19th Annual National Sweepstakes Convention

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1. I told the Beauchamps that anything negative I posted was not based on their loving friendship with BAR. They had to have known about the major problems with the buffets and dinner.

2. Food service and buffets. They ran out of plates, set ups, cole slaw, drinks, and food for the disabled who had to wait up to half an hour for service. It was known to the management that people were diabetic, had food allergies, etc. that required special food but there seemed to be a belief that bagels, lousey churros (staff warned me on that one), yucky breakfast sandwiches and other stuff was acceptable. Vegans, religious diets, allergy/celiac, diabetics, etc had no breakfast. Water coolers went dry but who cared.

3. The beauchamps KNEW that there were going to be parkers who needed chairs but there were about 4 in the convention lobby and and a few others. They needed about 50 minimum chairs but had no chairs for the disabled, pregant and tired people.

4. MASS CONFUSION. The Beuachamps KNEW that people get confused at conventions. Instead of saying to people "Please, form one line on each side and drop your pink ticket in the bowl" they just left us to fend for ourselves and many of us had to set on the floor while waiting. What is the Prize Closet? where do we go? A lot of confusion.

5. As for the blog of the Contest Queen. As you see Champagne was not alone in the herd that left the place early.
We left when the raffles drawings began to spend extra time with Nicole at the pool as we did not participate in any of the raffles. Why not? They are only applicable to Americans as the prizes are stamps, envelopes, etc.

6. As go complaints, they are members of BAR's site which had complaints.

7. Should you go to NH 2009? YES as they learned form this convention how to screw up a convention.

8. Tiny Momo did show up to the convention. I talked to her friends Pamcakes and GeminiLion who now are spreading rumours about me including that I stole their bleeping troll. HATE ALERT: BAR and friends have a troll named Janky which was one of my online alias. YEP That troll is me. Some really really STUPID PEOPLE had the audacity to accuse me of troll stealing yet failed to realize that there was no way for me to get near their precious troll. GeminiLion said I was gross, thank you very much. Takes one to know one is my motto.

9. I will be talking to Ken and will work with him if I can to get us into the NH convention. I want to see us at a table in the vendor room. I will donate time and money. We would give away 1000 goody bags of about $3 each. Pen with "www.sweepsadvantage.com home to over 1000 free snail and online sweeps" then add cute junk like a postcard or stamps or something. Let me think of other stunts like SA t-shirts that we could wear to the convention. We got one year and we at SA have been letting Ken and SA down by not helping out with the convention. SA WILL BE THERE NEXT YEAR AND RULE THE CONVENTION ROOST. We will all go up there and work as a team to help each other with transportation and rooms and what ever else we have to do to make SA #1.

10. Should you go to San Antonio? YES
You can stay in a Motel 6 or the Menger for cheap and have fun cheap like the trolley ride, the Market, the Alamo is free, Riverwalk is free and the boat ride is like $10 and worth it, Breckenridge park has hiking, a pretty sunken garden, a hike up to Chinese Tea Garden, a fun train to ride, and a Zoo. It is worth it if you find the local restaurants and there are great things to see and do there. The Marriott is a great hotel but the parking and room for one night cost me $180.
 
I am really sorry things turned out the way they did for you guys. I would love to support SA in any way I can next year. I can't say I would be attending the convention but maybe I could do something else.

As for the other things that happened with members of that site. It's to be expected but I do believe there are great members there. Just not the ones who post. It's just childish behavior.
 
8. Tiny Momo did show up to the convention. I talked to her friends Pamcakes and GeminiLion who now are spreading rumours about me including that I stole their bleeping troll. HATE ALERT: BAR and friends have a troll named Janky which was one of my online alias. YEP That troll is me. Some really really STUPID PEOPLE had the audacity to accuse me of troll stealing yet failed to realize that there was no way for me to get near their precious troll. GeminiLion said I was gross, thank you very much. Takes one to know one is my motto.

10. Should you go to San Antonio? YES
You can stay in a Motel 6 or the Menger for cheap and have fun cheap like the trolley ride, the Market, the Alamo is free, Riverwalk is free and the boat ride is like $10 and worth it, Breckenridge park has hiking, a pretty sunken garden, a hike up to Chinese Tea Garden, a fun train to ride, and a Zoo. It is worth it if you find the local restaurants and there are great things to see and do there. The Marriott is a great hotel but the parking and room for one night cost me $180.

