Contests & Sweepstakes Tips, Advice, and Questions

Quote from mynameskatie : I didn't but this is pretty standard for Macy's contests, they always require full info for GCs over 25.00. They've held those two QR code games this year and both required info for anything over the 25.00 wins.

Thank you!

Quote from DavefromIndiana : Had a good laugh about this when it popped up. It's a captcha from the Hershey's Cash for Gas instant win game. It's real. I didn't photoshop it. I just snapped a screenshot to show my Wife but thought I'd share it here too. Anyone ever get a weird or funny captcha before? I assume someone actually creates these. I'm thinking Hershey wouldn't appreciate this being associated with their chocolate lol. Attachment 1375638

Quote from spooerman : I dont really pay atention to them all i know is they seem to get harder to read by the day LOL i guess im getting old

@ Dave, I noticed you filling out both words in the form: did you know that you only have to spell out the first captcha word and it will accept it. Also you can omit any punctuations or numbers as the program ignores them.

Typing in only the first word saves a lot of time and I agree with spooerman, my eyesight ain't as good as it used to be

http://www.tipsfolder.com/tips/in...tcha-tips/

Does anyone else ever get sucked into wanting to win the game rather than the prize? For example, I can't even remember what the Irish Spring Sweeps prizes were but I can remember how much I wanted that little coin to fall down into the right spot.

Quote from DreOran : Does anyone else ever get sucked into wanting to win the game rather than the prize? For example, I can't even remember what the Irish Spring Sweeps prizes were but I can remember how much I wanted that little coin to fall down into the right spot.

Honestly as a matter of time saving (the primary secret to maximizing entries) I don't play the games. I click immediately to see win or loss message.

Quote from implode : Honestly as a matter of time saving (the primary secret to maximizing entries) I don't play the games. I click immediately to see win or loss message.

Same. I never play the game unless I have to. I don't need to waste my time on anything else and I use flashblock so I rarely see them anyway.

And about the captchas, only typing the first word doesn't work for all captchas for me. They don't have security levels that you can choose for them - so the user would have to type both words? Some I've only been a letter or two off of both words and it wouldn't submit recently. No one creates the Recaptcha ones, they're taken randomly from books and newspapers. Gotten weird, funny ones about a million times.

Out of curiosity, if you win something like a $400 xbox console thats specially branded making it worth "$1200" and you resell it on ebay for $400, can you then only pay taxes on the price you sold it for or do you have to pay the tax on the price they say its worth?

Quote from zongo47 : Out of curiosity, if you win something like a $400 xbox console thats specially branded making it worth "$1200" and you resell it on ebay for $400, can you then only pay taxes on the price you sold it for or do you have to pay the tax on the price they say its worth?

No.

Ex: What if you won a sports car. A really nice Mustang (thats the one I would love). Then had an auction. You sold it for one dollar. The auction was rigged so only your friend knew the time/place it was to be auctioned.

While the above example has a lot of extremes, it does illustrate why auctions don't demonstrate fair market value (necessarily).

You really need to demonstrate the following:
1) The item is the same exact one as you are getting.
2) The item is on/from a well established store, or better yet stores.
3) To get the price you don't have to have special circumstances (such as belong to a club, buy other things, etc etc).

Auctions are a bad idea for determining fair market value, instead use store prices.

Quote from DreOran : Does anyone else ever get sucked into wanting to win the game rather than the prize? For example, I can't even remember what the Irish Spring Sweeps prizes were but I can remember how much I wanted that little coin to fall down into the right spot.

I play the games sometimes as long as its not too long ..

Quote from empyrean : Same. I never play the game unless I have to. I don't need to waste my time on anything else and I use flashblock so I rarely see them anyway. And about the captchas, only typing the first word doesn't work for all captchas for me. They don't have security levels that you can choose for them - so the user would have to type both words? Some I've only been a letter or two off of both words and it wouldn't submit recently. No one creates the Recaptcha ones, they're taken randomly from books and newspapers. Gotten weird, funny ones about a million times.

One of the words is a known word and you have to type it in correctly, the other is digitized (from a book or newspaper) and it doesn't really matter what you type. That's why you'll get numbers, words with mashed together and overlapping letters and indecipherable symbols. The control word isn't always the first one.

Quote from Jang : Thank you!

Jang do you have two slick deals accounts? Just being nosy Is that you again?
http://slickdeals.net/forums/member.php?u=16739

Quote from lusesita : Jang do you have two slick deals accounts? Just being nosy Is that you again? http://slickdeals.net/forums/member.php?u=16739

Nope, that's not me. Lol,

Speaking of ridiculous captchas...c'mon now how the heck am I supposed to do this?

Quote from mynameskatie : Speaking of ridiculous captchas...c'mon now how the heck am I supposed to do this?

Oh my, this made me laugh first thing this morning! That was a good one!

Quote from BoydSchidtt : @ Dave, I noticed you filling out both words in the form: did you know that you only have to spell out the first captcha word and it will accept it. Also you can omit any punctuations or numbers as the program ignores them. Typing in only the first word saves a lot of time and I agree with spooerman, my eyesight ain't as good as it used to be http://www.tipsfolder.com/tips/in...tcha-tips/

THANK YOU! That is going to save me so much grief!!!!!!!