One year of comping-was it worth it?

purple4mum

So today I celebrate one full year of serious comping and this is what I have learnt:
I entered 16,700 competitions
I won 39 prizes---- that's 1 in 428 comps entered
Out of the 39 prizes only 5 retailed at more than £20 so in opinion that's 1 decent prize per 3340 entries.
I enjoy comping but the best advice I have received is Enter and Forget-at the start I couldn't sleep for thinking about all the prizes-I am much more relaxed now and if I miss entering so what!
I don't do Facebook or Twitter and have no desire to change that.
I tend to only do comps for prizes that I really want now as oppose to entering everything.
I don't do Click to win as it's boring.
I have received loads of help from you guys for which I am really grateful and I sometimes find it hard to believe the kindness from people doing the posting.
So thanks to you all.
Will I continue comping? Of course I will!!:j:j:j

Pickles89

What is everyone's secret?!!! I know I'm being a right grouch but you won 39 times in a year? I've won just 5 times in 18 months!! It's really starting to get me down now!

mjm3346

One year of comping-was it worth it?

16,700 competitions, allowing an average one minute to find enter and move on to the next competition is close to 280 hours for the year (45 mins a day), dividing the value of prizes say £2,000 by 280 works out to around £7.15 an hour and with no tax to pay probably worth it.

Slade12

I think Purple4mum is luckier than average or else I'm unluckier than average I spend a lot longer than 45 a minutes a day entering and won 29 prizes last year - 14 so far this year. I think I'm getting fussier on which comps to enter now too. Best of luck for the rest of the year!

towser44

I've been doing this for 10 months now and had 27 wins in total (including Click2Wins which I stopped in February because they were taking over my life ha ha)! I have easily spent an average of about 3 hours a day on comps over that time. Of the 27 wins, I've had a handful of high value wins (anything over a £100) which alone would be upwards of about £2,500 worth. Dread to think how many comps I've entered over that time though, I never keep track!

purple4mum

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One year of comping-was it worth it?

16,700 competitions, allowing an average one minute to find enter and move on to the next competition is close to 280 hours for the year (45 mins a day), dividing the value of prizes say £2,000 by 280 works out to around £7.15 an hour and with no tax to pay probably worth it.

Thanks for the stats!! mjm3346
I think my prizes for the year totalled about £600 and I probably .spend about 2hours a day comping,so.........may be I would be better off getting a part time job! Not as much fun as comping though.:rotfl:

mjm3346

purple4mum wrote: »

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One year of comping-was it worth it?

16,700 competitions, allowing an average one minute to find enter and move on to the next competition is close to 280 hours for the year (45 mins a day), dividing the value of prizes say £2,000 by 280 works out to around £7.15 an hour and with no tax to pay probably worth it.

Thanks for the stats!! mjm3346
I think my prizes for the year totalled about £600 and I probably .spend about 2hours a day comping,so.........may be I would be better off getting a part time job! Not as much fun as comping though.:rotfl:

A hobby which is for fun doesn't have to be "worth it" in financial terms although compared to many hobbies there is the bonus of a financial return instead of an outlay.

captainjack2

I think comping is worth it because you can learn how to use new apps, how to take and make better videos. Improve typing skills, make friends, make a wishlist and see what you have achieved.

I have won some lovely prizes so hard work pays off

In 4 years of comping properly.
Best ever wins
3 night stay in Scotland - VisitScotland
£520 fridge freezer - AO.com video review
£500 whistles vouchers - whistles advent
IPad - Capital FM C and 6 in postcode
£300 virgos lounge vouchers - Look magazine text comp
£250 Amazon vouchers - Twitter
£200 cash - Sainsburys bank table tennis article
£100 cash - Inside Soap ARROWORD
£100 cash again - Inside soap
Touchscreen microwave - Pricetag facebook
Coffee machine - just turned up
Kettle - Clipper instant win
Kindle - Galaxy text competition
Heated throw - table tennis article on sixtyplussurfers readers letters
£50 Amazon voucher - gleam glasses selfie
£100 B&Q vouchers - Rafflecopter
Over £100 beauty products - Rafflecopter
£50 homebase vouchers - Rafflecopter
Sony headphones - web competition
DVD player - Recipe competition on gransnet
£50 FFF voucher - Carved pumpkin
Bluetooth speakers - Rafflecopter
£500 Tesco vouchers - Frontline magazine distributions
£150 Hobbycraft vouchers - Womans weekly daily magazine
£65 Halford vouchers - Womans weekly daily magazine
DAB sports radio - Absolute radio on Twitter
£100 cash - Mail on Sunday
Binoculars - P&O cruises on facebook
£250 Hoover - Chat Magazine weekly puzzles
2 night stay in Isle of Wight - Best loved hotels
£25 Amazon voucher - Winneroo
Dorset cereals breakfast Hamper - Abra Cadabra monthly competition
£155 watch - Shortlist
Years supply of wine - Shortlist
Brita bundle - Rafflecopter
£55 beauty products - Marie Claire daily magazine
£25 watch - Rafflecopter
£185 product of the year Goodybag
Thomas J Fudges hamper - Thomas J fudges monthly nomination web competition
Sweet hamper - A Cornwall sweet competiton Facebook page Like and share comp

hamsterfan1

mjm3346 wrote: »

16,700 competitions, allowing an average one minute to find enter and move on to the next competition is close to 280 hours for the year (45 mins a day), dividing the value of prizes say £2,000 by 280 works out to around £7.15 an hour and with no tax to pay probably worth it.

most comps take longer than a minute

brownhandbag

captainjack2 wrote: »

I think comping is worth it because you can learn how to use new apps, how to take and make better videos. Improve typing skills, make friends, make a wishlist and see what you have achieved.

I have won some lovely prizes so hard work pays off

Couldn't agree more Captain! My social media skills would never have been so good without comping. I blog and am a whole lot more tech savvy too. In RL I would have little contact with the online world so comping really does keep me up to date.

bellyburner

I must be the unluckiest person ever - have been filling out competitions for approx. 1-2 hours a day since 1st January and still have not won anything