Fewer competitions

thetoothfairy

I think there are fewer competitions than there used to be. Does anyone else think so?

I used to always be behind on entering but that doesn’t happen now.

I also think a lot of the traditional ones have been replaced by twitter and instagram and Facebook, which I just don’t like as much. Perhaps that has a bearing on my view!

Mariobug25

Yep I agree

mjm3346

Some of the recent threads

The reason why there are fewer competitions?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5886097/the-reason-why-there-are-fewer-competitions

The exodus of weekly comps..

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5796284/the-exodus-of-weekly-comps

Gradual disappearance of Prize Draw competitions

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5871364/gradual-disappearance-of-prize-draw-competitions

Is Comping on the decline?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5822958/is-comping-on-the-decline

moneysaver890

Yep I agree, I don't do any of the social media ones so have deffo noticed a decline. I started comping in 2015 and had 2 brilliant years 2015/2016 where I was winning probably a prize a month, sometimes more with small wins. The past 2 years have been very slow. Only had 1 win last year and a couple of small wins this year.

Everyone used to ask me what I had been winning and I always had wins to talk about. People have stopped asking now as I dont win anything anymore :rotfl:

Starting to feel quite disheartened with entering everyday now.

But.....I keep telling myself, you've got to be in it to win it :T

Good Luck

thetoothfairy

mjm3346 wrote: »

Some of the recent threads




https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5886097/the-reason-why-there-are-fewer-competitions




https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5796284/the-exodus-of-weekly-comps






https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5871364/gradual-disappearance-of-prize-draw-competitions





https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5822958/is-comping-on-the-decline

Thank you I’ll have a read!

The_3rd_Zebu

I've never bothered with social media or the blog comps. I think they are too open to manipulation by the people running the competition.

They are more likely to award the prizes by favouritism to their best members ( or even their 'best looking' members). These days it is too easy for them to look up a entrant's profile before deciding whether that is the person they want to award the prize to.

mjm3346

The_3rd_Zebu wrote: »

I've never bothered with social media or the blog comps. I think they are too open to manipulation by the people running the competition.

They are more likely to award the prizes by favouritism to their best members ( or even their 'best looking' members). These days it is too easy for them to look up a entrant's profile before deciding whether that is the person they want to award the prize to.

Web entry competitions are generally easiest to manipulate (not saying they are the most manipulated), the chosen "winner" does not even have to have entered the competition and no one would know - at least with say FB "likes" if the winners "like" etc cannot be seen or there appears to be some connection with the company there are people who search out things like that.


(There is a higher proportion of competitions run by smaller companies/individuals with FB/Blogs)

booklover500

moneysaver890 wrote: »

Yep I agree, I don't do any of the social media ones so have deffo noticed a decline. I started comping in 2015 and had 2 brilliant years 2015/2016 where I was winning probably a prize a month, sometimes more with small wins. The past 2 years have been very slow. Only had 1 win last year and a couple of small wins this year.

Everyone used to ask me what I had been winning and I always had wins to talk about. People have stopped asking now as I dont win anything anymore :rotfl:

Starting to feel quite disheartened with entering everyday now.

But.....I keep telling myself, you've got to be in it to win it :T

Good Luck

I agree with everything you say on this!