Contests & Sweepstakes Tips, Advice, and Questions

Quote from mannymann : Those came via UPS? From the same sender?.. I'm waiting on my watches from that

young america yes...just realized the t shirts came usps and not ups

Quote from mckiney.t.j : young america yes...just realized the t shirts came usps and not ups

Thanks for the info, well see what it is tomorrow..

When you win to you usually find out by e-mail or phone call? I was a little nervous about putting my phone number down as I don't want a lot of telemarketers calling.

Quote from northeastgal : When you win to you usually find out by e-mail or phone call? I was a little nervous about putting my phone number down as I don't want a lot of telemarketers calling.

The majority of my wins have been email or just suprised with a package at my door, my trip wins have been all surprise letters in the mail, I have only gotten one phone call about a win in my years of sweeping and it was for an ipad.

Quote from northeastgal : When you win to you usually find out by e-mail or phone call? I was a little nervous about putting my phone number down as I don't want a lot of telemarketers calling.

For my biggest wins I've had two trips that called, two trips and a cash prize that were emailed, and one cash prize that was mailed. Smaller things have always been a combination of mail or email for me. If you are entering for big prizes then you absolutely need to put your correct phone number down and you need to answer the phone as many will also not leave messages if you don't pick up. One of those trips that I got a phone call for? They told me they had called three other people before they got to me and they all lost out because they couldn't get through to them.

For what it's worth, I have not received any telemarketing calls as a result of entering contests and I've been entering for about three years now. Spam emails, though, yes so definitely use a separate email for entering.

had a situation come up today. here's my post from the pepsi thread

"Affy for the pizza GC just showed up. Wrong name it it though :-/ I tried calling the # and there closed. I also sent a email. pretty upsetting because i wrote them to make sure they had the right name. They assured me they did . I feel its there fault for not putting a place on the form for the name. some people had their prize show up with no name. Hopefully everything works out. I already lost a ultrabook this month due to a glitch. it would be very hard to keep sweeping if lose this win. "

I pretty worried at this point. Anyone have experience with wrong names on affys?

Wow, last day of the month is brutal for entering if you haven't kept up. Am I the only one that goes through a marathon entering session at end of month? Granted, I've only been at it for a few weeks so haven't really had time to work ahead, but between Facebook and single entries something like 500 ending today. Been at it for over 5 hours trying to hit as many as possible; don't think I'm gonna get to all. Whew! Gotta do better for September.

Quote from bittripfan : had a situation come up today. here's my post from the pepsi thread "Affy for the pizza GC just showed up. Wrong name it it though :-/ I tried calling the # and there closed. I also sent a email. pretty upsetting because i wrote them to make sure they had the right name. They assured me they did . I feel its there fault for not putting a place on the form for the name. some people had their prize show up with no name. Hopefully everything works out. I already lost a ultrabook this month due to a glitch. it would be very hard to keep sweeping if lose this win. " I pretty worried at this point. Anyone have experience with wrong names on affys?

Can't let it bother you...I had eprize welch on an email saying I won $10,000 w. an attached affy. Have to assume things will be better in the future and you will win bigger things.

Quote from implode : Can't let it bother you...I had eprize welch on an email saying I won $10,000 w. an attached affy. Have to assume things will be better in the future and you will win bigger things.

Sorry for your lost. That would be very hard to recover from. it wouldn't be that big a deal if it wasn't $730 worth of GC. Hopefully after the long weekend I will get a email letting me know its fine and just to fill out the affy. (just the letter with it has the wrong name) If I lose this to that's over $1,500 prizes lost this month :-( I think I'm going the wrong direction. At least the Ipad is still on its way

Do most people check the box to receive updates, emails, etc. from the contest company? I was just wondering if it truly makes a difference or I am just filling up my email with junk for no reason.

Quote from sjmcneil : Do most people check the box to receive updates, emails, etc. from the contest company? I was just wondering if it truly makes a difference or I am just filling up my email with junk for no reason.

If I can uncheck something, I do. Usually, they tell you if you have to but if it doesn't, then I just take the risk of not being eligible. I'd rather not have the spam.

I guess a company could be sneaky and make it a requirement to check a box but not tell you that you have to, but I doubt it.

Quote : Only one entry per person will be eligible. Entries will be eligible to be considered for all prizes for which the Prize Entry Period is still open and the applicable Prize Drawing Date has not passed. All individual Prize Entry Periods commence at 12:00 AM CDT on the posted beginning date and close at 11:59 PM CDT on the posted ending date.

I was curious to your interpretation of how these rules are worded...

A) Limit one entry, and it carries over to all entry periods.
or
B) One entry per period, and you have to enter each period to qualify for that drawing.

I think the answer is A), however it seems worded a bit confusingly--hate to mess things up and not get max entries.

Quote from implode : I was curious to your interpretation of how these rules are worded... A) Limit one entry, and it carries over to all entry periods. or B) One entry per period, and you have to enter each period to qualify for that drawing. I think the answer is A), however it seems worded a bit confusingly--hate to mess things up and not get max entries.

My guess is A).

Quote from implode : I was curious to your interpretation of how these rules are worded... A) Limit one entry, and it carries over to all entry periods. or B) One entry per period, and you have to enter each period to qualify for that drawing. I think the answer is A), however it seems worded a bit confusingly--hate to mess things up and not get max entries.

Based on that wording, I would also say A. I recently entered one just like this and made the assumption it was a single entry one time for ALL the periods.