What's your pet hate about comping?

Luckyone

The Rafflecopter ones are the funniest as you can see no one has tweeted as the tweet is too long, so I take bits out & tweet it, well at least I tried lol

vodkawitch1

I really don`t like rafflecopter comps or like and share on fb

Middy_Oil

People who forgot to put their clocks forward last week - there are at least 2 comp things that I can't do till after 1am (cause I "have" to do them before bed!)

purplebutterfly

When you win a "selection of products" that turn out to be a huge disappointment.

I had a WEM to say that I won a runner-up prize of a "selection of Fudge brand hair products". They sent me a survey to complete so that they could tailor my prize to my hair type. Ooooh goody, I thought. When I checked back on the original comp, the photo of the runner-up prize showed 10 items.

Today I received a single bottle of curl-defining spray, a keyring and a credit card holder with the Fudge logo on it. Whoop-de-whoo.

At Xmas, I won a "selection of French's condiments" - I received a solitary bottle of BBQ sauce :rotfl:

It really annoys me when comp prizes are misrepresented - how many times have we heard of people winning "Italian food hampers" that consist of a jiffy bag with two packets of passata sauce in? Or people winning a tech prize with an RRP of £200 that turns out to be available in Argos for £60?

I'm sure I will come across as greedy but I just feel that promoters should be truthful about what is on offer as a prize.

EMMAP

When people post comps with the wrong answers and I (being all gung ho and excitable) enter quickly only to realise it's wrong and I can't enter again.

Waaaaaaah

alsproject

EMMAP wrote: »

When people post comps with the wrong answers and I (being all gung ho and excitable) enter quickly only to realise it's wrong and I can't enter again.

Waaaaaaah

What makes it worse if others post the correct answer underneath but you didn't scroll down until after you entered the comp.

I've done that a few times in the excitement

zombieslayer25

This is my own fault and just a downside to the way I comp. I comp by end date and every so often (usually a rafflecopter) there is a prize I would love and it turns out its a daily, but I only see it the day before (if Im lucky) the comp end date.

Also not reading the thread properly and entering a comp then seeing that the winner has already been announced. These are usually Twitter comps too. I just feel embarrassed.

OneYorkshireLass

People who post on a thread to say the competition cannot be found on the OP's link, but make no attempt to find a new link on the website.

And the one I've been keeping quiet about but I can no longer - MSE-rs who post their winnings on here, but actually haven't bothered to post the comp and it's never been on here. I know there's no 'contract' or anything that says you have to post comps you find and enter, but anyway IMO I find it rather rude.

iloveadsxx

Entering hundreds of twitter comps, and not knowing if im doing it right..
Wondering if they pick the out of the last tweets as winners, or the first few? ..

Comping by end dates, and always missing the dailys!!

purplebutterfly

oneyorkshirelass wrote: »

people who post on a thread to say the competition cannot be found on the op's link, but make no attempt to find a new link on the website.

And the one i've been keeping quiet about but i can no longer - mse-rs who post their winnings on here, but actually haven't bothered to post the comp and it's never been on here. I know there's no 'contract' or anything that says you have to post comps you find and enter, but anyway imo i find it rather rude.

couldn't agree more!