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Claim a $20 Coles eGift Card on Completing 4 Reviews in Selected Categories @ Product Review

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Been a member of product review for awhile and have recently notice the banner, complete 4 reviews get a $20 coles giftcard. I don't think this is targeted. Doesn't seem to be anything to stop you using multiple accounts and emails. (Note: I just completed today, says I will receive card at end of month)
Unsure of start and end date

Promotion Notes

All four reviews must belong to one of the categories mentioned above in order to be eligible for this promotion.

  • You may be required to provide proof of purchase for the reviewed products.
  • Please be detailed in your review! Your contribution will help thousands of consumers to be more informed in purchasing these products.
  • Each individual member is eligible to receive one gift card for the duration of this promotion. Gift cards are not stackable unless otherwise specified.
  • You will not immediately receive the gift card. Gift cards are sent out at the end of each month.
  • This promotion is open to residents of Australia only. Any reviews written by members outside of Australia will not be eligible for a reward.

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  • +2

    Erm.. go where?

  • +3

    https://www.productreview.com.au/write-review/incentive

    Promotion Notes

    All four reviews must belong to one of the categories mentioned above in order to be eligible for this promotion.
    You may be required to provide proof of purchase for the reviewed products.
    Please be detailed in your review! Your contribution will help thousands of consumers to be more informed in purchasing these products.
    Each individual member is eligible to receive one gift card for the duration of this promotion. Gift cards are not stackable unless otherwise specified.
    You will not immediately receive the gift card. Gift cards are sent out at the end of each month.
    This promotion is open to residents of Australia only. Any reviews written by members outside of Australia will not be eligible for a reward.

    • +1

      Cheers buddy. Put it in

      • +36

        … that's what she said

  • +35

    Feel free to review ozbargain on there

    I'm going to review Tightarse™:

    "I was a bit sceptical at first but was pleasantly surprised.

    He is so tight, highly recommended ★★★★★"

    • -8

      I was a bit sceptical at first but was pleasantly surprised.
      He is so tight, highly recommended

      That's what she said.

      • +5

        Anything else she said?

    • -3

      You're enjoying beating that dead horse, aren't you?

      • +1

        That's what she…

        Yes you're right.

  • +2

    Opportunity to complain about biscuits made with palm oil and not butter …..hating how they substitute palm oil for butter or sunflower oil in goods.

    • +3

      There's no morality in the world anymore.

  • How long does it take to do?

    • +1

      It says cards are emailed at end of month. to do 4 reviews took me 15 min to do they decently. (10min of coles car insurance one, They deserved there 1 star)

      • +2

        Their*

      • +1

        Why? I've had a pretty good experience with them.

        • +2

          I had a not at fault accident. Other person was NRMA. Coles took 2 months and still hadnt paid out (called them daily). Ended up contacting NRMA and they advise coles was yet to make contact. They just don't pay out in a crash. They are the 2nd worst rated insurer in Australia for a reason. They also have a high number of FOS complaints over similar. It's just not worth waiting months on end, if they can't get their shit together

        • +1

          @Pharmacy: I had comprehensive insurance with them and lodged an at fault total loss claim; they paid out relatively quickly, maybe I was lucky!

          I did have to follow up a few times because communication wasn't great at times, but you get that with all companies usually (not excusing it).

        • +1

          @John Kimble: Yeah maybe. IDK ay. I'm not going to risk it again. My experience was bad and 9 months later and some lose ends (car hire etc) still aren't fully resolved). If your happy then that's great, but too may people reported a bad experience for me to risk it again. I'll pay the extra $300 a year for fully coverage with NRMA

        • @Pharmacy:
          Who is the worst in Australia?

        • @jdogg: I cannot remember as it was awhile back, but it was one of those small companies (like progressive, but not progressive). Sorry it was like 8 months ago I checked. I do remember many of the suncorp groups insurance products also took a beating (AAMI etc) and Woolworths was alittle shady. I choose to stop looking and stick with NRMA for awhile, as it what I know

        • +1

          @John Kimble:
          Last time I called asked where they were located because they didn't seem to understand the places I was talking about. Ans: South Africa.

        • @Pharmacy: the irony is that both Coles Insurance and NRMA are owned/underwritten by IAG.

        • @rifter: Anyone I spoke to in the total loss team had an aussie accent. Email domain was @iag.com.au though, so might explain things?

  • +3

    Doesn't list the categories on the incentive page

    Yes it does, it clearly shows the pictures - those are the categories. So websites are out, for example

    I reviews Coles Car Insurance, NRMA, Hyundai Getz and Holden Commodore, if this helps anyone)

    Car insurance isn't included in this promo

    • Cheers &
      Worked fine when I did it.

  • Anyone tried it?

  • +15

    "You may be required to provide proof of purchase for the reviewed products." is enough to make me not want to do it.

    • +19

      Yeah, so basically you can't just make fake reviews, seems fair to me.

      • As opposed to the rest of the time when it's a free for all.

    • +4

      Hi there,

      You can read our privacy policy here http://www.productreview.com.au/i/privacy.html

      Any proof of purchase documents you choose to upload are not seen by anybody outside our Moderation Team, and you can block out personal information like your address, as long as we are still able to verify that the document proves you purchased the product you reviewed. We never provide this information to the company you are reviewing (or anyone else for that matter).

      Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions.

    • +2

      Too much hassle for too little dough.

      • +1

        Proof of purchase is not required for every review. It's possible for all 4 reviews you submit to have proof of purchase as optional.

        • Thanks for the info, rep.

          So, I posted four reviews, 3 purchases from 2015 and one from 2012 - so their shouldn't be any issue with this promotion seeing as I don't have the receipts?

        • +1

          @tomsco:

          for products you have purchased in the last 12 months from the following categories.

        • +8

          @tomsco @Lorindor: We're not here to play hardball on every condition for this promotion, we'd rather give someone who is doing the right thing a gift card than try to catch them out on a technicality. As long as the products are still for sale they should be fine, 1 discontinued product shouldn't exclude you from the incentive.

          The only thing to be aware of is that sometimes reviews will be auto-published straight away, but rejected later once our Moderation Team has a chance to look at it manually. You will typically be notified if this happens.

          Tomsco your reviews looked fine to me at a glance, but I'd have to wait for our Mods to check over them before making any guarantees.

        • @nsta8487:

          Cheers mate, appreciate your honesty.

        • @nsta8487:

          I bought 4 basic appliances in February 2016, which are all included in selected categories.

          How can I make sure that this exclusion is legit (considering that I bought all 4 appliances 17 months ago (instead of 12 months stated in T&C)? Just wanna make sure before I took all the troubles to find my invoice (I'm sure I still keep it for warranty purpose) and write 4 reviews for $20 egift card.

        • @nsta8487:
          Is the promotion still on or is it over?

        • @knowwhat:
          The promotion is currently still running.

    • I tried to review IMB after the $50 scam but they rejected the review. I reviewed a fridge after being offered a $5 coles gift card for 2 reviews. Just noticed it in my dodgy enmail address. So you'll probably score the gift card even for low effort.

  • I noticed this yesterday to. I left one review with a proof of purchase. I think it's a good idea as it stops those fake reviews like Amazon have

  • +4

    Hm pretty sure I qualified for a $5 gift card in the past that never came.

    Can I neg product review on product review?

    • Email them. I have received the $5 one last time.

    • +1

      I never got the last one either.

      • [email protected]

        Hi there XXXXXXXXX,
        Thank you for submitting a review for our $5 giveaway promotion! We're very grateful to users like yourself who help keep Australia informed about the best products and services available!

        Your gift card can be accessed at this page: [Removed]
        Instructions and your PIN are included in the link, and your card expires on 03/05/2019.

        Thanks for using ProductReview.com.au, we look forward to hearing from you again!

        Regards,

        Nathan

        In case anyone wants to check their email who did not receive theirs last time.

      • +1

        Hi wingwang,

        If you email [email protected] I will look into this for you. Please let me know the email address your account on ProductReview is registered under and I can send your card today. (Also, double check your Spam/Junk folder in case the email ended up there).

        Thanks

        • I can send an email now - also one question,

          I have previously submitted this before and was ignored.

          My issue with your website is the blatant fake 'verified' reviews by China Southern airlines. They went from being one of the worst airlines in the world to now having over 4000 fake 'verified' reviews, why are you not doing anything about this blatant scam?

          http://www.productreview.com.au/p/china-southern-airlines.ht…

          http://www.productreview.com.au/c/international-airlines.htm… <— go here and it will show all reviews for all airlines in the world. See how all the major airlines have 20 to about a few hundred at most.

          why does ProductReview allow this cheating and vote manipulation to happen and when anyone brings it up get ignored?

          allowing this vote manipulation on the site pretty much invalidates every single other review on your website.

          it goes as far as the Q&A section down the bottom people asking stuff like

          Do readers really think the reviews given 5 out of 5 are real!!!!! Think again. What is the real review?

          and people complaining that negative reviews aren't even published for this specific airline. seems very shonky.

        • +9

          @wingwang: Sure, this a good question, and we get asked similar ones all the time.

          So in general, most people don't think to write a review for a product or service they receive (whether it was good or bad), but some will do so if asked. If you assume that most people are happy with what they receive, then it stands to reason that the more of your customer pool you ask, the more positive reviews you will probably get.

          We have both automatic and manual procedures in place to analyse the meta-data of all our reviews, and the reviews that have been approved have passed our checks (for example, being submitted from an Australian IP address). We look for individual red flags on each review, as well as overall patterns in review submission, and we reject a lot of reviews. Obviously there are laws and ACCC guidelines we have to be compliant with, but more importantly we want to be a place where people can go to get reliable information, and to have their opinion heard.

          The answer to "Why does China Southern have such a high rating?" is just that they ask a lot of their passengers to write a review. When you consider the number of people that fly China Southern each year, if even a tiny fraction of those people write a review, you're looking at thousands of reviews. This is obviously something that someone in their Customer Relations department has decided is important, and they've created a system to request reviews and implemented it company-wide.

          Despite any negative perception of China Southern, if you book a flight easily, you get from A to B on time, and the service is good (relative to what you paid), then there's no reason for you to have a negative experience. As passengers get off the plane, an attendant hands them a card and asks them to write a review them. They only need a few passengers on each flight to submit a review to start racking up big review numbers.

          Many businesses use a similar method to garner huge numbers of reviews, for example Booktopia or Youfoodz. If you can email every single customer and say "Hey, I hope you liked our product/service, click here to write us a review", you're going to start getting a lot of reviews. Many businesses include this with their confirmation of purchase emails, while others email all their recent customers at regular intervals. When you see pages that have a lot of reviews in a short space of time from users with a single review, it's likely they came from an outreach campaign similar to this. It would not surprise me that if a company like Tiger Air started emailing every single passenger asking for a review, they could get to a 4+ rating.

          I hope this clears up your concerns, let me know if you would like any more information.

          Cheers

        • @wingwang: Check out the fake reviews for Plush furniture as well.. all blatantly obvious as having been written by employees.

    • +1

      Hi watwatwat,

      Can you please email [email protected] and I can look into this for you. Please let me know the email address your account on ProductReview is registered under and I can send you your card today. (Also, double check your Spam/Junk folder in case the email ended up there).

      Thanks

  • +1

    Thanks OP. Hope I get the e-gift card.

  • +1

    It seems like reviews for discontinued products don't count, result in 5 reviews to be qualified for the e-gift card.

    • +36

      Quick tip. Just take 20 minutes, have ethics and do the reviews for real.

    • +5

      Hi vincesuarez,

      We would obviously prefer if you didn't try to do this. We have procedures in place to check for this kind of behaviour and reject reviews where we deem appropriate.
      A lot of people use our site when researching products, and rely on us having accurate information. As adam said, it doesn't take long to submit a real review, and we tried to choose a lot of categories so that nobody would have problems getting 4 reviews.

      • +1

        Thank you for being so diplomatic about someone trying to take advantage

  • thanks OP, will be waiting out on that gift card come August!

  • +1

    I joined and did 3 reviews and they said I have done it? I thought it is supposed to be 4 reviews?!

    Thanks OP. Will be waiting on the giftcard.

    • +1

      Same here. Can't add any more reviews says Awesome, you've done it! Yes I am awesome.

  • +4

    Thanks OP, just did 5 reviews in the relevant categories.

    4 have been approved, just waiting on the last one so I can get my $20.

    Easiest $20 I've ever made; well, not quite the easiest.

    I once sold someone some vitamin C tabs as ecstasy.

    His friends said he never looked better and that he had a healthy glow.

    • Oh man, thanks for the laugh. If I could pass vitamin C tabs off as ecstasy I would be loaded.

  • -6

    this is a great freebie so to speak. But its gonna make people make up reviews for the gift card. Which is turn makes the reviews pointless and not worth what is written. So i have to disagree with this post. and should be deleted. peace!

    • +3

      Hi rodie,

      We have procedures in place to detect and remove reviews we believe to be non-genuine. While I can't go into detail about these, I think most people on here would be surprised at how thorough we are.

      We tried to choose a lot of varied categories for this promotion so that nobody would have problems writing 4 genuine reviews.

