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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.

Thanks. Tried it. I opened about 10 surveys and didn't qualify for one! Another half hour wasted.

@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

Yes, a small win but still a win. (signed cricket bat)
I also nearly missed a trip I had won and the guy ended up contacting my parents (as my number is silent) and rang me.
It turned out to be the best trip ever! So glad he persevered.
Now I try to be extra vigilant scrolling through my endless e-mails. Probably have missed out on others that I didn't know about.
Ignorance is bliss...LOL
I dislike how some comps only require your e-mail. I think I'd rather be rung up and congratulated over the phone :)

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

Voted for sure

voted :)

Voted

Thank you @fourleaf @Delighted @bj74

Done :)

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

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

VANUATU

thanks!! smalot11

Good luck wolverine, new code BEACH

thanks again smalot11 - I have been watching them via tenplay (I don't get to see them when its on channel 10) and the code words don't seem to get shown watching it this way. Or it might be just me, but I have watched both episodes twice now and still didn't see it.

No worries. Good luck to you. Sounds like a great family holiday.

@wolverine Same here, it doesn't seem to show up some how on the channel. :/

Netrewards always have them listed too

thanks bj74 that's very helpful! (what does bj stand for - I can think of one thing I know it stands for)

@wolverine , lol, get your mind out of the gutter, it's my first/ middle name initials

sorry @bj74 just seeing who's paying attention. Not as much activity on this forum lately.

@wolverine lol, all good. I agree though, it has been pretty quiet on here.

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.

HI. Are you still having this problem?

Sounds good, it's a great thing I reckon :)

great

Happy Dayz!!

sounds great! - a few other ways to collect compbux would be even better

I still don't get your emails

I still don't get your emails

That sounds great thanks

Yeh, looks like incentive stuff admin, I like it :)

Great idea, well done!!

The more bux to help feed the cows....well..the better I say, each point counts, now back to sleep

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

Gold @Brokemaree93!!! :)

Sounds good :)

Last 2 surveys I got were 150 each, go figure!! :)

Hey I would just like a survey that doesn't got for 20 questions & then tells me that I am not quite the person they are looking for.

totally agree with gaseja!!!

I absolutely concur!! :)

I just had 2 that were for 150 then. Both times i got 5 points and was over halfway done with the surveys. The emails i recieve are only 75 points, so i think it might only be 150 points for surveys now and then.

Same here, 2 surveys worth 150 each, heaps of questions than get told I don't qualify, woohoo got 5 points each. This way, It will take years to get enough points to have any sort of cash out. Looking back, in over 12 months I have only qualified for 1 survey and been able to complete it, omg.

Hi there should be some coming through at 150, the 75 points will be bumped to 100. You need to view the survey page for the 150 points ones for now..

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!

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.

We've processed CompBux today. Use the icon on the bottom right of the screen to chat with us if you haven't received anything.

@admin , hey mighty admin, I've submitted my compbux last week( which will help pay for cow feed ) and have noticed you also have not yet seen my love letter of gratitude, mate thanks in advance, helps take our minds off this horrible drought, happy days :)

@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!!!

Exactly the same thing happened to me yesterday!

Don't bother as you will be inundated with call centre people wanting to sell you insurance.

OMG, the same happened to me, what a waste of time. And still offering 75pts if you quality. I thought that amount of points offered for doing surveys was to increase when ditching the leaderboard. Will take forever to get any where now :-(

Hi, No wins.. No survey's.. No points.. No leaderboard.. I wonder.. Is it worth it..

Must admit I wasn't pleased to spend time answering a lot of questions to then be told I didn't qualify. They need to do more work on their screening questions and I guess I will only get a token number of points. Will be seriously reconsidering doing future surveys.

@Di_D I concur :)

If you've had issues with surveys please let us know. Rewards will be increasing soon :)

@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.

With the Eftpos competition currently on here, they're winners about for this month. I think there are at least 4 members that have won already.

Congrats to all the members that have won so far.

It's the competition that just keeps on giving. :)

I won a pair of Volley shoes...

@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. :)

That's something you should ask the administration, I don't think any members would know the answer to that question.

It's a sad day. It was probably one of the things that united all the nice active members. Maybe with any luck, they will bring it back in the future. Good luck with the guessing game.

Without the leaderboard, this website is not the same. Even though I never got first, second, third, fourth or even fifth place at the end of the month, I liked to visit this website daily to see how many daily points I would get. Most of the time was under 5 for some reason :(

I also never won anything with the daily guesses, but I still guessed numbers every day just for the sake of getting 50 points in order to accumulate points for the leaderboard score. Now I can't see the point of doing that either because if the tradition continues, I will never guess the winning number anyway.

