Contests & Sweepstakes Tips, Advice, and Questions

I use a green pen on entry forms and it seems to have worked!

Quote from DeaconMac : I just did an audit of my contest and sweeps entries and wins over the past 6 years and I thought others might find it of interest.

Those are some impressive stats, both in terms of wins, and in terms of simply being that organized. I find it especially interesting that the daily and weekly entries have much higher win percentages than the one times, which I suppose makes sense, considering a lot of people don't have the persistence to stick with dailies. Thanks for the info; as a relatively new sweeper, I'm always interested in this kind of detail. Mind telling us, on average, how many sweeps you enter daily?

i just got home and had a call someone named brad from eprize on behalf of bank of america.they didnt say if they would call back or what i won.ive never won anything big really so im wondering does anyone know which contest eprize and bank of america might have?i pretty much do iwg 95% of the sweeps i enter. has anyone gotten a call like that,werent home and they did call back?if its something big they need my signature for,would they call me ahead of time and let me know they are sending paperwork on what i won?.im kinda in shock i might have won something big plus scared i wont get it now since i missed thier call.thanks for any help that anyones dealt with this before.

Been on hiatus from sweeping for a couple months. Just trying to get back into it. Anyone know of any good dailies going on right now that are offering a lot of prizes besides Marlboro? Wanting to get back on the horse with a semi decent probability of a win...even a small one gives me the motivation to put the time into it. Thanks in advance..

Quote from Catsanova : i just got home and had a call someone named brad from eprize on behalf of bank of america.they didnt say if they would call back or what i won.ive never won anything big really so im wondering does anyone know which contest eprize and bank of america might have?i pretty much do iwg 95% of the sweeps i enter. has anyone gotten a call like that,werent home and they did call back?if its something big they need my signature for,would they call me ahead of time and let me know they are sending paperwork on what i won?.im kinda in shock i might have won something big plus scared i wont get it now since i missed thier call.thanks for any help that anyones dealt with this before.

I don't remember an eprize contest with BOA at all and I enter most of their contests...so I'm at a loss. If you don't remember entering be careful in making sure its legit. I hope its legit and something good. Sending good vibes your way.

Quote from Catsanova : i just got home and had a call someone named brad from eprize on behalf of bank of america.they didnt say if they would call back or what i won.ive never won anything big really so im wondering does anyone know which contest eprize and bank of america might have?i pretty much do iwg 95% of the sweeps i enter. has anyone gotten a call like that,werent home and they did call back?if its something big they need my signature for,would they call me ahead of time and let me know they are sending paperwork on what i won?.im kinda in shock i might have won something big plus scared i wont get it now since i missed thier call.thanks for any help that anyones dealt with this before.

I'd be careful if it is something you can't recall entering. I know there was US Bank contest recently (remember because I was excluded bc of my state) but I don't remember anything recent from BOA. If they represented themselves as being from Eprize you could always email or call them at a published number to ask about validity.

Quote from mikemjr : I have 1 facebook account, it is for sweeps only, no friends, no photos, nothing else I got this message yesterday when i tried to like pages , You're temporarily blocked from using this feature. Sorry for the inconvenience anyone know what happened. I googled for hours, went to facebook community forums No luck. Tried 3 different browsers. I am stumped!!

My facebook account was blocked, but it asked me to put in security code, then told me that someone in another state had entered my account..

Was going through my list of dailies today and accidentally submitted twice for the same one, where it has a limit of one per person/email per day. I checked the rules and they specifically state more than one per day will be disqualified, but not sure if that means they just throw out the extra entry, throw out the day, or disqualify me from the whole sweeps.

Anybody have experience with this? Would hate to find out I just fubared 2 weeks of entries over a simple mistake, and certainly don't want to waste any more time entering if I'm now ineligible. It's really frustrating; I have noticed that a lot of dailies will alert you when you already entered for the day but quite a few still don't.

