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Winning is so random ?

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  • hamsterfan1
    hamsterfan1 Posts: 8,281 Forumite
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    gethro wrote: »
    Jan and so far Feb have been the worse months ever for me,i didn't win anything in Jan and nothing so far in Feb,that's the first time in 4 years i have gone a whole month without winning.

    me too - the only thing I've "won" this month are tickets fro a preview of "the book thief" through seefilmfirst
    proud gran to 4 lovely boys and one little girl
  • babyblooz
    babyblooz Posts: 1,122 Forumite
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    How many competitions do you enter?

    Do you do some every day?

    I keep thinking about having a go but I'm not sure I have the dedication to make it worthwhile.
    :hello: :wave: please play nicely children !
  • JessicAhh
    JessicAhh Posts: 3,903 Forumite
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    Quiet Feb for me as well after a terrific January... But we're only nine days in - plenty of time for that ITV WTC :rotfl:
  • gizmobenny
    gizmobenny Posts: 1,490 Forumite
    babyblooz wrote: »
    How many competitions do you enter?

    Do you do some every day?

    I keep thinking about having a go but I'm not sure I have the dedication to make it worthwhile.

    I try and do at least 100 a day and often do 200+ . That has given me loads of brilliant wins over the 7 years I've been comping.
    Hubs is a great TV watcher and I'm not bothered, so I comp while he's watching old movies or football.
    Have a go.. as they say.. you have to be in it to win it :)
  • gizmobenny wrote: »
    January was my best month ever for wins in seven years of comping with an average of a prize a day.. the best being an inclusive skiing holiday for 4 :j .. lots of smaller prizes but a totally amazing month.

    What have I won in February ?

    Zilch until yesterday when I won a small kiddies water bottle on Twitter.

    February is shaping up to be my worst month ever.

    Not complaining as I'm over the moon with January wins.. just puzzled.

    Doing the same as I always do and entering the same amount of comps... do you all find it can happen this way?

    It is only the 9th February (actually the 8th when this thread was started)...
  • Hi I only just joined as home on sick leave. How often are you entering comps and how many. I just need a few tips please. Sounds so much fun xx
  • hamsterfan1
    hamsterfan1 Posts: 8,281 Forumite
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    I enter around 200-300 a day - & until 2014 I was winning 2 or 3 times a week - so far this year though........
    proud gran to 4 lovely boys and one little girl
  • Yeh I had a reasonable Jan (14 wins) --- and yet nothing this month yet!!! :eek: -- I do seem to win somewhere between 12 and 20 wins a month though, more in December but I was really doing tonnes in december... then often I will have sometimes only 1 win for a couple of weeks and then suddenly one or more every day or so for a while.

    I really don't know how many I do a day, maybe a 100 regular and then twitter/dailies on top of that? Plus rafflecopter when I can be bothered. More than that on a Friday of course, with freebie friday. At the weekend I normally have saturday off though and do less in general on Sunday. :beer:
    Some best wins: £5,000 with hotels4u, 3D tv with ipad and sky for a year, another ipad, Hudl tablet, Sony z1 Xperia mobile, Spa break and £300 spa treatments, hotel chocolat hampers!
  • starrybee
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    I am having a miserable February, only one small win...weird because last year February was my best month, I was winning something every other day! Strange how random it all is :D
  • gizmobenny
    gizmobenny Posts: 1,490 Forumite
    I'd already had 15 wins by this time in January. That and December were exceptional months though.
    We have a local comp club and we all seem to have little bursts of wins and then nothing for a while.
    You would think if you have a regular method of comping that wins would follow a similar pattern ?? They don't though.
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