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  • SarahBert
    SarahBert Posts: 57 Forumite
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    mjm3346 said:
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    pate-ci0 said:
    Both sides of this discussion have merit and I must say that Make Me a Winner is my least favourite of the formats, particularly with the 'one entry makes you eligible for all competitions' even weeks later. 
    I am positive that I missed out on £50,000+ a few years ago by fumbling a call on a new phone, couldn't swipe properly to answer and listening to the presenter later as the call went out, it sounded exactly like what I did. Just that missed chance was immensely disappointing and I still am annoyed years later. 
    However, I don't blame the radio station for mucking it up, it was purely my decision to enter and entirely my fault I failed to answer properly. As mentioned above, we do not (or should not) live in a nanny state and passing the blame for things that go wrong in our lives is a failure to learn from our own mistakes, far too prevalent in today's society. If you can't handle and deal with disappointment and failure, particularly for something that you never had in the first place, then don't try anything that could induce those feeling - stay in bed for the rest of your life. If you consider the consequences of getting the answer wrong for these competitions and the chance that such could tip you over an emotional edge, you really should forget the allure of a tiny probability of winning a life-changing financial prize and do not enter at all, to preserve your sanity. But that assumes people are logical and rational, which shoots that whole rationale down in flames.
    I learned years ago that the Universe is out to kill you (and eventually will!), so deal with it and at the end of the day, Darwin always wins.
    Yes, I have to say this is very strange that your entry is still valid weeks later - is it not possible to 'close' the competition every Friday and start again the following Monday to keep it fresh in people's minds?  Or if not every week perhaps every month?  But I also agree that this is not a nanny state and if you enter you are responsible for reading the rules and acknowledging them..... I've been entering for so long that 4pm is etched on my brain!
    All in the T&Cs and has been done this way for ages so why is it strange?

    Apart from people who cannot cope having the sense not to enter perhaps those who simply don't like it run this way shouldn't enter either and if there were enough of these "concerned" people who choose not to enter then it would probably change.

    The current  entry method is actually an advantage to the people who enter via the web as they are much more likely to max their entries every day while those using the paid route are much less likely to do so, particularly when the prize is a smaller one. 
    Not to forget that 1 paid entry gives a chance to win for the length of the competition without needing to pay every day/week etc
    I know it's all in the T&Cs I was just mulling over that it's odd how long they keep people entered in it for a given competition, do all competitions everywhere work like this?  This is the only radio comp I've ever entered so I'm probably not up to speed on this subject.....I only do the free on-line entry.  
    Competitions can have many different types of entry requirement but if I paid (or it was free) to enter a competition with a daily prize I would much rather my entry got me into every draw rather than just one. Some require a daily entry for a daily prize far more let you enter every day for a month or more for just one prize at the end, others have a limit on the number of multiple entries and you might make them all in one day or spread them out but  all for just one prize at the end. Some competitions with one prize draw allow only one entry (my personal favourites) for however long the competition is open for before the prize is awarded
    Sorry mjm3346, only just seen this - many thanks.  It seems a bit of a minefield and now this one has finished I actually feel a sense of relief!!
  • lgardner
    lgardner Posts: 441 Forumite
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    I swear i heard on absolute radio today, about Make me a winner, to listen out how you could win £80,000 i listened for another 10 mins but never heard anything, and nothing online.
  • mjm3346
    mjm3346 Posts: 47,278 Forumite
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    lgardner said:
    I swear i heard on absolute radio today, about Make me a winner, to listen out how you could win £80,000 i listened for another 10 mins but never heard anything, and nothing online.
    that's the cash register prize today
  • SpanishBlue
    SpanishBlue Posts: 638 Forumite
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    I see it says "You can enter each Draw a maximum of 3 times via SMS (including free entries) and a maximum of 3 times online."

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