Competitions Discussion Thread Part 16

Bonnie151

Once you are following quite a few people you'll start to see new comps popping up in your timeline (and you can check they've not been posted here, but honestly, lots will be missed because you need to be on at the right time to spot them & get them posted quickly enough). Or just search for new competitions - you can set the search to within a certain location - I usually choose within 500 miles of London - which will filter out all the American/Austrailian ones etc.

thingamaBob

timmmers wrote: »

The thread about twitter comps is closed, and there's not a dedicated thread for it just a mixed up bit of this one....so.
When is MSE going to get with the plot and dedicate a section to social media comps? They make up a very large chunk of all comps and are growing fast, they end quickly though...some twitter ones in hours, some FB ones last a day and this means people miss them. We wouldn't need an ending today or anything if there was a social media section, it would be easy to see the new stuff there before moving on to other normal stuff.
IF people don't use FB IMO they are missing a lot, but they would benefit from not seeing these comps...those who use FB a lot would obviouslt benefit, and it costs NOTHING. Why the problem getting up to date with this? Lack of will to move with the times ?
People will go elsewhere if MSE lags behind, and they already are doing that. Not good for anyone.

MSE is a Money Saving site and not a dedicated Competitions site.
The Competitions board is only one board among many and MSE has devised it's rules and systems to suit the majority of it's Boards and purposes and not to just satisfy us compers.
If the set up here does not suit some people they may well be better off joining a dedicated competitions site where they will be organised simply for the purpose of entering competitions of all types. I do belong to another competition site but generally prefer the more informal set up here.

Bonnie151

thingamaBob wrote: »

MSE is a Money Saving site and not a dedicated Competitions site.
The Competitions board is only one board among many and MSE has devised it's rules and systems to suit the majority of it's Boards and purposes and not to just satisfy us compers.
If the set up here does not suit some people they may well be better off joining a dedicated competitions site where they will be organised simply for the purpose of entering competitions of all types. I do belong to another competition site but generally prefer the more informal set up here.

But within the comping forum there is quite a lot of opportunity to improve the set up to make it easier and more logical for people to post more Twitter/FB comps. For example, right now YahooMovies is running a quick comp (here if anyone wants it ). I'm not going to post it (or other similar ones) because it'll probably be over in 30 minutes - I don't think it's sensible to clog up the main board with these short comps. The suggestion is to look at how Twitter/FB work and see if there's a better way to organise these comps in order to encourage more people to post them & make it easier for people to be able to spot them in a timely manner.

fire**fly

hi, Full House Issue 7 isn't live on site yet, have it ready
to post, if anyone spots it's opened on here

http://www.fullhousemagazine.co.uk/mag_comps.php

can they please reply in here or pm me so's can get it posted for all,
thanks x

eta..
have got in touch with them & they're going to get it
done asap. x

eta again,
form now showing.

Marg2k8

slapmatt wrote: »

What other ways are there to find Twitter competitions?

Apart from following other users, you can just put #Competition or #comp into the search box and this will bring loads up, but some might be outside the UK.

Bonnie151 wrote: »

you can set the search to within a certain location - I usually choose within 500 miles of London - which will filter out all the American/Austrailian ones etc.

How do you do that please? I didn't know you could do that.

Bonnie151

Marg2k8 wrote: »

How do you do that please? I didn't know you could do that.

If you do your search and then click on "refine results" towards the top right, it'll bring up the advanced search. Towards the bottom is "Places" - type in your place and it'll bring up "Within this distance".

It's not perfect because you'll sometimes get people in the UK who have RT'd American comps (presumably without checking their location first!), but it filters out the vast majority.

wonderwallet

I have a question about 'like and share' facebook comps.

I have been sharing only with a list of friends who enter comps (from this forum!) so that my other friends don't get them on their walls, but I've just read on a comping site that all your shares for comps should be public and if you only share to a list of friends the company won't see that you've shared and your entry won't even be considered!

Is this correct? No wonder I never win anything!!! :doh::rotfl:

fire**fly

hi, when i saw this in my mail box didn't know wether to mention on here or not but decided to after all :rotfl:

what does everyone think ??

if they are going to be giving out all the answers to the
weekly mags/puzzler.com mags/tab mags etc it seems a
waste of time us ops buying/posting these mags we might as well save our time/money as quoted on the blurb here
'It would cost you £37.85 a week to buy all the magazines
we give you answers for - and around 5 or 6 hours at least to do the puzzles. '

:eek::D & pay to join them ? :eek::rotfl:

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Marg2k8

There is a thread in IwonIwonIwon here:-

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3713425=

where we were discussing these sites that you pay to enter competitions for you. Is this one of thes? Or do they just supply the details of the comps for you to enter?

Miss_Cinnabon

Nothing new there really fire**fly, i used to be a mycomps member and they posted the weekly mag answers then, i take it with the £37 weekly they mean the puzzler mags etc as well

marg - mycomps when i was a member just listed the comps and you entered them, its not a we enter for you service as far as im aware

All the comps on that site are already on here, plus i trust 100% the answers for the weeklies, puzzler's etc from here only and in all the time i was a member, what did i win - zilch! :rotfl::rotfl:

lol at the £37 a week though, if they think thats a lot, they should see what i spend each month on mags :rotfl::rotfl::D