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@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

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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!!

@admin, I'd put my hat into the ring. Do you have an idea yet how CompBux allocation and redemption might work? I'm sure the comping community here would like to know more. I certainly would. Cheers.

Yes, please! I'd love to do that!

No doesn't sound like a good idea.
I think Lemond would just flood the page.

Great idea, I often come across great comps on Facebook I'd love to share with others. Thank you

Count me in! :)

I could... but I thought this was already an option? When did this get taken away?

Can there be a rule that a competition can only be added once.

@gaseja, good point! Or would that be a few CompBux points? ;)

Guess I could volunteer a "few" international giveaways. What you think @toxicgherkin. :)

@newbie_1 lol Least they may be originally sourced. I'm fairly sure some finally get to here via the Aussie Facebook groups that I share. It's a challenge thou to find unique giveaways. They are only truly unique once, after that when shared about the promoter becomes well known and may send out notifications/emails for future giveaways.

There a few Australian compers that do awesome volunteering posting up giveaways on sites. If they are members of here they are more likely to "flood" with fresh giveaways. It takes time locate and check terms and conditions and post in the required formats.

@gaseja Good point about being added once is good.
Most of the Australian Facebook giveaways are well circulated among the Aussie compers. The issue might be a lot of members competing to post from that network. I.e. Giveaways posted won't be anything really fresh. I just hope the don't end up with a flood of Facebook giveaways.

There are so many competitions out there Aussie and worldwide could be hundreds to choose from each day to post. I tend to focus on the international ones as a lot aren't listed.

@wolverine Yes I the possibility is I COULD with some resources I've got to source giveaways. Thou sharing giveaways regrettable lately I've become a bit wary.

I'll take it all as complements. I'm sure some would love more variety of giveaways. :)

The main issue with members posting they WILL have to check the terms and conditions. There's a element of responsibility for sharing giveaways to masses.

@admin Count me in. At least with have technology gadgets covered. :)

Yes please, I would be interested

@wolverine lol. Compliments. I wouldn't worry too much. I'll find a few giveaways to keep you happy with some "toys".

It takes way too much time to "flood" giveaways for anyone person to do it. It's not all as easy as it sounds, if searching around for more offbeat giveaways, checking the T&C's and then post. Unless you just want members to cherry pick and regurgitate whats already commonly circulating around.

There's on easy solution to alleviate your issue, i.e. post up a few unique giveaways. :)

@toxicgherkin
More importantly, I sure members would love know the T&C's for posting approved giveaways to evaluate whether the effort is worth it.

It only works well when got a mixture of members, contributing with different interests and from a variety of sources. I'd image there would be some guidelines to ensure variety and integrity of postings to reduce any anticipated issues.

@wolverine If you look back I a bit through the forum I occasional used to post up a few. Reminds me @Goldmember Happy Birthday for last week sorry didn't get around to a gold themed batch of giveaways. :)

I'd rather be contacted by phone then you know its actually a legitimate win. I won a trip to Aspen last year and the only way they let you know if you won was by e-mail. I thought it was a spam e-mail and deleted it. Luckily for me they found me (my phone number is silent) through my parents phone number of all things and I was still be able to claim the prize. Best prize ever and now I'm so careful of reading my e-mails. I personally think they should do both, contact through e-mail and phone. Good Luck.

Thanks for that. I'll make sure I check every email before I delete them. Some of the comps only reply by phone not both unfortunately.

Welcome and good luck :)

Hi @Trying and welcome. I use a little prepaid mobile as my contact number most times. Also a separate e-mail account as you will get lots of e-mails. Good luck :) There are some very good articles on the blog that are a good read.

I have always been contacted by phone, followed with a confirmation email for the big wins, but the reverse applied to me- they rang and I thought it was a hoax until I received the email!

