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Message MadMex and ask them to change it if possible. I'm sure a company as big as them would allow some changes!

@kaybee72, same thing happened to me last year. It is disappointing. I won a $500 travel voucher last year through a local newspaper. Here I was thinking of a nice weekend getaway but when I went to the travel agent's website, the cheapest getaway was a trip to NZ worth over $2000. It was more a 25% discount, ok , but I didn't want to spend the extra. I couldn't even spend it on airfares. I politely declined. Hope life is treating you well :)

@Comp_chick I suppose it doesn't hurt to ask. I will give it a try.

@fourleaf That would have been disappointing. Life is good. I have been too busy to do much comping lately but trying to get back into it. :)

Most travel giveaways are pretty sly and more of a "discount" if that. If your lucky you might find someone sympathetic to the wriggle around T&C's. Generally travel giveaways are a con, aimed not at those who can't afford travelling and baiting those who can. (Unless they are also throwing in substantial cash to cover any expenses)

I wouldn't be surprised if the travel "giveaways" actually costs them a cent. They may be getting commissions from airlines and/or resorts you organize the voucher with.

no i entered

No, but I didn't enter as I don't want to be bombarded with phone calls from them wanting me to change electricity/gas providers.

Lovely, Di_D. Congratulations on the publication. :)

Congratulations, I voted for that one

U should be very proud, I am all for it :)

Congratulations @Di_D, a worthy cause.

Congrats :)

Thank you!

Congrats :)

@Patloveswinning, are any of your social media accounts set to private? Perhaps the entry is not showing (and perhaps not 'entered' as such) if the account/s not set to public. Just a thought. Is there a pattern to those entry tasks that do show each time, and those that don't? For example, when you click on subscribe to the promoter's YouTube channel, do you then click on 'Subscribe' on the channel and confirm the subscription? Hoping someone else here has a solution for you. @admin @Zedmin any thoughts?

Delete your cookies and click on that edit thing and un link everything and then log out and then log in and then re link everything
There you go!
Then have a few slices of pizza
Thank you I know I'm supreme

You need to click on the blue +1 sections etc for each entry. They turn from green to blue when you've clicked on them and validated each. See my photo for an example :)

Oh a Gleam comp. :)
I've been having lots of fun automatically extracting Gleam comp details for my database to store when it starts, ends, has daily bonus, referral, comp title etc etc.

Gleam giveaways are one common entry management system used by promoters there are many others. The appearance is what you will usually see displayed for the pic you posted.

Notes regarding Gleam giveaways
ONCE a social media account is used for entry of a gleam comp it can be difficult to change later on. They store all your social media accounts used for entry for ALL previously entered gleam run giveaways. If a social media account becomes banned/disabled/deleted you won't be able to use that entry method until rectified. I think there's a process of emailing gleam.io to change a social media account used if you require changing a social media account. (it's not something you want to do often if at all)

What @Bel7861 mentioned entry actions are performed by selecting the options on the right. They may also require a confirmation selection provided. ie. next to the Cancel Option that pops up below the entry method. The confirmation is usually grayed out and can't selected until you have selected the entry method on the right.

Entry methods may load up a webpage to visit and/or complete a task. Once done switch back to the Gleam entry form to confirm that entry method.
NOTE don't refresh the Gleam entry page in the meanwhile before selecting the confirm entry option which now should be highlighted and available for clicking on.

Some actions are done automatically like sending a tweet entry, following on Twitter/Instagram thou not always. Sometimes presented with I've already tweeted to confirm the action etc.

Sometimes I double check to make sure the action was performed correctly. Say if clicked on an entry method and it's awarded before actually completing it. YouTube subscriptions I find this happens sometimes. To check either hover the mouse just above the entry method description to bring up the link and select or copy into a new page. If a link isn't provided you either need to check your internet history or dive into the Gleam page source to find the link. i.e. search the page for say "Youtube" etc until you recognize what it maybe. (that's not for the faint hearted thou not too hard)

Apart from not being awarded an entry method being disqualified for being awarded entries for tasks not completed properly can be just as frustrating.

Your issue may be one of the following:

*Social media account hasn't set authorization for the Gleam App
The first time you use a Gleam comp with a social media account authorization may be required by that social media eg Twitter. You can see the list of authorized apps in twitter settings. Sometimes authorization is requested again. For other giveaway management systems eg Raftercopter forms same applies. Twitter must allow it to access your account details.

*Social media account set to private.
-Gleam confirms entry for most entry actions performed
-I don't think it checks YouTube subscriptions thou when they draw they will check action is completed for a valid entry.

*Social media is temporary suspended/banned
Will need to reactivate the account according to their procedures.
Grr twitter disabling me couple of weeks ago for "automatic" tweets then delaying the SMS code for reactivation. Lesson stagger your gleam comps/tweets throughout the day.

*Gleam has suspended/banned your account
They may flag users as banned for any suspicious activity. i.e. Attempts to cheat the system. eg automatic scripts for entry have caused users to be sin binned for a period. Also covers fake social media accounts etc they detect.

I can't confirm regarding if clearing cookies may help your issue. I haven't checked what they store in the form of cookies. Easiest way try entry on another device. Gleam store all your social media accounts used for previously entered Gleam run giveaways.

I find that information handy for other entry forms used eg Raftercopter ones that want you to type/paste in your social media details and can't remember what the EXACT details are. Your social media account details used can be found in the source code of any Gleam comp. Thou you may not necessarily want to use the same ones.

One hint to find your issue may be to open any gleam comp and open the source code to check what social media is registered with them.
*Right click on a gleam page select view source and search for "initContestant" the following data is all the details for your entry methods registered with them, including things like is your account with Gleam banned.

Hope something there helps. Good luck.

PS if anyone knows if the setting for what timezone/region a gleam giveaway is hosted in the source page it would be appreciated.
I think that information isn't provided. The timezone_offset setting reflects when a giveaway ends. I.e. it doesn't allow of changes for Daylight Savings since it started. I.e. Need to work out the current UTC time for where it's hosted and compare to my pc settings in UTC time. Then use all that for calculating when the daily bonus is due.

I know ONCE entered you get a confirmation email which displays the host timezone/region. Hoping to find some indication before entering so can do that automatically. What I've done works it out with a discrepancy when giveaways start and end either side of Daylight Saving where it's hosted. Later on will work on that "feature".

Got ideas to narrow it down eg if timezone is UTC -5 hours for a given date would give list of timezone/regions that fit. i.e. Maybe northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere timezone/regions.

If obtained a list of gleam comps and their details in batches then can prioritize for entry if interested in the giveaway of course.

It would be handy for what I've done for a rolling 24 hour countdown timer for daily bonus entries. :)

So for the database developing, apart from managing what I've entered, including daily bonuses I'm setting up automatic retrieval of giveaways, starting with the Gleam ones :)

So far implement data entry form and adhoc retrieval of Gleam comps details given it's URL which does all the data entry. Like bookmarking copy the link in hit get details and presto! Tagged and bagged. Lets me know in my local date/time when it ends and when daily bonus are due.

Currently working on summary lists in order or daily bonus expiry at the time of request. Working fairly well excluding the discrepancy of Daylight Saving at the host timezone region allocated.

One major reason for doing a database was help manage these pesky daily entries. So far this month I'm managing around 70 per day to do over numerous timezone/regions. Oh the fun . lmao. Well it is now that got then presented a ordered summary list. :)

@Lemond I got a migraine reading this

me too!!

Lemond for President!! Mate you should seriously have your own blog for trouble shooting! Your information is accurate and helpful although I cheated and had a disprin before I read the comments lol

@Trevsta lol. Yeh been delving into the inner workings lately for the Gleam comps. Automatically extracting their details to save on data entry. Aiming to have the database do the leg work finding comps and have their details downloaded while sleeping :) A lot faster having the info local the having to struggle manually waiting for web pages to load etc. Then it helps organise/prioriste which to do first for the day, I.e how long I got to do the daily bonus etc. Same applies to other entry methods. Booking while helps doesn't remind you to check back automatically.

Some note worthy things regarding Gleams comps are more then just a simple entry form! I.e system for promoters to manage giveaways with checks in place.

Their major disadvantage you can be locked into that social media account. So apart from first get yourself a separate email for comping the same might apply for your personal social media accounts.

Thanks for your help everyone. I'll try some of these methods and see what happens.

Thanks for all your help guys. I contacted Gleam directly and they were a bit bewildered by it themselves, but were very helpful. It seems to be a glitch with Firefox. I disable my plugins but still no luck, so I just installed Chrome and it seems to work fine using another browser.

@Patloveswinning :) Yeh first thing I would tried switch browsers and/or devices. Did you try reinstall Firefox?

I'm not sure regarding Firefox if it has compatibility modes like MS Explorer. Webpages have instructions which browsers and versions are compatible for best viewing a webpage properly.

I don't use firefox with the Gleam comps. I usually use Chrome one major reason that's where I've got all the passwords saved for the social media accounts. I have about 6 different internet browsers installed and usually switch between Chrome and MS Internet Explorer 11/Edge. It can be handy in a crunch to just switch browsers. Come across some stubborn entry forms where submit buttons wouldn't display etc. It's a lot easier to just switch browsers and try again, then to work out the issue. Could be anything from incompatible browsers to a plug-in causing issues.

I did encounter a similar problem last week with not being able to display a Gleam giveaway properly. I wouldn't show past the top half of the entry form. This occurred when I was using a webcontrol I've embedded in a form using MS Access for the database managing my comps . That issue occurred when I attempted to force the webcontrol to use the MS Edge browser engine via registry settings. Gleam comps displayed fine in a external MS Edge browser. It could of been I've used the incorrect registry setting to force it to use the MS edge browser engine. I reverted to using Internet Explorer 11. Slight pain as opening another browser consumes my valuable 2 GB of PC memory.

Anyone attempting to use webcontrols within an application you will need to know how to change the default MS setting of using the Internet Explorer 7 engine. God like that's compatible with most sites theses days. Not!

(See registry settings)
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patricka/2015/01/12/controlling-webbrowser-control-compatibility/

Note: With the webcontrol that's provided with MS Access and other MS software development environments, it only allows you to use Edge/Internet Explorer engines.
So I've had to add social media accounts and various website like this one into the password lists for Internet Explorer. Grr had to reset my password. Who can ever remember them all for the zillion different sites.

Anyone curious may notice some applications installed with their own registry settings in those locations to force which MS browser engine to use by default. Must be set correctly to use what version of Internet Explorer you have installed to work!

***Warning don't go playing around changing registry settings unless know exactly what you're doing. :) ****

Anyone that prefers using say MS Excel to manage their competitions might find a webcontrol handy. The reason I embedded one on a form in MS Access was to save on flicking between it and a webpage when selecting daily bonus entries. I.e. I've set up click on a competitions description and display the webpage. I've also provided the option to display in external webpage for some giveaways which have videos to watch. :)

Spam Pizza there u go for an idea lol

Congrats their casting your double for the movie :)

@Lemond thank goodness for that. Red (carpet) does not go with my flesh tone at all! ;)

Well done!!

On a roll! Congrats

Another one for the "Trophy Room"

Congratulations!

$100 Gift Card is up for grabs!

OR in Sydney

gah.... Adelaide never gets anything!! lol

@shtooff Would you been interested should the opportunity arise?

@admin Morning.
Word has it successful compers don't get out of bed for less then $500. What you think @toxicgherkin? :)

@admin probably! Though, I've not had many good wins lately so it's probably not good timing for me :)

@Lemond $500 sounds alright!! :D

@Lemond, post that on Airtasker, and I'll consider a reply... my offer includes Airtasker fee, naturally! ;)

@Lemond I work for peanuts!

I won one of the comps as well (the guessing game). I don't have a Paypal account either as mine got hacked too. I asked if I could get my payment some other way and alas...no reply :( would be good if I could have received a cheque as well (seeing you did) Good Luck

@gemini69 Thanks but it was a few years ago now and I dont think it will happen again, seems they make a habit of ignoring their emails now too. I will just have to not bother with their site any longer and try others there are plenty available.

When I won the guessing game years ago, they just direct debited into my bank account

I wish they would increase the pension

Well I have still not heard from this site about my rewards, so rude and so careless of their clients too. As I dont seem to be the only one they do this to I am too fed p so am going to resign from the site. As all the competitions they put up are available online anyway I will not be missing much. Sites such as Mindfood and Beautyheaven all have loads of competitions so I will just go there. All I can say to people is if they do this to you too then do as I am doing and leave them .

@shaper Sent you an email.

@shaper I gave up on Mindfood and Beautyheaven a long time ago. Never won anything from Mindfood and BeautyHeaven it seems to give the 'wins' to long standing loyal members all the time. So pfft.

@gemini69 I've won from both Mindfood and BeautyHeaven. Random wins and def not a loyal member. Keep at it :D

@shtooff don't win from either of those sites ... still waiting for a nice win... it's been months since my last movie tix win

@gemini69 Really? I love both of these sites. Just received a delivery from Beautyheaven today in fact. I've one twice with Mindfood in two years. I wouldn't give up. Stick with my favourite say "Pain & Persistence lessens Resistance".

@gaseja that's O.K, I'm not into pain, so I'll let you have that. I have so many beauty products that I have won over the years that I need to use them up before their expiry dates anyway.

I haven't won a 2nd Chance Draw but I did create one last year or maybe even a 3rd Chance Draw when Cosmo magazine rang me asking for a copy of my receipt for a purchase of a product. It was 3 months after the draw should have taken place. I had to admit I couldn't find it and they should contact someone else.

Damn! Gotta keep those receipts!

@ pjfawkes Wow unusual to hear of that issue. :( Guess try messaging or @admin.

Thanks. I tried messaging and still got no response whatsoever. It's really sad, because unless my daily points tomorrow are really terrible I'm pretty sure based on the leaderboard that I would finish the month in the top 3 if I could just get my birthday points.

@admin x fingers will look into it for you by tomorrow and fix that up :)

sorry I've distracted adding in features for my database to save on data entry. Ie just completed extact from a gleam comp link its details into a database. No more copy and pasting those. Now to do that on mass automatically while I sleep. Save me trawling for those each day.
It's painful on my pc using a browser search for dozen comps to enter to have it crash and forget what comps was about to enter.
Then have it sort list by priority ie what time daily bonus or ending. That already done for managing daily bonus entries. On that note must check Aussie comps with daily entry before midnight. One button shows me comps entered daily entries to do. :)

Birthday points will be awarded tonight.. there have been issues during the month and we are looking to fix the problem for next month. Updates to come.

Thank you for getting back to me. I just really wasn't sure what was going on after I didn't hear back, especially as we got so close to the end of the month. I appreciate you looking into it.

@pjfawkes Congrats. :)

I just do them as they come, 25 wols and all!!
Check emails & fb notification for wins, that's it!

Sann-oh, I also use your system...check emails....check facebook. I on occasions feel I should be more organised but life gets in the way

Put the question another angle what features you like the most about comping sites or what do feel they lack.

With a bit of thinking and discussion of what works or doesn't for managing the entry of giveaways, easier ways of doing things maybe found. Then with a touch of "hard work" easier solutions can be developed or existing solutions found.

It's fine if doing the occasional giveaway once in a blue-moon to use a pieces of paper as reminders. Facebook notifications/emails work to a point but who wants to be constantly checking. You've can also have twitter, Instagram, YouTube etc notifications of drawn results.

What if could be done automatically and condensed and the notifications highlighted that are directly relevant to the giveaway entered. Then presented in an organised manner to save time for more fun things. :)

What I'm investigating is combining notifications on various social media and emails into a database to condense and present in an organised manner to help make things simpler and easier. From storing your creative responses to reminders when giveaways have ended or drawn.

Competitions sites makes finding them a lot easier but most don't manage well what competitions you have entered for checking back. I.e. your most likely using multiple sources and entry methods for giveaways. If doing a half a dozen comps each day by the end of the month you got 180 giveaways to check back on. If only 1 minute manually spent checking back to each link that's three hours per month!

