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E:28/04 Win a trip to New York

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  • I went into each field which was highlighted pink, and hit the backspace key to remove the chars. I found that some text was duplicated, hence the errors. It then went through as UK and my dob dd March yyyy.

    Shelby
  • clarej1985
    clarej1985 Posts: 156 Forumite
    ah ha 20 minutes of trying and it went through...Had to keep swapping 12 to December and took 19 off the year. Went through as England that time instead of UK.
    I think the people who run that comp want most people to give up trying! lol
  • GrannyKate
    GrannyKate Posts: 1,949 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Lost the will to live with this one. Got as far as a name and email but no further - no question or place to put DOB.

    :confused::confused::confused:
    2026 Decluttering and redistribution 463/1526 Major job list 150/500 Total 613/2026 ⭐️⭐️🏅🏅
    2026 Weight loss 1st target 1/24
    2026 1p Challenge 125/365
    2026 NSD Feb 10/28 Mar 7/31 April 8/30 May 2/31
    2026 Bathroom pot (target £10000) - 25%
  • baguette
    baguette Posts: 235 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    That comp has taken 20 years off me..

    FINALLY got it to acept 1/11/1992
  • ARGH! This website is nonsense it's so slow then it crashed by browser and I had to log into all the tabs I was logged out of!!! Grrrrrrrrr
    Back on the MSE wagon after going dark for a while.
  • jeanmd
    jeanmd Posts: 2,361 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    I had no problems, it was easy to complete.

    I click the union Jack, each of the areas and it allowed me to go to the competiton page - with question.

    Date of birth ok and it uses UK format ie: date, month, year, it accepted my 1950's :o year
    £2021 in 2021 no.17 £1,093.20/£2021
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