rotfl:

we did ask the new people who bought our house to let us know if any parcels turned up & left them our forwarding address,
luckily they were good & did that

princessmoneysaver

I did my redirection for 12 months, it wasn't £40 when I did it but I know it wasn't cheap, but even recently I have had prizes sent to my old address & redirected - so I have added another 6 months to the redirection now. I have had really good prizes arrive many many months after the competition has ended. I remember when I won the £1,500 Virgin Holiday voucher a few years ago I had no idea I had won until the voucher arrived, the comp had ended about 4 months before I knew I had won!!! I would seriously reccomend getting post redirected for minimum of 12 months if possible x