Started comping in February and not won a thing!

Kilt1745

Enter all the competitions you can. If you don't need the prize, sell it, you could make enough for your family holiday. I also started in February, so far, an LP record, (now a gift) makeup (I'm in the wife's good books) festival tickets (also a gift, to nephew)and vouchers for £50 of petrol (mine). Just keep plugging away.

emily131

Family holidays and cash will definitely have the highest number of entries. Tickets for local attractions are a good thing to focus on though. You've got kids, so why not aim a little lower and find some little treats for them to enter for? I have loads of nieces and nephews, so I like to enter for the smaller things that I've got a better chance of winning, to put a few bits away for Christmas to save a bit of money. DVDs, games and toys are far easier to win than holidays and cash and you get that thrill when a jiffy bag arrives with the postie

mansey

Last year we had a thread running where about 50 compers tried to enter 1,000,000 (yes you read that right 1 million) competitions in a year and we easily achieved that goal. It just goes to prove how many entries competition receive. :eek:

I try to enter 200 comp per day, some times I do more usually I do less, but there are folks who are entering 1 thousand comps a day every day (nutters :rotfl:)

The more you enter the more chance you will have of winning

cagsd

On the whole, winning anything seems far harder now than it did say 3-5 years ago. A couple of years back I would usually win anything from 2 to 8 prizes a month (which would not necessarily be high value things: prizes I won ranged from an iPad and sonos speakers to DVDs and cereal) but this year wins have been very thin on the ground - up to June I'd only won some Maltesers and an Easter egg! This is with entering around 500 comps a week - so if I'm still struggling to win anything, if you're entering 12 a day you're maybe doing 100 a week at most. Even 500 a week is not a lot, but it's all I can manage - I red cross a LOT of the comps as the prizes don't interest me, but I do still enter for books, DVDs, toiletries, as well as the high value stuff like vouchers and TVs! If you are a) only entering a few comps, and b) only entering the comps that are likely to have thousands upon thousands of entries, you are really cutting down your likelihood of a win. As has been said upthread, it can be as much of a thrill getting a surprise book in the post as it is winning something huge. Obviously you're never guaranteed to win anything, but you're increasing your chances if you widen your approach!

Makeandsave

DynasticDux wrote: »

Top tip - Enter............. forget


Comping is just a hobby
If you win, it's a bonus

100% agree with that I enter, forget because comping is a hobby and it is rewarding when you win

jaibaby

DynasticDux wrote: »

Top tip - Enter............. forget


Comping is just a hobby
If you win, it's a bonus

The best bit of advice you will ever get!

When you enter a competition there is NO guarantee you will win. I know people who have only ever entered one competition and won it (my mum) and others who have entered thousands and not won a bean.

It's all about chance - yes, if you enter more you have a better chance of winning. but it still doesn't ensure you do.

If you enter competitions to win instead of for the chance of winning then I suggest you give up now

glittercutcrease

Dobbiedoo wrote: »

Thanks - will keep plugging away and hopefully will get lucky ��

I have won things in the past. In the 90s I won some expensive garden furniture in a home magazine by writing a slogan. I much prefer those type of competitions as skill involved so chances of winning higher as fewer people will bother. I also won theatre tickets on a local website - I was the only entry ��. Oh and I won a jar of sweets in the raffle at the school fair the other week!

Me too! I love the design comps and won £1000 once even though my design wasn't particularly great it was just so few people entered.

I'd say there's more than a dozen comps a day for electrical products on weekdays, but I'd also enter more for the smaller things you don't really want that could come in handy for friends and family. My last win was a lunchbox, but my boyfriend loves it and small wins can keep your motivation up

zombeana

It is very disheartening�� I enter hundreds a day and have only won a trunki.

It's all about patience and perseverance. It is frustrating to see tgose with lots of prizes I often think do you enter with 20 different emails!?

hop3y

I enter the prizes I want to win and have won 2 over 2 years - today being my second. It's all luck.