Would love to add a Comp but cant :(

imogenrose05

Hello

My partner has his own business and as of yesterday he has secured deals with some big companies including Harrods to give away their products for brand awareness and traffic, the upside of this being he can give them away in competitions, however I am unable to post the link to this months competition which is a really nice hamper, money off vouchers and Eco-friendly cleaning products, I joined in Jan of this year but it says I'm still a new user, I'd love to get this comp up, as I'm on here every day and love the community, please help, or if someone could post it for me that would be amazing!.

Thank you

Imo x

mjm3346

It would be self-promotion so not allowed anyway.

DynasticDux

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imogenrose05

So anyone else can post the competition if they find it, but the ones who set it up can't as it would be seen as self promotion ?

That doesn't seem fair, but who am I to argue, thank you for the replies, I will look for an alternative forum to post the comp on

Thanks

Imo x

DynasticDux

imogenrose05 wrote: »

So anyone else can post the competition if they find it, but the ones who set it up can't as it would be seen as self promotion ?

That doesn't seem fair, but who am I to argue

That is correct
As it would create traffic to your website creating you an income

mjm3346

imogenrose05 wrote: »

So anyone else can post the competition if they find it, but the ones who set it up can't as it would be seen as self promotion ?

That doesn't seem fair, but who am I to argue, thank you for the replies, I will look for an alternative forum to post the comp on

Thanks

Imo x

It would also break the rules for anyone to post on your behalf.

imogenrose05

I'm not going to argue as those are the rules, but just so you know, it wasn't to drive traffic to our page, we don't need it, it was to get page likes for those that donated, we only facilitate the competition, but thank you again for the replies

MarcusMagician

That's a shame as surely we would be missing out on Competitions? Perhaps a new thread for small businesses to share their comps could be a nice work around?

mjm3346

MarcusMagician wrote: »

That's a shame as surely we would be missing out on Competitions? Perhaps a new thread for small businesses to share their comps could be a nice work around?

Just because something is a competition is no reason to break the forum rules on advertising - if advertising were allowed it would cost considerably more than most competition prizes are worth.


(there are other sites which allow it, some for a fee)

hazyjo

Trouble is, this site is HUGE. People forget just how big! If everyone was allowed to add comps from their businesses or places of work, the comp board would be flooded and then every other company would get in on the act and offer a comp. Then what? A minimum prize? You see comps for a tenner voucher with over 1k who have say retweeted or hit the thanks button. They'd all just come on here giving away a keyring, a tenner, or a mug and get free publicity and traffic.

There'd be millions of 'em! :eek:

Jx

jamielmdjs

Who does your partner work for?