I've won £350k of prizes including a Dyson Airwrap by 'comping' – I spend two hours a day doing it, here's how I win big
LYNDSEY Bruce, 58, is a retired bank auditor from Arbroath, Angus.
She tells Eimear O'Hagan how she's hooked on 'comping' – and the way it's gained her a fortune.
"Mendacity by the pool at a luxury spa, I sighed with contentment.
"The one selections I needed to make have been what remedy to have and when to have afternoon tea.
"One of the best a part of my week-long keep? It hadn't value me a penny.&
I turned a 'comper' within the early '80s and, more than 40 years on, my interest has gained me prizes value tens of hundreds of kilos and a great deal of superb experiences.
The primary competition I ever entered was a phone-in on Radio Luxembourg, and the prize was a silver and purple belt.
I gained, and I caught the comping bug! I liked the anticipation waiting to hear if I'd been profitable, and the joys of receiving the prize.
Again then, comping was very totally different to nowadays. With no internet or social media, you needed to put extra effort in.
I began to scour supermarkets for brands that have been operating competitions on the again of packets, and there would even be leaflets in outlets promoting them.
There have been dedicated magazines I subscribed to, and ITV ran some on TV exhibits, too.
I had a pocket book on my desk at work to maintain monitor of all of them.
At first, family and friends thought it was a weird interest, but as I began to win things they understood my enthusiasm, particularly once I shared my winnings with them!
Prizes could possibly be anything from flowers to a fridge-freezer – I only entered a competition if I truly needed the prize, though.
In 1995, I was on the TV present Wheel Of Fortune and gained a £20,000 automotive, which was superb.&
I've gained so many different prizes through the years, I've lost rely, but a number of the most memorable embrace a weekend in Madrid in 2017, with flights, accommodation and tickets, to see Real Madrid play Atlético Madrid within the UEFA Champions League semi-final, which I gained after getting into a competition on the back of a pack of crisps.
I've gained trips to Copenhagen and Paris, tickets to Royal Ascot, I've travelled in a hot-air balloon over the Yorkshire Dales, plus I've had three luxury spa breaks and a keep in a log cabin.
I've also gained a Dyson Airwrap, several phones and quite a few computer systems and kitchen gadgets. I give a number of prizes to loved ones.
Final yr, I gained a yr's provide of footwear and, earlier than that, a health club membership.
The most important cash prize I've ever scooped was £1,800, and I've additionally gained vouchers for clothes manufacturers, together with Warehouse, value round £1,000.
But not every little thing I've gained has been sensible – like the life-size cut-out of ex-rugby player Martin Johnson, which I gave to an area rugby club, or the pint of milk that was a runner-up prize, which was helpful if underwhelming!
I'm now divorced and retired, so I often spend at the very least two hours a day getting into competitions.
Most are on-line and I source them by way of social media or comping websites, and I'm on the e-mail lists for plenty of competition corporations, too.
It's so much simpler to enter now than it was – all you want is a telephone and the web – and I are likely to concentrate on free-to-enter competitions, relatively than ones the place you must name an expensive telephone quantity.&
There's all the time been a comping group, however since the whole lot's moved on-line, it's grown a lot greater and I've made firm friendships throughout the UK.
We meet up often and tag each other in competitions so we will all enter.
We'll swap ideas and advice, and there's no envy when someone else wins.
I've observed increasingly individuals taking over comping in the previous few years – I consider there have to be a connection to the price of dwelling crisis.
My dream prize can be an all-expenses-paid vacation to Japan or America, so I all the time hold my eyes peeled for competitions offering that.
Individuals ask me what the key to my success is, and I say it's a numbers recreation – it's a must to be in it to win it.
I enter round 50 competitions a day and my success price continues to be solely round 1%.
But I really like the process and I'm grateful for every little thing I've ever gained – even that pint of milk!
BTW
Di Coke is likely one of the UK's most profitable compers – her haul of wins is value over £350,000.
Edwin Castro gained the world's largest jackpot in 2022 – £1.79billion in a US lottery.
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