What's your pet hate about comping?

BlueBella

Oh and I also hate Special days comps (eg Halloween, Father's Day, Valentines Day, Mother's Day, etc) when the end date is after the event!!!!! Last year I won a great Mother's Day gift but the end date fell the week after Mother's Day and by the time the prize arrived, it was almost Father's Day! WHY??????? I have noticed a few Halloween comps around at the mo with the end date on Halloween or just before so if anyone wins, the prize will never arrive on time!

BlueBella

I hate the dailies when you share on Facebook and that silly little flashing sign comes up saying thanks for sharing AND YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON IT TO GET RID OF IT!!!!! GRRRRRR LOL I've had a bad day! They have only just started doing this on the mag dailies! WHY!!!???

BlueBella

fortuna93 wrote: »

Blog competitions that require you to follow every single site their connected with for a ridiculously small prize

Yes, and not naming and shaing but some blogs require you to do flaming loads eg follow then on FB, Twitter, Google Reader, Networked Blogs, via email, Google+, Pinterest, KLOUT etc etc - and why? - just to see the same posts every where you look! Fair enough some prizes are worth all the effort but some prizes are defo not! :mad: Oh and in addition to doing it for the prize providers too!

BlueBella

But....I love comping I really do!

Surfermom

Having to chase prizes

December when comping seems to take over my life.

blackmidnight

I'm looking forward to 1st December

I hate....
Missed calls from unknown/withheld numbers!
Comps that expect you to check the website to see if you've won or ask you to email them to claim the prize
Liking/sharing comps
Comps that don't provide terms & conditions for holidays/tickets etc...

Marg2k8

fire**fly wrote: »

CAPTCHA's


Should We Kill the CAPTCHA?

No please don't!

I don't hate captcha's at all, not since I read an article that explained that these companies that offer to enter people into loads of competitions in return for a monthly fee are more likely to target companies that don't use Captcha's or anything to deter entries made by bots. This means that some of these comps (even for small prizes) get tens of thousands of entries.

These are some things I do hate:-

1) Twitter competitions that encourage you to tweet a certain hashtag repeatedly, as they want their brand to trend on twitter. (This is against twitter rules, but it still goes on).

2) Entering ITV Competitions six times over. I wish they would make it only one entry per person.

3) Facebook like and share competitions. I don't do those now and I doubt if I had won from any that I entered in the past, that I would even be aware I had won.

4) Competitions where you have to fill in your date of birth, then still tick a box to say you are over 18. Surely, they can tell from my date of birth that I am.

Blulu

Bluebella, you need a break, or at least some chocolate - :rotfl:

I also hate the comps where you have to do something and then the one with the highest votes win, because it's unlikely that the best one will win. The winner will be someone who is better at nagging people to vote for them. I rarely do these comps anymore.

Keep it coming guys. We are the Victor Meldrews of the comping world.

BTW, I also came across something positive about captchas that made me feel better about them. Someone posted a link here to a clip that explained how they are used to help translate words. It was so clever. If I can find the link, I'll come back and edit this

tinktinktinkerbell

One-Eye wrote: »

December 1st :eek:

i think we have a winner haha

capchas

ITV comps, 5-6 times per phone number, why not just make it once

comp pages where there is loads on it so the page goes really slow

sites where the keep me logged in check box doesnt seem to work, im looking at you heart/classic FM

tinktinktinkerbell

BlueBella wrote: »

I hate the forms where ROBOFORM either won't fill it in or muddles all the boxes up so you end up having to fill them yourself anyway!!! Think I am just lazy now though LOL!

oh god this!

since both of my shift keys are broken i have to keep hitting on and off the caps lock if i have to fill something in manually

BlueBella wrote: »

Oh and I also hate Special days comps (eg Halloween, Father's Day, Valentines Day, Mother's Day, etc) when the end date is after the event!!!!! Last year I won a great Mother's Day gift but the end date fell the week after Mother's Day and by the time the prize arrived, it was almost Father's Day! WHY??????? I have noticed a few Halloween comps around at the mo with the end date on Halloween or just before so if anyone wins, the prize will never arrive on time!

oh and this too, do not see the point