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How long do mag dailies take you?

I love doing the mag dailies as I have won once before with them so I believe their worth it but they take me forever! They take me around 1-2 hours, has any one got any tips to save time and do them quicker :) thank you x
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  • MaineBlue
    MaineBlue Posts: 15,986 Forumite
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    Take a look at this thread by mclarkie
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  • cagsd
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    I do all the mags but not all the comps within them. Currently not doing any at all from Look, Best or Reveal, out of the 25 allowed from most others I'm doing between 15-22, and for Marie Claire I'm doing 9 so doing a few shares. That amount is currently taking me between 30-45 minutes every day, depending on whether the tick boxes show up or just the videos. When it was all tickboxes, and mostly 5 at a time, it would easily take an hour to an hour and a half each day. I'm hoping it doesn't return to that!!!
  • I_luv_cats
    I_luv_cats Posts: 14,458 Forumite
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    Doing the Mag dailies on an ipad circumnavigates the dreaded videos!

    Some go straight to entry! (or the y/n game)


    Don't have enough time to do all the 9 or so dailies. Does the commitment really pay off ?
    (entering for the same prize across titles)
  • hamsterfan1
    hamsterfan1 Posts: 8,281 Forumite
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    I enter loads - atm there are some really good prize so around an hour and a half - 2 hrs - depending on what I'm doing at the same time - before videos I was cutting back as they had crept up to 2 1/2 hours
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  • ellemm
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    I_luv_cats wrote: »

    Don't have enough time to do all the 9 or so dailies. Does the commitment really pay off ? (entering for the same prize across titles)

    Still debating that one myself ILC ;)
  • weeowens
    weeowens Posts: 81,990 Forumite
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    edited 15 June 2013 at 7:06PM
    Zero minutes & zero seconds for me as I have never entered a mag daily.

    My choice but I just get the impression the odds are not in our favour & I prefer to stick with the main board.Much the same for postals/text & regular comps.

    My choice & no offence meant.
  • sheils6
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    Timed myself today and I took 1hour and 25mins to do at least 25 entries with a few shares on Chat,Now,PMU,WOTV,Woman,WO and WW plus 3 entries on Look and 9 on MC. I have had lots of wonderful wins from these comps in the past but not nearly as many this year. Had been thinking of giving them up but had two really good wins in the last few weeks. Think more and more peeps are entering now.
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  • mclarkie
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    edited 15 June 2013 at 9:29AM
    I just did my 42 bookmarked mag dailies in 15 minutes, without sharing, which I find is too time consuming.

    Here's my crazy three folder system. ;)

    1) I have 8 mag dailies in my 1st bookmark folder, One from each magazine, I named this Mag logins. the rest are divided into two folders Mag1, Mag2.

    2) I use Last Pass to remember the answer, which it auto fills after log-in, this is also handled with LP.

    3) Fire Form plugin for Firefox does the No boxes. link in post two, thanks to MainBlue

    So, what I do is open all the links in my Mag log-ins folder by clicking the scroll button, or it's right click and select "Open all in Tabs"
    I now work my way through the line of open tabs, logging-in to each one, and completing the comps.
    So that's 8 done.

    I now do the same with the other two folders, logging out as I complete each group of comps from each mag.

    Done.
  • Kirri
    Kirri Posts: 6,184 Forumite
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    I wouldn't have the patience to spend the amount of time some of you do on these!

    I only ever enter a few from WW, the one without questions/tick boxes. There's been a few organic toiletries I've liked the look of on Marie Claire but barely have the patience to enter plus I'd never enter every day so my 1 or 2 entries are barely worth doing.

    Plus I find there's too many other comps I don't get done even without these mag dailies..
  • paadzer
    paadzer Posts: 1,846 Forumite
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    Takes me about 15 minutes
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