I don't a have problem finding giveaways, it's sorting through numerous sources then checking back. Why bother wasting time entering if not organised for checking back etc.

There are many ways to save time from auto entry of your details and clever email filters to put into separate folders. Even storing your creative responses for later use.

A database just brings it all together with more powerful tools to organise to make things simpler. Eg this site runs on a database to present giveaways in a "simpler" format which probably take for granted.

What if could cross check what you had entered with your emails to help identify wins verses what is spam! Or automatically remind you a Facebook giveaway has been drawn and a winner announced without having to trawl through Facebook notifications, which are only display for the last couple of days.

@gemini69 There you go with a bit of hard work you can make your own lights to see in the dark!

Part of the design phase is to analyse and anticipate what tools/features might be useful, combined with feedback what issue compers have to find easier methods for doing things. :)

@sann-oh Checking emails and notifications is fine until you get a flood of them from all social media, like during the Christmas period. I noticed a lot of compers seemed "frustrated" during that period with the overwhelming notifications. Also some promoters can be slow at drawing a winner.

Generally I don't bother with checking notifications on various social media and send then all to a separate email folders. Then just filter for keywords eg win/winner/won/congrat etc. It's not a foolproof method if they post using a picture.

Notifications can be easily missed and lost. I also use bookmarks for checking back thou that relies on labeling them end dates for sorting and checking back manually. One of the many ideas will look into is combining with a database notifications of giveaways entered and cross checking with the emailed notifications. Which will notify that the promoter has posted and expecting a winner to have been announced.

Possible could automatically the winner details from their post excluding if winner is notified using a video/pic.

@gemini69 And the discussion was to get members thinking how to make comping easier. If got something constructive to discuss regarding that feel free to contribute. :)

You never know the admin might take up some of the ideas for this site.

I wonder if anyone has noticed their recent hard work adding a notes section under each giveaway on the main page.

@pizzaman Glad you read it all. :) Any suggestions?

@gaseja, my inbox is flooded with this type of offer. From what I've read about these promotions, they have nothing to do with Woolworths, Coles, Aldi or any grocery outlet. It's all about getting you to confirm your details. Once you give your mobile phone number ( so they can 'contact' you - yeah, right), you end up subscribed to a SMS service where they spam your mobile phone, and you pay for that! Upwards of $5 per SMS received. You have to opt out if you want to avoid further charges. Absolute rort. Thankful that your ... computer said no!

You can always tell the real competitions from the scam ones. I try to unsubscribe from them, but does not always work. Least they go to the junk folder. I think there is one going around from Qantas and Virgin as well. As if Qantas and Virgin would be giving away travel vouchers.

I unsubscribed and it only made it worse.
I been getting emails at 4am every 3 hours until 1am

@gemini69 Like Comp_chick mentioned if it's a scam unsubscribing can be act like confirmation of your email. Why keeping track of competitions entered either mentally or various methods can help. If you don't recognize the promoter advice to bin it. Thou I have received emails for legit wins that confused me as they didn't match the giveaway and didn't explain exactly what it was for etc. In that case you can generally tell when it's a mass scam/spam emails as usually have that generic feel about them.

Regarding what ends up in the junk folder, argh it's not consistent I've got a tug of war between what things I'd like to keep and what goes to the junk. It's more likely wins go to the Junk folder and spam ends up in the inbox.
I'm wishing I kept list of who exactly I've subscribed to etc . I should add that to the database functionality I'm developing for comping.

UPDATE: I have discovered it you type in the bit.ly address and then add x+ to it, it shows you the fully URL. It turns out this one is from SweepOn. Go glad I didn't press on it. @Comp_chick Yes I agree it does make it worse, that is why I have set up Rules in my email so that these go straight to my Junk box.

Lovely. Welcome back, jennye.

what a lovely welcome back prize!
Welcome back! :D

Congratulations, Happy Valentines Day,
good to see you back :)

Welcome back , it has been a long time

Congrats!!

Congratulations ! That's a lovely prize :)

very excited for you! I want to win money!!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations

That's a nice win. Congrats

Nice win mate!

I remember reading your answer and I thought it was great. Congratulations !

Gold Coast

I'm Pizzaman and I'm from Domino's

@pizzaman Hawaiian please 😂😂

hell... otherwise known as Adelaide....

@smallot11 I am the Godfather, I reign Supreme and I am a meatlover. I do not take pizza orders from anyone
Thank you

Melbourne here, and bracing for another hot one. @shtooff, I feel for SA at the moment. Unbearable weather. Thankfully tempered a bit by the time it reaches VIC. Hydrate!!!

Hopefully Sydney sends you guys some rain , saw it's going to be 40 plus in SA today, as you say keep your fluids up @toxicgherkin

SA here also.
Yeh I think we got to 42 yesterday, probably the same today. No relief until Sunday. I personally think there should be a ban on hot weather!!

Sorry about the weather report. Wasn't Smalot11's question where is everyone from?

Brisbane :)

Looking forward to Monday

@Mandi_22 Used to live at Rochedale :)

@Npas We are almost neighbours, congrats on currently sitting at #1

@Smalot11 maybe its my turn to win the leaderboard this month with the birthday points lol I live in Holland Park!

Sydney here...

Novacastrian.....Newcastle!!!

Spread right around Australia I see, good to get to 'know' you all a bit better.

@shtooff, sorry to hear you've been unwell. Rest up.

thanks @toxicgherkin
it's back to work today though, so no more rest for me :(

Get well soon

thanks @Smalot11

I won 3 holidays from tenplay

Wow! Well done Comp_chick. That gives me renewed hope. I have read in some T&Cs including Tenplay that a winner can only win once.

Yip pretty sure that's a new term in the t & c's now with the channel 10 competitions which is good

Some competitions state one win for a certain period, ie one win in a 12 month period (for example)

I'm not sure I could remember everyone I've won a competition from. It's not unusual for me to win a competition I can't remember entering.

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:( they very low

@purplesp8y, I've certainly experienced that along the way, especially so last month, after my NYE birthday points got me over the line for the December competition. Come 1st January, and points were meagre, from that point on, generally. Somehow I still managed to list amongst the Top 20 by month's end, so there's hope! I'm hopeful it's just the random allocation of points, and you seem to be having a bad run. I'd hate to think it was anything other than that, though I have noticed (in the past) newcomers tend to score 'well' on the daily points tally....CHAOS reigns...? ;)

Surprise surprise 1 point today taking me to 16 for 7 days, I'm at least 34 daily points behind some of the leaders

I don't

He's off winning, good luck to him!

Welcome back, Bryn. Waves! ;)

Cheers mate ⬆@toxicgherkin! Great to be back :)

Question mark was ment to be an arrow. Haha

Welcome back

Bj74 thankyou!!

Cheers Mandi_22

Hey mate, sounds like u had an adventure I reckon, Good luck, Happy Dayz no matter what :)

Happy days for sure mate @ Trevsta!

Time flies, welcome back! and here's to lots of wins :)

I already won three holidays

you will get an email. make sure to check your junk folder :) congrats

Ok I will check thanks

Congrats on the win!!

@IWANTTOWINBIG, you should have already heard. I understand it's an automated notification. Congratulations.

Congratulations :)

Thanks :) yes email was in my junk folder.

How do I turn my pic around the right way ??

@IWANTTOWINBIG Just import your pic into a program like paint. It has options to rotate your pictures 180 degrees. Then save to a new file and upload. Or just right click and save your pic I posted the right way up.

That's a lot better angle :)

Well it mustn't have been me then. :(

I've got my fingers crossed that they're being slow...... ;)

I did see on another comping page that someone's relative won one of the trips

Thanks bj74 :)

yeah i have

never

ooooo @Mamma that's exciting! Good to know someone has won in sweepstakes. What did you win? How did they notify you?

Nope

@shtooff i won a bluray dvd player, this was ages ago when i did win a few years ago now, and won $100 cheque

@Mamma... I wouldn't mind a $100 cheque.
Was it email notification?

