Am I imagiminating things or was there NO winner announced for the daily $250 Amazon gc contest thread for June 26th?

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07-03-2025 at 09:05 PM.

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The last person to enter quoted the OP of the thread. Yet I don't see a post from a mod announcing the winner for that days contest and the list of winners on the main contest thread is missing a name for that day.

Also...holy 🤬 lurkers en masse for this contest. So many accounts that have single digit post counts and no real history coming out of the woodwork.

https://corp-site.slickdeals.net/june-2025-sweepstakes-official-rules/ (see #5 - winner verification)

tl;dr there are a lot of steps required in the verification process so if there are hiccups it can take longer

while yes contests do tend to bring out a lot of lurkers our hope is always that they stick around and start contributing

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07-04-2025 at 01:13 PM.

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while yes contests do tend to bring out a lot of lurkers our hope is always that they stick around and start contributing

Judging by some of the account ages of the ones that posted in the contest threads I think you'll have a better chance of seeing Haley's Comet than some of these users actually being active users.

Though I shouldn't talk since I've gone quasi lurker lately.

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07-06-2025 at 01:47 AM.

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The last person to enter quoted the OP of the thread. Yet I don't see a post from a mod announcing the winner for that days contest and the list of winners on the main contest thread is missing a name for that day.

Also...holy 🤬 lurkers en masse for this contest. So many accounts that have single digit post counts and no real history coming out of the woodwork.

You were our lucky winner & congratulations! That's strange, we emailed the gift card directly to you? We sincerely regret this mistake on our part, and we'll do an electronic funds xfer directly to your account. As an added convenience, we'll include and extra $0.50 processing gift to you! Kindly provide you bank account # & we'll begin transfer of $$$ most expediently!!. God Bless!! Thanks for you participation!!!

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07-06-2025 at 04:36 PM.

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You were our lucky winner & congratulations! That's strange, we emailed the gift card directly to you? We sincerely regret this mistake on our part, and we'll do an electronic funds xfer directly to your account. As an added convenience, we'll include and extra $0.50 processing gift to you! Kindly provide you bank account # & we'll begin transfer of $$$ most expediently!!. God Bless!! Thanks for you participation!!!

My account number is 123-456-789. If you cannot make the transfer post haste then feel free to call me at 555-867-5309. Ask for Jenny.

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07-07-2025 at 03:37 PM.

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The last person to enter quoted the OP of the thread. Yet I don't see a post from a mod announcing the winner for that days contest and the list of winners on the main contest thread is missing a name for that day.

Also...holy 🤬 lurkers en masse for this contest. So many accounts that have single digit post counts and no real history coming out of the woodwork.

Wait a second. Aren't you boycotting Amazon?

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07-07-2025 at 05:04 PM.

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Wait a second. Aren't you boycotting Amazon?

If I can get gift cards cheap (or free) or I find a halfway decent deal I'll still buy from them. Last time I had gc's from them was when their trade in program was going strong and Amazon Warehouse had the occasional insane deal (they had 10,000+ $20 Dualshock 4's, used good soon after the new model released).

I almost bought Prime during that time too, but they only take credit or debit cards for paying for Prime. So I burnt through the $500+ I had in gc's and that was that.