      Thanks

      • Hey rep. I submitted a review but I purchased the product in March last year. I have invoices to prove it, however will it still be approved for this promotion? It still is a genuine review. Cheers

    • +1

      Says you. I just did 4 reviews (legit and honest on recent product purchases). Took <20 minutes. I'm hoping they'll be helpful to others looking for a genuine product review..

    • +3

      I don't really see the point of anyone doing that. I can't honestly see your average person doing that. As humans, we all like our say and generally like to know we are helping each other (I mean its what ozbargain is about). I'm quite sure 100% of all Australians have used 4 products in their life. It's also logic, that its simple to talk about, what you know. I also notice with product review (I have been a member for a year and abit), it is very easy to see trends. I'm sure these guys know their stuff (mathematical algorithms or such) and would be able to pick things up.

      I also did some reviews before the promo, just because I think Australians need to know. $20 is a great bonus. I will be alot more keen to check them out in future, before trying a new service or product.

      Also as a ex-mechanic, this site is gold (in alot of areas) before buying a car. Common themes show common issues.

  • +1

    So now we all know not to trust reviews on Productreviews. Completed (mostly) genuine ones including a discontinued item (Two star Nexus 6p) and it seems to have worked. Thanks OP.

  • -1

    Might as well change the name to fakereview

  • +1

    Cheers Op!

  • Ta

  • +4

    Can spot all the OzBargainers with only 4 reviews.

    • +4

      Can spot all the whinger,moaner & soccer mom with more than 100 negative reviews

  • +2

    Hi Store Rep,
    I have just submitted 4 reviews in the given categories. However the site is still asking for 2 more, as 2 of the products I reviewed, while certainly in the correct categories, had not been reviewed before. Please advise?

    • i have this problem too.. in the end i submitted 5 instead but it only capture as 4.

    • My first has just been approved, and the email says I have to complete 4 more???

      • Says the same thing for me in all my four approved emails lol

    • +1

      I completed several reviews, one of which was a review for a Breville Smart Oven Pro (http://www.productreview.com.au/p/breville-the-smart-oven-pr…). According to ProductReviews, one of my reviews didn't count. Searching through the list under the "Oven" category I noted that the smart oven pro wasn't listed. The other reviews for products I wrote were all listed in their category.

      So, for your product to count, I think it has to be actually listed as one of the products in the list when you click on an eligible category . In the Breville Oven's case, it appears the smart oven is listed as a "Benchtop Oven", while the eligible ovens are all listed as "Freestanding Ovens" or "Wall Ovens", which is why it didn't appear on the list and hence why it didn't count it would seem. My theory only - I could also be wrong and they just have a weird system of counting eligible reviews.

    • +1

      If the items you reviewed weren't already listed on our site, they'll have to be checked and manually approved before being published. This may take a day or two, if your review still isn't published by then email us at [email protected] and let us know.

      • Thanks store rep. Just to double check. The Breville Smart Oven Pro is listed on your site, but is not listed as one of the ovens in the "Oven" category in the promotional link. Would this cause it to not be automatically counted as one of the 4 eligible reviews? If this is the case, do we have to contact you about this for our review to count?

        • Hi tommohawk,

          Can you please email me at [email protected] and let me know what email address your account is registered under and I can look into this for you.

          Thanks

  • "All four reviews must belong to one of the categories mentioned above in order to be eligible for this promotion."

    Confusing words.

    All four reviews don't need to belong to the same category.

    • -4

      the only confusing thing is your lack of comprehension of the english language

      "one of the categories" doesn't mean "only the same category"

      I can see how you might read that and think it states that all 4 are in one category, but anyone with english as a first language (?) will be clearly able to tell the difference

      • Really? I thought it was ambiguous but hey maybe it's me.

        • Wow, was expecting a more hostile reply.

        • +3

          @TheOneWhoKnocks:

          I was going to write one but really couldn't be bothered lol

      • "All four reviews must belong to ANY of the categories mentioned above in order to be eligible for this promotion."

        That is how it should read.

  • +1

    Done!! Thanks!! Didnt need to provide receipt but I didnt lie lol

  • +1
  • This is until when? I have to search for my receipts

  • +1

    may be required to provide proof of purchase

    I'm gone.
    I throw my receipts away.

  • +1

    No idea what I'm doing wrong, but after my third review it said two more reviews till you receive a $20 coles voucher, so I review 2 more and it still says 2 more to go. Think I just got ripped off..

    I reviewed everything from the catergories that were shown. I don't understand I even showed proof for one and they were all legit.

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