Say YES to newsletters - and possibly win more!

jill36_2

I'm probably one of the few people who comp 'obsessively' and very rarely ticks the opt out boxes.

Mad yeah maybe - but let me explain
The companies that offer these prizes are doing it for a reason, mainly to get their brand 'out there' and hopefully get more customers.
Thank goodness not everybody ticks no to newsletters etc.

Me personally - well I 'like' all the emails my comping generates. I quickly scan each one (looking at the heading and for comps on their newsletters) and then I delete. I have had a few wins this way here's one of them:

I entered a comp in March from a newsletter (Food Magazine) I won a dinner cooked for 4 people in my home by a local Devon chef - food included. (I have arranged for this to happen in October) I had obviously at some point entered another comp with this company and yes - said 'yes' to their newsletter.

So let the extra emails in your inbox work for you.

Good luck
Jill xxx

doubledanish

Thought about doing this myself, works especially if you have a second email box for comping.

weeowens

I'll pm dalkirst to move this to Compers Corner

I'd agree with you re accepting the emails.Emails are just part of comping.It should not make a difference re the odds but seems the right thing to do.Quid pro quo & all that.

My record is 43,000 unopened items in my comping account.I'm down to 10,000 now though :-)

Cheers

wishing5

I'm the same, they can send me as many emails and junk mail through the post as they want, the only thing i refuse are the telephone marketing calls, i always check/uncheck them to make sure i'm not bombarded with sales calls.
What i have come to learn though are that companies can track newsletters and are able to tell if i am reading them or not, i didn't know they could do this but i have had a few emails asking if i still want to receive their newsletter as their little counter tells them i am not opening them :eek: so i've started making an effort to open more of them now as they obviously have some kind of tracker.

rhialwencomp

wishing5 wrote: »

I'm the same, they can send me as many emails and junk mail through the post as they want, the only thing i refuse are the telephone marketing calls, i always check/uncheck them to make sure i'm not bombarded with sales calls.
What i have come to learn though are that companies can track newsletters and are able to tell if i am reading them or not, i didn't know they could do this but i have had a few emails asking if i still want to receive their newsletter as their little counter tells them i am not opening them :eek: so i've started making an effort to open more of them now as they obviously have some kind of tracker.

It's the images in the email, they load from the website.

That's why some email providers block images until you tell them it's okay.

Or at least that's what I've been told.

EllaBeagle

I have always wondered whether they cherry pick the entries out who haven't agreed to receive their newsletter or offers.

From a personal point of view if I was running the competition which was for the purpose of advertising my company I would probably cherry pick them too. Same if I was choosing winners of a facebook competition I would probably choose someone who shared and did all they could to promote the company.

I know that sounds awful but you have to kind of imagine if it was you running it not them.

jill36_2

EllaBeagle glad someone else agrees with me. What does everyone else think?

comping_cat

Sorry, think its just luck - i always used to opt out and recently stopped winning as much or as often as i used to. I have had about 6 months of keeping the boxes ticked (or ticking to say yes) and if anything, im getting even fewer wins now.

I think more people are entering, meaning the chances of winning are going down, and with every comp, whether you tick yes or no, its all the luck of the draw.

I now get hundreds of emails everyday, but not hundreds of wins

comping_cat

EllaBeagle wrote: »

I have always wondered whether they cherry pick the entries out who haven't agreed to receive their newsletter or offers.

From a personal point of view if I was running the competition which was for the purpose of advertising my company I would probably cherry pick them too. Same if I was choosing winners of a facebook competition I would probably choose someone who shared and did all they could to promote the company.

I know that sounds awful but you have to kind of imagine if it was you running it not them.

It would be against all regulations for companies to 'cherry pick' winners. The only way they can get around this, is to have a competition where the condition of entry is to sign up to the newsletter.

cagsd

Interesting conversation! I have been wondering this myself recently - I am too scared to tick (or untick) to select no newsletters etc as I thought it would reduce my chances of winning, but I'm not sure how true this is as a) I've never won a single thing EVER and b) I get literally dozens of emails a day from the companies that I'd signed up to by ticking the box!
Those of you that win quite frequently, do you always agree to the mailing lists or not? x

wishing5

cagsd wrote: »

Interesting conversation! I have been wondering this myself recently - I am too scared to tick (or untick) to select no newsletters etc as I thought it would reduce my chances of winning, but I'm not sure how true this is as a) I've never won a single thing EVER and b) I get literally dozens of emails a day from the companies that I'd signed up to by ticking the box!
Those of you that win quite frequently, do you always agree to the mailing lists or not? x

I normally win at least once a week, sometimes 3-4 a week and i always say yes to newsletters and snail mail, and no to marketing calls and passing my details onto 3rd parties, i've done really well in the years i've been comping although this month has to be the worse in a long time, nothing but a chapstick :rotfl: