Lack of comps

trueblonde · 19 February 2020 at 3:10PM

Has anyone noticed that there doesn't seem to be as many comps? I used to spend all day comping and now done in a few hours. I suppose all companies are feeling the pinch

hertzyabazas · 19 February 2020 at 4:19PM

Disagree, plenty of comps out there, just not enough people posting them.
Social media is awash with them and, if I could be bothered, I could post between 100-150 new comps just from FB every week.

trueblonde · 19 February 2020 at 4:47PM

Hertyabazas thanks, I have tried FB comps too many son stories, I was in about normal comps. I am a member of other comp sites but still not enough

mumto2boys · 19 February 2020 at 6:29PM

hertzyabazas said:

Disagree, plenty of comps out there, just not enough people posting them.
Social media is awash with them and, if I could be bothered, I could post between 100-150 new comps just from FB every week.

Totally agree, there are tons of fb/tw/ig comps out there for posting, and see lots of compers entering them, but few get posted on here.

trueblonde · 19 February 2020 at 6:31PM

I am not on Twitter or Insta and too many sob stories on FB.

tghe-retford · 19 February 2020 at 7:15PM

Competition organisers have found out that they get just as much, if not more interaction and publicity from hosting small value prizes on social media networks and getting people to share than they could from bigger prizes via a web form. For those not on social networks like myself (either permabanned or not rejoining for moral reasons), I think there has been a significantly noticeable decline in non-social media competitions. Would need to run the figures though to verify that.

hertzyabazas · 19 February 2020 at 7:39PM

mumto2boys said:

hertzyabazas said:

Disagree, plenty of comps out there, just not enough people posting them.
Social media is awash with them and, if I could be bothered, I could post between 100-150 new comps just from FB every week.

Totally agree, there are tons of fb/tw/ig comps out there for posting, and see lots of compers entering them, but few get posted on here.

That's one of the reasons I cut back posting. Was getting sick of the sight of seeing names of people I recognise on FB comps and I'm thinking to myself "why am I going to the trouble of posting this, when one of you could have"
I had an excellent Nov and Dec last year on FB and none of the comps were posted on here and most of them seemed to bypass the folk we're talking about. One of them was run by Ring (video doorbell company). I won a security system for my house which was amazing but what was more amazing was that there was under 70 entries! Like I said, plenty of comps out there.

grinnerlynn · 25 February 2020 at 1:31PM

lack of comps due to lack of people posting caused by the nightmare forum changes

stubrown55 · 26 February 2020 at 12:04PM

trueblonde said:

Has anyone noticed that there doesn't seem to be as many comps? I used to spend all day comping and now done in a few hours. I suppose all companies are feeling the pinch

I agree - there seems to be a lot less competitions being posted on here since the forum change. But don't think it's necessarily because there are actually less competitions out there. Be interesting to have a look at other competition websites

I've just caught up from yesterday in well under an hour.

Perhaps the forum "leads" might have some figures/facts. Only 132 pages currently on the forum - I'm sure there used to be 200+ at times

BestNan · 26 February 2020 at 3:37PM

I'm pretty new to this so it's all very sad to hear but I actually prefer this forum to the zoo of Facebook!

MoralDilema · 27 February 2020 at 7:06PM

trueblonde said:

I am not on Twitter or Insta and too many sob stories on FB.

way too many of them.
and the infernally annoying 'thanks for the chance'
People should get an instant ban as soon as they type them words.

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