After a year of entering sweepstakes...

[fustercluck]

Been entering sweepstakes very consistently for over a year now, would say at least 25 sweeps a day (most are daily so entering the same ones over and over again a lot). Here's what I've won:

Free famous star burger at Carl's Jr
$10 GC to Arby's
$10 GC to Best Buy
$10 GC to Target
Some lame mini cooler
Doritos faceplate for an Xbox 360 (which I don't have)
100 xbox live points

...and that's it. What a bucket of suck. $10 Target/BB gift cards were the best things I won. Kinda figured I'd of won something good by now, spending about 30 min a day entering sweeps for a year. The moral of the story is...don't waste time entering sweeps, all you'll get is spam - both email and snail mail spam.

I'm going to keep entering sweeps though cause I'm an idiot. Better odds than the lottery I guess.

 

[dug777]

Just think, you could have worked some incredibly menial job one night/morning a week instead and had a nice little nest egg

 

[d33pt]

i remember someone else on ATOT does that and wins nice stuff like lcd tv's.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: d33pt
i remember someone else on ATOT does that and wins nice stuff like lcd tv's.

LolaWiz, I think.

 

[uhohs]

geekbabe

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: uhohs
geekbabe

Oh yeah. Lola won a vacation, that's what threw me off.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

I haven't done great but I've done pretty good.

1 x 19" WS LCD monitor
1 x 2GB DDR2
1 x 600W Power Supply
1 x IPOD Nano (2GB)

 

[slugbug55]

I've won my fair share this year

- Cooler Master Stacker 830 Nvidia Edition
- Lord of the Rings Collectors Edition DVD box set
- 4 x NHL 08 xbox 360 games
- Cooler Master X-Craft 250 external hard drive case
- NZXT LEXA Blackline midtower
- Call of Duty 4 PC
- 2 x $50 Amazon gift cards
- Tagan ICY BOX 2.5" hard drive caddy
- Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 2GB DDR2 ram kit
- Nova Killer Mousepads
- Steelpad S&S gaming mouse surface
- CM Aquagate S1
- XFX Fatality 7600GT
- CM Realpower Pro 750w PSU
- CM Hyper 212 CPU cooler
- 2 x CM Windrider PWM fan hubs
- 4 x CM PWM 120mm fans

 

[Kreon]

Originally posted by: slugbug55
I've won my fair share this year

- Cooler Master Stacker 830 Nvidia Edition
- Lord of the Rings Collectors Edition DVD box set
- 4 x NHL 08 xbox 360 games
- Cooler Master X-Craft 250 external hard drive case
- NZXT LEXA Blackline midtower
- Call of Duty 4 PC
- 2 x $50 Amazon gift cards
- Tagan ICY BOX 2.5" hard drive caddy
- Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 2GB DDR2 ram kit
- Nova Killer Mousepads
- Steelpad S&S gaming mouse surface
- CM Aquagate S1
- XFX Fatality 7600GT
- CM Realpower Pro 750w PSU
- CM Hyper 212 CPU cooler
- 2 x CM Windrider PWM fan hubs
- 4 x CM PWM 120mm fans

Where do you find sweeps?
Google them?
Click on the little popups and such?

If those, how hard are they to enter?
How much SPAM do they give?

 

[slugbug55]

We have a few good contest sites here in Canada.

 

[fustercluck]

Originally posted by: slugbug55
I've won my fair share this year

- Cooler Master Stacker 830 Nvidia Edition
- Lord of the Rings Collectors Edition DVD box set
- 4 x NHL 08 xbox 360 games
- Cooler Master X-Craft 250 external hard drive case
- NZXT LEXA Blackline midtower
- Call of Duty 4 PC
- 2 x $50 Amazon gift cards
- Tagan ICY BOX 2.5" hard drive caddy
- Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 2GB DDR2 ram kit
- Nova Killer Mousepads
- Steelpad S&S gaming mouse surface
- CM Aquagate S1
- XFX Fatality 7600GT
- CM Realpower Pro 750w PSU
- CM Hyper 212 CPU cooler
- 2 x CM Windrider PWM fan hubs
- 4 x CM PWM 120mm fans

Howd you win 4 NHL 08 360 games? - Seems to be a lot of computer hardware contests I'm not aware of also.

Kreon: There are few sites that specialize in finding all the sweepstakes you can enter, putting them all on one website. I really don't get much spam at all after entering sweeps for a year. I probably get more spam in my real email account than my dummy email account (that I made for sweeps entering). Usually when entering sweeps they'll give you an option so they won't contact you.

 

[fustercluck]

bump (for no real reason)

 

[DanTMWTMP]

damn..the only thing i've ever one were these ok altec-lansing 5.1 speakers and a thrustmaster joystick.

 

[slugbug55]

Pepsi Canada contest. There was no limit to how many times you could win. Prizes included 32" LCD TVs, Xbox 360 Arcade consoles, NHL 08 games, autographed Sidney Crosby Jerseys and Hockey sticks, etc.

Quite a few people won multiple times.

 

[matas]

I want to win something!!

 

[Gigantopithecus]

30 minutes a day * 365 days a year = 182.5 hours. Seems like the three gcs & free burger were the only things of value you won. Let's be generous & say the burger was worth $5. That's $35 total. $35 / 182.5 hours. That's 19 cents an hour. Let's say you worked an $8/hour job for 182.5 hours. That'd make you $1,460. If you bought 1,460 $1 lotto scratchers, you'd probably end up winning a lot more than $35.

 

[fustercluck]

Originally posted by: Gigantopithecus
30 minutes a day * 365 days a year = 182.5 hours. Seems like the three gcs & free burger were the only things of value you won. Let's be generous & say the burger was worth $5. That's $35 total. $35 / 182.5 hours. That's 19 cents an hour. Let's say you worked an $8/hour job for 182.5 hours. That'd make you $1,460. If you bought 1,460 $1 lotto scratchers, you'd probably end up winning a lot more than $35.

Yeah it's bad. Actually probably only 20 minutes a day, but still. I figure I'll win 10k or 50k sooner or later and it'll all even out

 

[santuitman]

You need to fnd a job wher you enter contests while working... gotta go boss coming!

 

[Slew Foot]

Originally posted by: Gigantopithecus
30 minutes a day * 365 days a year = 182.5 hours. Seems like the three gcs & free burger were the only things of value you won. Let's be generous & say the burger was worth $5. That's $35 total. $35 / 182.5 hours. That's 19 cents an hour. Let's say you worked an $8/hour job for 182.5 hours. That'd make you $1,460. If you bought 1,460 $1 lotto scratchers, you'd probably end up winning a lot more than $35.

That's why I stopped entering contests. I can go to work for 180 hours and buy a new car.

 

[fustercluck]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot

Originally posted by: Gigantopithecus
30 minutes a day * 365 days a year = 182.5 hours. Seems like the three gcs & free burger were the only things of value you won. Let's be generous & say the burger was worth $5. That's $35 total. $35 / 182.5 hours. That's 19 cents an hour. Let's say you worked an $8/hour job for 182.5 hours. That'd make you $1,460. If you bought 1,460 $1 lotto scratchers, you'd probably end up winning a lot more than $35.

That's why I stopped entering contests. I can go to work for 180 hours and buy a new car.

You get $100 per hour? - More?

I got a mountain dew Halo 3 shirt in the mail the other day. It's pretty cool actually, I was never told that I won it either.

 

[littlebitstrouds]

Originally posted by: Gigantopithecus
30 minutes a day * 365 days a year = 182.5 hours. Seems like the three gcs & free burger were the only things of value you won. Let's be generous & say the burger was worth $5. That's $35 total. $35 / 182.5 hours. That's 19 cents an hour. Let's say you worked an $8/hour job for 182.5 hours. That'd make you $1,460. If you bought 1,460 $1 lotto scratchers, you'd probably end up winning a lot more than $35.

Or you could just use down time at your existing work to enter them? Or you could even see it as fun, and enter during the downtime you would never use to work. If you mean to say, the countless hours you spend on Anandtech could have been used for work, you yourself could have made money instead of using Anandtech. I mean, you only need 6 hours of sleep a night, why aren't you working the other 18 hours? Eat on the run, don't sit down and you could be a millionaire... Or you could stop nay saying

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: uhohs
geekbabe

Oh yeah. Lola won a vacation, that's what threw me off.

Actually, WE won that vacation FOR Lola by stuffing her TGI Friday's ballot box.

 

[Rinaun]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: uhohs
geekbabe

Oh yeah. Lola won a vacation, that's what threw me off.

Actually, WE won that vacation FOR Lola by stuffing her TGI Friday's ballot box.

Wasn't it Chili's or something? The margarita paintings IIRC?

 

[mealsonwheels]

Everyone who has won something should feel lucky, I have yet to win a single thing!

 

[CrackRabbit]

I won a regulation NFL football from Pepsi, that is about it.