I started comping Mid October 2012 with some scepticism. Yes I had read all the stories about the amazing prizes compers had won but something inside me said it was just too good to be true or that the people that won lots of big prizes must spend all day doing competitions.
I pushed those thoughts aside and decided I would give it a month's trial. If by the end of month I'd not won anything I would stop. As I'm quite creative I decided to enter mainly creative competitions, topped up with the non skill based ones for things I really wanted.
Within a week I won £100 worth of Pretty Polly Tights for posting a picture of my worst socks.
Then the prizes started coming - I had quite big prizes like 2 season tickets to Cheltenham Races, luxury hampers, gift experience tickets, gig tickets. I've also had loads of little prizes too - books, belts, cds, gift sets.
My most recent prize and first of this January was a year's subscription to PlayStation Magazine. As we are a house of gamers it was a great prize to win.
So I am happy to say I was TOTALLY and COMPLETELY wrong about comping. It is genuine and people do win, I'm proof of that. I love my new hobby and hope to continue for many years to come.