Competitions Discussion Thread Part 16

Moosecatear

weeowens wrote: »

I think that's the one in the cached link isn't it?
Same answer etc.

Same answer, different question, different fixture

comping_cat

Not sure about the T&Cs for the comp, but football wise, these days if they know you are supporting the away team, they wont let you in the home end.
At Plymouth Argyle a few years ago, we saw a Leeds Utd fan be thrown out the ground for being in the Argyle end, and this game is premiership, so i would think they would be even more observant.

Moosecatear

comping_cat wrote: »

Not sure about the T&Cs for the comp, but football wise, these days if they know you are supporting the away team, they wont let you in the home end.
At Plymouth Argyle a few years ago, we saw a Leeds Utd fan be thrown out the ground for being in the Argyle end, and this game is premiership, so i would think they would be even more observant.

Yeah, but for all they knew I could have been taking an Everton fan with me, and there's no way I would have gone in visibly supporting the other team. It just seems a shame. I've never won anything before and to offer me something, then take it away seems worse than not winning in the first place!

OneYorkshireLass

This may have been mentioned before but, wouldn't it be a good idea if some trusted board members could access the titles of threads so they can change it to the correct format?

This would be instead of a forum member asking a new poster to change the format of their post - but quite a few times I've noticed the poster never returns to the thread.

Liquorice13

One-Eye wrote: »

Thanks for this.

The finalists on here were Liquorice13 and layla1979. The reports of dodgy voting started HERE post #172.

Hi

Thanks SueMaggie for posting decision and One-Eye for the pm.
Hubby referred it to ASA last year and was advised 2 weeks ago of decision. Doubt Co-op will do anything about it! Someone suggested the small claims court but it will still be her sandwich sold in stores.

Liquorice

Big_Game_Hunter

Sorry if this has been answered before, but is it a bad idea to enter a competition more than once? I imagine some sites will track IP addresses, which is fair enough. What if, however, you use a proxy? The server I use (my own private server) is located in the Netherlands, so I wonder if they'd block IPs from other countries. Hmmmmm.

I know some people will look down on those who do this and decrease others' chances of winning, but I look at some of the top earnings in the guides and I wonder whether these members with success stories entered multiple times.

Anyway, just a simple query. I'm only just starting this whole competition thing. I'd be fine just using one e-mail if others have had a lot of success this way. I intend to spend around three hours each day on this.

StokieBecks

Generally most terms and conditions state one entry per person. Unless it says duplicate entries are ok then you are most likely to disqualify yourself by entering again

Big_Game_Hunter

Fair enough. Technically I think it is possible if I get a family member willing to help out and use another SIM card for texts, but given the fact I'll already be entering in hundreds of competitions on my own anyway, I think it's not truly necessary. I'd like to hear others' thoughts, though.

I have a suggestion, however. There's an "Enter" button in threads which is very useful, since it reminds us which we've completed. However, as explained in the guides, there are some competitions that just won't interest some of us. For a lack of better words, a button saying "Not Interested" would be useful too, if it displayed a red cross next to the thread instead of a tick. Just a thought.

Thanks.

OneYorkshireLass

Big_Game_Hunter wrote: »

I have a suggestion, however. There's an "Enter" button in threads which is very useful, since it reminds us which we've completed. However, as explained in the guides, there are some competitions that just won't interest some of us. For a lack of better words, a button saying "Not Interested" would be useful too, if it displayed a red cross next to the thread instead of a tick. Just a thought.

Some people still tick the 'enter' button if they're not interested in the comp so they don't bother to look at the post again.

Big_Game_Hunter

Yeah, I suppose that's a good idea, although I like to just try and remember those I'm not interested in (that warrant reading the thread rather than the title) because I'd like to count those I've entered, so that I have a vague idea of how well I'm doing. Though given the fact I'll need to enter thousands of competitions, I'll probably go with your suggestion. :P Being able to check how many competitions you've entered would be a nice feature though. I'm a forum administrator myself and I've hired plugin developers. I know it would be pretty easy to implement.

Still, I'll appreciate having the Enter button there. It makes it all so much easier.