@shtooff yes it was via email. good luck.

Yay!

What's Olga
I think I missed this comp

@shtooff, I received Season 2 yesterday, without corresponding to supplier or promoter (Nerdalicious). Double win! Yay. Couch reserved for some viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

@toxicgherkin I'm very excited to have both seasons... looking forward to spending the next week on the couch... oh wait... that's right... kids...

... i think it will take me a good year or so to be able to watch it all! lol

@Comp_chick
Olga is the contact person from a Nerdalicious comp we both won but didn't get the prize for and then got the wrong prize. Now we have both prizes :)

Love it :)

It's the final chase, good luck

It's a shout out to all my psychos who been harassing me for more than 2 years now.

@Donald4564, yes I've seen many people in rural areas win especially in national and state comps. From what I've seen small businesses, local businesses and shopping centres tend to give prizes away locally unless they're trying to market an online ordering business in some way. There are exceptions though which is why I like to apply the "80/20" rule to anything to do with comping.... Lol :)

Yes rural residents do win. It probably seems like capital cities win most times, and they probably do as that's where the highest population of people reside.

I LOL at "get the eye roll way too many times." I had a friend say that I win too much stuff. I only enter comps for things that I will use so not sure what she was talking about.

The checkout operator stares at you a little strangely when you say you want separate receipts for 15 packets of gummy bears.....
Your handbag is full of paper, mountains of it, new and old receipts and half written 25wol answers that came to you while waiting in the queue (see above)

@fourleaf Nah my favorite checkout operators all know too well :)

When you become a psycho and make up shit about other people

Never had this happen, but I would complain about it if it did. I would keep going until I was satisfied with the outcome, You have paid (presumably) or someone has, for a service. You have every right to get what has been paid for to your satisfaction

I have mine sent to the post office to get collected. Sounds like a really lazy postie.

I have the most awesome AusPost contractor. I know him by name. Always polite. Happy to have a quick chat. When I'm not home he delivers my parcels behind my pool fence just behind a wall. Now that's service!

Yeh, I have a great courier driver, and the postie is generally good, but the aus post parcel delivery guy sucks!

my postie comes to my door on his motorbike and we have a secret hidey place or if its a big parcel he leaves it with my neighbor he's awesome

I used to have an awesome postie :(

No never. It would be nice to win something from that site though.

@gemini69 agreed! :D

Do you have to be a Foxtel subscriber to be a winner?

i have no idea. I would say that they wouldn't give you a choice to enter if you had to be...

i won a holiday from them

@newbie_1 Are you a Foxtel subscriber?

Yes, I have won several prizes from them, year or so ago now, you get a winning email. I'm pretty sure you can check their website for the winners. They seem to have changed some of their rules and now for some of the comps you need to be a Foxtel subscriber, so rules me out.

@shtooff You aren't going to believe this but I actually won something this week. I first received an email from Lifestyle & then from the Supplier of Prize. So don't give up. It has taken me about 12mths to win something.

hey! That's so awesome @gaseja! Well done!
What did you win?

A dress. It hasn't arrived yet because the Bruce Highway is flooded.

@Trevsta Happy Birthday :)
https://youtu.be/AY5n7_tazHk

Happy Birthday Trevsta, hope your well :)

Happy Birthday :)

Happy B day Trevsta man!

Happy Birthday mate..

Thank you all, good to be alive, cheers Brooke Maree,all clear !! Good luck!!

Happy Belated Birthday @trevsta. Glad you are all well. Good luck

Thank you@JulieD , every year is a bonus and for me nowadays every day is a bonus, good luck :)

@Trevsta, we all have your back. We may be separated by distance, and by certain familiarity but you're one of ours', and I, for one, wouldn't have it any other way. Love you, mate. Here for you. Now, get a move on, and WIN! :)

Cheers buddy, made my day, been battling a bit but hey, i live in Oz,good head start i reckon Trevsta

@Trevsta , can I type here?... *effing oath! ;)

Too bloody rite m8!!! Good luck my friend!!