Click2Wins How do you manage them all ?

Technoflump

I enter all the sites every day, I do everything except some of the DVD's, breaks away, membership cards for stuff etc. It takes me currently 2.5 hours to do the lot manually by hand, I also do the mag dailys too as well as all the new stuff of interest that gets posted to this site. The only time I don't do them is when I am on holiday or just don't get time in the day, which isn't that often.

I will say though, even though the wins on the C2W sites are getting less frequent I still win on them, last week I had a win on Live for the Outdoors. In the 4 years I have been doing them I have never won anything from the big sites like Bella, Take a Break, Win Something etc. All the wins have been from the smaller sites.

gentleorange

When I do them, I tend to do roughly half, usually to Moray Firth, then from Mother & Baby the next time. But since they took the captchas away I haven't won much at all, I think the comping sites/script users have pretty much taken them all.

mjm3346

Technoflump wrote: »

In the 4 years I have been doing them I have never won anything from the big sites like Bella, Take a Break, Win Something etc. All the wins have been from the smaller sites.

The entries from all the sites are pooled together and then the winner(s) are chosen, it makes no difference which site you enter through and the winners(s) name is shown on all the winners lists for that prize - The first 2 comps on Bella at the moment (£250/apple watch) are featured on about 100 sites each and the winners names will appear on all the sites regardless of the site the winning entry was actually made through.

Some of the competitions on some of the smaller/specialist sites do have fewer entry routes so it is less time consuming to make the maximum number of entries possible although even they seem to be spreading onto the more general interest sites as well as featuring more competitions from the general sites.


Ideally if I was spending 2.5 hours a day/75 hours a month I would want a steady stream of prizes from them worth £100's every month.

Technoflump

mjm3346 wrote: »

The entries from all the sites are pooled together and then the winner(s) are chosen, it makes no difference which site you enter through and the winners(s) name is shown on all the winners lists for that prize - The first 2 comps on Bella at the moment (£250/apple watch) are featured on about 100 sites each and the winners names will appear on all the sites regardless of the site the winning entry was actually made through.

Some of the competitions on some of the smaller/specialist sites do have fewer entry routes so it is less time consuming to make the maximum number of entries possible although even they seem to be spreading onto the more general interest sites as well as featuring more competitions from the general sites.


Ideally if I was spending 2.5 hours a day/75 hours a month I would want a steady stream of prizes from them worth £100's every month.

Thanks, I'm aware of all that but when I get a WEM it states the route you actually won it with in the subject, never had one from Bella, Take a Break, That's Life, TV Choice, Win Something or Yours. Always from the smaller sites

I would love a steady streamof wins too LOL but it goes either way from zero to up to about 6 a month, but that hasn't happened for a good while since the captchas were lifted, now I'm lucky to to get no more than 3 a month.

2013yearofthehouse

Are there no captchas at the moment?

mjm3346

Technoflump wrote: »

Thanks, I'm aware of all that but when I get a WEM it states the route you actually won it with in the subject, never had one from Bella, Take a Break, That's Life, TV Choice, Win Something or Yours. Always from the smaller sites
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Before they became swamped with entries and entry routes I had wins from Bella, That's Life and Yours among others.
Now when you enter one that's on 100 sites it's much more likely a win will be from a group of 94 other sites than that particular group of 6.
The magazine sites also attract more entries than the others so even if a competition is limited to just them there is still a large entry pool to contend with.

mjm3346

2013yearofthehouse wrote: »

Are there no captchas at the moment?

For ages.

From another thread-

Say an automated site has 20,000 users, for a comp running 2 months on 50 of the c2w sites that's 60,000,000 extra entries


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5410956

Technoflump

2013yearofthehouse wrote: »

Are there no captchas at the moment?

Downtown Country has Captchas after the first few you enter, the rest of the sites mostly don't but a few have them appear if you enter all of the comps, the last two or three have captchas on them. These are the sites which have about 8 pages of comps to enter and want you to enter sequentially, ie, not going back to the comps page and just move on to the next comp in the list. I would personally like the captchas to return as long as they don't break after a day and turn into unintelligible mush like they did before they removed them :rotfl:

2013yearofthehouse

mjm3346 wrote: »

For ages.

From another thread-

Say an automated site has 20,000 users, for a comp running 2 months on 50 of the c2w sites that's 60,000,000 extra entries


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5410956

Technoflump wrote: »

Downtown Country has Captchas after the first few you enter, the rest of the sites mostly don't but a few have them appear if you enter all of the comps, the last two or three have captchas on them. These are the sites which have about 8 pages of comps to enter and want you to enter sequentially, ie, not going back to the comps page and just move on to the next comp in the list. I would personally like the captchas to return as long as they don't break after a day and turn into unintelligible mush like they did before they removed them :rotfl:

Well that's not fair, I have had captchas on almost every competition on the majority of sites for months!!! How do I get rid of them?!

Technoflump

mjm3346 wrote: »

Before they became swamped with entries and entry routes I had wins from Bella, That's Life and Yours among others.
Now when you enter one that's on 100 sites it's much more likely a win will be from a group of 94 other sites than that particular group of 6.
The magazine sites also attract more entries than the others so even if a competition is limited to just them there is still a large entry pool to contend with.

Absolutely, but even though the script kiddies and bots are swamping and hoovering up the majority of the prizes, I still enter as it's part of my daily routine. I enter because it's a hobby, not a business or a job, if I win, I win. I still do win, just not as much, overall though I am winning less than I used to even though I enter far more than I ever used to. I still have time for a life too :rotfl: