POLL: Do you bother with contests?

idNut

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I must say I never compete in any contest or drawings because I never feel I'll win, is this just my loser spirit or am I logical?
 

IGBT

Lifer
Jul 16, 2001
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Nope...just a big shuck and jive scam. Publishers Clearing House among the worst. A full dumpster of apps was discovered in NY. They threw out all the app's that didn't subscribe to something.
 

Kaervak

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Jul 18, 2001
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Only one I bother with is the ones from APC. Would be nice to win one of their contests. They have a lot of good stuff in them.
 

Amused

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Most drawings are just ways for companies to compile lists for spam, telemarketing, and mail lists.

If you've ever seen a telemarketing company, look at their leads... they're almost always forms from contests and drawings.
 

KthxBye

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When I was a kid I used to fill out the publishers clearinghouse sweepstakes dealies. The number of things you had to do for those was ridiculous, in addition to my name, phone number, and address, I once had affix 2 stickers, and mark where my house would be on a diagram of an intersection. Yeesh.