Fed up 21 December 2022 at 12:38PM in Compers chat corner 9 replies 838 views

JamboDP

any body else just had enough with the advents, I do not do IG so they have been not very good this year. and at my age I am not starting on IG bad enough with Twitter and Facebook

bluesooz

majority of advents this year do seem to be via Instagram, with most of them being small prizes. - and it does seem to take the fun out of advents.  Presumably if you're not doing the instagarm ones there is the benefit advents are not taking as much time (silver linings and all that)!  Have you won any this year?

 I've managed 5 small wins this year so far - 4 from instagram and 1 from facebook - so, for me it has been worth having the instagram account. (one win was £100 with the others less than £20 each - so not a huge return, but I'm still grateful for them)

JamboDP

bluesooz said:

majority of advents this year do seem to be via Instagram, with most of them being small prizes. - and it does seem to take the fun out of advents.  Presumably if you're not doing the instagarm ones there is the benefit advents are not taking as much time (silver linings and all that)!  Have you won any this year?

 I've managed 5 small wins this year so far - 4 from instagram and 1 from facebook - so, for me it has been worth having the instagram account. (one win was £100 with the others less than £20 each - so not a huge return, but I'm still grateful for them)

I have won a very nice oodie from Heart Bingo on day 2 on Facebook and that is it apart from Swarofski prize of wining the chance to buy something. well done to you
I have gone through todays entries in less then half an hour.

Ms_Dee

I had 91 on my list to enter.
5 exclusively on Gleam/KingSumo
1 exclusively on an App
Only around 16 were on social media (none were exclusive to Instagram only)

I managed to get some small prizes from M&S Sparks app, Local FB page, PetPlan and Family Tickets.

I like having a competition entering session on my laptop vs a phone, but instagram doesn't allow you to share to your stories via a computer, it has to be done on their app and a lot of companies want you to do it as part of a task. Also most Instagram competitions allow you to tag loads of friends. I do have people to tag, but it seems like a lot of effort, when that could be used entering other competitions elsewhere once.

I've managed to enter most daily this year though, as I'm currently down with Covid (been over a week now, thought I was getting better went downhill massively today.) So the nights I can sleep, I enter, as I'm not able to do anything physical right now.

Hopefully some wins will come through for people after Christmas, as some aren't selecting winners until then.

sammi86

The heyday of advents are over i think. its mainly low value items for alot of effort in some cases. I refuse to do IG as i dont want to spend my life tagging others.


Started with around 76 on my bookmarks to enter which is wayyy less than previous years and now i have 40 left (im a bit of a prize snob so even then i only enter a handful each day)

cagsd

I totally agree, and I actually posted the same on here right at the start of December.  I used to really enjoy doing the advents, as even though they took up a lot of time, they were easy enough to do, there were lots of them, and some great prizes on offer. I think the decline started about 5-6 years ago, but this year has definitely been the worst for "enter by tagging someone on Instagram" entries. I do use Instagram myself but I refuse to tag my friends and family in random competitions! the ones that stipulate "tag, tag, tag! 1 tag = 1 entry" or (this one makes my teeth itch) "tag your bestie".
I wouldn't mind as much if that was just a way of getting extra entries, but when it's the only way of entering, it's a big fat no from me.
So from doing probably 100+ per day 10 years ago, I was down to about 20 in the first 12 days of Dec, and now down to about 8 a day! No surprise that I haven't won anything, other than a little string of lights on the M&S app which were unavailable when I went instore to get them!

annat

Hi
I can feel your pain on the advents, got overwhelmed as I was working up to the 23rd and lost out on loads of entries. I have not one even a single thing in two months so really fed up. My saving grace was I have been really ill with a flu bug so am only just back on. Hope everyone has more luck than me at the mo

Blulu

I agree too. Most of the advents were for Instagram, which I don't do. Too many of the asked for tagging, which I hardly do. It was so much more fun to open a window each day to see if you've won or not. I suppose the up side is that it didn't take very long to get through them each day. I haven't won anything though, so far.

Blu XXX

Makeandsave

Sorry your feeling fed up its hard work every year doing the advents and more and more people are doing them, Not only that but cheats with 2/3/4 accounts. Most of the comps i enter have been on Instagram i have been so lucky not to get a ban and won 2 nice things on there this year. I wish companies used website forms for the advents.

1trainer1

Advents this year we're a big no no from me, I haven't won a doddle, I know a few may not have announced winners so not fully over but it's disappointing as normally always win something