What's your pet hate about comping?

flutterpillar76

Captchas ~ especially when you go through the whole page and then it won't accept your captcha, regardless as to whether you are correct! :mad::mad::mad:

Mulitple entries ~ surely once is more than enough!

Sharing (FB) and liking their mulitple social media pages...

*** probably a few more but that's good for now

:A

jaxdia

MaineBlue wrote: »

· Captchas

· Facebook L & S comps - why do they still do these?

· Hitting 'submit' just as you realise there's a dozen tick boxes you missed, meaning you will be spammed for life

· Emails entitled 'Congratulations WINNER' and when you open it it's Mavis from Dorset who has won

· Not winning that one I REALLY want to win but winning that 'Oh, I may as well enter this one' comp

· MSE going off line for maintenance at 1am (I'm often a night owl)

· UK competitions that ask for ‘State’ and ‘Zip Code’

Just had to quote these as I wouldn't have thought to put them otherwise!

But yeah, I have a few to add:

- Indecipherable Captchas (especially ReCaptcha in full on "help I'm being attacked" mode where it more resembles a Rorschach test than words).

- ITV's faffing around with PlayCaptcha, that never ever seems to work, and it's more of a surprise when you don't have to fill in a ReCaptcha afterwards.

- A "Country" dropdown box that doesn't let you specify "United Kingdom", as that IS my country, not blooming England. If I was in the US, I'd choose the USA as my country, not (for example) Arizona. :mad:

- Mag dailies where the "not interested" box is becoming harder and harder to find and add to the "No thanks" Roboform preset. Also, when they instantly react when you accidentally select the wrong box (usually by trying to move down the page with the arrow keys while a box is still highlighted). O2 have been bombarding me with SIM cards ever since.

- My address is quite short, so when the third address is REQUIRED, I'm usually forced to make up something. I've been writing random Pokemon character's names in there.

sax11

my main peev


people who come on here and whinge that they've comped for a month, entered 50 comps and haven't won

sax11

MaineBlue wrote: »

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· People who don’t ‘thank’ the person who has taken the time and effort to find the answer to a comp question when the OP has asked for help

that gets on my tits, i thank all comps i look at even if i don't enter it.
They don't magically appear and its common courtesy

Luckyone

Moaning threads

If you don't like it find something else to do with your time

tompain100

sax11 wrote: »

my main peev


people who come on here and whinge that they've comped for a month, entered 50 comps and haven't won

Oh yes! Definitely!


Also, one that makes me laugh more than annoys me:

"I had a card saying I had a missed delivery. Anyone know what it is?"

Yeah, because we know exactly what is in there!

sax11

Luckyone wrote: »

Moaning threads

If you don't like it find something else to do with your time

i would but i don't have the money and it's technically illegal

Skadi

Effort comps to win video cameras that require you to take some kind of James Cameron worthy video.

Which, when you don't own something awesome like a video camera to make one on, is a bloody pain.

MaineBlue

Oh, and another one......

It goes a little like this......

From time to time we like to send out loads of emails via third parties. If you do want to not receive these emails please tick the box confirming that you do so. We promise to never not send you emails that you have not requested to not receive. Do you not want to receive these emails? Only tick this box if you do not agree to not receiving these emails. Yes, I don't agree to not receiving these emails

And after I've read it 100 times I still don't know if I should be ticking the box or not

jaxdia

Skadi wrote: »

Effort comps to win video cameras that require you to take some kind of James Cameron worthy video.

Which, when you don't own something awesome like a video camera to make one on, is a bloody pain.

Oh tell me about it! There was one I entered a few years ago, where I used a mobile phone (but it was really good quality, 1080p video) as I had nothing else. The terms specifically said the quality of the video doesn't matter, it's the message.

The winner of the competition? Shot their video on a RED One camera (if you watched John Simm's Prey the last couple of weeks on ITV, the same cameras that were used to shoot that). They didn't need to enter the thing, but they shot the rest of us out the water :mad: