Make Me A Winner - General Chat

cw18

Dunder001 said:

Anyone else on here, like me? If I'm going to win, I want to win BIG. £50,000 would be very nice, but I'd prefer twice that. So when the amount is low, I just put 3 or 5 entries in 🤣 That should do it!

£100,000 up for grabs? Then I spend my time entering 42 times, listening to that woman's voice, waiting to press 1

Wouldn't everyone much prefer one of the larger amounts? That £250k last week would have been very, very nice...

But I think a lot of people probably feel the same way as you.  So I'll happily enter as many tmes as I can for the lower prizes, as it means the odds of being called are much higher.  Even £50k would still make my life a whole lot easier, and remove a lot of the stress that rising prices and interest rates are causing.

Abbafan1972

Dunder001 said:

Abbafan1972 said:

My entries for today were fine but starting my entries for tomorrow, most of the calls haven’t gone through cos it won’t accept my “1” response. 

I can't understand why that is happening to you. It's a tiresome process, do you wait for the 'thanks' response?

Yes, I always wait for the thanks response. I keep on pressing 1 and just get the message please press 1 or 2, or we haven’t received a response. 
Out of the 10 calls I’ve already made, I think 2 of them actually worked! 

I don’t really want to report it, in case they get rid of the free entry route. 

mjm3346

Dunder001 said:

Anyone else on here, like me? If I'm going to win, I want to win BIG. £50,000 would be very nice, but I'd prefer twice that. So when the amount is low, I just put 3 or 5 entries in 🤣 That should do it!

£100,000 up for grabs? Then I spend my time entering 42 times, listening to that woman's voice, waiting to press 1

Maybe some people wouldn't bother for a not quite as large a prize but given how small the prizes some people enter for I doubt many would be put off if the prize was just a £1,000 never mind still tens of thousands - from approx 10 years ago when the economy was not so far down the U-bend as now

a daily entry competition for Batteries value £1 got 450 plus entries every day
for shower gel value £2 a weekly twitter comp nearly 1,300 entries a week
a twitter competition for a £2.69 jar of marmite nearly 1,000 entries
for a slightly larger prize, a £25 Homebargins voucher FB----over 18,000 likes in one hour
Dorset cereals used to run a monthly competition where you could get 1 entry per day and that got over 800,000 entries a month

cw18

@mjm3346
But did those other competitions ban you for a period of time after a win?
These radio comps state you can't win another prize within 6 months of winning a prize of £500 or more.   I think that's the main reason people hold out for the larger prizes....

janE1956

as with the proverb "a bird in the hand etc" I would prefer £50,000 in my hand than £250,000 in the bush

mjm3346

cw18 said:

@mjm3346
But did those other competitions ban you for a period of time after a win?
These radio comps state you can't win another prize within 6 months of winning a prize of £500 or more.   I think that's the main reason people hold out for the larger prizes....

No, none of the prizes were worth near £500 so there would not be a Bauer ban either and I doubt the potential ban stops many people going for cash prizes

JamboDP

Answered after two rings and said hello, no winner today.

£54,000 tomorrow and a rollover

RagdollPigeon

I get that people may be distracted or have plenty of stuff on their mind, or even be expecting important calls anyway, but if I'd entered the competition I'd answer EVERY call with "make me a winner!"... Even if I was a 999 call handler!!

FondantMoose

Considering it's only just gone live to enter, how can someone appear to not know the rules they have entering underd?

It makes me wonder how many of those that have been selected and failed to win actually entered themselves... 🤔

mjm3346

FondantMoose said:

Considering it's only just gone live to enter, how can someone appear to not know the rules they have entering underd?

It makes me wonder how many of those that have been selected and failed to win actually entered themselves... 🤔

The habit for most regular phone users is to simply answer the phone as they normally do and the more often the phone is used the more of a habit it is - breaking the habit because of an occasional entry into a competition is not necessarily easy.