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My 50 points weren't awarded to my overall monthly points tally for the daily guessing game on the 12/11/16, along with a few others as well, due to site technical error. I contacted you guys on the 12/11/16 but haven't received a response :( There are also a couple of forum posts related to the issue as well. I had the same issue, along with others, two months ago, which was eventually fixed, with add-on points to the 'points breakdown' table, with a heading of 'missed/added guessing game points' to the value of 50 points. Can you kindly reimburse the 50 points for the daily guessing game for myself aka ***, toxicgherkin, anna2077 and whoever else was effected?
Welcome to the forum. Wish it was under better circumstances.
It sounds like they were frustrated with the delayed feedback to some of the various issues with the site. I feel members would like some feedback if there are any issues as soon as possible. A sticky post at the top of the forum would be great. Even just a quick hello and it's being looked into. :)
Agree no one likes being threatened whether it's staff or members and won't be tolerated! The post could of been reworded in a more positive manner, reminding it's a friendly place.
Any ideas what causes the guessing game points issues? As appears intermittent most likely could the client side with say JavaScirpt or their connection failing for whatever reason. I would like to avoid this issue if possible so any advice for members how to avoid it would be appreciated.
Win 2 Tickets to The Ascot Soiree (Food/Drinks), Hair Salon, Eyelashes, Spray Tan, Makeup, Mani/Pedi from The Ascot Soiree The Ascot Soiree (posted 3hrs ago but expired in February 2016)
Plus all the other issue a lot of us have been having over the last 2 weeks ...
@bj74 Submit the issue on the Report Competition option. Found by clicking on the competition icon on the left. This might highlight the issue quicker.
I've Won
| Nerdalicious - Win Defiance Season Two Giveaway!
woooo... first win of the year! (not bad considering I only really got back into it Mid-October!)
Totally missed the notification that I won as it was filtered through to Junk Mail! Check your junk mail guys!! Had to recover deleted items to find the email as I saw in my junk today a follow up email requesting details by TONIGHT!
For your interest it was a Question / Answer comp - not 25WOL
Q. If a closely humanoid alien race did arrive on Earth, after the destruction of their home world, with the promise of all sorts of amazing new technologies, but also the possibility of utterly changing the Earth we know, would you welcome them, or defy them? If so, why?
A. I always like to give people � species � the benefit of the doubt. I could be classed as overly trusting which would make me a prime target to be made an example of by the invading � fleeing � alien race. But until that happens, no extra terrestrial race has ever given me reason to doubt their motives for leaving their own planet to inhabit ours.
Same experience, @shtooff. I saw the reminder prize notification from tonight. Totally missed Friday's email - was still drugged up from surgical anaesthetic of Thursday evening.. :( I've sent my details to Olga! Yay.
@shtoff @toxicgherkin Congratulations. That question sounds very familiar with another competitions seen in the past. True cricket umpire in your answer "give them the benefit of the doubt" :)
Annoying that the emails your looking forward to end up the junk folder and spam is in the inbox. I had the same issue when I won my iPad. The luck is not winning but finding the winning emails when they arrive.
In the subject in your winning notification or email contents, any key words to help develop my rules to find wins. Eg congratulations etc. Getting used to searching all my emails by keywords in hope of finding wins in the haystack of emails.
@Anna2077, cheers. Sore but nothing mild pain relief medication can't handle. Doctors prescribed the 'heavy stuff' also but I want to avoid that if I can. It's way too strong!
@toxicgherkin N1 was trying to post a pic of safe converted into a wine safe/cellar :)
I might need a wine cellar by the end of the week :) Couple of wins last two days XMAS hamper to pick up and package with wines and candles. My first candle win lol.
@shtooff I emailed the comp organiser again today, receiving the response that the winners' list was emailed to the promoter on the 23rd November. Organiser said that the list was sent out then, after having chased up 'the stragglers' (non-responding winners). Organiser is good that way, also saying that '..don't handle the postage, the promoters send them out....If it hasn't turned up in another week or so let me know.' I'll keep tabs on it, and let you know if there's any updates. Hope that helps. I emailed the other mob, where I won another series season, with comp closing on 6th November. Fingers crossed they'll respond. As for the safe...still awaiting a response to my enquiry...
@shtooff, after nil response to my sole email to actual supplier (sent 4 days ago) , I rang the supplier today. The promotion company - Nerdalicious - has been fantastic al lthe way through. Their editor, Olga, had kindly passed on the supplier's contact detail. It was the supplier that had the 'supply issues'. Winners were meant to be emailed about it (from Supplier) apparently though I never received said email. Prizes were apparently sent (from SYD) yesterday. No tracking numbers. So, no one had received their prize before today, at least. My contact person at the supplier told me to call again if not received within one week - allowing for snail mail and public holiday. Fingers crossed you receive your prize soon. Hope this helps.
Thanks @toxicgherkin. I agree, Olga has been fantastic. I was actually going to email her again this week but I won't bother her again now. Thanks so much for following up! Who is the supplier?
@shtooff, the Blu-ray arrived yesterday. SEASON 1!!!! The actual prize was Season 2, hey? lol. Let me know when you get yours, and what you receive.
The backstory was - one of the staff members at the supplier (Hidden Characters) left the company. It was only after Olga's follow up on winners' behalf that Hidden Characters' staff realised the list was probably in that former staff member's in-tray (or email inbox). It was. They had not ordered the discs so had to do that, await their supply then the despatch to winners, being on Tuesday ex Sydney. They apologised when I indicated I had not received their explanatory email sent 'recently'. Did you get any correspondence to that effect?
I haven't seen S1 anyway so it suits me though I do wonder (tongue in cheek) if I 'complained' about yet another disappointment, that they might give me/us Season 2 as well, for our troubles? Lol....as long as it's not a cost to Nerdalicious. I'd hate to do that to Olga.
oh wow @toxicgherkin! What a stuff up! I would be happy for season 1. I only have half, so I wouldn't mind watching from the beginning. But yes, season 2 is the actual prize. I haven't received mine yet, but I'm SA so might take an extra day to get to me. Hopefully tomorrow! But yes, if I do get season 1, I might complain and ask for season 2 as that was the listed prize and what I was expecting. I don't see that it would be a cost to Olga or Nerdalicious as it is the supplier who has made the error and not them. Oh well... fingers crossed :)
Now what do you notice missing? You guessed it the verification tick next to the companies name in the second link.
Lesson 102 Facebook picking a fake competition Trend seems target a popular brand. Run a competition for a very short period i.e 24 Hours. Sucker them in with a big prize.
If unsure check the trend in the number of likes and history of posts.
@fourleaf Yeh I know about farming. I haven't read the link yet motivation for these types of pages is achieving a Facebook with thousands of likes to sell off.
Thanks for the link good article from a quick browse. The "competition" link posted was going around yesterday. Was a bit surprised one of my contacts was sharing it as usually there're very diligent regarding fake pages and scams.
The post had 1600 likes and comments. It's amazing how many fall for this!
@Lemond, yes, I always look for the blue tick on large national company sites and how many posts are on the page. Saw one for Apple Singapore giving away i-phones. Somehow I think Apple would have more than three posts on their page. lol Hope everyone gets to read the article.
@fourleaf Saw another suspicious site. Thou "appear" genuine the tell tale signs of large multiple giveaways and no clear terms and conditions. Yeh right they are going to ship large furniture around the world.
My 50 points weren't awarded to my overall monthly points tally for the daily guessing game on the 12/11/16, along with a few others as well, due to site technical error. I contacted you guys on the 12/11/16 but haven't received a response :( There are also a couple of forum posts related to the issue as well. I had the same issue, along with others, two months ago, which was eventually fixed, with add-on points to the 'points breakdown' table, with a heading of 'missed/added guessing game points' to the value of 50 points. Can you kindly reimburse the 50 points for the daily guessing game for myself aka rianlana, toxicgherkin, anna2077 and whoever else was effected?
@admin @Zedmin please overview Forum comments relating to the errant Guessing Game daily points allocation. There have been several messages sent via several modes to several parties. I would hope this would be a quick fix and, given this has happened more than once relatively recently, that you might have implemented a check system to ensure daily guessing game activity on the part of the member is concomitant with an increase in tallied points. Of course this applies to competitions viewed by member similarly. We await your prompt response. Thank you.
@toxicgherkin One question for those effected. Are the guesses you made on that day displayed in your list of guesses?
I'm surprised @admin can't quickly recalculate how many days members have registered guesses for a month. It appears guesses are stored and time-stamped for the guessing game to function each week.
It would be a matter of designing the appropriate update query for a month which converts the time-stamp into a date eg 1/1/2016 etc and tally up the number of unique days entered. Issues could be that the time-stamps for guesses aren't stored longer then a week.
Then for each person store the number of days currently entered for a month and calculate and update the bonus for display. If it's done that way could also easily adjust how much the guessing bonus is worth without much fuss. If not already done that way. :)
It appears got some data integrity issues arising from some compromises in database design to help with the performance of displaying the results on the webpage.
Could run that a daily maintenance check at same time as the birthday bonus is done to maintain data integrity.
Some ideas. If making any changes carefully plan first :)
@toxicgherkin Thanks what I gathered they were displayed, however the points were not added. Imagining how they might store the guessing game data and calculate the current bonus points.
Depending how it's stored etc it might be possible to regenerate the guessing game bonus points for a month. I don't get that impression. The quick fix of adding the 50 points hints at that.
@Admin surprised haven't adjusted the scores yet.
Similar sounding issues with other data inconsistencies. Something hasn't been allowed for which disrupts the completion of the whole "transaction". eg competitions being displayed as viewed and not registered to the score and the guessing game.
Why it seems to occur so intimidatingly? Networking error issue? OS or browser script errors? Server/database overload?
For the competitions viewed seems like query for checking is required before displaying each page. Toggling the options seems to update and refresh for competitions viewed. That must be doing some sort of check and update. Possible could incorporate that process before displaying the list of competitions for each page. Or provided a menu option to check all running competitions viewed, excluding expired, at least for the current month. Wouldn't recommend a big red button on the page. Saves having to manually toggle the options for each competition.
For the guessing game bonus points. All depends on how it's stored. I don't any impressions for checking and/or regeneration it's bonus points easily. Would require the daily time-stamps for the guessing game for the whole month, to calculate the number of days entered. Appears each day just add 50 to the current bonus total after storing the guess. For the ones having issues only half the transaction is being completed.
Could also provide an menu option to check and update the guessing game score if required. All depends on what is stored for easy recalculation.
Providing the menu options to check/update any inconsistency would cut down on server processing as only appears to occur on the "rare" occasions. Instead of doing it for each time the leader board stats are displayed.
How's everyone enjoying the Facebook notifications for comments on posts even thou they aren't set? Now I'm wishing I didn't go on a Facebook comping binge the last few days. lmao.
@MissB Yeh I get them all 4 times. To the Chrome browser, Facebook, iPad and emails. lmao.
Seems only for new posts I've done today.
I disabled FB notifications on the iPad which is my notification central for everything. What I'm trying first I like the promoter's page and disable all notifications for them before doing the comment, however that doesn't seem to work.
Argh big mistake earlier was doing the just released MWave comp on FB. Either entries have quietened down for the day or disabling the notifications for that page might of worked.
@Npas I'm not sure 100%. I have looked about in the settings. Definitely haven't accidentally set the notifications for the post. The only hint which might be working. For my shares on my page can right click and disable notifications for that post. Might be having an effect. X fingers just a FB bug for today which is exterminated ASAP!
