Welcome
The Competition Grape Vine is a monthly A5 (pocket or handbag sized!) publication, usually of around 24 pages, which aims to give up to date information on all the latest postal competitions available in shops and on packs. Internet and magazine comps are not covered - they are well catered for elsewhere.
Much of the advice and information on this site is Internet related, but the print version of the magazine concentrates on postal competitions. If you have come to this site looking for Internet based competitions, why not visit one of the excellent sited listed on the links page?
A typical issue contains
- A shopping list of current and forthcoming comps to look out for
- Detailed info on the current month's comps including answers to questions, suggestions for estimates and orders of merit and clarification of quirky rules
- Winning tiebreakers, where available, from previous competitions
- Notes on long running free-to-enter comps both in the month they appear and the month they close
- General comping advice and chat
- Listings of local comp clubs (free for clubs to advertise)
- Free advertising of unwanted prizes
- Adverts for useful comping services - entry form services, get-togethers and comping publications
Also available to subscribers ONLY are the following services
- Entry form exchange
- Winners list checking - if you see your tiebreaker in the Winning Tiebreaker lists I can check to see whether you are named on the list, for when those LWEs go astray.
- Mid-month update. Usually an A4 sheet of last minute comps that have appeared too late for the main magazine, plus the latest forms and on-pack comps to add to your shopping list. To receive this, subscribers need to send a SAE plus a 2nd class stamp or sign up for the new FREE email version.
Subscription rates are 3 months = £13.50, 6 months = £25 and 12 months = £45. Please make cheques payable to JANE WILLIS and include your full address.
If you have not previously seen a copy of Grape Vine, send me a C5 SAE and I will send you a sample copy. Copies will not be sent to anyone who has previously received one.
Send subscription requests and/or sample requests to The Competition Grape Vine, PO Box 398, FLEET, GU52 7WY or for further information email janesgrapevine@yahoo.co.uk
On this site you will find some links to comping websites and sites that may help you to solve comps, advice on who to turn to if you have a problem with a promoter or a prize, some help with searching for answers to those tricky questions and quizzes and some advice on avoiding the pitfalls that scammers would like us all to fall into. And finally there is some help for those who want to enter Internet comps but find it all simply takes too long……