Sherry Sjolander has written a book how to win competitions. It's called How To Win Competitions and there's no prizes for guessing what's inside, yet.
Sherry says there is a core group of around 3000 Aussies who vigilantly enter - and win - most competitions.
Buy her book and you'll score tips and hints how to put yourself into contention for thousands of prizes a year.
Luckily, we win too as Sherry shared some tips with us on Sunrise some of ways to win some of the billions of dollars worth of cash and prizes are up for grabs across Australia every year.
Competition website exposes cheats
The other thing to watch out for when picking which competitions you enter, may be who is entering.
The website lottos.com.au, founded by Andrew Lindner in 2000, allows members to share information about competitions, and also to brag about their prizes.
One other useful feature is the warnings to members of dubious or fraudulent competitions, before they are sucked in. According to Andrew, cheating is a common experience of people committed to entering competitions.
“Cheating is fairly rife” says Andrew. “One of the most common ways of cheating is people buying a product then sharing receipts. If the terms and conditions say you needed to purchase the product to enter, you can’t go using anyone else’s receipts.”
Andrew says he removes anyone caught doing this from his site.
“People will also do the reverse, which is give receipts to family and friends. This is also not allowed.”
Andrew reiterates Sherry in saying terms and conditions must be displayed and anyone entering should read them carefully.
“But really, promoters are to blame as they don’t show all the rules.”
So do people really win using his site?
“Last Thursday someone won a trip to Switzerland “
“In 2004, over 2.69 million and that’s now up to $6.3m in prizes in 2006.”
Andrew says hat he’s so busy running the website, he barely has time to enter competitions himself.
“I usually enter SMS [competitions] because they’re easier.”
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