What's your pet hate about comping?

emiai

I hate seeing a winning name, thats the same as yours when it isnt you!! Whaaaaaaahhh!!

zombieslayer25

Not having enough time to do them all in.

I didn't have a great September so decided that I will aim to do my dailies (60-70) and a further 50 a day. I haven't achieved that yet, so not sure October will be a great month either. Though I will have more time at half term at the end so will be able to get straight in there and catch up with some luck.

Not winning a comp that has hundreds of winners like all the May Glamour Giveaway.

Those I cant enter (like the TFM friday £500 one as I have a rubbish signal on my mobile so I wouldnt get the winning phone call)

I do have to say regarding the ITV ones having 3, 5 or 6 entries Ive noticed that when the advert is on for the comp during This Morning/X factor/Daybreak etc there is no mention that I can see about the number of entries allowed and if it wasn't for MSE I would only enter once as that is what I would assume would be the allowance, so hopefully a lot of the entries they get just from people watching the show are just one entry per person.

I_luv_cats

(1) Captcha's are annoying


(2) Emails with "Thanks for entering" and sorry you haven't won or marketing info. like a graze box.


(3) Long delays and hiccups to wins - Lego/Grab2Go/Tesco Clubcard/ Nectar


(4) Very long gaps between even small wins.


(5) Can't seem to move up a prize tier as stuck on the small tier!

Blulu

Wrestling constantly with all the moral dilemmas:

Ooh an iPad comp
But it's with 'My Wedding mag" and I'm not getting married (though I might to win an iPad)

Ooh an iPad comp
But it's with Nuts magazine. Will I still be able to think of myself as a Socialist if I touch them with a barge pole after all?

Ooh an iPad comp - I could tell them that hilarious story about my dad
I'll miss out the bit about how he is just a teeny bit not actually alive anymore

Ooh a really fun competition, like a puzzle or writing a caption
But it's for a prize I don't want, can't give or sell

Ooh win a Playstation Vita with Match magazine
Now, where can I borrow a kid from so's I can enter (it's ok, I don't really do it)

And last, and possibly least:
Ooh win chocolate, crisps, cakes or biscuits
Oh stuff it - everyone knows all prizes come calorie free

Wise_Owl

For those who don't like Captcha and didn't know: you only have to enter one of the words and just any random character for the other.

There is always one "dud" word which will take anything and is easy to spot which it is. If there is any punctuation or if the word is a real word then that is the fake word.

Saves a lot of time knowing just to enter the one word and a random character

zombieslayer25

Waiting for a prize.

I had a WEM on 17th Sept telling me Id won a 3DS and it hasn't arrived yet. I know its still within its time frame, but it feels like its taking forever. Ive already bought a couple of games to play once I get it.

Also the fact that my post never gets here before 1:30PM and is often here around 3ish so I spend all day wondering what delights I might get, then nothing comes.

Lolasmom

Haven't got Roboform, so have to constantly complete my details all the time, practically have RSI doing it. Must invest

I hate the Rafflecopter ones that ask you to blog - I don't have a blog and haven't a clue how to set it up. Surely it is enough to be liking, commenting, putting it on twitter AND facebook!!:mad:

I also hate the "sorry you haven't won" e-mails, would rather not hear from them at all.

Soosieboo

Lolasmom wrote: »

Haven't got Roboform, so have to constantly complete my details all the time, practically have RSI doing it. Must invest

I don't use roboform either - I use Last Pass which is pretty much the same and it's free.

hazyjo

Not having roboform at work and having to enter my details time and time again...

Hate the 'confirm your entry by email' ones. I think it's the daisygreen ones where you enter, get an email with link to confirm you've entered, then get another email saying you've not signed up for newsletters or whatever.

I do them in date order and barely touch those ending on the last day of the month as I simply don't have time to enter them all

When they tell me my name's not long enough ("Jo"). Grrr.

The fact that tonnes don't work on my work computer! Can't get Attitude, Emerald St, Cosmo, LA Muscle, Loaded... (the list goes on - there are tonnes of other mag ones I can't get!). And for many, including the ITV ones, I have to come out of our networked site and go back to internet access from my desktop - even more annoying when that doesn't work either!

When there's a comp for some do, show, awards thingy or whatever - with no date. Arghhh! That drives me more insane than anything, I think. I spend bloomin' ages on google sometimes just trying to find where or when a certain something is. Won tickets to see Prometheus (went last week) at a strange venue near London Bridge (kind of in a tunnel). They gave away 70-odd tickets. Could I find a date/time? No chance. Had to just enter in the end and hope I could attend if I won!

Jx
PS Probably got a whole heap more!

purple.sarah

I have the free FF form filler, which saves time when it works but doesn't work with every website, once memorably entering my email address in every field...except the email field!

I hate companies that are sneaky about getting your details to spam you. I always opt out, if I see the tick box! Recently I've been bombarded with texts about PPI and life insurance and I think they must have got my number from a comp.

My pet peeve on here is seeing a comp at the top of the board and thinking I can enter then realising it has just been bumped by people commenting it has expired! That's what the button is for! I don't say anything on the post because then I would be part of the problem!