I see a lot of post regarding "Highlighted Competitions" and I always wondered:
Have anyone here on Ozbargain won anything from these competition?
If you have and don't mind to shared what you've won?
Conclusion!!!!!
WOW These competition are real.
I'll start entering some, fingers cross I get some really good FREEEBIEESS.
The only competition I won in my life is an XBOX360 many years ago when I was at a Microsoft Conference.
I track the biggest wins every month:
May: New York Escape for 2 (Worth $9,740) including flights, hotel, $1000 Shopping Voucher
April: VIP World Superbike Championship Package for 2 Worth $5,000 from Yamaha Motor Finance
March: Luxury English Escape for 2 Worth $23,000 from Signature Luxury Travel
Feb: iPhone 8+
Jan: $5,000 Professional Manhorne BBQ Smoker
Personally, I won a Socceroos onsie last month as the odds were good but don't have enough time to enter many others.
I was doing a little personal experiment at the start of the year where I applied for all competitions that were Australia only and which didn't need me to jump through hoops on social media (like and share this post, etc). I got busy and dropped off after about 3 months but in that time, by checking my competitions entered page, I can see that I entered 297 competitions and won 5 prizes…
Win 1 of 200 Movie/Merchandise Prizes from Twentieth Century Fox
Won a DVD of the latest American Horror Story season and some Family Guy coasters
Win a Share of Over $2,700,000 Worth of Prizes from Optus [Optus Customers]
This was more a promotion than competition but I 'won' 4 prizes - a pizza, Churros for 2 @ San Churro, 2x Hoyts movie passes, $10 Oporto voucher.
is this through gleam? where did you check the competitions entered?
Through the Ozbargain website. On each competition page there is an 'Entered' button. Hit that button on any competitions you entered then from the 'Comps' drop down menu at the top of the page you can go to'Entered' which will list all comps youve marked as entered or won.
thanks for that. Im curious, whats the tag on the email when you win? I get plenty of 'entry confirmed' and use an email and social media strictly for entering competitions.
recently i entered a competition and it said you must claim your prize within 24 hours. i guess thats made me a bit more vigilant.
@DarthAntz: There's no set tag that companies use. I use gmail and if I think I might have missed one Ill run a keyword search with 'Congratulations' and another with 'Winner'.
i have entered most australian competitions in the closing now section for the past ~30 days.
Winnings
Win 1 of 50 DPs to The Equalizer 2 from Flicks — 1 prize
Win 1 of 65 Family Passes to Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation from Strandbags — 1 prize
Win a Double Pass to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom + Sticker Sheet from Europcar on Facebook — 1 prize
Win 1 of 150 Tote Bags from Jack Link’s — 1 prize
Win a Share of 4,036 $25 Amazon Gift Cards from Hyundai — 1 prize
( $100 Gift Card ) Win a Share of 800 $100 Prepaid EFTPOS Cards and/or a 4 x $5,000 Prepaid
EFTPOS Card from EFTPOS Australia — 1 prize
( $100 Gift Card ) Win 1 of 2 Trips to the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final in Russia for 2 Worth $20,000 or Cash/A-League Ticket Prizes from Hyundai — 1 prize
Major Prize
Win 1 of 2 Thredbo x Barney Cools Prize Packs Worth $1,899 from Surfstitch — 1 prize
On the topic of competitions, is there a way to hide the competitions in the sidebar? I tried to use adblockers to get rid of it but had no luck.
Hide button for highlighted. No way of removing sidebar stuff.
I won a uniqlo airism t-shirt once which I think a lot of people did, I should check the comps more often.
AS per title.
There seem to be heaps of competitions posted, but has anyone here actually won anything significant?
oh mad. Had no idea. thanks for that.
I've won quite a few thanks to OzBargain!
What did you win? Do you enter many competitions?
I never go into that section of ozb tbh
Just out of interest, does anyone know what the biggest prize win reported here is? (in $ value terms)
To be honest I think most people who have won a big $ value prize would not admit to it here……
I've posted ~600 competitions. entered nearly all of them. plus some others.
here is my list of stuff won-
1) 2 tickets to Peter Rabbit.
2) …..
Any idea of a good sms service, that you can use to accept messages(In case you win?), so you don't have any sales people ringing to try and sell you something?
I won an antivirus subscription, $1 and a smartwatch.
I won a trip to Brisbane for opening night of Beautiful the Carole King Musical - flights, accommodation, tickets, hair and make-up for the partner and $1000 spending money. All up I'd say it was about $3000 of value.
Just came back from it last week.
I won a trip for four inc. flights and accommodation to see the NYE Countdown special at the Sydney Opera House from the ABC
Didn't someone post this topic the other day?
I won a uniqlo airism t-shirt once.
Edit
Only the instant win ones where you have a really good chance, but the prize value is a lot smaller.
You can see what people have reported as winning.
Top menu bar -> Comps -> Winners