Luck-lack of it, and getting it

amycool

I hate the losing e-mails!! Especially when the title is Competition Winner or something even more misleading! My heart normally starts racing, click on it, and then it sinks. I suppose it's good that they let you know who won but it should say "Sorry you didn't win" or something in the title.

Pechow

amycool wrote: »

When I saw your thread had been updated I really hoped you had finally won something! I really feel for you as it does feel really unfair that you've won nothing, and it must be so frustrating.

The law of averages means that eventually you will win, and you certainly deserve it for your tenacity! Do you even enter comps for little things? I won a biro yesterday, which isn't exactly groundbreaking but it was incredibly exciting seeing my twitter name mentioned after about 7 weeks of no wins and it was lovely to get post that wasn't bills this morning.

Hopefully you have at least made some friends on here to make up for it. I'm tempted to create a competition and only tell you about it so you can finally win!

Sending lots of good luck your way!

Awkward, but I don't really have any friends

Yeah, I enter for all kinds of things, big and small! I stop short of entering for things like... say, prams when I don't have kids, or gardening tools when I don't have a garden, things like that, but otherwise most things are fair game! Or unfair, perhaps :rotfl:

Some days I don't know why I'm still bothering-but then if I gave up now, that's almost 9 months 'wasted' with nothing to show for it, so I 'have' to keep going! It is very frustrating though.

Thanks

amycool

That's the problem when you've invested so much time into it that stopping seems impossible!

Perhaps you should wait until at least you've done a full year as I think there are times when there are more prizes available. I started last April and found that September was my best month, with a fair few things arriving that I had won in the June and July.

Apart from a cheese hamper (that we ended up giving to the in-laws because neither of us liked the cheese!) worth £60, I haven't had any big wins this year but I'm hoping it'll get better as the year progresses. I think I've actually had more freebies than wins.

What has kept me going has been my surveys as I made enough to buy my husband a PS3 (I must have entered about 50 comps for one!), which felt like a win. My total survey amount is £318 in one year! The good thing now is that my husband can never moan again about the time I spend doing them.

Monkey_Chinchilla

I entered my first competition last April for a camera and won so was hooked straight away. It was a Facebook competition but it was one that involved effort & the judges cited my originality when they picked my entry.

I joined this forum last June and since then have been averaging one win a month but that has ranged from a holiday to a mascara.

I have won some decent prizes but I only enter in my own name using one Facebook account / email address / phone number (except for the ITV comps where I enter my husband too but I'm yet to win one of those). I work full time so I wouldn't have time to enter every competition twice!

My friends & family think I'm the luckiest person alive but they don't see all the competitions I don't win.

Martin says it's all about the karma and I swear I've won more prizes since I started posting comps myself.

The comps I have won have been a mixed bag. My biggest prize to date was from a luck of the draw comp but I have had more success in comps local to my area eg this week I won restaurant vouchers but only people within a small radius of the restaurant would have entered so the odds would have been better. I have also won a few prizes that have involved video, photo, writing effort which are the ones I enjoy the most but attract fewer entries.

I don't bother with Twitter comps and I tend to only enter the Facebook comps where you enter via an app as I don't like spamming my friends with like & share comps and also you have no way of knowing if you've won them unless you keep checking back on the wall. Having said that, I'm off work this week so entered a few extra Facebook like & share comps as I had spare time & I won a prize.

I comp because I enjoy it. The minute it becomes a chore I'll give it up.

sandycheeks

This will make you smile - I once won a bottle of clinique stuff but when I opened the bottle it was empty!!! Yup absolutely dry -nothing spilt in the jiffy bag and no note where it came from so I couldnt complain!!!

Pechow

sandycheeks wrote: »

This will make you smile - I once won a bottle of clinique stuff but when I opened the bottle it was empty!!! Yup absolutely dry -nothing spilt in the jiffy bag and no note where it came from so I couldnt complain!!!

I wouldn't know what to make of that, whether I'd be hunting down the sender and raging, or whether I wouldn't be able to stop laughing! How rubbish!

sandycheeks

Strangely though the postie had a glowing complexion for weeks after - seriously I kid you not!!!

gethro

My last win was about 6 weeks ago and it was a bottle of ear wax remover i can't even remember entering a comp for that

check about 1000 emails a week and no WEM since then

Blulu

Hi Pechow. When I started comping - perhaps about six months ago, I was thrilled because I was winning around 1 prize per week. Mostly small things, but it was so exciting, and is definitely why I am so addicted to comping.

Then I found it was taking up too much time, so I started only entering for things that I REALLY wanted to win. The wins have practically dried up.

So, although it's a bit controversial to say it. I have just gone back to entering for more things. I don't want to start another heated discussion. We all make our own choices about what comps we do/don't do, and for what reasons. For me, it's just so much more exciting as a hobby to enter as many comps as possible and thereby, I feel, increase my chances of winning. I still mainly enter for things that I personally want for me or for someone I know, but not totally. Sometimes I enter a comp for something just because the actual comp is fun. For example, I love doing caption comps. I've always entered (and often won) these, mainly for no prize at all. So doing it for a prize makes it even more fun.

I also do some freebies. Most weeks I get one or two little things through the post, or a voucher to print out. I love the freebie perfume samples. I save them for when I'm going somewhere and that way I get to wear posh scent that I can't afford to buy at the moment. Things like that keeps me going through the lean times.

Perhaps my nicest win of all is that I do feel that I have made at least one eFriend here. We started pm-ing over a heated debate on the forum and kept in touch. I would recommend that, because it's lovely to get to know some of the people here a little more.

I so hope you write here soon to say that you've won something. Meanwhile, as Bruce Forsyth might say - Keeeeep comping

mspurrrrrfect

Can someone tell me the best place to find comps and also how to find them on facebook please. I think I may have to give it a go!


Thank you