I am not sure what other members feel like, but I would like the leaderboard to get back......so there is a reason for me to visit competitions' website every day.

Ascompet - how about for the competitions?? Is that a reason to visit competitions website every day.
Isn't that the whole point of this site, to know/learn about and possibly enter the competitions!

I've won before and never received any payment. Oh well. Probably can't afford to pay members out.

volverine, even I don't have much time as I work 7 days a week, I still like to enter competitions during my coffee time :). But there are so many different websites with listed competitions, and I might be wrong, but having the leader-board was what differentiated Competitions.com.au from other comping websites. And also, created some form of 'daily or regular' compers here - at least in my opinion.

@Ascompet I agree with all that. Member exclusive competitions tend to attract members and keep them active. I have a few regular member exclusive competitions I do. It seems to be my forte/luck picking up a few wins from those this last year.

The leaderboard displayed the most active members and compers and got some great comping buddies from that. They tend to a lot nicer than picking up random social media comping contacts. Yeah, the daily points were something to look forward to an "instant coffee" and pick me up (well some days).

@wolverine Hmm for the quality or number of competitions there's a lot of competition out there from other comp sites. My general opinion there's a bit of delay of at least a few days when most competitions are already well circulated. That at times can crucially affect your chances of winning. For that reason, I don't usually pay that close attention to the competitions posted. Doing the leaderboard at least more likely to notice something interesting I've overlooked.

Eg Has the Eftpos comp been posted? Checking myself I can't see it listed. Entries started March 1st and Eftpos Australia gave a few days notice before it became active for entries. Considering it's enormous prize pool would expect it to be already posted.

For some competitions getting in early before the mass of entries can vastly improve your chances. Plus fully understanding the T&C's helps towards how to maximize your chances or know what's required to potentially pick up a win or two, three......

There's still the guessing game, however, as shown by a lot of winners just do that and don't interact with the rest of site. It did have some attraction with the double guesses related to the leaderboard. Now that even that's lure has gone so it's a lot less attractive to return daily.

The site does have some pluses like it's format, ease of use and the forum for exchanging ideas. The leaderboard encouraged members to return daily and keep active. That in turn, promoted the social aspect to check out the forum. More importantly, it attracted members towards the featured competitions which help the site generate an income. Remember all competitions are about the promoter. :)

@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

Congrats!! Have fun on your holidays :)

Wow! Great wins! Congrats :) Enjoy :)

Oh wow, massive congrats on the travel package, enjoy. Hope you get heaps more wins.

Congratulation on your wins :)

Awesome to hear!. I hope you don't mind us posting this on our Facebook wall :D

Congrats!!

Fantastic! Congratulations!

Congratulations and well done! That is amazing ????

Those ? Were supposed to be smiley faces :) :)

Congratulations

wow Cindy, what a winner of prizes, well done. whats your secret ? pretty amazing wins.

I am green with envy! :-) I have not won even a brass razoo after years of trying! Boo hoo (please bring on the violinist)

:(

RIP leaderboard. :(

Which will also mean no more double guesses. :( Not much to keep coming back for.

Hmm and the really bad news to cash out without losing any compbux in the exchange rates at $100, well you need a lot of valid surveys or get lucky on the guessing game a couple of times. If you got a bit of spare Compbux you should be able to exchange for $50. Guess will remove the site from the bookmark bar.

Being in points section on the leaderboard once in the last year, won't make a lot of difference to me.

Click link and will take you to the album of entries and hers should pop up. It's a Dragon drawing. Thank you.Please let me know if the link isn't working.

Good Luck :)

Done

Liked, great drawing :)

Done :)

@Smalot11 @fourleaf @Di_D @JoLee Thank you :) I appreciate you taking the time to vote. Cheers :)

Thank you everyone :)

Mad pic good luck:)

I'm a long time dragon supporter, she got my vote. Wishing your daughter good luck

@Try2win @FARMERTYSON Thank you for voting :)

Awesome work!

@Brookemaree93 Thank you :)

You had me at washing machine. :)
That's been around since I think last year. Good luck

Apparently any code is valid :)
4th was LION
5th was ELEPHANT

Good luck

@SunnyLife you read my mind, I was just about to ask the same thing. Thanks @Smalot11 :)

Thanks so much. :)

Were there any code words for this week? I'm sure my local T.V station does not put them up even though we are eligible to enter.

@SunnyLife The codeword comp is over :( but there is still a car giveaway on TenPlay that you don't need a codeword to enter. Good luck.

@Smalot11 Thanks :)