I am just curious about how anyone's been entering purchase competitions- not to mention buying products you don't actually need. Some enter at the beginning, middle and at the last day. Has anyone won by buying a product everyday? Or did you only purchase once?
How Many Times Do You Enter Purchase Competitions? Has Anyone Won by Buying a Product Daily?
Ljbum on 16/02/2023 - 11:12
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i gave up after 2 yrs, never won squat
Ozbargain comps are the only ones I have won.
We may be good at bargains but low on creativity.
Most comps have minimum 10k entries. If you enter a comp every day for a year, you still have only a 3% chance of winning any of them in a given year. So you could go a long time without winning anything.
Purchase + online entry do increase those chances as people don't want to go through those hoops
Same with 25 WOL, where it's actually being read and checked for creativity (unlike random pick ones)
None, I stick to lucky draw/no. words or less comps.
Yeah I've done and won them, but before the current trend of "winning moments" AKA how can we say we're giving away 10,000 items, without actually giving away 10,000 items!
Not often. I avoid purchase comps as even though there is a barrier to entry (buy product/service), it's usually for low cost consumables like chocolate, chips etc so the barrier isn't really that high at all.
I haven't entered any comps in awhile. I find it overall harder nowadays to win than when I first started in 2009.
The Kit Kat competition to win an Android tablet. That competition was scuffed though, you could increase your odds by entering the codes at like 3am when everyone was asleep, and stop entering codes when you get a tablet because it only lets one person win per hour. When Woolworths had Kit Kat bars for 99 cents I bought every bar they had, half filled a trolley with them. Won a few tablets. Ate a lot of the bars, gave away even more. Life was good.
Also I forgot that a lot of the codes gave you $5 of Google Play Store credit. near the end of the competition every code gave you play store credit.
Purchase often drastically reduces the number of entries compared to an equivalent free comp because, unless people are buying these items regardless, the competition effectively costs you to enter. Entered a few purchase comps, most of which I would have purchased the item anyway though I'm not proud to admit I have been suckered in by the promise of potential prizes for stuff I really don't need. They are winnable though - won concert tickets, an xbox and some minor stuff.
I just won the IGA win the cost of your shop. But I usually never win anything, anywhere. Gotta feeling IGA lets you only win once
I wish I did, last 2 shops there were around $300 each.
The supermarket competitions are worth entering.
However, you do have to buy products and send in receipts.
Fine if you have time and do the family shop.
My sister won a Coca Cola bike once and it was worth $500 at least a decade ago now.
She also won a trip to Melbourne to watch some AFL I think. Flights, accommodation and VIP seats. Was worth $2k apparently. It was for two people.
I've only ever won baby stuff through buying baby formula and sent in receipts. It was a high chair and baby walker and I was thrilled. Ended up giving it to my brother in law as I already had those items.
First thing I ever won was a Dannii Minogue LP Love and Kisses from Smash Hits magazine.
My dad has won meat trays at our school raffles when we were young. We lived close to the school so we hung out at the fair all day and we would buy the tickets at the end when they would be placed at the top of the pile lol
My sister also won at Easter basket raffle at school. Going back 30 years though.
My other sister won a $1k gift card from Haigh's chocolates one year. That was pretty awesome.- not to mention buying products you don't actually need.
So not only are you wasting time, but money as well.
I've won a few things from random comps but it's definitely not worth putting your time into doing.
1 entry in Skyy Vodka sent me to San Francisco last May, thank God! And I helped my wife win us a Swiss trip when I made a poem after buying just 1 Lindt block. One entry in just works fine.. 😇
I won 1 out of the 3 major prizes through Wolf Blass wines a few years back.
Two tickets to every game in the AFL finals series,(9 games all up) flights, accommodation inc.
Plus tickets to the crown breakfast as well.
It was a bloody decent valued prize, est. at $30k, probably cheaper for me as i'm already in VIC, but the other two winners were from WA/SA
I already drank their wine, so I didn't go out of my way to buy any additional bottles simply to win. Just got lucky I guess :)
The only thing I have won is data leaks and incessant spam.