Winning from a public vote

Hippy110 · 17 November 2013 at 8:22PM

Has anyone ever won a competition that has gone to a public vote just by asking their own friends? Wondering if it is worthwhile potentially annoying people by asking for support when I don't have many to ask so unlikely to succeed.

Thanks in advance for any comments

Enigmatic_Me · 17 November 2013 at 11:01PM

I did one recently. I have 156 friends/family on Facebook. I shared the link with my pic for a week and I sent out messages, all they had to do was "like" the picture but sadly only 56 of my friends bothered to vote and I missed out on the prize of a trip to Germany by 18 likes. They didn't even need to share, just hit that little like button. I was very disappointed.

So, in my opinion it is not worth it.

Good luck

Hippy110 · 17 November 2013 at 11:19PM

Thanks - I don't anything close to 156 friends (billy no mates!), sorry you just missed out x

EnglishWelshie · 17 November 2013 at 11:20PM

I avoid any competitions that are voting ones. They are more a popularity contest then the best entry wins and there is lots of cheating and nastiness that goes on with vote comps.

claire21 · 18 November 2013 at 12:22AM

I have forgotten the members name on here but when a post has been put up that calls for votes they post....lets get them to change their minds and either make it random draw or company decides. They got a £1000 funny photo comp to change their winner rules, so I would go with chipping in and asking for a different method of winning.