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  • weeowens
    weeowens Posts: 81,990 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Just to save any doubt I did exercise a bit of TIC:

    ie:

    Well said :rotfl:
  • gholmes724
    gholmes724 Posts: 661 Forumite
    weeowens wrote: »


    Interesting thread, as an aside a 'meet and greet' is something you can buy, I used to be on the ticket line and for a ridiculously souped up price you could buy the meet and greet ticket.
  • mjm3346
    mjm3346 Posts: 47,325 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 1 July 2014 at 9:53AM
    I for one applaud their stance on this,it proves promoters are wising up to the people who have no interest in the actual product at all and just want something for nothing.

    Im positive they wont be bothered in the slightest if people dont enter their promotions again!.

    What they are saying is that they do not want the professional comper entering and imho quite rightly so!.

    Just as facebook like and shares do not equate into brand loyalty neither do people who enter for anything and everything and ruin a promoters well intended campaign, as has happened here!!!.

    I personally know of several promoters on fb who discard L&S entries and indeed any entries from people with the word "comp", "prize winner" and other similar names in their title along with people who insist on putting "MSE" in between their fb name as this identifies them as one of the above.

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    Received a cheque today for £200 from News International, must be from the Sun comp details posted here,so many thanks to op

    :beer:
  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,475 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Also totally baffled as to the term 'professional comper'. Absolute tosh.

    I work full time - 9am-6pm. (Legal secretary.) I also enter a LOT of competitions and I only really use twitter for comps. I am a real person lol! I just try to fill the quiet times at work, on my commute or at home with something fun and maybe productive. I've had a handful of rather feeble wins this year after entering THOUSANDS of competitions over the last six months. I don't even use Roboform. I fill out by hand (or let google try to attempt to fill out a line as I type which mostly is rubbish).

    Am I a 'professional comper'? Why?! Stupid definitions and I really don't like being placed in a box/labelled.

    Utterly ridiculous. How many comps am I 'allowed' to enter before I become a 'professional'?

    Somebody doesn't know what the eff they're talking about. Grrr.

    Jx
    2024 wins: *must start comping again!*
  • Luckyone
    Luckyone Posts: 23,016 Forumite
    Xmas Saver!
    Who knows

    Plenty more comps to enter

    xxx
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