What's your pet hate about comping?

dontone

Competitions where you have to keep the product wrapper and (sometimes) also the receipt from where you bought it, not only up until the main competition end date, but right up to, say 6 months later when they do a special one off draw, and you daren't throw the wrapper away in case you miss out.

Facebook voting comps where you have to get your friends to vote. A disadvantage from the start if your friends have absolutely no interest in comps, and if you don't have many friends to start with. Voting comps in general are horrible.

Phone calls asking if you entered a big comp recently and you excitedly say "YES!" and then you realise you have won diddly squat because they offer you magazines subs for £1 a copy. the disappointment is crushing sometimes.:mad:

LEM's that have the heading "Re. the £2000 gadget comp you entered"- and when you open the message = nuff said

Sneaky tick boxes that, if you aren't careful and are rushing, bombard your emithers with spam. I don't have any PPI nor need any credit.


*I shouldn't grumble really, I have done rather well with this hobby of mine. Lets face it peeps - sometimes it's well worth it

sofaloafz

No timeframe to take them with holiday comps. It's like you have to guess when you'd be able to take it if you won!

Like/share comps on FB - do my nut in :mad:

Also, like others have said, those This Competition Prize emails where you open and it's all like "afraid not this time young padowan."

But I have only been around for 5 months or so.

Pros: the entire comping community - you're all vunderbar! :T

velocity_girl

LadyMorticia wrote: »

Comps where the "First name" field is letters only. I have a hyphen in my first name!

I know it's all down to the coding but it's so annoying!

For me it's "house number" fields that are numbers only! I have a flat number which has a forward-slash in it (i.e. flat 2/1). Some will accept it with a hyphen instead, some with a full stop, but some won't even let you put spaces in! So I end up living at 2139 instead of flat 2/1, number 39. Very annoying! And of course makes me worry someone else is going to end up with my prizes!

Barnabysue

velocity_girl wrote: »

For me it's "house number" fields that are numbers only! I have a flat number which has a forward-slash in it (i.e. flat 2/1). Some will accept it with a hyphen instead, some with a full stop, but some won't even let you put spaces in! So I end up living at 2139 instead of flat 2/1, number 39. Very annoying! And of course makes me worry someone else is going to end up with my prizes!

My Daughter gets round it putting her house number in the number field and the road the Flat number in the street field, so that line would be 'Anywhere Road Flat 3' for example.

tinktinktinkerbell

blackmidnight wrote: »

the daily magazine comps were you have to tick no to all the offers - they take me about an hour every day now! does anyone actually tick yes?!?!

never tick yes

and omg they take forever! i used to be able to do the entire dailies in 45 mins, now it takes an hours just for the mags

i wouldnt mind if it was just one offer you had to click no to (i know it is on some of the mags) but its like 5 on the rest

fire**fly

tinktinktinkerbell wrote: »

never tick yes

and omg they take forever! i used to be able to do the entire dailies in 45 mins, now it takes an hours just for the mags

i wouldnt mind if it was just one offer you had to click no to (i know it is on some of the mags) but its like 5 on the rest

have you seen this tinks

Using Roboform to fill in "No Thanks" boxes in Dailies(1 2 3)
compsalex

tinktinktinkerbell

fire**fly wrote: »

have you seen this tinks

Using Roboform to fill in "No Thanks" boxes in Dailies(1 2 3)
compsalex

not seen that but brilliant :eek: :T

hamsterfan1

Oh yes &comp that ask your date of birth & then make it mandatory for you to tick parental consent - even if you are over 18

Elsbells21

Compers arguing over the most useless things... I don't ever really get involved (I'll like posts by people who I think are coherant!) but I find it really annoying. It's like a car crash, I don't want to look but I can't tear my eyes away!

Anything involving liking and sharing, I personally don't do them and think we should all boycott them :rotfl: I dont get how they are allowed if it is against FB rules

This one is probably just mine, but also the amount of time I waste!! I end up researching the hotels and deciding who shall I give what for xmas... and I haven't even won it yet!!:eek:

However I love this forum. Would be lost without it :T

The_3rd_Zebu

StokieBecks wrote: »

This sounds harsh but the "newbies" who have amazing first wins.. Seems to be more and more of them. I never had that beginners luck :rotfl:

Or how about the "apparent" newbie who announces a win on their first, second, third or fourth post ......
But when you look at their profile you realise that they have been a member for the last few years!