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So disheartening...

When u sit day after day, hour after hour, and constantly check your emails to see no WEMs :(
Started Comping (Seriously) October 2013

Wins so far 2013 : :) Novotel Overnight Stay :) Miners Varnish Bundle :) Halloween Sweet bundle :) £100 Love2Shop Vouchers :) 2 Nickelback Tickets :) Waitrose hamper :) Iron Man 3 Blu Ray DVD :) £400 Coffee goodies :)
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  • nanny_7
    nanny_7 Posts: 932 Forumite
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    Ahh please don't give up your day will come, then you will find they will all come at once :):):)
  • If it helps at all, November has been pretty quiet for me on the wins front. I'm not complaining, they've been good wins but only had 4 over the whole month.

    Just think, with December's advents you could well win a prize every day!
    Living with Lupus is like juggling with butterflies
  • toniq
    toniq Posts: 29,340 Forumite
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    Advents are starting rather than1 prize a month most companies will offer 1 prize a day!

    Think happy thoughts advents are mad crazy fun!

    x
    #JusticeForGrenfell
  • toniq
    toniq Posts: 29,340 Forumite
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    See me and purple butterfly can't both be wrong!

    x
    #JusticeForGrenfell
  • I've had a few wins but I must enter about 400 a day lol and I know it's a numbers game, I'm not moaning but I'm like has my WEMs got lost in the big web? ;) xxxx
    Started Comping (Seriously) October 2013

    Wins so far 2013 : :) Novotel Overnight Stay :) Miners Varnish Bundle :) Halloween Sweet bundle :) £100 Love2Shop Vouchers :) 2 Nickelback Tickets :) Waitrose hamper :) Iron Man 3 Blu Ray DVD :) £400 Coffee goodies :)
  • ness13
    ness13 Posts: 8,470 Forumite
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    I've been thinking the same thing. I'm probably entering more competitions now than I ever have, but wins have all but disappeared. I've won nothing at all so far in November. Here's hoping the fun and madness of advents brings us some luck! :D
    Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

    An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
  • lilrahi
    lilrahi Posts: 1,483 Forumite
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    It is unfortunately but I think we all knew this when we started. It's all luck of the draw, I've had great months and I've had months when the most that I've 'won' have been samples or freebies.

    It's so easy to give up because of not winning, but not entering also means no wins.

    Keep going and hopefully advents will make it up for you. I hope for some major advent success!
    You'll have to speak up; I'm wearing a towel
  • dont give up i havet had a win all year!
    What goes around-comes around
  • cagsd
    cagsd Posts: 7,662 Forumite
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    I know how you feel, I've been a bit disheartened too lately as had an extremely quiet November, although I did get a nice surprise £100 cheque in the post the other day so that perked up my spirits a bit.
    I sat down the other day and wrote down every prize I'd ever won in the 18 months or so I've been comping... it was a grand total of 48, and that was including a good few boxes of cereal (lol) in that time I must have entered easily 50,000 comps if not more, so I haven't won any more than one in 1000!!! It can be disheartening when you look at it like that, and you think of the endless time and effort that you put in. But I just keep telling myself that all my luck is being saved up and I'll get a really great win sometime soon!!! Good luck, keep at it! XXXXX
  • Nix143
    Nix143 Posts: 1,130 Forumite
    Yup. Feeling ya.

    Logically I know
    1. I can't win everything I enter
    2. I can;t enter everything
    3. I will win something eventually


    Does that stop me bursting through the front door to see if there are any suspicious white envelopes? Or compulsively checking my mail every 5 minutes? Does it stop me from wondering whether I've forgotten my own mobile number and entered it incorrectly in LastPass?

    Nope :D

    In my experience it'll come. And very probably not in the format I want/expect or when I want it - but as long as I keep entering it'll come. I just need my first win since restarting about a month ago and I'll be fine. Very impatient until I get it though......
    Comps £2016 in 2016 - 1 wins = £530 26.2%
    SEALED POT CHALLENGE MEMBER No. 428 2015 - £210.93


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