MegaSack 2024 Day 4 - WIN Bridgedale MTB Socks

Day 4. And Hannah and Benji are still wearing the same clothes. Must pong a bit in that there studio by now!

Eyes on the prize please, they are not pieces of meat for you to drool over 🙂

I’m extremely confused, I’ve entered every day including visiting the two websites per day and it says I’ve only got one megasack entry. Should I have 12 or 4 or just the one?

I also didn't spot the separate megasack entry until today, so also just have 1. Keep scrolling down past today's entry then there's the separate megasack. Well I think I only have 1. Not sure.

upto 4 per day

The megasack bit doesn't seem very user (subscriber!) friendly to me. If you miss a day you can't go back and do it the following day as you can only do it once every 24 hours. So, for example, I also didn't find the megasack bit at the bottom the page day 1. I found it on day 2 and entered, but I couldn't go back and do the same for day 1 because of the 24hr timer. By the time I could do it I was entering on day 3. So it would appear to me that if you miss a day its gone, not like previous years where you could go back and at least enter the MS draw.

P.S. who were the winners on day 2 and 3? Can't see anything on the following posts.

P.P.P.S. I've seen quite a few complaints on the MS posts, but no response from STW Towers, is anyone reading the comments?

I’ve seen quite a few complaints on the MS posts, but no response from STW Towers, is anyone reading the comments?

Mark has been pretty active in the first couple of ms posts. He's explained the whats and the whys of the changes. I'd say they largely make sense even including some classic 'its shonky software but we can't fix it' to make us feel at home.

who were the winners on day 2 and 3? Can’t see anything on the following posts.

I believe it's being drawn at the weekend

Just to add to the fun. Todays daily draw has the image from Day 3, the title from Day 4 and the text describing we're on both Day 2 and Day 3.  Oh well, first world problems and all that.

Mildly amusing that we are all grown adults and getting annoyed as it isn't as easy to enter a prize draw to hopefully win a large bag of prizes - which some of us don't really want.
I guess this year it takes a bit more time and effort for the user - explained by Mark as reducing the one-time chancers who enter every competition going.
I'm pretty sure I'm not going to win, but I'm happy to get any entries I can. I've missed most of the first day but seems to have it sorted now.
Unsure it is worth getting annoyed about as it isn't costing me anything.

Yeah, it's crap UX but in the scale of sub-optimal things about this website, it's pretty minor.

Having to watch the crummy videos is more of a ballache IMO.

Well said @DickBarton.

Everyone should be more Dickish about this. Erm...

If you miss a day you can’t go back and do it the following day as you can only do it once every 24 hours

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So it would appear to me that if you miss a day its gone, not like previous years where you could go back and at least enter the MS draw

My view on this is... meh. After all it only takes one entry to win, I'm either going to win or I'm not, as long as I get at least one in then all's ok! The world ain't going to end.

My view is that the chances of winning are very small. Missing some entries is pretty meh in the scale of things. I am very intrigued about the radial tyres though... but I always get sucked in with tyre tech stuff.

You should be able to go back and catch up a couple of missed MegaSack entries at the weekend as it's a weekday comp only.

You should be able to go back and catch up a couple of missed MegaSack entries at the weekend as it’s a weekday comp only.

Presumably it'll close down over the weekend or something? Otherwise anyone who hasn't missed any would be able to add extra entries.

I'm not sure people are genuinely annoyed just frustrated that something that's meant to be a bonus for supporting the website is much difficult than it really ught to be.

I'm presuming this year all Megasack entries are bundled into one unlike some previous years where if you hadn't entered on the randomly selected day then you had zero chance of winning.

Can we scrap the 24 hour rolling limit for subscriber validation? It's 10 past 5 here and it's telling me to come back in 2 and a half hours. If I do that then tomorrow it'll be 8pm, then 10, then midnight.

I just want to tick all the boxes in one sitting.

Is the question in the video?

Weird new system.

Opened this morning at 7 and entered the megabucks for yesterday, thinking that would be 3 as I've done every day. Says I have two entries. Bizarre.

Log on this afternoon to win the socks. Do the usual 3 entries. Allows me to enter megasack again, and says I have 2 entries. Again. And now on that device (desktop) i can't enter the 24 hour megabucks dack for a day until the afternoon.

Appreciate trying to weed out the chancers but it does seem a lot of admin. Especially when waiting 30 seconds for each page to open on here

^ Username checks out.

Having to watch the crummy videos is more of a ballache IMO.

I dunno, it's a sort of art form in itself. Two very bored, only minimally engaged, people feign 'enthusiasm' and slowly pass minutes talking about things they plainly have absolutely no interest in whatsoever by cataloging the banal features of everyday biking objects, while at the same time clearly wishing they were somewhere, anywhere, else. 'It has two wheels, yeah, one at each end. And what else, oh - yawns - er, cranks. And these pedals. Yeah, erm, pedals...'

It's kind of like Waiting for Godot for the modern online competition age. 'Let's go'. 'We can't'. 'Why not?' 'We're waiting for MegaSack'...

There goes my chance of winning the MegaSack 🙂

I missed yesterday’s MegaSack entry thanks to combination of the stupid 24hr rule and having the lurgy. ?

Sharkattack, I think your maths might be out. If you needed to return at 19.55 to enter then the next day it would be 19.55 or 56...it is 24 hours between entries.

As above, totally get it, but I thought I had a 'megasack' entry for every day so far, turns out I had none. It has kept me coming back to the site each day!

Having to watch the crummy videos is more of a ballache IMO.

That comes across as a bit rude, even if that is your opinion.

That comes across as a bit rude, even if that is your opinion.

+1

@DickBarton

It's not bad maths, I'm not going to be sitting here waiting for the clock to run out every day. The time slot is going to go further and further back as I remember to do it later each day.

That comes across as a bit rude, even if that is your opinion.

Yeah sorry, wasn't feeling very full of festive goodwill.

To be more constructive: I find the videos a bit waffly and needlessly lengthy.

I don't object to this kind of content marketing, but I think everyone would be happier if each vid was one minute long?

I don’t object to this kind of content marketing, but I think everyone would be happier if each vid was one minute long?

I dunno, I sort of like them.

Having to watch the crummy videos is more of a ballache IMO.

Well no one's forcing you to watch them.

I did while eating lunch, then cleaned up the crumbs.