Competitions - does anyone actually win?

[littlegreenfairy]

I've had Lorraine on this morning (shoot me now but it was only briefly) and there was a competition to win £25k etc etc. You can enter online for free. It made me think, why would someone pay £1.50 per message to enter, if you can do it for free online?

More to the point, do the online applications count the same as the paid ones?

And do people really win stuff from these competitions.

Has anyone ever won anything meaningful from competitions? I'm tempted to spend half an hour a day filling in as many as possible as at some point you've got to win something good... right?

[littlegreenfairy]

Bloody search isn't working

Oh well, I entered the GMTV one. I've opened a spreadsheet and now looking for some online competitions.

I need more of a life.

[littlegreenfairy]

I forgot that I actually won a pen from Pilot. It was a gel pen.

Actually it was a very good gel pen, but thats the sum total of what I've ever won.