Would you be prepared to help with an MSE comping experiment? To tick or not to tick?

wonderwallet

A. Hardly ever tick for marketing.

I never tick for marketing and have been quite lucky since I started comping a few years back, including an ITV win for a luxury holiday!

hamsterfan1

I usually tick for marketing but never from associated & third parties - my rationale is that I may get emails about comps I may otherwise miss

Purple_Skull

A. I hardly ever tick for marketing

In fact I never do unless you have to or I don't notice some sneaky checkbox wording!!

I'll be interested to see how this turns out

zombieslayer25

I hardly ever tick, especially the magazine ones. I have won some good things and have only been coming since the end of April. I usually win about every other week or so, but I dont enter masses. 70 a day is my average entered

LadyMorticia

B: You sometimes tick for it

I only tick for marketing if I'm genuinely interested in the company or if it's a condition of entry. I never sign up for third party marketing though and never sign up to receive phonecalls.

I might start ticking the marketing box of all comps (but only the marketing from the company running the competition, if that makes sense?) to see if it makes a difference. I shall report back.

At the moment, I average about 10 wins a month but some of them are FB ones. I'll report back with my non-FB wins and try to see if there is an increase or anything.

Motwoosotdot

I'm so relieved I'm not the only one who ticks for marketing! I love those e-mails about who's cheating, dating, preggers etc & love the fashion ones even more! So far my only wins have been on facebook and twitter. If I do manage to win anything else, I will post marketing here.

MarkyLou

I never tick unless it is a condition of entering.

Biggest 2 prizes were Blackberry 9320 with a years credit, and a Toshiba Ultrabook. Didn't tick on either of those!

BabyGiant

Waste of time in my opinion. Always tick and receive below average returns compared to a lot of people on here. That is entering over 250 a day as well.

lucinad

I always opt for no marketing unless:
It won't let me complete without accepting
I don't see the box before i submit
If I think I am already subscribed

My wins this year have been dire, nothing since about march or April.

Svenena

I never tick unless I have to, and get enough spam from that (postal particularly annoys me!).

If T & Cs state that it's a random draw of all participants, they would be breaching that if they then discounted entries or even weighted against those who hadn't ticked/had opted out, which would make a mockery of the whole thing.