Competitions you don't see any more (Nostalgia)

sleepyjones

Not a provider, but remember when every second competition was for a "Stash of Beanies coffee", don't see them any more.

cagsd

I think these have probably all been mentioned already, but I get nostalgic over:
- Comps I used to spend all day dreaming of winning: Currys Wishlist, Citroen Seekers (where you had to "navigate" round a location using Google Earth and click on signs, and you could win a car.), Times Hourlies, ITV free entry comps such as Real Deal, The Cube, This Morning etc! Stylist/Emerald Street, and Shortlist / Mr Hyde, all used to do really decent comps too.
- Comps that you were pretty much guaranteed to win something on: Stella Beauty giveaway, Glamour, there was a wine company on Facebook that used to do a National Trust pass competition and I won LOADS of them, Supersavvy Me used to do daily entry comps for stuff like half decent moisturiser, shampoo etc, plus there were always loads of daily instant win comps around. You hardly ever see them now.
There are loads of advents that are no longer run too, I can't think of them off the top of my head but I noticed last Christmas that tonnes of my favourites had dwindled away

I started comping only 7 years ago, and for the first (at least) 3 years, I'd never go a month without at least 4 wins. It's slowly been drying up over the past few years, to the point where in the last 18 months I think I've won 3 prizes? Ahh, the good old days!

2013yearofthehouse

I miss the Sprinkle website! I never won any of the bigger prizes (there were lots of MSE winners though ), but they also gave away a £10 Amazon voucher every day and I think I won it about 5 times within a few months!

EnglishWelshie wrote: »

The jet2 advent didn't run last year used to love doing that and they had some fab holidays they gave away daily over advent.

I'm sure I remember a Jet2 advent running last year?

EDIT: yes, here it is https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5939530jet2

eleanorre

There were two on channel 4 I think Memory box was one and I forget the other . You had to watch the programme and solve an anagramand send in a text . You were called live on the same programme . I used to use three phones pretending to be me my sister and myself. I won about 4 times sometimes a grand sometimes five hundred pounds . I passed on the winnings to the others if I won for them .
When I started comping there were a lot of comps where you collected wrappers for sweets etc. My kids scoured the playground for them for me .

cagsd

2013yearofthehouse wrote: »

I miss the Sprinkle website! I never won any of the bigger prizes (there were lots of MSE winners though ), but they also gave away a £10 Amazon voucher every day and I think I won it about 5 times within a few months!

Yes, Sprinkle was another one I won quite a few times on. I used to love the steady stream of little prizes like Amazon vouchers, Costa coffee giftcards, shampoo, cereal, that came from comps such as that.

DisneyLisa

the fox;s biscuit one where you got biscuits if a horse won a race? or something like that

Ms_Chocaholic

Hotel Chocolat to win chocolate prizes to redeem in store.

Marg2k8

I'm showing my age now, but I miss the days when you used to pick up entry forms in supermarkets and other places and used to have to make up a tie-breaker, such as a slogan. There were various entry form exchange schemes, where you would for example send off 20 entry forms you had picked up and in return for an SAE, you would get back another 20 entry forms in the post. I won a few good prizes back then, including a trolley dash round Asda and a year's supply of Heineken (365 cans).

Midnighter

I strangely still miss Ceefax, Teletext and Sky Text. I won several times from each of them back in the day.

hdh74

The one where you won a can of soup and plastic mug if you didn't win anything better.