There are so many competitions to enter on this site, I havnt been very lucky so far but I keep trying, you gota be in it to win it
I decided to write a review as there are no independent reviews available online for this competition platform. I am a premium member that cost me just under $40 for a year. I joined early January'20 and these are my observations:
- A large number of compts invite you to fill in your details to enter, they even ask you for full DOB that is concerning.
- A lot of times I do not receive even a confirmation email that I have entered.
- Even if I won I doubt I would be informed in a transparent manner, there are very few comps that will call you or sent a letter. The expectation is that you look for the place where each business posts results and with active comping that is not feasible.
- Since I started playing in competitionsguide.com.au I have been harassed by scams, robocalls and marketing calls daily that I need to keep reporting and blocking which means they share your contact details to a ridiculous amount of the third parties of a shady quality.
- My inbox is clogged up with junk mail daily.
- And no, in spite of entering in about 4-5 comps per day I have won nothing.
The competitionsguide.com.au does not offer a functional filter to see what competitions I have entered or not entered as most comps redirect to their own website. When I try to filter it I get comps that I entered listed as not entered, entering twice will disqualify you and since many comps do not send confirmation of entry, unless you keep a spreadsheet you will not know.
Competitionsguide.com.au also does not offer any listing to see who won (and they should), it is a vague poor quality platform that you need to be managing yourself. They reuse pictures to confuse you even more.
Save your 40 buks.
*** the attached screenshot is for evidence that I am a premium member. I edited any private or restricted content by blurring it out.
Competitions Guide is AMAZING! So many great prizes to win and a great premium service for a low cost!
Thanks Erin, who wouldn't love to be called AMAZING :) Hope you continue to enjoy our comps and get lots of wins!
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Competitions Guide has a rating of 3.8 stars from 43 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Competitions Guide ranks 2nd among Contests sites.
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Hi M. G,
We are not questioning that your review is independent, but there's a few things to respond to.
First up, we don't run any of the competitions we list. As our website does not have a 'submit' button, it means that competition promoters aren't able to list their own comps, and frees us up to check them out more thoroughly. But, as to what they ask for (date of birth etc.) is entirely their call. We don't agree with the large amounts of questions often asked as they are mostly not needed, and reduce the amount of entries received.
If you are getting annoying calls and emails from 3rd parties, these mostly come from competitions called 'co-reg' (survey paths) that infiltrate ads posted on websites that run competitions. For the most part there is nothing illegal about these, but one entry can mean hearing from hundreds of other companies - it's a trap new compers will fall for.
We do offer the facility of tracking competitions entered or not entered (green tick or red cross).
In terms of reporting winners, as our website is not tied to competition promoters we are not in a position to do this. Also, remember you said to 'save your 40 buks' - adding this service would at least require an additional two staff members which would increase our costs significantly. $39.60 for a year/11 cents a day can't fund a gold class service that most people would pay for.
Lastly, we do reuse images, but minimally. We either take screenshots from a comp page, or use images that are stock standard.
Hope this goes some way to addressing your concerns :)