So, here’s my deal (now unpublished), and apparently the reasons for that are that lotteries are a banned item on OzB. Now I attempted to refute this, and suggest that my deal was the point rather than the lottery. For transparency, here is the moderators response.
So my question to you, the community of OzB, should posts like mine be allowed, whereby the deal isn’t on the “lottery” (because there’s never a deal on them), but rather a benefit from entering (i.e the Velocity Points), constituting a deal.
It was clear that the community enjoyed the deal (hence the high number of votes), and people only had respect for the cause and saw the points as a benefit.
Now, to the moderators point of the NSW gambling act; yeah sure I'll engage a solicitor in each Australian state just to post something on OzBargain from now on. But seriously, here’s what ChatGPT said, simply based on the wording:
So: art unions / raffles are a form of gambling legally (lotteries / games of chance), but unless they are being offered by a betting service provider, or otherwise fall under the definitions used in the Betting and Racing / Totalizator Acts, they likely are not “gambling products” for the purposes of GL4015’s advertising inducements provisions.
Anyway, I’ll let the people decide, I’ve rested my case. Vote below.
Let’s see if we can get the deal back up :)