Another question (sorry, I'm still pretty new to everything but instants): does anyone here use one of the many sweeps listing sites to enter? I browse through slickdeals every day but try to hit a couple of other sites to pick up ones not listed. I have been clicking on links which take me directly to the entry forms, but after reading a few sets of rules, am a little concerned that clicking from those sites may result in disqualification. These aren't the automated entry sites, just listings such as Sweepstakes Advantage, Mr Sweepstakes, etc. But some sweeps rules are pretty specific in their language about macros, scripts, sweeps sites, etc. Since they can see where my link originated, wondering if it would be safer to just copy it into Excel or something and enter from there, versus using the sites link.

Seems like the big sites are pretty popular and I see lots of winner postings so I'm assuming that it's not usually a problem, but curious about people's experiences.

Does anyone have experience with sweepstakes advantage? I have been pretty much using this site exclusively for contests for years now but saw SweepsAdv through starpulse. I signed up for it and a lot of the contests on there feel like scams to me... dunno

Quote from chuckecheez : Was going through my list of dailies today and accidentally submitted twice for the same one, where it has a limit of one per person/email per day. I checked the rules and they specifically state more than one per day will be disqualified, but not sure if that means they just throw out the extra entry, throw out the day, or disqualify me from the whole sweeps. Anybody have experience with this? Would hate to find out I just fubared 2 weeks of entries over a simple mistake, and certainly don't want to waste any more time entering if I'm now ineligible. It's really frustrating; I have noticed that a lot of dailies will alert you when you already entered for the day but quite a few still don't.

I think if they say DQed, your outta luck. Give up, try again with something else. The contests that are forgiving usually state only the first entry in a given day is accepted. This means if you see a contest that says 24 hour entry limit you need to be especially careful. VERY easy to mess that up.

re: sweepstakes entry sites. I would avoid sites that do the following:
1) Enter data for you in any capacity.
2) Open many sites at the same time.

I don't see a problem with big sites, as long as they don't dodge the rules. If a website gains a reputation as harboring a lot of cheaters they might block people associated with it.

Quote from splattered : Does anyone have experience with sweepstakes advantage? I have been pretty much using this site exclusively for contests for years now but saw SweepsAdv through starpulse. I signed up for it and a lot of the contests on there feel like scams to me... dunno

NOT specifically. Always trust your gut if something feels like a scam never enter it (even here). Ask other people what they think on this site. I try to mostly enter sweeps from well known companies.

Implode, thanks for the replies. If you don't mind, one more question. On the dailies which allow 2 per day, 3 per day, etc. do you typically just blast through and get your max in for the day all at once? I don't quite understand the point of allowing multiple entries in a day, but wondering if it makes any difference if you shotgun them through at one time, or if it's better to spread them out.

Quote from chuckecheez : Implode, thanks for the replies. If you don't mind, one more question. On the dailies which allow 2 per day, 3 per day, etc. do you typically just blast through and get your max in for the day all at once? I don't quite understand the point of allowing multiple entries in a day, but wondering if it makes any difference if you shotgun them through at one time, or if it's better to spread them out.

From my understanding of how most drawings work, it makes no difference when you put your entries into the box. Generally speaking...At the end of the contest all entries are generated a random number order. Then a random number generator picks numbers to award prizes--from biggest to lowest. If time/resources permit, they reward unclaimed prizes in a secondary drawing.

Quote from splattered : Does anyone have experience with sweepstakes advantage? I have been pretty much using this site exclusively for contests for years now but saw SweepsAdv through starpulse. I signed up for it and a lot of the contests on there feel like scams to me... dunno

I use it daily and it's been a big help to me. I just have the free account and don't understand why anyone would pay for the premium account. The nice thing about the site is that you can check off a box for each one you enter so that you don't accidentally enter the same single entry contest twice.

There are definitely some scam type contests on there, but you can usually get a good feel for which ones those are. I like how they sort everything by day, so I normally go in once a day and enter all of the new contests for that day and if I have time I'll usually check to see what contests are expiring so I can make sure that I didn't miss anything.

They have quite a few contests that don't show up on SD and the tool to help track whether you've entered something or not, so it makes a nice companion to SD, IMO.