Comping from abroad

Debsben16

Hi
Can anyone tell me if it makes a difference to comp entries if I am abroad. Currently in Madeira on holiday and notice that some pages come up in Portuguese. So will they still accept my entry if it shows I am not in the UK? Am I wasting my time trying to keep up with advents?
Thank you in advance
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Misslayed

I think it probably depends on the Ts & Cs of each competition. 

Ms_Chocaholic

Can you use a VPN

marcia_

 I try and enter competitions when on holiday and sometimes a banner pops up saying it's not available in my jurisdiction. Other competitions I just enter especially if it's ones asking for uk address or postcode 

EnglishWelshie

I've just got back from Lanzarote today and don't really comp when abroad but I do like to keep up to date with the MDs that I post and the win the draw comps I post and didn't have any problems entering and posting them. I did have problems with the  money magpie daily ones though that I get email reminders for so skipped them as I can catch up now I am back home.

In the past I have sometimes had problems when logged into the hotels wifi but using my phone as a hotspot to connect to my laptop has worked. I have free data abroad so easy enough for me to use it. That may be an option to try if you can use your own data abroad.

I would suggest try using a VPN set to UK although that didn't work with the money magpie ones for me as I kept getting a too many entries error even though I hadn't entered them. Opera web browser has vpn built in but I don't know if it will work or not as I use nord vpn but it could be worth trying

If you do social media comps then they should be ok no matter where you are.

I personally prefer not to comp when on holiday except for posting the comps I post and last year and this year the advents are being pretty much skipped as it will take me quite a while to catch up on the main board comps. The past 2 or 3 years I haven't done well on them so I am putting the effort in with the others instead.

coralreef27

I use a VPN and occasionally have issues with the rafflecopters etc as it says too many entries. But the usual ones are generally okay.