Well done i did that for foo fighter tickets a few years back. Congrats!

How wonderful - you've actually won something. I've been entering competitions here for years and not even a tram ticket! :-) The only reward I have is an email account with 500 spam message daily.

Can someone tell me about the Tax angle if one should ever be in a position to win an overseas holiday. I am an old-age pensioner - so a tax bill would mean I'd probably have to sell the house.

https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Income-and-deductions/Income-you-must-declare/Amounts-not-included-as-income/

Right down the bottom

Congrats

nice win!

Congratulations

We're still keeping it on, but there will be a 2 week delay.. PayPal processing can be all too time consuming and an accounting nightmare and hard on fees esp with NZD (We're in NZ also).

Congratulations.

Happy days!

Nice win

I am winning bits and pieces sporadically ,will always enter comps, can't stop now,the bug is alive and well, and once you taste that winning wine,it's addictive, good luck everyone,@surferboy,your a great example as to what can happen....and happen and happen again,and again, lol

Cheers Trevsta. same as you I'll just keep going and going :)

Never. Stopping either mate. Can't stop now, come too far!!!!

Hi @Donald4564,

If you're screened out right away it could be a number of things including the quota for the survey being full. Surveys need X participants and if they are met they will close the survey off. It's important to attempt the surveys as they are sent when possible.

Admin.

They must close them before they send out the email asking you to participate! That's all I can say.

@Donald4564 playing game & activity give you quiet alot points and filling out poll etc

with the survey your points do not show for a few hours i read

pretty easy to gain points and get prizes with it

Happy Days. ??

Yes! Don't you just hate it when you've waited 5 minutes for a survey to open up, then answered about 25 questions only to be told that you are screened out or the quota's been filled? This morning I had 5 surveys in my box. I didn't qualify for any of them but managed to waste over half an hour on them. Really, saving up a trickle of points for over 9 months or so for the possibility of getting $20 is just not worth it!

I love (not) the survey that ask if you about your Business Role - starting from CEO or CFO down to Managing Director or ones that ask your Household Income starting at $150,000. Do the survey companies really think these types of people have time or inclination to do survey to make a living? Ha

I have two email addresses: one personal; one only for comps. Every few days I do a search on Keywords like congrats; congratulations; winner to see if there is something I have won that I need to respond to.

That's a great idea!

I usually do that though a lot of spam e-mails I have noticed start with "Congratulations" to hook you in believing that you have won something when you have not, just for you to send back your details...lol

Done :)

Voted. Sorry I've been quiet lately on the comping. Good luck :)

Its been very very quiet indeed . full stop. period!!

Another vote

@Di_D thanks

@fourleaf thanks

Very quiet *hears cricks* :)

@Smalot11 And it's not even cricket season. :)

@Lemond :) haha hope you have had some wins lately

Same, and just got 1st survey in a while, but was terminated after a couple of questions, got 5pts for that.

Nah, don't think so, yeh nah

@admin I don't think this topic has anything to do with comps

HI. Are you still having this problem?

@FARMER-TYSON , don't you mean back to sheep? Couldn't help myself :) lol

Gold @Brokemaree93!!! :)

Sounds good :)

started a 150 point survey now, go to 11% did not qualify, not even 5 points!!!

started a 150 point survey now, go to 11% did not qualify, not even 5 points!!!

That's not so bad @flowerpower98 I have had many times when I have been at 70-90% and then told I did not qualify, getting no points as well!

Bula

Thanks

Go into the survey section on top of page and it will show you your 5000 compbux, but I am sure you need like 5200 to redeem 50 but for 3400 you can redeem 30, see how u go :)

The only section you could do that on this site is in this forum. Some other comping sites let you post direct. :)

You need to go to your Settings which can be found on the far RHS up the top with the arrow pointing down. If you want EVERYONE to read you comment change this to PUBLIC. If you only want the Public to read one of your posts, you need to change the arrow on bottom RHS from FRIENDS to PUBLIC. But fb are tricky, because you will still need to go back into Settings again and change back from Public to Friends.

It's not a post on my page it's a comment on a business page

Facebook been doing some strange things of late, could it, for some reason, be marking your comment as spam? I know this has been happening to some friends over the last month or two, and the public can not see the friends comment.

I'd like to know too. I've just been entering normally. Every time I go to enter the code word is eggs-husted.
Probably won't win, but you never know.

I am still looking three Easter ?? eggs, make me crazy...., please , thank you

lmao. Yeah it's a bit of a brain teaser it went very quick last week.

@FARMERTYSON Love your style, humble words, good luck mate!!!

I've never been paid, even though I've sent emails. I gave up. :(

I am sure admin will be obviously reading these posts and hopefully honour the compbux redeemed, I mean who will do surveys ect. If people are not being paid. I am reluctant to do any if rewards are not being honoured. I will sit back and wait and see what happens!! Happy comping fellow compers!!!

@admin what about issues with compbux not being paid? Seems to be a few of them, I don't have much incentive to do them if this is the case, I say this with respect and no malice as I really do appreciate the opportunities on this site :)

I won the guessing game and have received nothing, What's the deal

I am just about at that point where I will ditch surveys. It seems most of them are run by shysters who ask a lot of questions and then get out of paying the surveyed for their time by telling them they don't qualify. I like it when too when I go to a survey and then before I get a chance to do anything - I am told I don't qualify - how would they know if I ain't answered one single question? Then - there is the reward. What are the average pay rates in Oz per hour these days? Surely more than 75c (or its equivalent in points). My only hope is that I might still be alive to be able to redeem my points after about 35 years.

lmao. For this week it's now exhausted bonus entries for the codeword. They also have an Instagram and Youtube account. No. No. No idea what it was.

Well done!

Awesome!! :)

Awesome win!

@onsmoko Congrats. :)

Win something? Ha! What are the odds? About ten trillion to one I would venture.

What members still using the site. :)

Lemond nice win there mate!

@surferboy83 Thanks. That's the 2nd time in about a month won the Loot League. Considering around 350 participants each week I must be doing something right. :)

@lemond Might not be the place to mention this, but can you recommend any other good comp sites?

@wolverine Will start with Ozbargain. I post a few on occasions. Usually, around 20+ competitions a day are posted most times ASAP. Its' disadvantage would be it's based on the voluntary posting by members. Thankfully there some dedicated members.

They're a few others eg Lottos site which is paid. I don't like the format of that site. It looks like something out of the stone age. Considering members pay they could direct some funds towards a renovation. I don't use the site. There's a couple of other paid ones I can't recall off the top of my head. Personally, I wouldn't pay for any of them.

Freebies.com http://signup.freebies.com/global/refer?refer=196236 my referral gives extra points for the member exclusive comp and its monthly leaderboard. Lately, I not trying hard for that. I play it strategically once in a while. I'm saving up points for a month down the track after a top 10 mid last year. That has some Aussie comps there. I don't pay close attention to those. I.e. too many sources of comps.

That's a small list Ozbargain probably the best of the lot. They also have sections for freebies worth checking out regularly.

For FB competitions keeping a rough eye on what's circulating. FB is where most probably finding competitions. I.e. most promoters will post competitions there. From there they circulate about.
You could do the same for other social media. That process can be bit more legwork. There are pros and cons for all comp sites. If it's listed means it's probably well circulated. In January most of my wins were from "off-radar" comps with relatively low entry. (less than 50). This year I've generally changed tactic and on occasions focus more on those more likely to win.

There are tons more including international sites I used to regularly check. It's too exhausting to regularly check them. Some automation might solve that one day.
I've just resumed working on that. It helps now that I've got decent PC. It's slow and steady process. Somewhere in my bookmarks probably got dozens to potentially thousands of regular locations could be keeping an eye out. Argh, my bookmarks are extensive and have a life of there own. A rightful mess.

That what was mainly working on for "few" months last year. Not just the interface to help manage what I've entered but a system to help collate competitions to enter. If really trying to keep on the ball for competitions of interest it's a lot of legwork checking various regular locations. Potentially could do things like highlight "off-radar" competitions worth entering, that's if they stay that way. Also, things like reminders for daily entries or store my creative entries for future inspiration. Gee I've got a lot of ideas on the back burner. At the moment getting core things required down pat.

I'll have to properly go through my bookmarks to see what decent sites/links I've accumulated. Some I might have got around to putting into a database which potentially could be integrated.

@Lemond and @Volverine, maybe it is worth to mention that Ozbargain's members also use their referral links to gain bonus points when entering competitions. In my opinion, that also create some sort of comping community there

Thanks for removing additional posts @admin