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Why do you deserve to win?

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Seriously, has anyone worked out an even tolerable answer to this. I can't think of anything to say that doesn't make me want to crawl into a hole. Almost as bad is 'Why should we pick you?'
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  • mansey
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    I could wax lyrical like soooo many other about how fantastic I am / how sad I am / how unlucky I am

    but.........

    I ignore it and go onto the next ;)
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  • Misslayed
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    I just won one like this on Facebook by posting a cgi picture of a sad kitten and the message "Pick me or the kitten gets it". It did match the soh of the site owner however! I can't work out how to post pictures here or I would show you.
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  • hamsterfan1
    hamsterfan1 Posts: 8,281 Forumite
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    surely it should be random unless they say our favourite will win (and then they're supposed to say what their judging criteria will be ie the funniest wins)
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  • hdh74
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    Misslayed wrote: »
    I just won one like this on Facebook by posting a cgi picture of a sad kitten and the message "Pick me or the kitten gets it". It did match the soh of the site owner however! I can't work out how to post pictures here or I would show you.

    I love that! While I won't copy it - it has got me thinking a bit laterallly thank you :T
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  • I always say 'Because I don't make up stories'
  • ness13
    ness13 Posts: 8,449 Forumite
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    edited 30 July 2016 at 11:48AM
    If I really like the prize I enter these sorts of comps by saying "I don't deserve to win any more than anyone else, but I would love to."

    It hasn't won me anything yet!:rotfl:
    I hate those questions, it's such a lazy way of running a comp and only encourages sob stories.
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  • One-Eye
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    best one I've ever seen:

    ... because I like country music.
  • dontone
    dontone Posts: 4,871 Forumite
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    One-Eye wrote: »
    best one I've ever seen:

    ... because I like country music.



    Lol. At least that's a decent, honest answer. I usually avoid these comps like the plague, because I don't want to make stuff up or say someone is sick 'cos I think it's bad karma and the comping fairy might fall out with me. I have entered a couple in the past with 'Because I haven't got one' but some of those posting are professionals, you can't compete with some of them.
    I always read what others have wrote though.
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    comping = nowt more thrillin' than winnin':T :j
  • C0nfused
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    ... because I have taken the time to enter and put the effort in to not write the answer as if it was a text.
    June 2016 Wins: £64 Argos Voucher :j July 2016 Wins: £25 Cash :j
  • BlueBella
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    I only enter these comps if it is a random choice of winners and then I say something simple like 'I want to win because I like the prize'. No sob stories from me....and I do have a sob story - but not a one that I wish to share with the world....
    :TA big thanks to all who post and sprinkling lucky dust to all who enter :smileyhea
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