Wishing you the best of luck with your comps. It's exciting winning :)

@fourleaf I like the idea of a prepaid mobile for competitions. @Trying you can always divert your home phone to your mobile by pressing #21 then your mobile number then * (and #21# to undivert) that way you won't miss a call and it will allow you to see incoming phone numbers. This was handy for me 12mth ago when The Good Guys rang me. I googled searched the number to confirm it really was them. Good luck!

Thanks for the feedback - sounds like I need to invest in a prepaid mobile.

Lotto's are same. Great if you win all the time but if like me who hardly ever wins it's just not worth it

Not much point in paying for membership when you can access most of the same comps on here for free.

Let me see we all "work" promoting all these business for the chance to win. Now they want to everyone to pay for that chance. hmmmm. I think those fee comping sites need a better business model.

It takes time and effort to track down unique giveaways continually and costs associated with hosting and design etc. So guessing flogging members to maintain a level of service.

Question is do those site offer a level of service worth it? I.e. Do they source competitions themselves or using volunteers to source listed giveaways.
What's the incentive to share giveaways and on those sites? Do members get discounts etc?

competitionsguide.com.au I don't use that often so won't be missing anything. Nothing that two seconds of google can't locate.

Lottos though might be a good source of giveaways, it's interface and ease of use is something out of the stone age.

Facebook is probably the best source as most promoters use Facebook to promote their giveaways. Also due to the vast interconnected network of compers you probably can source enough to keep to you happy for a lifetime.

My general impression most of the aussie sites just utilizing the network of Australian compers out there or short list of common promoters. I don't see too much fresh stuff popping up and lacking in some key areas. I.e. men's fashion and technology. Where the hell are all the goods men's fashion giveaways, I rarely see many displayed on those sites.

I don't feel much need to pay for those sites as two seconds you can google and find the giveaway anyway. There are also some good free resources still out there.

One of these days will get around doing an automated system especially for international giveaways. Generally I find those are overlooked on the Aussie sites.

Ps By the time the giveaways are listed on those paid sites they're common knowledge for the Aussie compers already. :)

@jennifer.lobster Roughly 300ish listings per month is a fraction of Australian giveaways out there. This site has one of the better formats. Lacking in the ease of use of leave a comment on the giveaway. Notice no one bothers or haven't noticed it.

They could at least publish some of the reoccurring ones when they are released. I see must be Wednesday the weekly Android Authority is announced. It's usually published by 7 am Monday. :)

What's the difference between the limited and "premium" versions? I can't see too many compers paying for numerous sites, especially if they all listing roughly the same ones or sourcing from the same gene pool!

Not much difference between premium pizza and traditional pizza.
I prefer traditional.
Why add lobster and prawns. Just get the meatlovers

This is the only site I use. (I'm staying loyal) I've tried competitionsguide.com.au before. I've never won anything on that site. Best outlay of website and I've won numerous of comps on here too. I'm happy to stay put. :)

@gemini69 Put it this way my list of international giveaways would rival most sites. Well I know where to find the aussie ones :)

Thou really you need to source from at least a few locations to get a good variety or giveaways that may specifically interest you.

I'm loyal to the site. Love the forum and hanging out for the guessing game or leader board one year. lmao

@Lemond not really into international comps. They send me to many spam and scam e-mails. Plus the whole wide world enters, so not much chance at winning. Each to their own. Maybe I'm just an Aussie through and through. LOL

Has anyone cashed in surveys or gift vouchers it seems to be stuck in maintenance for weeks at a time is this a fake site as I don't have a PayPal account please help?!@SunnyLife

Can I get gift vouchers yet maintenance sign on redeem vouchers please let me know soon thanks?!

Thank you @Lemond for posting this! Glad to know it's not just me :) I've clicked on that competition dozens of times, tried all sorts of ways (except the sledgehammer, but that was coming soon!). Alas, nothing has worked so far. Very odd.

@bbjsr Appears to be a broken link or something hasn't been put into the system correctly. Seems like a plug then a giveaway from reading.

@Lemond Thanks for your reply! That makes sense. Looks like the link is still not working too.

I reported this and nothing has been done :(

It's been taken down.

@admin Thanks @IWANTTOWINBIG it was taken a day or two ago. Argh forgot was that option to report it. :)
I get the feeling the top of the leader board must be getting close.

Good luck @IWANTTOWINBIG and @bbjsr

Thanks :) good luck. Arghh doesn't help me to only get one point for today.

@IWANTTOWINBIG lol. Yeh it's an uphill battle to get into the top 3 without a birthday. Odds are fairly slim with a more birthdays this month. I could dig up the spreadsheet of statistics I did last year when they altered the system. You're going to need roughly 195 daily points give or take a few to make it. 60 points from a maximum of 80 I think we're both pushing the odds. :(

:) One of the reason I check and label any giveaways posted. Save a world pain for the numerous others.

nice jacket, well looks like you have to wait till it gets cold again. nice win

Great jacket, congratulations!

Snazzy mate Congratulations!

Thanks all :) Will come in handy for winter or sooner.
Now just need something to wear with it :)

I wonder if anyone wins at all in these comps and wonder if they are just promotional advertising to send out discount vouchers to entice people to shop on their on line store. I get them all the time.

@gemini69 was thinking same today. They only gave me 3 days to shop.

Now to get linen that the voucher was for, I would have had to add $150, plus would need a quilt cover and thats $250.

Gave it a miss

Just use the @ sign, followed by their insta name, just like Facebook.

Hi, you can tag me if you want @fivesmurfs

Tag @hooneybooney

Congratulations and commiserations, @Andieharrie. Yes, it's very frustrating when that happens. I experienced that recently. Fortunately it was clear to the promoters that my entry was submitted first, and was 100 % penned by me. I won that one as well - an international promotion.

Which page

Happens all the time. I don't like F.B ones much because of many reasons and also so many people enter mow, just for a candle say.

@newbie_1 fetch TV

@toxicgherkin i did make a comment under their entry about plagiarism but no reply of course.....i suppose i should be flattered that my entry actually won twice LOL

@Andieharrie...so true ;)

lol, thats just stupid. tell the company doing fb comp, they copied your answer, thats not fair

their account looks so weird - but sometimes better not to complain - i've seen so many companies that get sick of people complaining about the competition their running and then they decide to not do any. Check out how many christmas comps there were this year compared to last year.
So many companies didn't do 12 days of giveaways this year when they did last year.

just spam
get the same

One of the comps that we clicked on here no doubt. They all sell your information to a third party. I've been unsubscribing to a number of e-mails that come from overseas. All crap.

I've noticed this too, very frustrating

And does everyone here keep getting notifications on there phones
I have the outlook app and emails get sorted in
FOCUSED
or
OTHER
And these spams keep getting in the focused ones so I keep getting notifications which drive me nuts when I'm busy cooking or whatever.
Because I only want to see focused emails if I won a prize or if its urgent

No, is there a way you can deselect the notifications so you don't receive the notifications on your phone?

If I get those I don't press UNSUBSCRIBE as this can make it worse.
You can either or both, Report it as SPAM through your ISP or set up a Rule in your Email, so when these come in they go straight to your JUNK email box.
Every few weeks, I just press DELETE JUNK BOX.

They go to my junk e-mail to and I have been unsubscribing and its been getting less and less. So sick of getting rubbish e-mails even in my junk box.

well done

Thank you!

Congratulations

Always nice to know that Somebody actually wins these things (and that is what my friends tell me). Also the 25 WOL also keeps the old brain ticking over for a unique/quirky/winning answer, and the odd win keeps me keen. Volumes of junk mail is a problem though, really do need to set up a separate account- one day!

awesome post a pic of jacket.

Well Done my friend!

Lol, Have to say I don't think 'marketing in your car' is a safe option for yourself or others while your driving either!

Anything practically can use or urgently require. Now where to begin!

Won a nice $500 jacket few days ago. It will come in handy in the winter. Was joking with the promoter in the UK it should arrive before then.

Ps Washing machine, PC and cash is always handy.

Thanks Fortuna

Anything that can be used to furnish or fit out our new home

... pretty please
... pretty please with sugar on top

um ... hang on ...

... pretty please with totally organic fruit and something high in antioxidants on top

random cool things

Agree with @Lemond regarding "Anything practically can use or urgently require"!

For me, my wish list 'top 5' would be:
1. Cash or gift cards for essentials (Coles, Woolworths, Target etc)
2. A year's worth of bills paid (E.g., Power, rent, petrol, groceries)
3. Car
4. Washing machine
5. PC/laptop

On a terrible losing streak for a while, so hoping for a better year in 2017! Best of luck!

I doubt it's been 5 months of continuous daily random points below 6, probably 5 days and it seems like 5 months. Assuming entered every day 2^150 (1.4272477e+45). Improbably not impossible. pmsl

Five continuous day 5 or below 2^5 = 32 (i.e 1/32 chance ). I would start become concerned after about 10-15 days in a row for a genuine issue.

Time of day shouldn't have anything to with random daily points assuming no bugs still hiding in the cracks. Haven't really noticed anything abnormal apart from your possible case. Not that I've payed too much attention for a while. Past issues usually occurred around the 1st day of the month or that's when they could more easily spotted. There is a chance was an issue on the first day and no one noticed. By the end of month if there was an issue it might show up in the distribution of scores been skewed. Note it's bit harder to eyeball for the low scores as those individuals tend to drop off the leader board.

The only thing I noticed on the first day of the year the competitions were posted up a bit later then usual. I assumed still recovering from their NYE hangover.

The die weren't loaded last month @toxicgherkin? One of these months I must get lucky enough for a top 3. :)

Good Luck

my daily average for this month is 4.8.
I'm sure it'll pick up :D

@Lemond Thanks for your reply but after it started to happen I have actually written down all my numbers since September and I have never got above 6.BUT TODAY YES I GOT A 7!!! after 4 days in a row of 2 points..Just very bad odds for me I guess and luckily it is the top 50 now for that extra daily guess.

Have to now bite my tongue as got a 10 Yay!!! Probably just go back to my normal 2 tomorrow but least I finally have got over 6 now 2 days in a row!!!

10 yesterday, 1 today! lol

@Winner1 Argh two days in a row of 3 sigh. lol
Hate to say both of us probably be pushing it for the top 3 this month. Hmm 45 points after 11 days you'll need to average about 7.5 for the rest of the month . Need about 192ish to be to in the running for 31 days, if it's not your birthday month.

Always the weekly guessing game to hang out for until next month. :)

@shtooff That used to be my old pattern. I'm due for some 10's. X fingers

Maybe they could add in a "treasure hunt" bonus each day to keep it interesting. A small bonus eg 5 points, for the lucky few that "enter" a newly listed competition within that day. EG randomly allocate X amount of members each day to "enter" a random chosen new competition listed, only valid for that day. Do that for each day of the month.

The issues I anticipate, as there are probably a lot of old/inactive accounts the selection of random members, eg 5 each day, must of "entered" a new competition the previous day. Some way to filter out inactive members, otherwise the "treasure hunt" could be predominately randomly allocated to inactive accounts. Assuming might be a good percentage of those compared to active members.

I too have been lamenting my bad luck on the random points. Last month I had 25 birthday points and still only managed to just scrape into 3rd place, but this month has been woeful with just 53 daily bonus points in 12 days that's an average of 4.4 and I definitely will be struggling to even stay in top 50 if this keeps up :( I see today's top 3 are on 87, 85 and 80 daily points so no chance of catching them

@shtooff yes that finishes my 2 days in a row over 6 Today was 1 again !

@Lemond Well that finishes my 2 days of over 6 back to 1 again today. Clearly I am never to be in the top 3 even be lucky to make the top 50 once again ! No birthday this month so I just hope each week to win the guessing game.

