Competitions Discussion Thread Part 14

Amilucky?

Meow7 wrote: »

Hiya,
I've been trying to do it this way but I get 05/05 then it goes to 06/01. Is there any way to get all the results for just a specific date? Thanks a lot

Not via MSE but you can date search via google by using the prefix in bold and adding the end date

site:forums.moneysavingexpert.com "E: 05/05"

make sure the end date has " " either side

Tip: when you get the Google search results (on the left hand side) click on Pages from the UK\Past Year\Sort By Date

but be warned! Google will throw in some unexpected results and will include results from previous years hence the need to sort by date

and it might even miss some competitions out completely

Best of Luck

bargainhuntergal

Meow7 wrote: »

Hiya,
I've been trying to do it this way but I get 05/05 then it goes to 06/01. Is there any way to get all the results for just a specific date? Thanks a lot

After 05/05 you should get some 05/06 a couple of 05/07 and one 05/09? At the minute I've got the 05/06's starting on page 34.

The way I get specific dates is to skip a few pages at a time and find the beginning of them, this gets easier after you've been doing it for a while as you get a good idea of roughly where each date will begin, say I wanted to do 06/05, I'd find the beginning of them, then use the Snaplinks add on in Firefox (or just right click to open in new tabs) to open all the pages I need, so at the minute 06/05 starts on page 35 and goes to page 49, so before I start going through I make sure I've got all of the pages from 35 to 49 open.

I do this because as comps are added that end eg 01/06, they will be added before these ones and will push the comps down the page slightly [and as comps are Game Over'ed they will move them back the other way] but if I've got them all open I don't have to think about this happening and make sure I've caught them all.

HTH

Glad

libra10 wrote: »

I search choosing Thread Title, Descending, Beginning, from the options at bottom of competition page.

Comps dated 5/5 start on page 192

URL http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=72&pp=20&sort=title&order=desc&daysprune=-1&page=192

There are 10 pages full of comps, finishing on page 202

HTH

you get the same view by just clicking on 'end date view' the orange button on the top bar

Amilucky?

Just thought of this today!

If like me you don't have much time to enter comps these days but don't want to miss out some of the big prizes on MSE

from the main page go to "Display Options" select Number of Views\Descending\Beginning this will display all of the pages with the most views which tend to be the comps with the best prizes

try to do the first twenty pages at first then go back daily to see if there are any new entries in the "Top Twenty"

as there are more entrants chasing the big prizes it will be harder to win but when you do you are almost guaranteed that it will be a "nice" prize

Best of Luck

elainelivingstone

trying to post a competition but tells me Im new so cant post a link. Im not new, have commented/used this site before, anybody any ideas please?

redbull08

elainelivingstone wrote: »

trying to post a competition but tells me Im new so cant post a link. Im not new, have commented/used this site before, anybody any ideas please?

pm it to me and i'll post link on your behalf

if thats allowed? & thanks

weeowens

Or just post the comp in the normal way but just write the link in plain text,ie no www etc, & someone will add the link below your post.

elainelivingstone

thanks for the comments, and help is much appreciated. will do in the morning if need be but I think a facebook friend is trying to do it for me.

fire**fly

hi, Pick me Up Issue 19 had a variation on thier online entry form
yesterday, so i held off posting, seems to be amended now &
will be posting today x

eta posted now

fnc63

ettsam wrote: »

Can anyone tell me how to stop showing the page that I have came from to other websites?

Thanks

weeowens wrote: »

I think refecon works for this.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/
Or just C&p the link in a new tab.

Just search on here for refcon & I'm sure there is more info.

hi there,

i just want to drop this into the mix, might save another add-on being isntalled, im sure i read somewhere on mse, that in firefox you could simply left click on the url in the post and drag it to the tab bar and release

HTH