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does your email address make any difference?

Hi all, I'm new to the site and loving it so far, I have searched but couldn't find an answer - I set up an email address for my comps bevscomps@xxxxxx my question is do you think promoters will see that it's a comping email address and overlook me? Should I set up a different account?

Thanks in advance!

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  • weeowens
    weeowens Posts: 81,990 Forumite
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    edited 26 July 2014 at 4:18PM
    Hi all, I'm new to the site and loving it so far, I have searched but couldn't find an answer - I set up an email address for my comps bevscomps@xxxxxx my question is do you think promoters will see that it's a comping email address and overlook me? Should I set up a different account?

    Thanks in advance!
    It should not make a jot of difference but why risk it.

    Just set up a gmail address that is gender & location neutral.Plus I would advise not have your name as part of it.

    I have one that is OK at winning & makes no mention of comps :-)
  • Blue___Nile
    Blue___Nile Posts: 2,784 Forumite
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    When I first started comping I had an email which had 'competitions' in it plus my year of birth. I then thought like the OP that it might go against me and changed it after a little while to something more neutral as weeowens suggests.

    However, I'm not sure it made any difference as I have won under both emails and in fact for some sites I can't change the email address so have had to leave it as the original one.

    One suggestion though, keep it as short as possible as you will be typing it a lot, even if you use form fillers like Roboform (which I use) etc :D
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