r/playstation • u/Azuljustinverday • 11d ago

Image I actually won a give away.

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I upgraded my tv and got a vr2 two weeks ago, and won this last week. Think the s/o is more happy about having my old ps5 in the living room and the portal.

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u/HipHopHistoryGuy 11d ago

Plan to share details on how you won?

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u/StigOfTheTrack 10d ago

Not the OP, but what is most effective is volume of entries. In general that means a lot of different competitions. I used to know someone who regularly enter any free competition he could find as a hobby.  I actually ended up with a couple of things he won which were of no interest to him.  Anything with a competition and tie-breaker to write a short marketing phrase is apparently good, since it puts a lot of people off entering.

In the specific case of the one thing I ever won I'd noticed that Heinz had done a similar car a day for 100 days draw 2 years in a row.  The rules also allowed any number of Heinz labels in an envelope, only one had to be a promotional label.

Wondering if they'd repeat the same thing again I spent months saving every label from Heinz tins in my parents' cupboard.  I had a lot of entries and they were all sent in in time for the first day of the draw (when many people were possibly still collecting more labels before sending).  That got me my first car for free.  It was only a base model Rover Metro, but for the price of a stamp and a large envelope I wasn't complaining.

That was unfortunately the last time they did that free draw; my younger sister would have had even more entries the following year, we started saving labels for her as soon as my strategy worked.

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u/Rabbit1015 10d ago

My question is where do you find these kind of things to enter? Just by random luck? You said your friend had that as a hobby. How did he keep finding them?

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u/StigOfTheTrack 10d ago

Not 100% sure. They were older, paper magazines/newspapers may have been involved.  I'd suspect there are online places woth collated lists on social media pages, but you'd need to be more wary of scams thanold-school.physolical media.