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Is there a knack to click to wins?

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Hi!

I was wondering if there was something I was doing wrong. I enter loads of the comps on the simply media sites (iwon etc.) and haven't won anything yet. I know it's patience and greed but I didn't think there would be so many people entering them. :o
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  • mjm3346
    mjm3346 Posts: 47,264 Forumite
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    The main Bauer click to wins can have 6,000 plus entries per competition per person so if there were only 1,000 people bothering with them all that's 6 million entries without counting those who only enter some of them.

    The simply media sites have far fewer possible entries, say around 360 each, but that still comes to 360,000 entries if just a thousand people were doing the lot and it is much easier to do them all with 6 sites instead of 100 plus.


    So how do the number of your entries per competition stack up against the potential 6,000,000 or 360,000 upwards?

    (Of course, it takes just one entry to be in with a chance)
  • Marg2k8
    Marg2k8 Posts: 5,838 Forumite
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    I entered loads of the simply media ones pretty much every day for several months and didn't win anything, so lost interest in doing them apart from having a quick go if I'm up to date on everything else.
  • sleepyjones
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    I used to do well with the C2W's but I rarely bother anymore, now they've started doing all these "Enter every hour" comps it's just not worth the hassle.

    Like Marg' above, I'll sometimes dip in but it's rare these days. Something about them is a bit fishy with the same people sometimes winning 5 times a month consistently. i raised the question with them and they simply said "They enter every day on every site" or something along those lines, which still doesn't make sense 'cause that would take literally 12 hours every day to do them all, which wouldn't be viable for a comper as the prizes they're getting aren't exactly life-changing.
  • wdywuk
    wdywuk Posts: 5,391 Forumite
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    I won afew time on C2W comps. I suggest you only do the ones you like on a ipad while watching a film. Go down the list of links and click on every other etc and hope for the best.
  • rowrowrow
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    mjm3346 wrote: »
    The main Bauer click to wins can have 6,000 plus entries per competition per person so if there were only 1,000 people bothering with them all that's 6 million entries without counting those who only enter some of them.

    The simply media sites have far fewer possible entries, say around 360 each, but that still comes to 360,000 entries if just a thousand people were doing the lot and it is much easier to do them all with 6 sites instead of 100 plus.


    So how do the number of your entries per competition stack up against the potential 6,000,000 or 360,000 upwards?

    (Of course, it takes just one entry to be in with a chance)
    Yeah the odds still aren't that good I guess. The Bauer ones are just too monotonous. I could cover all the simply media sites I guess.

    Thanks for your sympathy guys :) I might be a bit more selective now.
  • tgroom57
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    I read on another thread some while back, that it was possible to generate a "script" (is that the right word?) which would open a series of links and click the button on the page that opened. With roboform (instantaneously) filling in the email address.

    I doubt very much if all the entries to CTW are made manually.
  • mjm3346
    mjm3346 Posts: 47,264 Forumite
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    edited 11 May 2019 at 5:24PM
    tgroom57 wrote: »
    I read on another thread some while back, that it was possible to generate a "script" (is that the right word?) which would open a series of links and click the button on the page that opened. With roboform (instantaneously) filling in the email address.

    I doubt very much if all the entries to CTW are made manually.

    If one of the sites that people pay to enter competitions for them was doing the Bauer ones that could be over 120,000,000 entries per competition just from them (Just 20,000 subscribers at 6,000 entries each per competition)
  • xoxlauraxox
    xoxlauraxox Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    I genuinely think ppl manage to enter c2w with bots... i have no idea how, i'm not clever enough, but thats how people enter them all everyday I recon, otherwise like ppl have said it would take the whole day to enter them
    x
    Thanks to everyone that posts :T:money:
  • I was wondering the same thing, feels a bit like it's tricky but I heard that it's definitely possible to win!
  • Skilos
    Skilos Posts: 1,372 Forumite
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    I've won roughly eight prizes from doing C2Ws for five years. Currently I am entering on all sites daily for just two prizes and that can take me one to two hours, so legitimately entering for every single prize every day would indeed be nigh on impossible.
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