E: 04/11 Win Cash with Wednesday's Real Deal

comping_cat

Real Deal

Link to main competition page here

Answer - A - Shoulder (only need the letter)

Amount today - £6200 :T

Good luck xxxxx


Method & cost of entry:

PRTS Phone - call 0901 293 77 66 and follow instructions; up to 3 entries per phone number. Entrants who enter twice from the same phone number will receive an additional, third entry into the competition without charge (based on the same answer and details as submitted in their second call). Each call costs no more than £1.03 from BT landlines. Other networks may be higher and from mobiles considerably more.
SMS text – send a SMS text to 63337 with A, B or C to indicate your answer to the question; up to 3 entries per phone number. SMS entrants will receive a SMS reply message acknowledging their SMS entry and inviting them to enter the competition via SMS a second time using the same mobile number to receive an additional entry into the competition without charge. Entrants who then send a second SMS text with their answer to 63337 by the competition closing date and time will be entered into the draw three (3) times for a chance to win the prize. Each of the SMS entrant’s first two (2) SMS text entries costs £1.00 plus one standard network rate message.
Online – go to https://www.itv.com, https://www.stv.tv or https://www.u.tv and follow the instructions; up to 3 entries per phone number.

Prize:

The prize is a variable cash value based on the value achieved at auction of a specified item or items.

guido342

Sorry to bump: that link didn't work for me, but this did:
http://www.itv.com/onlineentry/dickinsonsrealdeal?oid=1319&type=campaign&origin_type=show&origin_oid=RealDeal

Gilla_2

guido342 wrote: »

Sorry to bump: that link didn't work for me, but this did:
http://www.itv.com/onlineentry/dickinsonsrealdeal?oid=1319&type=campaign&origin_type=show&origin_oid=RealDeal

Thanks guido, that link worked for me.

comping_cat

Why is it that some people can use my link, but some can't? Im using Chrome, go to the ITV website and link from there - always used to work so im not sure what is happening now?

KAAT_LADY

your links always work for me ...... thank you xx

b.lucky

Thank you Comping Cat, It works perfectly for me, I also use Chrome too.

Painkiller

comping_cat wrote: »

Why is it that some people can use my link, but some can't? Im using Chrome, go to the ITV website and link from there - always used to work so im not sure what is happening now?

All the entry forms work, it's the addons that people have installed in their web browsers that's causing the issues...


The original link to the competitions is here;

http://www.itv.com/onlineentry/dickinsonsrealdeal/

If you bookmark that page & use the urls from those entry forms then it should reduce the amount of alternative entry link bumps.


From the above page, if you click on the "Dickinson's Real Deal' link in bold or the 'How much will Today's special item make at auction?' button, underneath the competition winner's link then you get the more compact set of entry forms that people seems to be having issues with;

http://www.itv.com/onlineentry/dickinsonsrealdeal/drd-competition

The links with 'drd-competition' in the url require the page to be excluded from ad blocking software, even if you have already created rules to allow the regular, non-compact ITV entry forms.

I had to add the following line to the exception rules in the custom filters section of adblock plus & restart the browser to get the "drd-competition" entry form to show in firefox;

@@|http://www.itv.com/onlineentry/dickinsonsrealdeal/drd-competition^$document


My bookmark of choice is the STV site as the entry forms are compact but you may still have to allow the site in any ad blocking software running in your browser.

http://competitions.stv.tv/itv-competitions/


There's also the UTV site where the entry forms are compact but there's a lot of stuff at the top of the page that you have to scroll past - ad blocking software may need fettling with;

http://www.u.tv/competitions/itvcomp.aspx?origin_oid=RealDeal

Again, I had to add the following line to the exception rules in the custom filters section of adblock plus to get the entry form to show in firefox;

@@|http://www.u.tv/Competitions/|$document


It's worth having a few different web browsers installed and at least one of those should have no addons so that if there is an issue, you can check in a different browser to see whether the problem is the entry form or your browser.

spendaholic

comping_cat wrote: »

Why is it that some people can use my link, but some can't? Im using Chrome, go to the ITV website and link from there - always used to work so im not sure what is happening now?

I think it's since ITV changed the format, sometimes your links work, and sometimes they don't. Today the main page link didn't work for me either. I use Chrome and it's very hit and miss. Before the format changed, it worked every single time. So maybe it's a bug they've put in to discourage mass-hotlinking?

I really, really appreciate you posting and never get frustrated when it doesn't work. After all, had you not posted in the first place, I wouldn't even be trying to enter as I wouldn't even know about it.

Keep up the good work!

spendaholic

Painkiller wrote: »

All the entry forms work, it's the addons that people have installed in their web browsers that's causing the issues...

I DO have an ad-blocker - I lied before. (Sorry! ) But usually comping cat's links work for me, it's rare that they don't. Maybe it's an inconsistency in the ad-blocker for me, but my trouble only started when ITV changed the format. Auto-fill doesn't even work any more for me on ITV comps.

Gilla_2

comping_cat wrote: »

Why is it that some people can use my link, but some can't? Im using Chrome, go to the ITV website and link from there - always used to work so im not sure what is happening now?

I'm very appreciative of your posting cat, but I'm a bit of a technophobe and just didn't understand the very detailed post above explaining what needed to be done.

I'm always thankful some there are very helpful people who put on a link that I can use.

I use Chrome, by the way, so your posts should work for me all the time!

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Somebody recently suggested widening the browser page on your screen and this has completely solved the problem for me in Firefox, thanks.