Magazine Click to Win Comps - Are they a waste of time?

Hedgehugs

Has anyone won on the Click to Win Comps, the ones that you can enter several time on several different sites ie Take a Break, Closer,  Yours Magazine etc.  I'm not sure if I am wasting my time entering these.   I have noticed that the Winners Circle on these Magazine Sites haven't been updated since 8th February, I was wondering if they take a few weeks to let you know if you have won or whether they just haven't updated the site.  Any feedback would be appreciated. 

Hedgehugs

Hedgehugs said:

Has anyone won on the Click to Win Comps, the ones that you can enter several time on several different sites ie Take a Break, Closer,  Yours Magazine etc.  I'm not sure if I am wasting my time entering these.   I have noticed that the Winners Circle on these Magazine Sites haven't been updated since 8th February, I was wondering if they take a few weeks to let you know if you have won or whether they just haven't updated the site.  Any feedback would be appreciated. 

I am just answering one of my own questions the Winners Circle has been updated to the 8th March now.

mjm3346

A previous thread

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5999935/is-there-a-knack-to-click-to-wins/p1

Thread that lists the sites and has some "Chat"

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5697243/click-to-win-daily-thread#latest

mjm3346

I didn't realise they had reduced the value of the prizes so far, not only are there no prizes worth over £500 there are several not even worth a £10 (via TAB).

This one on TAB

"Win a Scratch Art Box of Rainbow Mini Notes Value £6"  (claims £7 value when you click through to the comp)
is available on approx 60 sites so if the competition is only available for a month you could make 1800 entries for a prize worth £6 or £7 (open two months and you could have 3600 entries.

From another post

It's a far cry from when they started, prizes were much more valuable and might only be on 2 or 3 sites, more than 8 was rare (a £3,000 prize was on one site and only open for 5 weeks - giving a maximum of 35 entries per person) - the specialist sites gardening/fishing/motorcycling etc had competitions that related to the interest and were just on 2 or 3 sites - I won a £700 lawnmower among many other prizes.

Looking at their competitions on an old post  - £500 cash 1 site - £700 tickets and break 2 sites - £1,200 camping kit 2 sites - £1000 break and spend 2 sites - £1,600 horse stuff 3 sites - £1,000 fishing stuff 1 site - £400 Tesco vouchers 6 sites.- £466 kitchen stuff 6 sites 

Ms_Dee

I very rarely enter click to wins. As some people enter them daily, giving them loads of entries, whereas I tend to enter a competition once and forget about them.

Comping is enjoyable for me, if I had to go back through the same competitions every time, then I would get bored and loose interest.

If I do enter them, I tend to use the iwon sites: I won, I won / winning families / free competitions / win 50, I think they have a few more similar sites, they are super easy to enter and you can gain stars, if you get 7 stars I think it is, you will be entered into an additional competition. They also occasionally do 24 hour competitions, which I am more inclined to enter as everyone has the same chance as you can only enter once. I haven't won a click to win, but many have and with the sites I mentioned, I have seen the owner chasing people via social media, as they don't want people to loose out, if they missed the winning email. So it actually seems like a site that cares, a bit like prize deck, who also seem to chase their winners, who I have actually won from before 🥳