@Npas @MissB Also I reported to FB. Bound quite a few would of been motivated enough to notify FB of the issue. Might help report to them about the issue as well. :)
Just noticed when the notifications for the comments appear. There is an option when you select the notification to "Turn off notifications about new comments on Page posts for this page"
There are two options that appear on the right hand side of the notification being selected. A down arrow which brings up the turn off option and the mark as read.
It might also effect when the promoter posts a comment not being shown the notification. I.e. for a winner.
@bj74 Ok any bets for tomorrows code word. lol. I'm getting the impression some self promotion :) Hmm I wake up with Today Australia's number one .... morning show?
@Lemond ,I have been using the same numbers for over three yrs,although a little tweaking here and there,but yeh,this site has been kind to me.Now for the top 3!! I really want to see the gherkin win the top prize cause hes a good bloke and never short of a good word! Good luck mate, I enjoy your input also,your like the umpire(with a computer/maths degree) of this site ! Go the Gherkin!! Merry Christmas
@Trevsta Same love to see @toxicgherkin win. I'll vouch for him he's nice after a few drinks :)
Looks like going to be his month and end with a big bang on his birthday.
Been close a few times especially in April about 4 weeks in row 1 point off. When was handpicking the numbers. Since then been mixing it up with my favorite site random.org.
Play hard, fair and patience, bound to win eventually!
@Anna2007 a few of us (at least) seem to have missed out on the Guessing Game daily entry points. I've emailed and direct messaged Admin's Facebook account. No response as yet. I'm hopeful our respective scores will be restored soon.
@toxicgherkin @Anna2077 Most likely they will get onto ASAP going by last time it occurred in mass. Looked like they added a quick fix option with a 50 point correction for the guessing game.
Unlike @Anna2077 to worry about your leader board points lol.
@Anna2077 lmao. Was stiring you up as always. :) Never know might give you the motivation to cheer up for a day. How's those daily points going the last few days?
Was waiting to see how long it would take to realize that you didn't get yesterday's guessing game points.
I don't recall every whinging. Must be thinking about someone else... ^ Always constructive helping to exterminating those pesky bugs.
Looks like at least 3 members had the same issue yesterday. Give @admin a few days shouldn't take too long to adjust this time. :) Be nice to know what caused the issue
If members can recall their last 3 days of daily points. Anyone feeling suspicious with them? Seems weird that my daily points displayed doesn't match my daily points displayed that got after midnight. It's displaying 9 again thou I know yesterday was on 67.
@toxicgherkin @admin Yeh it has seem buggy today. Few things like competitions early on not displaying or maybe they were time stamped earlier then posted up later on. I knew the display couldn't be right as saw my score early this morning. Getting 9 three days in a row would start pushing the odds. lol. Least X fingers the random generator isn't playing up.
I had the same problem yesterday and my 50 points weren't awarded for the daily guessing game either. I had the same issue a few months ago which admin fixed after a week or so. Can admin kindly reimburse the 50 points for the daily guessing game for myself, toxicgherkin and whoever else was affected.
Lodge your ticket with @admin @rianlana, @toxicgherkin . Was wondering how long it would take a few would realize that the guessing game bonus wasn't added yesterday.
It's the second time recently this has occurred. Wonder if occurred to the same members as last time or an underlying cause. Be great if this bug was exterminated!
The good news I think a quick fix was implemented to add the missed guessing game points. :)
@admin Is something up with the leaderboard system since midnight? My daily points for today changed if that's possible. Also appears missing some comps viewed points. Now if got 9 again hmmm it doesn't add up from my daily points total as at yesterday.
Ok those comps seemed to have materialized. Not 100% how. Possibly they weren't added previously and toggling options helped. I panicked a bit and toggled all the comps for this month. They eventually showed up on the iPad but not the PC. Initially they didn't even show up on the iPad.
@admin Attaching a cropped screenshot for what is displayed for today showing "9" daily points for today. Is there an issue with the daily points or the display for the what points your got for today?
I know I was on 67 total daily points yesterday and total daily points showing as 70 for today.
@admin Ok since the last few seconds seemed to have fixed that. Now showing as 3 doh. Thou I'm fairly sure 3 points were displayed for today's random daily points just after midnight.
