wikipedia s general notability guideline . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources rewardscentral news newspapers books scholar jstor free images august 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . august 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message rewardscentral type private company industry online marketing founded australia june 1999 headquarters level 10 201 pacific highway st leonards sydney new south wales australia key people bob cheng founder and managing director revenue revenue a 5.2 million 2005 1 website www.rewardscentral.com.au rewardscentral formerly emailcash marketing is an australian website run by permissioncorp 2 with branches for residents of australia taiwan 3 new zealand smilecity 4 and united kingdom rewards central . the company was founded by bob cheng in sydney australia in 1999 5 during the dot com bubble and is a web based marketing company . emailcash was ranked 40th in the business review weekly s fast 100 index for 2004 . 6 contents 1 operation 2 survey rewards 3 notes 4 external links operation edit the company is based on a reward program 7 8 offering members reward points that can be exchanged for cash or goods . 9 the company rewards members with reward points when they perform certain tasks . these include participation in market research surveys completion of promotional offers a daily quick survey and visiting specified websites . survey rewards edit at the beginning of 2012 the australian website claimed 200 000 000 points 2 million and 40 000 in competition prizes were paid out to members annually for completed surveys . while unable to confirm the number of points awarded to members each year it was observed and reported in rewards central own website that less than 40 000 was paid out annually in the past two years . in 2011 the quarterly 10 000 competition was only drawn twice once in march and once in october . a third draw was originally scheduled in june 2011 delayed to july 2011 and eventually cancelled with no explanation to members other than the competition being termed over and entries for the competition carrying over to the october draw . competition winners as shown on rewards central website 10 show only three winners of the 10 000 competition in 2010 . in 2012 the first 10 000 draw occurred in january with the next draw not scheduled until july . at the end of may 2012 with no fanfare or explanation to its members rewards central altered the cash paid out for the competition to 20 000 a year halving the benefit for screened out surveys for its members . in an effort to make this alteration appear the equivalent of other survey sites the alteration also changed the expected pay outs on competitors sites which have not occurred . this alteration still has not explained the underpayment of benefits to members of previous years . 11 notes edit julia may 2005 . www.highbeam.com playing with the big boys check url value help . abix . www.permissioncorp.com permissioncorp check url value help . julia may 2006 . www.highbeam.com acts of imagination . check url value help . abix . reuben schwarz 2006 . www.pressdisplay.com smilecity has the numbers check url value help . press display . www.nanyang.com.au company background check url value help . the national business review 2005 . www.nbr.co.nz smile this isn t spam check url value help . nbr . sunday telegraph australia 2006 . sunday telegraph website rewards are the real deal . check url value help . www.newstext.com.au where the visitors are going check url value help . herald sun . 2004 . nicole manktelow 2004 . net profits . melbourne the age . archived from www.theage.com.au the original check url value help on january 15 2007 . rewards central website 2012 . 10 000 cash competition . . rewards central website 2012 . compare rewards central . . external links edit rewardscentral this article about a commerce website is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about an australian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rewardscentral & oldid 737658876 categories technology companies of australiaaustralian websitesreward websitescommerce website stubsaustralian company stubshidden categories pages with url errorsarticles with topics of unclear notability from august 2016all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles with a promotional tone from august 2016all articles 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