Amazing Odds

[chew3167]

I have noticed Burger King Contests have amazing odds like 1 in 627,000

Has anyone ever won ?

Do you enter them by snail? or at the resturant ?

 

[ll1]

I have noticed Burger King Contests have amazing odds like 1 in 627,000

Has anyone ever won ?

Do you enter them by snail? or at the resturant ?

I would like to shed some light on the snail mail entries of any sweep so people have a better idea as to how entries are drawn, on major snail mail sweeps as entries are received many of those sweeps have mini draws so every day someone draws x amount of entries from that days mail and this goes on till the last day of entry receipts so on the draw day they take those entries and place them in a barrel (or other chosen vessel) and from there pick the winners, each judging agency has there own way of picking some do grand prize on down and some chose the smaller to the bigger but it all gets done :cheers:

 

[keni75]

and here I was imagining someone wading into a haystack of postcards on the last day

 

[lidarkside]

Several years ago, I read about how sponsors/JA's handle snail mail.

Each envelope received gets assigned a number which is inputted into the computer. The envelopes are filed away in order unopened. When it's time to pick a winner, the computer randomizes for the winner, a number comes up, that envelope with that number gets pulled, and then it's opened to get the winner's information. When entries also include online entries, the numbers are entered into the computer along with the online entries.

On smaller and/or local sweepstakes, they may have a different system for doing this.

 

[ll1]

as LIDARKSIDE states many different agencies handle this process differently as time permits and with some of them cutting back things can change.

 

[gorgor]

and here I was imagining someone wading into a haystack of postcards on the last day

It happens.

My sister worked for a newspaper and they put all of the entries in a huge area that was closed off and one girl, who was not in marketing, hoped in, rolled around and pulled out the winner to a car.

She said it was hysterical.

 

[keni75]

LOL - I was right! Either way atleast now I know the assigned number thing and feel a little bit better about everyone having the same odds. The rolling around part is too funny - maybe she just should have stuck out her tongue and the first one to stick wins!