Is Rafflecopter breeding?!

BlueBella

I like Rafflecopters - I enter quite a few but am selective. If I really like the prize then I will retweet daily but often I just enter each step once and leave it at that as I know there is still a chance of winning.

I assume the rafflecopters weed out cheats if MclarenGurl has seen a few re-draws? I could quite imagine some cheaters claiming to have liked/followed a company when they have indeed not! Naughty and not worth it if you are caught out!!

BlueBella

Defo more rafflecopters being posted at the mo though - and twitter too. I don't tend to enter twitter comps so sometimes I feel like I have pages of red crosses!

mumto2boys

Thanks for your input, seems a lot of you only do the one entry then and not bother with the daily retweeting, I might give it a go, I might also give up again if I don't win something :rotfl:

Blue___Nile

Agree with all that has been said and yep I've noticed there are a load more RC than before. I thought it was just me but now know others have noticed.

Generally speaking I don't mind RCs and will tweet daily if the prize is something I want but what I do hate is when you clink an OPs link to a RC only to find you have to follow their blog to enter...ugh. I don't read blogs (too busy comping :rotfl:) so don't like having to be made a follower to enter their comps so quickly close the page and move on.

Also for some reason I don't understand, I hate the RCs where you make a comment and you have to link it to Google etc much prefer just filling in name, email and comment.

ikkle87

BlueBella wrote: »

I like Rafflecopters - I enter quite a few but am selective. If I really like the prize then I will retweet daily but often I just enter each step once and leave it at that as I know there is still a chance of winning.

I assume the rafflecopters weed out cheats if MclarenGurl has seen a few re-draws? I could quite imagine some cheaters claiming to have liked/followed a company when they have indeed not! Naughty and not worth it if you are caught out!!

I've sen redraws because winners haven't got back in touch within a certain time frame too.

ellemm

BlueBella wrote: »

Defo more rafflecopters being posted at the mo though - and twitter too. I don't tend to enter twitter comps so sometimes I feel like I have pages of red crosses!

Same here, don't do RC, Twitter and few FB so more crosses than ticks at the moment

judy2357

My pet hate is after returning day after day to follow retweet comment etc and then the competition ends that the name of the winner is not announced anywhere. It makes we sceptical whether there is a winner. I appreciate that the winner has to be informed before the name is announced on the rafflecopter but I really think it should be compulsory to press the button and announce the name.

BlueBella

judy2357 wrote: »

My pet hate is after returning day after day to follow retweet comment etc and then the competition ends that the name of the winner is not announced anywhere. It makes we sceptical whether there is a winner. I appreciate that the winner has to be informed before the name is announced on the rafflecopter but I really think it should be compulsory to press the button and announce the name.

I noticed that too! Some rafflecopters show the name but some don't ! So do we assume the blogger chooses the winner from those that don't? Mmmmm? Any bloggers out there who are reading this and would like to add a comment? - like - if the name isn't shown, how do you choose the winner?

sydroo

I agree, I'm always suspicious of the Rafflecopter comps that don't show a winner.
There was one recently on BestChickLit.com to win a hotel stay in London. There were only four entry requirements and 202 entries by the end of it.
That means there could have been as little as 30 people in the mix (if you include the daily tweet).
When the competition was over a name didn't appear in the RC widget, when I asked the company about this they said it wasn't their policy to divulge or publish the name of the winner. I thought this was strange so I searched twitter (for the daily tweet) and half of the people who entered were authors who had an association with BestChickLit! I just wonder if one of them won.