Competitions!

HeadAboveWater

Hi all

This maybe is a question for the comp forum, but it is specifically for Northern Ireland-ers!! :hello:

Any dedicated compers over here? How many per day? What have your wins been?

I've won one comp from here (4 big bags of kettle crisps!! )

NI doesn't be excluded from comp entries, but I'm wondering if the prize winners are more mainland based.

Thoughts??

mezza101

luck of the irish not working

HeadAboveWater

Apparently not!! lol

Denene

I started entering competitions about a year ago, and have won about a dozen smallish prizes and one or two larger ones. I go through periods of entering lots of competitions every day (100s?) and then get bored and don't enter any for a while.

I have won competitions with "mainland" companies that don't have operations over here, so I don't think we're automatically excluded, but I don't enter comps run by very small local companies (eg. a hairdresser in the Midlands), which perhaps would rather have a winner who could potentially become a customer.

The problem with living in Northern Ireland is not only do we get excluded from some by the T+Cs of the competition ("mainland UK only"), but I find there are a lot that it would be pointless to enter - prizes you have to pick up from a certain location, tickets to events, days out, spa trips, even overnight stays, because it would be too expensive/impractical to take them up if I did win!

Still, there are some that are Northern Ireland only, so maybe it all balances out?

HeadAboveWater

Thanks for that!! All makes sense.

Good to know there's a possibility of some fab prize winging it's way to me someday!

mjm3346

Denene wrote: »

Still, there are some that are Northern Ireland only, so maybe it all balances out?

One big plus is for the moment you still have the NPN (no purchase necessary) entry route.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4385561

NAR

HAW my Mrs is a fairly dedicated comper and regularly wins prizes, including some top prizes. Last April she won one of the ITV programme comps which was £1000, iPAD, video camera etc. Total prize was worth well over £1500, and this was with an online (not phone or text which were options for entry) entry which was free. So yes big prizes can and do come to N Ireland.

HeadAboveWater

Fab!!! Well done Mrs NAR :T:T

steveymp

NAR wrote: »

HAW my Mrs is a fairly dedicated comper and regularly wins prizes, including some top prizes. Last April she one of the ITV programme comps which was £1000, iPAD, video camera etc. Total prize was worth well over £1500, and this was with an online (not phone or text which were options for entry) entry which was free. So yes big prizes can and do come to N Ireland.

Nutts Corner do a roaring trade that Sunday :rotfl:

Only joking, well done to Mrs NAR, nice to see someone from OWC winning things.

NAR

It was a You've Been Framed competition. So come on make "Enter early and enter often" your motto! :j

emmah89

i go through phases of comping. i so far have won:
a psp go
wii
sony vaio laptop (best win ever!!!)
a holiday in ibiza for a weekend (however magazine who were holding competition mucked up flights and i didnt get to go- they then compensated me with an overnight stay in belfast and a trip to the zoo for my daughter!!)

i won the top 3 in quick sucession (within about 2/3 weeks of each other!!). havent entered anything in ages though!! should start again!