@etta1966, Happy Birthday! I gather this one might be construed 'significant'? They all are actually! One year older. Definitely one year wiser! Cheers.
Woohoo congrats - I bought pepsi especially to enter but threw out the receipt lol so couldn't enter, fabulous prize, well done, you'll enjoy spending that, it's great to win just before Christmas :)
no idea how u guys win in the guessing game, I guess every day and I see this Your Points You have no points unfortunately 50 points - Play the guessing game, every guess will add 50 points to your tally. Click here to play. as I see the rules LegendofOz 0 Last
sent this msg to "Contact us" no reply I am in my 3rd week and the 1st week I had points, this week and last, guessing everyday and no points, I'm confused lol
The points system is activated after the first competition is viewed that was posted in the CURRENT month. I.e. On the first of the month the first thing you do is view a NEW competition posted and refresh the home page competition.com.au to get the daily points.
You can do the guessing game earlier that day thou the points won't be displayed until this is done.
Looks like you got your guessing game points but not the daily points as the points system wasn't "activated" for the first week.
It's an annoying nuance to activate the points system each month.
@admin Need a help link for the leader board to explain this for new members.
I always question whether people actually win these. As soon as I do one I get a call the next day without fail wanting to sell something, usually some kind of insurance to me.
@gemini69 I agree, I entered in the past and then all of a sudden heaps of calls to my mobile and when I put in the number to see who is calling 3 times a day heaps of people have complained about the same thing, entering and getting stacks of calls.
I wonder if any one really wins them at all. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if these 'call centres' post competitions to gather information to sell stuff to you.
Some competitions are listed as "Simple Entry". I have found that many now require you to send a link to a friend and have them click on your link before you will be actually entered into the competition. This means that simply filling in your details is not good enough to get you an entry. If your friend does not follow the link sent to them you are NOT in the draw. I think it would be worthwhile creating a new category for describing these type of comps....'Friend response required' or something similar
OR they take you to a survey to ask if you at interested in brands, yes or no answer and then if you click it they ring you up to sell you say...insurance. Pain in the butt and not worth the hassle really.
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Hello all Would you mind, if you have a free second, to go on and like my comment on this post. My entry is under Shannon Lucas - closes tomorrow and have my fingers crossed as it's SA only so not a huge amount of entries (never won a voting Comp)
Thank you guys - I actually won - thanks for your help - I've never won a voting Comp before - it helps it was a local Comp and only a few entrants lol Thank you again
lol yep for last 5 days I got a total of 10 points :( think they should toss the b'day points and just give random daily points to ev1 so it's fair...good luck to you :)
oh wow! ok... that is different. Thanks @Trevsta for the heads up. I was a little confused as to why they were so low! 2 again today! lol I agree with you @bops18
I don't mind competing for the top of the leaderboard! If they took all the points away, perhaps there should be another way to compete for those monthly prizes
on my birthday month my scores were low before the day, I did take about 10 days off comping and were fairly low after I came back... so even on my birthday I wouldn't have won a thing... not even 3rd place.
Some people win often others not at all. You still have guessing game
Desperate Did anyone get the code word for 6PR channel 7 Melbourne cup competition on Friday night 14-10-16 it was on during today tonight Perth Western Australia
Hi guys, I am very new to comping and started last week (though have already applied for over 600 competitions!). How long did it take you to win your first prize?
I find its getting harder and harder to win. More people doing it i guess. The F.B ones, once upon a time I used to win all the time, now never. They used to say most people would win at least 1 comp out of 100 that they enter, though I think perhaps its 1,000 now?!
I used to win on a regular basis - especially fb comps but with all the "liking and sharing" the people do now, people that have a zillion friends get a zillion entries so it makes it much harder to win now. I love the random draws as each of us have a fair chance. I've been comping for years and love it (having a physical disability making it hard to get out, comping gives me a lot of fun and entertainment) Everytime I am lucky enough to win a prize I take a photo and each year I look back at the prizes I've been so fortunate to win. You may have some good fortune with local comps around your area as a lot less enter , maybe you have a local newspaper that has online comps. Good Luck to you and Happy Comping.
