Comping Etiquette...

Enigmatic_Me

I won with Sales Gossip on Day 10 of their advent. I personally felt it was not right to then enter any more of the advents from Sales Gossip. Don't know why but it just did not sit right with me as I did not want them thinking I was greedy.

broughton

I don't win very often but did recently win a holiday on the Monarch advent. At that point I stopped entering , partly because of the nature of the prize but also because I thought it very unlikely they would let someone win twice and didn't want to waste my time. In general, if I win an ongoing competition I do not carry on entering as I have been lucky enough to win and think it fair enough to let others have their turn but when a new competition starts I would certainly feel it reasonable to enter. I don't think there is any reason not to enter with the same company again , unless like Bauer they specify that you can't. If I was super lucky and won lots of prizes I would probably think twice but I am not!

cagsd

Enigmatic_Me wrote: »

I won with Sales Gossip on Day 10 of their advent. I personally felt it was not right to then enter any more of the advents from Sales Gossip. Don't know why but it just did not sit right with me as I did not want them thinking I was greedy.

Yes I know what you mean, I won with Kwik Fit advent quite early on (think about day 5) so I didn't enter any more of their advents.

cagsd

there was a competition a few years ago, think it was run by a wine company on Facebook, where they gave away 100 National Trust Day passes every month and you could enter every day, think I won either 4 or 5 of them as there was no reason you couldn't win more than once!

towser44

Unless it says otherwise, I enter again straight away.

Planet Rock do a competition every Tuesday called their Tuesday Rider and I've won it twice in 5 weeks recently. First time I won 15 Queen Albums on CD and a DVD and the second one (23 December) was one of their advent ones which was a signed t-shirt, Led Zeppelin CD back catalogue, LPs, other CDs and Festival tickets with camping which alone are nearly £400. I even came clean and told the DJ the second time I had only spoken to him a month or so before because he asked if I was lucky and win a few competitions or was it a rarity (he didn't realise I had won a matter of weeks before even though it was him who called then too).

rceebear

I know the discussion isn't speficifially about Heart but I was entering one of their comps so thought I'd have a look. From Heart's T&C's they inform you in writing if you can't enter their comps after a win over £1,000: http://www.heart.co.uk/terms-conditions/competition/#uxs6vgulXlWFTPR5.97

2.4 So that we can ensure the fairness of our competitions, we reserve the right to prevent you, at our absolute discretion, from entering any of our Competitions for a period of six months if you have either (i) won a Prize valued at £1,000 or greater or (ii) won more than one Prize during the previous six months. If we choose to exercise this right we will notify you in writing.

HeritageGirl

If a draw is truly random, it should not affect your chances at all of winning again. The chances will be purely based on how many people enter each particular competition... unless the company has a policy not to give out another prize to the same person, of course.

robbies_gal

i dont think it wold bother me unless it wa sin the rules that i couldnt enter again

mjm3346

If the T&C's permitted then it would then depend on the prize and if it was something I wanted more than one of or not.

I-Owe-You

Thanks everyone for your kind replies. I think I'll waiver my 4-month-wait policy from now on then! (Unless T&Cs state otherwise of course)

Not sure why I had the assumption that the same winner wouldn't be selected twice within a short space of time - but you've proved me wrong!

Thanks again for taking the time to respond