To stop entering competitions because no one wins anything?

@TAKESNOSHITSHIRLEY, as a matter of interest, how much spam email arrives in your 'comps only' email inbox? One thing that puts me off entering is the thought that it's yet another company with my data to market at me, and sell on...

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That is really helpful! I used to spend hours doing online surveys for very little reward, and the odd free sample to test (I got sent condoms for one!).
Can you give/sell the prizes on if you don't want them? I remember Take a Break used to have a make-over as a prize... that would be my idea of hell. I also don't have a passport so foreign holiday ones would be useless.

I’ve won:
Concert tickets
£100 gin
Computer
Football match tickets
Computer games

I won 4 tickets to Frozen the Musical (brilliant), a family day pass to a farm/activity type place and a family annual pass for Royal Historic Palaces (Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace etc). And I won a voucher for coffee and cake for two people at our local lovely bakery, from our school raffle. I was beside myself !

I hear ya OP - I have been trying to win free pizza for a year from Domino oh-ohs but nope, shit out of luck

I once won a radio in the shape of an orange. The straw was an ariel. Loved it.

I won a weekend away to a very swanky hotel a few years ago!

I won a British artisan food hamper last year.

Someone has to win. Keep trying, I say!

I once won the Ladygram competition in The Lady magazine. Unfortunately the prize was a bit meh. Something called a scarflet. Can't imagine ever wearing it.

I won a £200 IKEA voucher from mumsnet and we’ve had a few books from sky vip (Aliens love pantaclaus and a Captain underpants one).

Dice often do 'competitions' for London music festival or other gigs when the tickets haven't sold out. It's not a definite win but I'd say I've managed to get free tickets about 1/3 of the time. Odds are better if you can get a couple of mates to enter as well

I go through stages of entering loads then can't be bothered for a while

Won:
Sweatshirt
£500 Amazon voucher
50 packs of beef jerky
Trip to Paris
Flights to San Francisco
£150
Bottle of gin
12 bath bombs
Suit hire for our wedding
Flowers

Always a nice surprise when it happens

Mostly do whilst on boring corporate zoom calls!

I won 4 tickets to saddlers wells theater.
I won a tomb raider tshirt.
i won a coke football.
I won a dark souls 2 tshirt and messenger bag.
I won a auto modalista tshirt.
I won E4 merchandise including tshirt, air freshener, pen etc.
I won a PS2 tshirt.
I won a box of about 12 nissan cup ramens.
I won a cooking utensil set.
I won an ikea table.

and other bits and bobs I cant remember.

Used to work with someone who entered competitions. Buy this pan and win a trip to France etc. So he did and he did. He had a few foreign hols and did one for pasta where he won a trip to an Italian cookery school. Whilst there with other winners the pasta company had a competition to win a Ferrari. He won it. Kept it a year, sold it for 50k (back in late eighties, early 90s), paid a big chunk off his mortgage. He targeted competitions which involved a purchase as the odds were lower.

Over twenty years ago I read something about needing to enter a lot of competitions in order to win something, shortly afterwards I came down with chicken pox - and decided to enter as many as I could in the two weeks I was off work, I won a trip to New York, so as a PP said - its a numbers game, enter enough comps and eventually you will win something.

I won the “guess how many mini eggs in the huge jar” at school fete my DD was SO excited. My maths skills won it

I do a lot of comping on MSE, I've won holidays, money, vouchers, a TV, a console.

You have to put the time in to do the entering, but people do win!

I used to comp a lot, and about 6 years ago, best prize I won was a car and a fortnight in Mauritius. Stopped comping soon after this though as took a lot of my time, even using a form filler.

Yep, I’ve won several holidays abroad over the years, including one I’m going on in the summer which has been postponed for 2 years because of covid. Won lots of other things too. I’ve been very lucky. The trouble is now there are so many people doing competitions, it’s almost like winning the lottery. In the past, there were fewer people doing it and you had to fill in entry forms, sometimes buying products to enter and having to send paper entry forms in the post. Now it’s 99% online and free, so the numbers doing competitions are absolutely enormous, but real people do win!

im a serial comper been doing it for years now

ive won a fair bit and win quiet often

theres websites where the prize link is all there for you and even the answers

women's magazine competitions where theres 10+ prizes, all the answers provided

if anyone's interested i use these regularly(and won from 3 sites) but theres hundreds more on goggle

its just a few clicks of a mouse and i use a form filler so its so easy
i have a email just for competitions, i dont provide a phone number so no spam just name address and email.(if they do insist on a phone number i use my house phone which is still active i just dont have a handset)

99%of my winnings have just turned up through the post. i dont always get contacted.
these websites do up to 6 months ahead so hald of my winnings i cant remember entering as i could have done it months
i do closing today then new today. I do hundreds per day a few hours through out a 24 hour period.im not on the computer all day every day
i have kids that dont sleep so i spend my time doing competitions instead of scrolling on a phone

www.latestdeals.co.uk/
www.theprizefinder.com/
www.competitions-time.co.uk
but theres many more

We won the price of our new telly back this Xmas from Currys!

My 16 yr old won a big screen tv this week, I won a £50 voucher last week. We don't tend to enter much but have won some great prizes. Had a lot of luck at school fairs too - one son won two iPads within a year and the other £200 cash!

I’ve won a couple of MN competitions, JL vouchers.