There's a few pages I visit regularly, like this one. I'm thinking of expanding my searches online, instead of just browsing through comp sites. Ideas? How do you find out about new and unique competitions that aren't plastered all over facebook, etc.
Would I be able to ask for a few Facebook Votes for my sister's design? If you could throw a vote to number "1" on the comments section (click through the link) that would be incredibly fantastic! We're about 27 votes off first place!!
@shtooff, surely not..? 18 months? How quickly did that pass? Seems like weeks, not 18 months. Congrats on the family addition if I hadn't said earlier. Another one counted in Census! Yay!...I worked it. Hard job!
it surely has been 18 months @toxicgherkin! I can't believe it either! That means my eldest is now 3 and a half!!
Thanks @Trevsta
I discovered yesterday how much I missed comping. I've come in too late this month to fight for the leaderboard (especially with 9 daily points yesterday and only 3 today! lol) but I'm going to try to keep up anyway.
@pizzaman111 hope you're not, nor become gluten intolerant from eating to many pizza's. But then again I guess you can get gluten free pizza base or make the base out of cauliflower.
@gemini69 well funny thing is I won the Dishd pizza competition and they gave me a 35 dollar voucher and all there pizzas were on half price special and so I got more pizza than I bargained for and on top of that THEY WERE GLUTEN FREE. And then I won last week domino's pizzas which included 6 pizzas, 2 garlic breads, 4 cokes and free delivery but don't buy the prawn pizzas the prawns are so dry and yucky. @gemini69 you should come have so pizza with me one day. Or maybe lobster my shout.
@pizzaman111 Haha! I don't eat fish/lobster...But congratulations on your win! Glad you won as I don't eat garlic bread or drink Coke...its poison. LOL Though enjoy :)
I have been fairly quiet of late but have had some nice wins over the past couple of months. Don't want to bring down anyone's day but sadly at 9.50am today, my beautiful 18 yr old Furbaby Angel passed away peacefully in her sleep laying on her favourite Dressing Gown on Hubby's chest being cuddled. She brought such joy to us and everyone who knew her and I wonder if the tears will ever stop falling, I just had to share in the hope writing it down might help the floodgates slow. Happy Comping everyone xxx
Thank you all - I'm sure it will get easier over time but as I can't have children she was like my baby - I have many cherished memories and lots of photos which always brings a smile to my face.....I'm sure she's looking down on us wishing us all well with our comps as she often used to sit on the puter trying to help me enter them all lol.
So sorry for your loss bops18!! She sounds like she lived a really happy long life though, and you can smile knowing that you gave her the best. My darling cat is 16 going on 17 and beginning to show signs of slowing down, it's incredibly heartbreaking to watch, I can't imagine how you must feel right now!
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It's the nearest pic I could get to a King so now I feel great blowing my trumpet!! Everybody bow now!!!! Hail the True King!! You may return now pessants!!
anything to do with sometimes losing points? if not, does anyone know why that sometimes happens? It's only rarely but sometimes I see I'm on 1 total and then the next refresh I'm on 1 less point. Does anyone else get that happening to them?
@spyglass The only way I've seen loosing points in the past is clicking on an expired competitions that were posted in the same month. For the reason I avoid clicking on expired competitions. In that case it seemed to reset the counter for that competition viewed. Possibly have fixed it. I haven't been game to test it since.
The only other case for points not registering, on the rare occasion I've come across points not counted but showing as viewed. Possible caused by clicking too quickly on competitions at once. There is a way to reset that back to "Enter". It's a tedious process to find a competition that has slipped through, if don't notice it early. I would recommend double check. Have fun find it.
Most likely they missed a competition this last week as one was posted "irregularly". Looks like most found it. Seen that happen a few times in the past trying to sneak comps past me. :)
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