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You been watching "Shooting Fish" again haven't you?
Posted: 12:59 Jun 20 2003
Competitions
Do you think I could live off competitions? People do it, they buy products where they can win stuff and don't work, they just live by entering competitions to get money and holidays, cars and stuff they need. Surely they'd have to enter a lot each day and be good at making up captions and things like that, but its possible right? It'd be easier than getting a proper job i'd think. How often do you guys win competitions? I've won tickets to the London Dungeon before, but thats it, then again I don't normally enter them much, but I might start to.
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Posted: 12:59 Jun 20 2003
making up captions and tie-breaks is the important thing here, if you're good at that then you can be very successfull because a lot of people either avoid competitions where such are needed, or do very badly at them. The other thing to watch out for is minimising the cost of entry - even stamps mount up if you're entering a dozen competitions a day - so try to find free or at least low cost ones (include in this the cost of finding the competitions - take advantage of free newspapers and such), and take advantage of "no purchase necessary" options. These days the internet is a massive advantage to pro-quizzers, so use that to the full.
Posted: 14:36 Jun 20 2003 
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Posted: 23:20 Jun 20 2003 
isn't it normally a 12-word tiebreaker 
I don't enter a lot of competitions - the best stuff I won was way back around 1987 when I came 2nd in some teen magazine thing. I still need someway of finding out if these are real signatures on that Ramone album
Won a farscape dvd around xmas though, had forgotten I entered that.
You'd have to be winning a lot to live off it - unless you win one of those £50,000 a year for life things. But as they ask for a person's age I'm sure they just let the oldest entrant win
I don't enter a lot of competitions - the best stuff I won was way back around 1987 when I came 2nd in some teen magazine thing. I still need someway of finding out if these are real signatures on that Ramone album
Won a farscape dvd around xmas though, had forgotten I entered that.
You'd have to be winning a lot to live off it - unless you win one of those £50,000 a year for life things. But as they ask for a person's age I'm sure they just let the oldest entrant win
Posted: 10:52 Jun 21 2003
by Wesley
You been watching "Shooting Fish" again haven't you?
& why not
Mmmmmmm Kate Beckinsale
Posted: 14:19 Jun 21 2003 Of course, if you're that good then you could take up a career in advertising or marketing and make even more money without the insecurity of relying on whether you've won enough competitions to pay the rent.
by Callum
making up captions and tie-breaks is the important thing here, if you're good at that then you can be very successfull because a lot of people either avoid competitions where such are needed, or do very badly at them.
Or am I missing something here?
Posted: 20:28 Jun 21 2003