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How long were you comping for...

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before you had your first win? Also, what's been your best win? Not necessarily the most valuable, just the one you've appreciated most?

I'm yet to win anything at all and getting a bit dispirited, thought it would be nice to hear your stories!
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  • elsien
    elsien Posts: 35,938 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Months. And there's still months between wins as I only have time to enter things a couple of days a week.
    My best wins have been things I wouldn't/couldn't have bought for myself. So the Samsung tablet that I very nearly sold, and now wouldn't be without. And the hotels.com gift voucher which meant it was affordable to go to Amsterdam for a big birthday with a zero on the end - couldn't have done it otherwise.
    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
  • About 6 weeks! My best has been a years supply of James Wellbeloved dog food (12 x 15kg bags).
    I just enter and forget...hoping to win something! :)
  • snakepilsen
    snakepilsen Posts: 2,757 Forumite
    edited 6 December 2014 at 11:08AM
    18 months and counting
  • sourge
    sourge Posts: 259 Forumite
    about 6months for my first, and then got 2 in a row, best win so far was one of those two :) £1000 travel vouchers from the chrismas advent from topcashback last year :)
    2013 -£1550 / £2013 :)
    2014 -£1955.95 / £2014
    2015 - £1600 / £2015
  • Melli
    Melli Posts: 4,602 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    3 months 'til my first win which was an Aspinal handbag with the Telegraph, it's still going strong and looking fab :)

    Best win - I've had loads of lovely (and more valuable) wins over nearly 6 years, but the VisitScotland trip to the Outer Hebrides a couple of years ago was fantastic - although it was for 2 people, I went on my own and it gave me a chance to reflect and put my life back together...

    My husband would say my best win was his Cube mountain bike I won last year as it's in regular use for commuting ;)
  • Moneybot
    Moneybot Posts: 11,382 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    6 minutes 32 seconds
    Rational judgement, now, at this very moment.

    Virtuous action, now, at this very moment.
    (Wisdom, Courage, Self-control, Justice)

    Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of what you can’t change
  • I won my first & best prize within a couple of weeks of starting. I've won a few things since but nothing as good. I have periods where I get disheartened & give up when i've not won anything but i'm too addicted now & always come back to it. :rotfl:
  • sax11
    sax11 Posts: 3,250 Forumite
    Home Insurance Hacker!
    won an adult scooter ages ago - still in the box

    hardly anything else worth writing home about
  • 2 weeks, it was an ebook that I can't even read because it's through Itunes and I have no Apple products to read it on (didn't read the t&c's). My best has been my Tassimo Charmy that I won through The Times, I've been after one for ages.
    Make £10 per day-
    June: £100/£300
  • I won some ballet tickets after about a month of comping but my best win by far was a holiday to Florida which we went on in March this year. :D

    Top wins - Florida holiday, North Carolina holiday, Sky TV for a year, wine for a year

    Thanks to all who post and good luck to everyone!!:rotfl:
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