Yay !Another 1 today !

@Winner1 You can keep those to yourself. I might have 1/2 a chance will see by the end of the week.

very exciting! Merry Christmas :)

Congrats @Di_D happy new year :)

Now that's a handy win, congratulations and happy new year :)

That's great Di!

@Di_D, yay!

Nice pickup Dianne

@fourleaf, happy birthday for the other day :)

Thanks guys, great video @Lemond, hopefully I'm a few years younger! lol!

@fourleaf Happy Birthday

Thanks! @Anna2077

Add @elbia to the birthday list from memory should be a few birthdays about now. :)

Happy Birthday @toxicgherkin... hope it was a great one and Happy New Year

Aww, @Anna2077, shucks. Happy New Year to you and yours. :)

@toxicgherkin thank you :-)

@fourleaf thanks. One year older. One ...year older... lol. Actually my partner and I had a nice dinner and spa(!) at good friends' house, and 'crashed' there for the night. No cake but that suited me down to the ground. I'm more a savoury person. Thanks for the video. Awesome. My first 'Big Bang'! ;) Cheers, and happy new year!

@toxicgherkin Happy Birthday and congrats on the leaderboard. I picked it early :)
The spa night sounded great way to celebrate!

Good Luck for this year. Thou not too much on the leaderboard I'm still patiently waiting in line! :)

@Lemond, cheers!

@toxicgherkin :) Argh ISP picked a nice day to disconnect the internet on a public holiday! For some reason they didn't process a payment. Their system must of been a bit hung over. There's a pun there somewhere. lol

@IWANTTOWINBIG welcome aboard, and Happy New Year to you too. The only suggestion I have for the moment - and let me ponder upon this some more - is to periodically view the 'Hide entered' competitions. This way you may see competitions that might have been loaded since your last activity, or, added during your current activity and the data has not refreshed. Remember to reset to 'SHOW ALL' or 'Show new competitions only' when you're done though I gather if you navigate back to this page, SHOW ALL is the default status. @Lemond would be able to explain this better, I'm sure. :)

Thankyou for the tips. Yes on that note Happy Birthday and congrats on winning the monthly points comp :)

@toxicgherkin Thanks for passing the buck. IT helpline is temporarily down for the public holiday, Happy New Year Wondercom!

You forgot patience, luck may not happen overnight and usually occurs when you least expect it. How long has it taken to win the Leaderboard @toxicgherkin? lol :)

For the leaderboard competition what @toxicgherkin mentioned is good advice on how to check for competitions you may have missed. On the rare occasion they may be posted with an earlier date or once in a while you might get competitions posted up late which expire the same day. I usually check late and get in early for the guessing game as it's first to guess the weekly number. X fingers one day will guess it right!

For winning competitions in general. Well it's either enter as many as possible or find a creative forte. The creative one's are a good way to go if got a passion for a product or promoter. I've notice a few contacts do quite well in that area with some amazing creative work. It's still tough to win however there's plenty of creative competitions out there which generally less people enter.

Your Facebook feed can be a good source of comps either built up over time from entering competitions or through comping contacts. If adding comping contacts on Facebook my advice is be cautious it can be a minefield. Could write a book about the pros and cons on that subject. I'm sure you'll get some jumping to "lend" a hand. If you're lucky you might find some nice ones.

For finding off the radar competitions with better chances. It takes time to build up those lovely junk/subscription emails which may contain competitions overlooked by most. I hope you created a separate email account for competitions.

I tend to source my competitions from a variety of sources and methods. Competitions.com.au is one of many Australian competitions sites. What is displayed each day on this site is a small fraction of competitions out there.

I tend to focus on international competitions which sometimes take a bit of hunting down. I know where to find the Aussie ones they get shared around enough. At lot of those I find aren't posted on Aussie sites or even international comping sites. There's a world of competitions out there. :)

On that note I need to catch up on my regular first day of the month international competitions.

Good Luck.