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Most common ways of winning prizes

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Hey all compers!

Just wondering what's the most common way on winning prizes?! Like which websites are best to use?
I'm pretty new to comping that's why I ask


Thanks all and happy winning
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  • sax11
    sax11 Posts: 3,250 Forumite
    Home Insurance Hacker!
    enter many and often - so i've heard. not done me much good as yet :D
  • Daza
    Daza Posts: 3,936 Forumite
    poodle24 wrote: »
    1 - Just wondering what's the most common way on winning prizes?!
    2 - Like which websites are best to use?

    1 - Entering
    2 - You are on it

    :beer:
  • poodle24
    poodle24 Posts: 8 Forumite
    Great thanks!
    What's the popular sites which people seem to win from?
    I always enter loads from stylist but never here of people winning from there
  • Barnabysue
    Barnabysue Posts: 9,058 Forumite
    You stand a chance from any sites that you enter competitions on. Bigger prizes = more entries = less chance. Smaller prizes = less entries = more chance. Do a mixture of both and at some point you should strike lucky.
    Luck is believing you’re lucky – Tennessee Williams

    May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night – Anonymous
  • Blulu
    Blulu Posts: 7,846 Forumite
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    Effort comps and those restricted to your local area also mean fewer entries, so more chance of winning.

    GL

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  • JGL
    JGL Posts: 48 Forumite
    Try your local newspapers - less entries x
  • mjm3346
    mjm3346 Posts: 47,285 Forumite
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    poodle24 wrote: »
    Great thanks!
    What's the popular sites which people seem to win from?
    I always enter loads from stylist but never here of people winning from there

    Have a look in the IWIWIW section

    (The I won! I won! I won! Board)

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=73


    At least 3 stylist ones in the last 6 weeks

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4924379

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4903737

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4901382
  • weeowens
    weeowens Posts: 81,990 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    I won a big Stylist prize last year.It is a genuine site & the service was great.
  • robbies_gal
    robbies_gal Posts: 7,895 Forumite
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    any site u get the same chances like others have said small value prize more chance than a high value but enter anyway and good luck
    What goes around-comes around
  • Snizza
    Snizza Posts: 454 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Photogenic
    This website is best to use :) and Some observations that might help you. Especially on Twitter!

    Women & Bloggers - seem to get chosen mostly from what I have noticed, especially by big companies like those who sell mobile phones etc.

    Beggers/Desperate Dans - Those who constantly bombard the company with messages and constantly retweeting the comp talking about how much they need or want to win.

    Lies - I see the same names winning competitions quite often on Twitter, and they have usually won a similar prize before. Like say one week you notice they have just won a new iPhone 5s, a couple weeks later you will see them entering and winning for a new Xperia Z phone by talking how how they have an ancient phone which is so old and so cr*p and how badly they need a new one even though they know they just won one not long ago.

    Thankfully I don't think the Sympathy vote works online. You get those people who start talking about how hard their life has been and all the suffering they have had with illnesses but how winning a pair of headphones will make it all better. You get the drift.
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