February Challenge

sax11

i've only really done about 50 comps in the past 2 weeks but ive won twice so i'm not going to ruin 7950 entries - i think ive exceeded my quota

keith99_2

sax11 wrote: »

Or most probably lying

Yes, i was thinking that as well.

dazed4thenight

I wouldnt mind seeing the results, it also might act as a deterrent from all the usual "how many comps until i win.." and "I've entered loads of comps today why havent i won." threads. :rotfl:

Count me in

keith99_2

mansey wrote: »

Facebook is my weakest place for comping, I win most on Twitter but everyone is different.

31 wins in a month....hmmm not sure about that

I am trying for 1 win from 4000 comps in February :rotfl:

Not sure if they meant just wins on Facebook.

I have been comping for about a year and enter a considerable number.
I have been off work sick for a month so to stop the boredom i have entered as many comps as i could. I reckon in the region of 1500 a week but it could so easily be a lot more. I have done a fair chunk of the MSE ones as well aslooking elsewhere.
To date i have won 5 prizes, the biggest being £25 of Aldi vouchers.
I have now decided to take a break from it and just enter the odd few where i want to win that item because it has driven me mad and will end up needing more time off work.
I didnt go into it expecting to be the next Di Coke, but it would have been nice to won something of more value.

Nix143

I'm limited in time available to comp as I work BUT I'm happy to try and keep a count and add those figures to the pot.

Quick clarification - when entering dailies/mags are we counting the number of times we enter them OR just as one comp? I'm hoping it's the first as these take a big chunk out of my comping day. I reckon with my bookmarks I have 50+ easily that I enter a day.

Cheers ears - I love this kinda thing

mjm3346

It all depends what you enter - If you stick to high value cash/vouchers, single prize, easy to enter, posted on this forum competitions then 4,000 entries for each win is likely to be a massive underestimate of the average number required for each win.
Low value, specialist interest, multiple prizes, effort, not on the forum and local collect prizes should give a much better strike rate, probably in the very low hundreds. Even some easy entry ones can have reasonable odds - the daily 4 AA batteries come in around 400 to 1 and some of the "beauty" ones have had loads of prizes so even if there were 100,000 entries in a 2 hour slot with 200 prizes that's only 500 to 1 - (a recent TW comp with 5 prizes had odds around 70 to 1)

For the number of wins I have if it took me 4,000 a win I would need to be entering over 840 a day and that does not happen.

2013yearofthehouse

I've entered about 5000 comps since I started 3 weeks ago and have yet to win anything, but then a good percentage of those haven't finished yet. If I win a multiple entry draw it'll be impossible to tell whether the winning entry was from a Jan or Feb entry and some single entry comps that have been over multiple weeks in Jan/Feb I won't know when I entered (although I suppose my "thanks" would reveal that), so it'll be hard to quantify. However, I'll probably continue at a rate of approx. 1000 entries a week, so it'll be interesting to see if I've won anything by the end of Feb or even March (for the "roll over" as it were).

I agree with the other posters though, it very much depends on the competitions you enter. It would be interesting if a few people did exactly the same comps for a month (and remembered to discount any prizes received from previous comps entered outside the agreed ones) to see how many, if any, wins there were (not suggesting anyone actually bothers to do this!).

hannonle

sax11 wrote: »

Or most probably lying

Or counting freebies as wins.

mansey

Each day I do the following

All of the new twitter comps of the day on comps board, all Twitter comps on sort date board and 12 pages of todays comps.

All new on weeklies, dailies, raffles and mags, ITV, TAB and RT to Wins on Twitter

I do all the above plus I do the following each day

Mon = All weeklies
Tues = All raffle and Dailies
Weds = C2W's
Thur = Daily Mags
Fri/Sat/Sun = At least 10 pages from the comps boards

That is just the way I work it, so it is a good mixture of everything

(When I say all, I don't mean all, I mean all the ones I want to enter that would be of interest to my family or me )

mansey

Nix143 wrote: »

I'm limited in time available to comp as I work BUT I'm happy to try and keep a count and add those figures to the pot.

Quick clarification - when entering dailies/mags are we counting the number of times we enter them OR just as one comp? I'm hoping it's the first as these take a big chunk out of my comping day. I reckon with my bookmarks I have 50+ easily that I enter a day.

Cheers ears - I love this kinda thing

I know not all will agree, but if I enter 200 click to wins on a Monday then the same 200 click to wins on a Tuesday I have still entered 400 competitions even if it is each one twice