Does anyone ever win with a gmail address?

jeanmd

I use to win quite a bit when I used my gmail address. I changed to my talktalk one a while ago when wins had dried up and I've not won a thing with talktalk so I've just canged back to gmail.
Please dry spell end, what am I going to do for birthday and Christmas presents this year?

Jokey

Out of all my email addresses I have had the most wins with Gmail, although saying that, it's my Sky email that has the most & best wins. It is technically a Gmail account but ends in sky.com x

philg28

I've always used a gmail address since i started comping and have had some wins, none of them biggies (yet!). I always wonder if it's random, or if preference is given to those who don't tick the 'I don't want mailings' flags etc. I also wonder if you're more likely to win competitions if you enter at the start, middle or near the end of the competition. I think I wonder too much ... ;-)

sandycheeks

I have won some really lovely prizes using my hotmail email so keep the faith and the comping fairy will call shortly ;);)

judy2357

Jp1503 wrote: »

Hi

Do you think I should switch from hotmail?.. Not had any huge wins and am now wondering if this is the problem.
Its literally my first name with an underscore and a few numbers

Thanks!

No dont change, I recently won this:-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...art+technology

It includes:-

Sony 40" LED 3D TV
• Sony 3D Blu-ray Home Cinema System
• PS3 320GB
• Compaq Laptop with 250GB
• Acer Aspire One 532 Netbook BLUE
• Canon IXUS 105 silver
• JVC HM300 High definition camcorder
• Apple iPod Nano 8GB Graphite

with a Hotmail address and all the other prizes in my signature.

lovelyx

I've had a few big wins using my Gmail account, and its just [surname][firstinitial]@gmail.com

dream109

andrew71 wrote: »

I personally find that hard to believe. Surely it should be a random choice and not because of somebody having a funky email address.

Why would it be hard to believe? They are my friends, they told me thats how they do it. Doing it that way is random to them.....picking out a random name is what they all do...if the name catches their eye, then they choose that one.
It's still the luck of the draw.

LadyMorticia

I have a Gmail email addy and I've won my fair share - including a Nokia E7 which I had the email about today.

novo_2

dream109 wrote: »

Why would it be hard to believe? They are my friends, they told me thats how they do it. Doing it that way is random to them.....picking out a random name is what they all do...if the name catches their eye, then they choose that one.
It's still the luck of the draw.

No, it's not random if you pick out an email address. Even choosing a 'random' number yourself between e.g. 0 - 100 cannot be called random. They'd have to use a proper generator. The people who pick out email addresses probably don't have any T&Cs for their competitions, which means they most likely aren't fair comps anyway.

dream109

novo wrote: »

No, it's not random if you pick out an email address. Even choosing a 'random' number yourself between e.g. 0 - 100 cannot be called random. They'd have to use a proper generator. The people who pick out email addresses probably don't have any T&Cs for their competitions, which means they most likely aren't fair comps anyway.

Ok...maybe I have a different definition of random.
My friends are from a reputable company and def have T&C's...its just the way they choose to pick their winners.