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Thread: Tips to Winning Contests & Sweepstakes

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    thanks, couldn't agree with you more. Last year my husband got a call saying he won a contest he entered at such and such a place...then they told him it was a "FREE trip to Jamaica for one week all inclusive for 2"...all he needed to do was put a deposit of $300 on his visa to secure his "winnings"...he was excited until they told him that ....He hung up.
    If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is..one thing we learned though, you can report scams like this to the BBB or Phonebusters.

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    thanks for the tips, i have had a dry spell lately

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    question: I live in a house that has 4 apartments in it..I live in the back...mom lives in the basement...can she enter the same contets as I do...also the apartments are not marked..mine does not actually say.."back apt" , I do however put back apt on my mailing address. Thanks

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    Do you use the same computor? If not I think it shouldn't be a problem unless it says one per household or family then I would be a bit reluctant to try.
    You should be able to enter one per e-mail address or one per person no problem... I would think.
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    yes on same computer..she has her own email address as well

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    Great tips! Thanks maybe now I might start winning! ha ha
    Nosey Rosey

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    omg i did not know that about the robo form!! i'll have to stick to using it to sign up for newsletters *sigh* shoulda known it was too easy!


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    Great tips! I know a few people who have won locally. Including a couple who won a trip down south a few years ago from a Toronto talk show (CFRB I think).

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    i have been entering contests like crazy since october, and only one two secondary prizes.. i read on a few contest blogs when i started that using roboform was a good idea, so i've been using it.. are you telling me that i haven't been winning because of it??! grrrrrr.. so many hours wasted!!

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    hahah and by "only one two secondary prizes" CLEARLY i mean only WON two secondary prizes.. (d'uh moment!!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jennnn View Post
    i have been entering contests like crazy since october, and only one two secondary prizes.. i read on a few contest blogs when i started that using roboform was a good idea, so i've been using it.. are you telling me that i haven't been winning because of it??! grrrrrr.. so many hours wasted!!
    Some sites are OK with it, but so many are including that in their rules. I don't take the time and read everything now.
    By the time I've read the rules, I could have entered the contest.

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    yeah, i went through my bookmarks of all my daily contests, and just used the Ctrl+F Function (in Firefox) to search the rules for words like 'robotic', 'automatic', 'mechanically reproduced' etc

    i found quite a few that restrict it but now i have them all sorted into specific categories for autofill or not.. so hopefully my track record picks up a bit!

    just out of curiosity.. how much time do you guys spend doing this per day/per week? and how often do you win?
    Last edited by Jennnn; Mon, Mar 30th, 2009 at 08:35 AM.

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    guys, you think using autofil is the same as mozilla and google remembering your info? I dont use autofil but, my mozilla keeps the data.

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    Hello, and thank you for a great thread! I've only won once, a Chatelaine contest, but now I'm hooked!!

    I do have a question, however....is it true that it's not good idea to just click on a link in the contest pages, since it can be tracked to a contesting post such as we have here?
    In other words....should we copy/paste the link address and open it from another page, such as our 'home page'?
    Thanks for any help you can provide and contined
    good luck to all of us!.....Lynn

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn49 View Post
    Hello, and thank you for a great thread! I've only won once, a Chatelaine contest, but now I'm hooked!!

    I do have a question, however....is it true that it's not good idea to just click on a link in the contest pages, since it can be tracked to a contesting post such as we have here?
    In other words....should we copy/paste the link address and open it from another page, such as our 'home page'?
    Thanks for any help you can provide and contined
    good luck to all of us!.....Lynn
    Just to be on the safe side, I always copy/paste the url onto a new page.
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