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Win an i9-12900HK Powered MSI GE76 Raider 17.3" UHD Gaming Laptop Worth $7,999 from Pestily/Intel ANZ [Excludes ACT/NT]

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Dates

Closing Date 12/08/2022 6:30pm

Prizes

Description i9-12900HK Powered MSI GE76 Raider 17.3" UHD Gaming Laptop
No. of Prizes 1
Total Prize Pool $7,999.00

Entry Requirements

Open To VIC, WA, QLD, TAS, SA, NSW
Entry Limit One per person
Entry Methods Gleam, Website
Prerequisites n/a

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closed Comments

  • +6

    Thanks Phalaxis for sharing!

  • +5

    I have never won a gleam competition

    • +8

      Maybe this will be the lucky one!

    • +7

      The odds are probably about on par with winning lotto šŸ˜‚

    • +8

      Same, but pretty much every lucky draw comp posted here will have thousands of entrants (not entries) so it's rather expected and frankly, a poor investment of time if you are able to get a job.

      The JayZ US$5k setup one, for a simple high-value/high-profile example (I'd use this comp but it hasn't been up for long so it'd be misleading), has a chance equalized value of about 14 cents[1] assuming you've got all the codes so far, so working the adult min wage ($21.38/h) for even 30 seconds would be a better investment of time (17c) — so logically, if it takes more than 30 seconds to enter the JayZ one & are doing it primarily for the prize (ie, don't actively enjoy the process / think it's a chore), it'd be a poor use of time if any alternate time-money sinks are available.

      [1]: 2868729 (total entries) / 56 (my entries) = a chance of 1/51227
      US$5000 is about A$7400, so $7400 (value) / 51227 (chance) results in a chance-equalized value of $0.144

      • +13

        I don't think anyone is comparing entering comps to having a job. It's no different to any other hobby or pastime except sometimes you might win something.

        • +1

          Perhaps? It was just an attempt to put the chance into perspective.

        • -2

          Wouldn't say giving away my information to spam callers is a hobby

      • +3

        Yeah, in the last five years, I have won one $500 coles gift and few minor prizes like shirts or chocolates. I guess Gleam competitions are much harder to win due to the odds.

      • +8

        It is absolutely a numbers game.

        When I had a LOT more time to devote to comping a few years back due to being very lightly employed, I won a lot of prizes. A car, a trip for two to Vegas, my DeLonghi Prima Donna coffee machine I still use (and thank the comping gods for) every morning. 25WOL competitions often have fewer entries and therefore a better chance of winning, and those were the competitions where I had the best luck.

        .The high value prizes were wonderful, but I will add that some of the best prizes were the experiences I would never have had if I hadn't won them. Spending time with the cheetahs at Canberra zoo, seeing Robbie Williams in Melbourne, taking family to the Daintree for a week.

        Phalaxis is right; it is a hobby with some occasional wonderful surprises.

        • That is a lot of amazing prizes. Congratulations.

        • Phalaxis is right; it is a hobby with some occasional wonderful surprises.

          Yes, and people treating it like that don't complain about never winning comps as that's not their primary goal. It's why I initially said "ie, don't actively enjoy the process" & made the comment in the first place.

        • Wow you got some high value prizes there, is there any trick to the 25WOL entries that made yours stand out?

          Best one I have won is a trip for 2 to Sydney to play SimCity before it got released. It was a Facebook 25WOL and it asked what you would do if you were mayor and I wrote something akin to "I would be a mayor who keeps his promises, an alien invasion every month and a flood every other week" since the disasters were my favorite part of SimCity.

          There was a transformers 25WOL contest to win a trip to China and see the robotic dinosaur zoo and I really wanted to win that so I entered it every day while it was running (T&C said daily entries allowed) but didn't get any prizes from it :(

          I had a friend who used to link me a bunch of Facebook contests from various tech companies and I won some fans and a couple flash drives but nothing really amazing.

      • +2

        frankly, a poor investment of time if you are able to get a job.

        That's why I only enter contests when i'm at work ;)

        • Lol nice.

          However I just want to clarify since I think I might've been misunderstood by a couple people — I don't believe hobbies are investments, which is why I used that word. Imnobody's comment just made me think they were entering primarily because of the prize & not because they simply enjoyed comps.

      • I entered this comp, hope I win. No need to go through these math just enter and hope for the best :)

        • I have nothing better to do with my time :)

          • @gtk: I did score a PC doing these comps before, so I think it's a great use of time:
            https://imgur.com/tIvToeH

            :)

            • @Cartmanizm: I'm not sure on your point?

              I never said that one shouldn't enter comps if they want to, or even that it's a bad idea if one enjoys it — my usage of the word 'investment' was very intentional, hobbies are not investments.

              My last comment was saying that that the reason I did the math was because I'm bored and have no better way of spending my time rn.

      • +1

        The calculations are appreciated but I just canā€™t wrap my head around the ā€œdonā€™t actively enjoy the processā€ part.

        Like honestly, whatā€™s there to enjoy about filling out forms and hopes being crushed?

        I know Iā€™m coming off as jaded, and I am, after so many comps and only a terrible terrible piece of crap OPPO phone to show for it but I am also genuinely curious what is fun/enjoyable about comping.

        If you are strictly referring to the WoL or other creative ones then I get that for the creatively inclined it would be enjoyable but just filling in your details?

        How is that remotely enjoyable?

        • For me at least, it's just something to do with a potential reward. ā€‹ I don't have much else going on in life, and I'm unemployed for now.

  • +3

    Thank you, Phalaxis!

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