cheating on txt Coke

[amyshulk]

I have a question for all you sweep experts out there. If me and my roommate have our own accounts should only one of us play? I know the rules state that one account per person but with these cheaters I don't know if we should both play since we have the same address and use the same comp. Maybe we should play alternate days?!

You are OK - it's 2x per person/per day, not HH/ISP.

As far as anyone cheating? It's the sponsors responsiblity to deal with them. It happens more often than you'd think, but at least eprize {which runs a majority of IW's, but not this one} is on the ball:


ePrize Launches First System to Block Fraudulent Entries in Online Marketing Promotions
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-28-2005/0003285725&EDATE=

 

[rrddpp]

Thanks Amy :wave:! I am happy to know eprize won't tolerate this! They shouldn't. It's a sore nerve with me. Yesterday I spent all this time looking for coupons for my groceries, I print them out. I get to Walmart, and I am told they no longer take these coupons due to fraud. Just wish people would spend their energy on positives instead of how to cheat :cussing:!

Anyhow, I feel better saying that now lol. I really appreciate your help! Have a good day and Happy Sweeping!

 

[amyshulk]

I hear you rrddpp - I don't even bother with printable coupons anymore!!!

When i 1st started sweeping, hearing about cheaters made me so darn mad!!! :cussing:

Then I realized that anger put me in a really negative mood, which affected everything - I know, I allowed it to :nono:

Anyway, it got so bad, I said enough - either I give up on sweeping, or let it go, so I decided to not allow things like that bother me.

That's when I came up with the sweepers credo - or maybe I read it and adopted it? Either way, I'm kinda zen about it now :laughing:

 

[lidarkside]

I have a question for all you sweep experts out there. If me and my roommate have our own accounts should only one of us play? I know the rules state that one account per person but with these cheaters I don't know if we should both play since we have the same address and use the same comp. Maybe we should play alternate days?!

You can both enter all the same sweepstakes, but check the rules to make sure they don't have included "per computer". If you share the same computer, and they have that stipulation in the rules, then only one of you can enter.

 

[lidarkside]

I received this response today to my email to Coca-Cola Sweepstakes.

Thank you for contacting The Coca-Cola Company. We appreciate you taking the time to contact us regarding this issue.

I appreciate the opportunity to help you. I have routed your email to the appropriate contact for handling.

If you have any additional comments, please feel free to contact us again.

Craig
Industry and Consumer Affairs
The Coca-Cola Company

 

[loren_brothers]

...and who knows if these people aren't just bs'ing anyway. Some people do like to brag about things even if there really isn't anything to brag about.

Years ago, I kept entering one with a one-prize limit. I didn't realize it at the time though. I won twice, but they only sent one prize.

I am a firm believer that some folk just have the need to have others think that they have won something or cheated to win something. Some people are chronic liars and this fills their personal need for attention.

My Daddy used to say, "Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see!" I live by that credo, also.

A lot of folk post at 'sweeps' sites about all these great wins they have won ... but you never hear anything more about about it. Not a word ... not a whisper. Sounds strange to me! Or take the person that claims to win 10-15 wins a day every day ... yeah right!

If I don't see a "print screen" of the win notification or a picture of them holding the prize ... well, I don't really believe it. It might be true ... it might not be.

The internet allows people to be whatever they want to create themselves to be. Being a liar on the internet is an intergral part of life for a major of portion of "chat room" users.

:crazytongue: But of course nobody here has that problem!!!! Thank goodness!

 

[lidarkside]

"The other site" that some of us former members of talk about occasionally has some members there like that. They have their own personal threads where they post their prizes each month. I probably enter more sweepstakes on a daily basis than most, but these people probably enter no more than half of what I do and have these absolutely unbelievable list of prizes.

I'm sure most will know who I'm talking about when I mention the one I called the "Sweepstakes Queen" over there. Some of us deemed her just a big bs'er. I can't begin to remember how many Xbox 360's, iPods, etc., that she's won!LOL

 

[deerwalker]

"The other site" that some of us former members of talk about occasionally has some members there like that. They have their own personal threads where they post their prizes each month. I probably enter more sweepstakes on a daily basis than most, but these people probably enter no more than half of what I do and have these absolutely unbelievable list of prizes.

I'm sure most will know who I'm talking about when I mention the one I called the "Sweepstakes Queen" over there. Some of us deemed her just a big bs'er. I can't begin to remember how many Xbox 360's, iPods, etc., that she's won!LOL

But can she match my number of wallpaper wins!!!!!
Where does someone need to go to get Chocolate Sweepstakes & Giveaways around here.

Deerwalker

 

[lidarkside]

But can she match my number of wallpaper wins!!!!!
Where does someone need to go to get chocolate around here.

Deerwalker

:laughing: :laughing:

Realistically, she probably won more of those than anything else; but she'd never admit it!

Now, as for chocolate, if you were smart like some of us (or should I say Wolfie), you'd have at least one refrigerator dedicated to your chocolate stash.

...but you're more than welcome to some of my M&M's that I'm eating right now!

 

[cinphi]

Hey I may remember who you're talking about :laughing:

I still haven't won this darn Coke Sweepstakes thing yet :crazytongue:

 

[rrddpp]

...and who knows if these people aren't just bs'ing anyway. Some people do like to brag about things even if there really isn't anything to brag about.

Years ago, I kept entering one with a one-prize limit. I didn't realize it at the time though. I won twice, but they only sent one prize.

A lot of folk post at 'sweeps' sites about all these great wins they have won ... but you never hear anything more about about it. Not a word ... not a whisper. Sounds strange to me! Or take the person that claims to win 10-15 wins a day every day ... yeah right!

I agree! I've met people like this. You try to chat with everyone and lo and behold they've been through every experience you had and everyone in the room and their dog has had lol. You learn fast to stay away from these over dramatic people. I am sure there are those who are cheating and winning more than they should and it still irks me lol but I am doing my yoga to not focus on these losers. :crazytongue: Anyways I trust eprize and I know they will crack down on them. Thanks Amy and Lidarkside for the help!

 

[dbiehr]

I sat and read through most of these post on the other site and I cannot believe the morals of some of them :cussing: I hope they do get caught. I love sa i believe that most here are honest :cheers: