Competitions Discussion Thread Part 3

kirsteenatom

Thanks everyone - i really appreciate it!

Clicky

ooh i did it!!!

tieg3

Well done you, it's easy aint it!:D

josie301

redrabbit29 wrote: »

Josie:

Do you use any extensions for your browser, e.g. auto form fillers?

I'm using firefox btw.

I just use google autofill - But a lot of people on here (and elsewhere!) use free Roboform (scroll down to find it)

Saves a lot of time!

Good luck!

Edit - also agree with all littleholly has said! I work that way and it works for me! (Obsessed? nah! )

ryan85k

redrabbit29 wrote: »

How do you manage to find 10 competitions per day?

I look on here regularly, but I don't think there is a 10 day on here.

LMAO!! There are normally more than ten an hour before even taking into consideration monthly entries!! Unless your only entering for holidays, cars, laptops, ipods and digital cameras. Do you enter for smaller things suchs as dvds and gift vouchers etc? I have probably entered 5000 in the last month and a half (albeit with my fingers crossed that there is post on the way!)

asea

masterthief wrote: »

w/out wanting to go too far off topic here, I wonder if your name affects your chances in a draw? I'm guessing most comps use form of software to run the draw, rather than literally picking a name out of a hat.

I wondered that but only because another person on here was on a Muslim competition thread & made assumptions that nobody with a non-Muslim name would win the competition & I thought well if he is that bigotted perhaps some people that run the competitions are too - I have a very foreign name & wondered if that might have an effect?

Mind you I have now won a competition (after a year of entering competitions so I must have been wrong)

I am a bit pizzled now so excuse the rambling now please

ryan85k

asea wrote: »

I wondered that but only because another person on here was on a Muslim competition thread & made assumptions that nobody with a non-Muslim name would win the competition & I thought well if he is that bigotted perhaps some people that run the competitions are too - I have a very foreign name & wondered if that might have an effect?

Mind you I have now won a competition (after a year of entering competitions so I must have been wrong)

I am a bit pizzled now so excuse the rambling now please

EXCUSE ME!! how dare you suggest that I am biggoted. I was merely suggesting in that thread to win muslim music that the business offering the prize for islamic music would question a sudden influx of entries from people called John, Shirley, Adam and Paul, in a purely business sense it would be more than apparent that these are unlikely to be there normal target market and I was suggesting that they would see a problem with their marketing (which is all comps are).

I am fully aware that not all muslims have islamic names - including your parents- but I am also aware having lived for several years in an area of Leicester with a large proportion of muslims and having many muslim friends that it is common practice (although not essential) for any converts to islam to change their name, especially if they have a traditionally christian name such as Adam or Matthew or if the meaning of that name is offensive. To suggest that I advocate anything but equality and diversity within our society could not be more offensive to me and I suggest you reconsider your use of the word bigot and approach my comments on that post in a purely business sense, perhaps from the perception of a marketinfg professional such as myself.

*awaits chickaroonee's jump onto the bandwagon*

asea

Hey I couldn't even remember who posted it I am talking generally so don't get your knickers in a twist! This isn't a post about Muslims in the UK it's a post about competitions Peace dude this is the season of goodwill

OverlandLandy

littleholly wrote: »

Most of us 'regular compers' enter at least 100 comps per day (don't forget daily, weekly and monthly comps) all from on here. During the week new comps are added throughout the day, there are less at weekends. The more you enter the more chance you have of winning!

OMG - not much chance of me doing that - even if its 3 minutes a time, thats 300mins - 5hours a day!

I think I will be a bit more selective and only enter for things i would actually use/need. Quality - not quantity approach.

I only entered one comp this year - but I won 1st Prize - so that was good - and as it was for a BIG box of Gluten Free Sausages I was REALLY chuffed.

in 2006 I entered two - but only one one of the comps - Weekend passes to T in the Park (which I gave away to one of my friends...for FREE!).

Lo_zingaro

I have had a similar "bee in my bonnet" for a while. I just wonder if there is any ageism in choosing the winners. I must admit to being a rather elderly (gentle)man who sometimes enters a deliberate "typo" in the age box. I do this to avoid the kind of question "What does a silly old f**t like this want with an Ipod?"

Perhaps it is because it is they who enter most comps, but the winners do seem to be predominently 30-ish ladies.

I think the point made by Ryan85k may have some bearing here. Given that all comps are marketing exercises, perhaps the judges select winners on the liklihood that they will increase future sales, ie a 20 year-old winner of an XBox is likely to buy more games for it in the future than is a 65 year-old.

Incidentally, if I am not being too rude, what do you multiple winners do with the less valuable "stuff" that you win?

ShimSham

OverlandLandy wrote: »

OMG - not much chance of me doing that - even if its 3 minutes a time, thats 300mins - 5hours a day!

I think I will be a bit more selective and only enter for things i would actually use/need. Quality - not quantity approach.

I only entered one comp this year - but I won 1st Prize - so that was good - and as it was for a BIG box of Gluten Free Sausages I was REALLY chuffed.

in 2006 I entered two - but only one one of the comps - Weekend passes to T in the Park (which I gave away to one of my friends...for FREE!).

Wow I wish I had your success rate, 100% in 2007 and 50% in 2006. That is mighty impressive.:D I must enter hundreds every week, to get just a few wins. :rolleyes: