Comping, is it even worth it?
By Ross Hall
@Ardamar (18)
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
September 27, 2017 8:35am CST
By Comping I mean, the 'hobby' as some call it, of entering competitions. I've been doing this for well over a few months now and I'm starting to think it's all just a sham. I enter at least 1-3 competitions per day, through a website I use that lists them and I can honestly say I've not won anything, nor have I been at least informed that "I'm sorry but you weren't a winner, this time".
That little message in an email would be enough, you know? To know at least, that the time I spend filling out the competition form is not completely wasted.
Does anyone else 'comp'? If so, have you ever won anything??
Frustrated.
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
27 Sep 17
I used to do this several years ago in Germany. I can't complain. I won rather often. A one-week holiday in Turkey for 2 people. I gave it to my cousin because I was a teacher then and didn't have holidays. A one-week trip by ship around the Mediterranean Sea. That was a bit odd because it started in the south of France and the flight there was not included. Had I flown there, I would have spent more money than the ticket for the voyage would have cost. So I refused.
A very big parcel with luxury food items. Salmon, champagne and so on. A tea service. An espresso machine for the kitchen and, and, and.
Although things were going well, I stopped. I got a bit bored. Maybe I should take it up again.
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@asfarasiknow (3341)
• Bournemouth, England
30 Sep 17
In the 1980s I focused on caption competitions (Punch and New Statesman magazines, TV-am, all now gone) and won regularly. This eventually led to a career as a comedy writer. I think it's a good idea to focus on one particular type of comp, preferably with a degree of skill rather than just a prize draw, and then seek out as many as possible.
