Is it just me? 18 January at 4:53AM in Compers chat corner 9 replies 891 views

diane39

Is it just me
I miss the old days when this competition site was normal comps,not social media ones like Twitter, Instagram etc which are the vast majority now across the board.
I love this site been on it for years and won some fantastic prizes over the years,don't win anything really now.

Just my opinion obviously love all comps

JamboDP

It is probably more cost affective for companies to use social media for their comps.

I hate instagram and cannot get my old head around it. F/B and twitter are all I can cope with and hate sharing.

mjm3346

You probably need to go back well over a decade to get to the days without social media competitions. SM comps provide more publicity for the spend and probably have a higher percentage of the type of consumer they want to attract.   

LizB62

I agree, I hate the fact that a lot of SM comps (and most IG comps) need you to tag people, it seems so intrusive to IG friends, so I don't do those ones.
I'd prefer it if the comp title made it clear if a tag is needed, then I could easily skip them.

janE1956

LizB62 said:

I agree, I hate the fact that a lot of SM comps (and most IG comps) need you to tag people, it seems so intrusive to IG friends, so I don't do those ones.
I'd prefer it if the comp title made it clear if a tag is needed, then I could easily skip them.

I agree, but between us a few of us have come to a sort of agreement to tag each other as friends. I do chat to 3 of them and feel we have a rapport. It seems to work for us. But I too would prefer not to use socials, but without them there would be hardly any comps to do.

lovetowinacar

I also loved the good old days when entries were postal or just online and I used to win some prizes.

I don't have/use instagram/snapchat and the other things and so don't enter them at all, just skip past them.  Although I understand that sometimes they can receive thousands of entries for very tiny value prizes so don't feel I'm missing out..

Prudent

I also won so, so many prizes from the start of the MSE forums. I rarely win anything now. Over the last couple of years, I lost my comping mojo. In October, November and December, I decided to have a big push on comps and see if my apathy was the real culprit. However, the time I put in definitely didn't result in the rewards of the past. I think I will probably always enter some comps, but the glory days are over (or at least for now). I don't feel down about it as I had a fabulous run for many years, but I do feel sorry for people who are starting out and have to work so much harder to win.

strawberri_shortcake

My wins were incredible 20 years ago and for a long time after. Now I don't always even get the prize if I win it! 

Surfermom

I agree, I really miss the good old days of form filling and regular wins. Hardly win anything these days, have had some fab wins over the years but these days there don't even seem to be that many really good prizes on offer. 

1trainer1

strawberri_shortcake said:

My wins were incredible 20 years ago and for a long time after. Now I don't always even get the prize if I win it! 

This 100%, I have won two decent competitions in December, so far not received either, I am trying to give the companies the benefit of the doubt but I have reservations

I tried to justify it by saying postal strikes and Christmas rush but now we are in the middle of February I am no closer

A few years ago I was very lucky as I won a few holidays and very good prizes but recently not much