I promised myself a long time ago I wouldn't get sucked into the internet drama but there are several untruths posted here that need to be cleared up. I have edited your post so I can respond to the two items of which I have some facts about.

I started the traveling troll thread. My screen name on ZZZ is ZZZPickedMyNick (or as y'all post it ZZZPickedMyNick). I promise you that Janky was NOT named after YOU or anyone else. As sweepers I think we can all determine where the name came from. I had no idea who you were until this weekend at the convention and let me explain how I found out who you are. I was standing outside in the smoking area and you came out yelling at the parking guys to get your "xxxx car", "where is my xxxx car", etc. So I asked who you were. Another time I was walking with some other people from the vendor area down to the elevators and I heard "mole" coming from you directed toward another person who was walking beside me. I understand that this wasn't the only time this sort of thing happened but the people you directed your venom toward were very classy people and just ignored your hate. Yet another time I was in the vendor area and you walked in and started speaking very loudly about something one of the vendors had, according to you, done wrong.

The entire time I was there and if you were nearby I heard you xxxxxxing about one thing or another or raising your voice to one of the hotel staff about something that was irritating to you. If people were talking about you the only things I heard were about how you were berating the hotel staff and your "nice" little comments every time someone walked past you. I'm sorry but if you want to be treated with respect then you need to start treating others with respect.

Now as far as who took the trolls? I don't know and we are already moving on. I will say that the lowlife who did take them will have bad luck rained upon their heads for a very long time. I also hope the peep that was taken with the trolls comes unsewn and poops all over the person who took him. The troll thread is a fun thread meant for everyone to enjoy. There are a lot of ZZZ members who have enjoyed the antics of the trolls and I refuse to allow you or anyone else bring that down.

The Menger Hotel is a fabulous hotel but as far as cheap? Ummm I think someone needs to check their website again. The Marriott was $125 per night and the parking was $21 per day. Not sure how you got $180 from that unless you are including taxes but ANY hotel in the downtown area is at least $100 per night and up.

I enjoyed my first convention tremendously and I hope to attend many more.
 
Yes, this is not other sweep sites and bad language is not acceptable here!

Sorry to hear your doll is missing, but coming here, to pick a fight over a doll is not appropriate. It is also not appropriate if your intent is to come here just to fight with a member. You had your say. Now, if you would like to come to SA to check out our wonderful sweeping tools, welcome. If you are happy at your sweeps site, then I wish you the best of luck.

Churchy has issues with members from your site. Some of the issues I know of are legitimate. Perhaps you can review this thread

From this thread:

Churchy you can bunk with me on the concierge level! I have 2 other roomies! Sounds like you need a break!

OMG that would be awesome, it would be crowded but awesome, will PM you, or contact me at my gmail.

cries, you are too sweet.

I called to double check the room reservation, and they said it was canceled. I said "WHAT?"
The card I used to hold the room expired on June 30th. So now we are out of a room. There is nothing left at that hotel, and I have called 3 surrounding hotels now too, and there is nothing because there are a bunch of insurance people in town for a convention too. So now I am looking for a room, and I may not even go now, at least my plane ticket is refundable.
I am really really pissed off right now--- churchy I sent you a PM as well.

This sucks. :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing:

ATTENTION, I STILL HAVE MY ROOM.

Call me if you were staying with Tinny and tiny also.

Right now we could do one person outside of town and rent a car. That would be $950 room, $200 car, $250 room outside of town and parking. $1400 total is still $300 a person.

Plan B is for 3 people to bunk with me and that is about $950 so we are talking about $240 each. Contact me if you were with tinymomo and I will put you up in the Rivercentre.

I have to talk to the Hotel about the rate for 4 people. :scratch:

Sorry to hear that Churchy.
I found out my son will be on leave that week, and he has decided to marry his fiance before he goes to Afghanistan.
But I will see you all at the convention in 2009!

I GIVE UP. I am tired of my emotions beig played with. I sit crying and just woke up. YEAH we ahve a concietrge room and i am so ahppy WAIT no we do notu then WAIT we can get together, yeah seaworld the yeah fiesta texas.

oh like sorry oopsy

I AM TIRED OF THIS ROLLER COASTER OF EMOTIONS.

I AM SO TIRED I MAY CANCEL

I have no way of getting a roommate to pay in advance. No seaworld. No around the place transpertation. I so wanted to go to San Antonio but unless someone can tell me one reason why I should go and how I am to afford this trip then it is off,

I will work on changing the room last minute for a cheap hotel and stay there and come back early, LIE TO MOTHER AND FRIENDS. I will take a vacation but when WDW is $69 a night plus tax and I can stay in a motel in Indiana for under $50 a night why go to San Antonio.

I left other site as I have ADD SID and quirks. I cannot believe that people enjoy and get thrills out of hurting other people. So what if I was happy and planning things. So waht if I was on the phone to the hotel, who pays for that? so what if I had all my dreams dashed.

I GIVE UP. Everything is gone and i am too tired to continue on to the convention.

I don't think you understand. Oldest son- getting married. The military gave him 4 days-and I am not going to miss that. it is not all about you. He surprised the hell out of me when he called Sunday and they said they decided to marry before he deploys to Afghanistan. Fighting for your freedom too, I might add.

So, as you can see, Churchy has been on an emotional roller coaster for some time over this event. Much of which was caused by someone intentionally trying to hurt her. Your coming here to do the same is not acceptable. Remember to address the issues and not attack the person. If you are not used to this with your forum board experience, I think you should stick around. You'd be amazed at how much fun you can have.

A point for all members to remember. There are people of all kinds here. Many people have physical or emotional disabilities. Just like our parents used to say, we are all equal. If someone has a disability, we need to make sure we understand where they are coming from. No, we don't owe them anything, but we need to be compassionate, understanding and respectful. Isn't it a shame, that in the US, we need a law to make us do what is right for the disabled in our society? :scratch:

I hope you chose to stay and get to know people here. If not, that's fine too. I know I love the way SA is laid out and wouldn't want to look elsewhere. It's a comfort thing.

I am happy you had a wonderful time at the convention. It is always great to hear every one's opinions. Best of luck to you.
 
As I stated in my original post I wanted to clear the things that I knew facts about. I have no intention of fighting with anyone. She posted some things that were untrue as far as the troll and hotel and I know for a fact that they were untrue so I wanted to clear them up. I also went into detail about my knowledge of her and when that knowledge happened to verify the fact that the troll was not "named after her or her alias".

As far as what went on between her and TinyMoMo I don't want to know as I have no interest in it. In my opinion that is between her and TinyMoMo, not me. That is why I never mentioned that part of her post in mine.

I came back to apologize for my language and to correct the language in my original post but I see that has been done.

You are absolutely correct about it being a comfort thing as far as which site to choose.
 
You are absolutely correct about it being a comfort thing as far as which site to choose.

Since you're talking about the comfort thing, some of us are uncomfortable attending a convention so dominated by the other site owner, who has a history of being publicly and privately abusive toward members and past members. For the sake of the show and the business, the convention runners should stay more site neutral.

I agree with you totally as far as the Churchy-Momo drama is concerned. It's a petty gripe between members and neither sites' fault.
 
1. I told the Beauchamps that anything negative I posted was not based on their loving friendship with BAR. They had to have known about the major problems with the buffets and dinner.

2. Food service and buffets. They ran out of plates, set ups, cole slaw, drinks, and food for the disabled who had to wait up to half an hour for service. It was known to the management that people were diabetic, had food allergies, etc. that required special food but there seemed to be a belief that bagels, lousey churros (staff warned me on that one), yucky breakfast sandwiches and other stuff was acceptable. Vegans, religious diets, allergy/celiac, diabetics, etc had no breakfast. Water coolers went dry but who cared.

3. The beauchamps KNEW that there were going to be parkers who needed chairs but there were about 4 in the convention lobby and and a few others. They needed about 50 minimum chairs but had no chairs for the disabled, pregant and tired people.

4. MASS CONFUSION. The Beuachamps KNEW that people get confused at conventions. Instead of saying to people "Please, form one line on each side and drop your pink ticket in the bowl" they just left us to fend for ourselves and many of us had to set on the floor while waiting. What is the Prize Closet? where do we go? A lot of confusion.

5. As for the blog of the Contest Queen. As you see Champagne was not alone in the herd that left the place early.
We left when the raffles drawings began to spend extra time with Nicole at the pool as we did not participate in any of the raffles. Why not? They are only applicable to Americans as the prizes are stamps, envelopes, etc.

6. As go complaints, they are members of BAR's site which had complaints.

7. Should you go to NH 2009? YES as they learned form this convention how to screw up a convention.

8. Tiny Momo did show up to the convention. I talked to her friends Pamcakes and GeminiLion who now are spreading rumours about me including that I stole their bleeping troll. HATE ALERT: BAR and friends have a troll named Janky which was one of my online alias. YEP That troll is me. Some really really STUPID PEOPLE had the audacity to accuse me of troll stealing yet failed to realize that there was no way for me to get near their precious troll. GeminiLion said I was gross, thank you very much. Takes one to know one is my motto.

9. I will be talking to Ken and will work with him if I can to get us into the NH convention. I want to see us at a table in the vendor room. I will donate time and money. We would give away 1000 goody bags of about $3 each. Pen with "www.sweepsadvantage.com home to over 1000 free snail and online sweeps" then add cute junk like a postcard or stamps or something. Let me think of other stunts like SA t-shirts that we could wear to the convention. We got one year and we at SA have been letting Ken and SA down by not helping out with the convention. SA WILL BE THERE NEXT YEAR AND RULE THE CONVENTION ROOST. We will all go up there and work as a team to help each other with transportation and rooms and what ever else we have to do to make SA #1.

10. Should you go to San Antonio? YES
You can stay in a Motel 6 or the Menger for cheap and have fun cheap like the trolley ride, the Market, the Alamo is free, Riverwalk is free and the boat ride is like $10 and worth it, Breckenridge park has hiking, a pretty sunken garden, a hike up to Chinese Tea Garden, a fun train to ride, and a Zoo. It is worth it if you find the local restaurants and there are great things to see and do there. The Marriott is a great hotel but the parking and room for one night cost me $180.

We didn't exactly "meet". As I recall I was sitting in the hotel lobby catching up on some emails when suddenly a lady appeared and started complaining about everything and anything. You did not once introduce yourself to me, just started complaining about this and that. I saw by your name tag who you were and I said Hello to you.

I did not start any "rumors" about you, I have better things to do with my time and as far as calling you gross I didn't do that either. I don't know where you are getting your information from.

I was there to have a good time, that's it. I don't have beefs with anyone here, why should I? This is all so silly to me anyway.

For the most part all I could see was you berating staff, complaining at every turn.
 
I'm confused...but just want to ask one question.

Are you talking about a troll doll? Like the ones with crazy hair, and jewels on thier belly button? Or "troll" like internet troll? :scratch:
 
Just want to backup Wolfie's post that bad language is not tolerated here. There are some children that may be reading these posts. I don't have any patience for dealing with this bad language rule so please adhere. Thank you.

-Ken


Yes, this is not other sweep sites and bad language is not acceptable here!

Sorry to hear your doll is missing, but coming here, to pick a fight over a doll is not appropriate. It is also not appropriate if your intent is to come here just to fight with a member. You had your say. Now, if you would like to come to SA to check out our wonderful sweeping tools, welcome. If you are happy at your sweeps site, then I wish you the best of luck.

Churchy has issues with members from your site. Some of the issues I know of are legitimate. Perhaps you can review this thread

From this thread:

Churchy you can bunk with me on the concierge level! I have 2 other roomies! Sounds like you need a break!

OMG that would be awesome, it would be crowded but awesome, will PM you, or contact me at my gmail.

cries, you are too sweet.

I called to double check the room reservation, and they said it was canceled. I said "WHAT?"
The card I used to hold the room expired on June 30th. So now we are out of a room. There is nothing left at that hotel, and I have called 3 surrounding hotels now too, and there is nothing because there are a bunch of insurance people in town for a convention too. So now I am looking for a room, and I may not even go now, at least my plane ticket is refundable.
I am really really pissed off right now--- churchy I sent you a PM as well.

This sucks. :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing:

ATTENTION, I STILL HAVE MY ROOM.

Call me if you were staying with Tinny and tiny also.

Right now we could do one person outside of town and rent a car. That would be $950 room, $200 car, $250 room outside of town and parking. $1400 total is still $300 a person.

Plan B is for 3 people to bunk with me and that is about $950 so we are talking about $240 each. Contact me if you were with tinymomo and I will put you up in the Rivercentre.

I have to talk to the Hotel about the rate for 4 people. :scratch:

Sorry to hear that Churchy.
I found out my son will be on leave that week, and he has decided to marry his fiance before he goes to Afghanistan.
But I will see you all at the convention in 2009!

I GIVE UP. I am tired of my emotions beig played with. I sit crying and just woke up. YEAH we ahve a concietrge room and i am so ahppy WAIT no we do notu then WAIT we can get together, yeah seaworld the yeah fiesta texas.

oh like sorry oopsy

I AM TIRED OF THIS ROLLER COASTER OF EMOTIONS.

I AM SO TIRED I MAY CANCEL

I have no way of getting a roommate to pay in advance. No seaworld. No around the place transpertation. I so wanted to go to San Antonio but unless someone can tell me one reason why I should go and how I am to afford this trip then it is off,

I will work on changing the room last minute for a cheap hotel and stay there and come back early, LIE TO MOTHER AND FRIENDS. I will take a vacation but when WDW is $69 a night plus tax and I can stay in a motel in Indiana for under $50 a night why go to San Antonio.

I left other site as I have ADD SID and quirks. I cannot believe that people enjoy and get thrills out of hurting other people. So what if I was happy and planning things. So waht if I was on the phone to the hotel, who pays for that? so what if I had all my dreams dashed.

I GIVE UP. Everything is gone and i am too tired to continue on to the convention.

I don't think you understand. Oldest son- getting married. The military gave him 4 days-and I am not going to miss that. it is not all about you. He surprised the hell out of me when he called Sunday and they said they decided to marry before he deploys to Afghanistan. Fighting for your freedom too, I might add.

So, as you can see, Churchy has been on an emotional roller coaster for some time over this event. Much of which was caused by someone intentionally trying to hurt her. Your coming here to do the same is not acceptable. Remember to address the issues and not attack the person. If you are not used to this with your forum board experience, I think you should stick around. You'd be amazed at how much fun you can have.

A point for all members to remember. There are people of all kinds here. Many people have physical or emotional disabilities. Just like our parents used to say, we are all equal. If someone has a disability, we need to make sure we understand where they are coming from. No, we don't owe them anything, but we need to be compassionate, understanding and respectful. Isn't it a shame, that in the US, we need a law to make us do what is right for the disabled in our society? :scratch:

I hope you chose to stay and get to know people here. If not, that's fine too. I know I love the way SA is laid out and wouldn't want to look elsewhere. It's a comfort thing.

I am happy you had a wonderful time at the convention. It is always great to hear every one's opinions. Best of luck to you.
 
If you're just joining this thread, back up and read Wolfie's post. Well said, Wolfie!

For those of you who don't have a history with OLS, threads like this make it pretty obvious that some sweepers have some strong opinions about that other site and its webmaster. While we understand the need to vent when you feel you have been wronged, do remember two things: 1) plenty of people here have no idea what you're talking about and are confused by these kinds of postings; and 2) we have reason to believe that members from that other site come here to try and catch people at SA saying bad things about them. Don't give them the satisfaction. People come here to escape from the drama that is rampant at OLS. We don't need it here.

SA has more free sweeps that any other site on the web. We have great sweeps tools, an attentive webmaster, and wonderful, supportive members. Let's celebrate what's great about us instead of rehashing what isn't so great about them. SA is the best!
 
I think it's time to put convention 19 into history and begin working towards convention 20! Hopefully that will be more suited to everyone's expectations.

Now go enter some sweeps before I win them all!
 
I hope I can squeeze it in. That is the worst time of the year for me, work wise, but you never know! :)
 
That's great. You, your hubby and kids, my mom, her boyfriend, my husband our 2 dogs and 2 cats. I'll be at a wedding. :laughing:

I have not seen any sweeps for the fair yet. I can't believe it. I know you can get discount tickets online or at Big Y Supermarkets. Let me know when you are coming to town.

Don't know if it's an option, but, Mon-Thurs, they run a $5 after 5 promo.

Have I told you how much I hate this time of year. The traffic is horrible around town.
 
That's great. You, your hubby and kids, my mom, her boyfriend, my husband our 2 dogs and 2 cats. I'll be at a wedding. :laughing:

:laughing: :laughing:

I have not seen any sweeps for the fair yet. I can't believe it. I know you can get discount tickets online or at Big Y Supermarkets. Let me know when you are coming to town.

We bought our tickets online already. We're coming up on Saturday, 09/13, and leaving Monday, 09/15. We always stay at one of the hotels on the 50% off list with our Entertainment.com membership. We procrastinated a little and didn't get the one we were aiming for, the Best Western on Riverdale. We're next door to that one though. I like staying at the Sheraton across the bridge when they're on the list.

I didn't even see the sweepstakes for getting married on the midway!

Have I told you how much I hate this time of year. The traffic is horrible around town.

At least you don't have that kind of traffic everyday from Memorial Day Weekend to at least Labor Day Weekend. Our roads are swamped when the summer people come out. We try not to go out of the house as much as possible. It can take forever to get from here down to Riverhead to do shopping. Sometimes, it takes forever to get out of our road.
 
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