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A couple of years back it's safe to say that one aspect of comping really riled us - automated competition entry services. We pretty much led the way in making compers and promoters aware of this...
Automated Entries
Automated Competition entries were a bugbear of ours in the very earlier days of the blog. Online entry forms would be flooded with thousands of entries from these services who were happily taking money off subscribers. We worked hard to highlight the issue and provided promoters with plenty of details about how they could prevent their prize draws being flooded with entries from people who didn't even know about their site. Thanfully most of the automated competition entry services have now closed although we guess that's more due to comping becoming more prevalent on social media.
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running competitions
We've not blogged about automated entry services for a while so we thought we'd get back on the bandwagon. We want to make sure compers and promoters are aware that they're still around and that...
running competitions
It's been almost a year since we started blogging about automated competition entries and the effects that they have on online competitions. Over that time we've managed to reveal email accounts...
It's been an interesting month with regards to automated entries. There's good news, some changes and some bad news. The good news is that we're starting to see brands and promoters respond to the...
We've not done a "did you get..." type blog post for a few months, so we thought as it's a New Year we'd revisit and remind compers and promoters about the issue of automated entry services...
We've not mentioned automated entries on the blog for a while, but that's not to say we're not still concerned about them. We still believe that all compers should be speaking out about automated...
Ever since we started revealing the names of sites/brands who appear on the "entered" lists of automated competition entry service sites a few things have happened. Firstly, promoters have started...
Compers may well be familiar with The Institute of Promotional Marketing (The IPM). They're the people to turn to when a competition or promotion goes wrong. We contacted them recently regarding...
To end our first week of starting to let promoters know about automated entry competition services we're having a spot the difference competition. It involves one of the sites, Prize Draw Centre...
Our campaign to get compers and promoters aware about automated entry services and how they impact comping is well underway. The good news, is that one of our competitors, Accolade Publishing, are...
This weekend we kicked off a campaign to get promoter's to start including one simple line of text in their online prize draw rules. If they don't already do so we want all sites that run online...
One thing that's been a mild irritation to us since we started highlighting automated entry services here on Loquax is the lack of comment from other publications. Given that automated services...
Our last blog about automated competition entry services featured Prize Draw Centre and who owns the business, but PDC are not the only company making a mockery of online comping (in our view)...
After a short break, we're back on the trail of those automated competition entry...
We make no apologies for continuing our blogging on Automated Competition Entry Services, but this is a follow up to our
It's time for another round up of sites that attracted automated competition entries last month. Hopefully, each and every month these lists will get smaller and smaller. Not because the...
competition scams
If you run an online competition then hopefully you're keeping an eye out for automated competition entry services. We've already told you, thanks to Chocolate Reviews, about email accounts to...
It's almost a month since our Time To Ban Automated Entry Competition Services blog. A...
One of the things we've noticed since blogging about automated competition entry services is that comper's seem unsure about what they are and perhaps a little oblivious to just how damaging they...
running competitions
Earlier in the month we asked if it was time to ban automated competition entry...
Automated competition entry services are places where people can pay a site to enter competitions on their behalf. The sites "find" competitions and then using scripts automatically generate...
running competitions
So you spend hour after hour entering competitions, visiting sites and finding answers - how would you feel then if the prize was won by someone who'd never even visited the site and didn't even...
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