Some competitions are better than others

Roger_Rampant

Obviously we all have our favourite comps, such as Shortlist/MrHyde/Emerald Street, Bestloved, AOL Travel, Telegraph, Guardian etc. etc. Great prizes, relatively straightforward to enter, don't ask you 75 really personal questions, clear ways of opting out of junkmail.

Then we have ones like this one, where you fill in your information, click to submit, and if it doesn't like your answer to the captcha it sends you to another page which tells you that the captcha was answered incorrectly!

At that point you have to decide how grumpy you're feeling, and whether 3 bottles of plonk really make it worth you having to go back and key in the information again :rotfl:

Soosieboo

usually depends on how I feel on the day. I quite often open a load of tabs and get to one that says do this / do that for a piddling little prize.
More often than not I just red cross it and pass on to something worth winning.

I don't mind effort but jumping through hoops for something worth a few quid isn't worth it.

fire**fly

Roger_Rampant wrote: »

Then we have ones like this one, where you fill in your information, click to submit, and if it doesn't like your answer to the captcha it sends you to another page which tells you that the captcha was answered incorrectly!

At that point you have to decide how grumpy you're feeling, and whether 3 bottles of plonk really make it worth you having to go back and key in the information again :rotfl:

simples, don't bother then :rotfl:
more chance for me to win it

mjm3346

fire**fly wrote: »

simples, don't bother then :rotfl:
more chance for me to win it

or just type the captcha correctly in the first place.

fire**fly

mjm3346 wrote: »

or just type the captcha correctly in the first place.

that was Roger_Rampant
not me,
my captcha went through fine

hamsterfan1

sometimes captchas are ambiguous. Is l a lower case L or a number 1 or a capital I there a several other problem letters/numbers

CheCazzo

Sometimes captchas actually speak to you. True fact. Today I had one on a click to win that said 'stop wasting time'. I took it as a message from above and went to do some ironing!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Roger_Rampant

CheCazzo wrote: »

Sometimes captchas actually speak to you. True fact. Today I had one on a click to win that said 'stop wasting time'. I took it as a message from above and went to do some ironing!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Yes, sometimes life seems to be sending us subliminal messages :rotfl: