I wouldn't normally send SMSs into competitions but I saw one on the box the other day and having a $49 cap I thought why not, I may as well use the cap. The idea is if you answer a really simple question correctly then you go into a competition. But that's not what happens. If you get the first question right they ask you another and another up to 5 questions. The SMSs cost $2 to both send and receive so by the time you've answered all 5 questions you've already spent $20. And the prizes aren't that great, they give away something like 3 xboxes per week nationally. I only sent the 1 sms and stopped there but now they keep sending me messages every week. At first I though they'd get sick of sending them but they never will because they make $2 every time they send a message. And they send multiple messages at once, they never say everything they need to say in 1 message suprise suprise.
If anyone's got the same problem the solution is to phone 1300 650 521 (local call cost) and tell them that you phoned them immediately after getting the first message to unsubscribe but they failed to unsubscribe you hence you want a refund after the first message. I believe they are one of these companies that rely on people not pushing for a refund so don't argue when you ask for one. You could tell them that you never sent the first message and they'd probably give you a full refund.
Anyway, just thought I'd let some people know. BTW, if anyone want to tell me how stupid I am and how smart they are because they would never enter a "competition" like this don't bother, I'm not interested. I never imagined something that is advertised on the major networks would be so dodgy. I also never imagined that it was possible for a company to charge me for sending an SMS to me. If anyone's wondering how they can do that apparently it's in the fine print on the tele and when you first send them a message you are agreeing to subscribe to a paid service.
Michael