ITV comps - what am I doing wrong?

hertzyabazas

I actually think someone's fishing and looking for bites

BlueBella

hertzyabazas wrote: »

I actually think someone's fishing and looking for bites

My thoughts exactly - just like the newbie who caused a similar commotion a few weeks back after they'd posted to say they enter every single comp going and spend every moment of the day and night entering comps!? It is probably the same one newbie all the time!

mjm3346

toniq wrote: »

A few years ago Itv had a 30 entry route, phone/online, So if op is for real, what they are doing is no different to what many Msers were doing several years ago.
It's only in the last few years since Itv got in trouble for charging for entries that weren't eligible to win ie: after closing date they left lines open etc, that it all changed.

Example thread: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/668425

While it doesn't bother me if the op enters once or a million times but using 26 numbers to enter has got nothing to do with entering 1 number for the maximum number of times permitted regardless of the limit on entries being 3, 6, 30, or 100 or more per phone number.

toniq

Who cares how many times they enter or what their intentions are? It doesn't affect any of us.

I can't find Martins quote as Jess on my lap but the thing about being nice to all applies here.

sax11

i shall extinguish my flaming torch and put away the pitchfork


for today

debsy42

I won with ITV last year, not a huge amount of money but it's made a difference to my life. I entered using just one phone number and the maximum amount of entries per competition. Did I deserve to win, in my opinion it's irrelevant whether I deserved it or not, it's all down to luck and whether your name comes out of the hat.

I think the OP has convinced themselves that they're going to win big and all their financial problems will disappear. Will that happen, probably not but there's enough of a remote possibility to keep them going.

I would suggest in the nicest way possible the OP carries on with "normal" entries and spends their other time looking at realistic ways to help them with their financial problems.

JessicAhh

It would have been nice for the OP to at least acknowledge those of us trying to give financial advice.... In my post above, I gave links to all the useful MSE forums for financial help and advice.

They don't want help, as Hertzy said, they want 'bites'.

Incidentally, that is a good point re: the phone numbers not all being the OP's. Do the ITV terms state you must own the numbers you enter with? (Genuine question!)

Apple123

Hahaha this thread made me chuckle. Harsh of the OP for not saying thanks for the debt help links though.

Didn't know the odds for an ITV win were so bad mind! Figured that if I entered all of them, I'd have to win before I turned 60 (another 40 years to go.) Ah well, guess part of the fun is imagining what I'd do with the money.

JessicAhh

You can do a lot more with money once you're retired, Apple123... you'll be able to go off on long cruises, sun yourself in the Bahamas for months on end, and so on... :rotfl: