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lady654

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How would you rate daily entry sweeps? Do they work for you is it a waste of time? I personally have never done it and wanted to see what other sweepers thought of it before I did it. All I really do is the one time entry sweeps and the instant wins. I am on a severe dry spell and kinda depressed about it. Anyways just looking for some advice.

Thanks!
 
Honestly I have not done well on dailies. I have only won one time. Now I don't enter them every day. I skip days. But try not to get depressed. Remember there are always more sweeps to enter. That's what keeps me going :)
 
they are no different from a "one-entry" IF you are dedicated and enter them every day. If not, they are a waste of time because your odds drop drastically when you miss days.

Since I am on 56k dialup I am rather choosy about what I enter. Primarily one entry, some daily ones if they are a real hot contest with BIG prizes, and very few instants since they are all flash heavy, take forever to load, and most have crappy prizes. (candy bars and coupons ... wow!)

Time is a consideration. If it takes me 10 minutes to enter an instant to win a .60 candy bar it is a waste of time. At $25/hr each minute is worth .50 ... times 60 tries ... you do the math. :whistle:
 
That's what ups the odds doing daily's compared to one-time sweepstakes. Everyone who enters a one-time sweepstakes, all have the same odds of winning. However, those same people may enter a daily but not be dedicated to entering it everyday, most days, or might enter just one time. If you're dedicated to entering everyday, you get more entries in than those giving you better odds.
 
I agree you have to be dedicated. I entered them every day for about 2 years and then decided I would take a break from them. Best of luck to you.
 
I mostly do singles but I do keep a list of daily, weekly, and monthly sweeps. The trick for me is to make sure I don't have so many daily's that I cannot keep up with them. I use my daughter's nap time to do my daily's (I keep them around an hour cause I have other things to do while my daughter is sleeping as well). Then after I put her to bed for the night I will do tons of singles. I have been sweeping for about 5 months and I have won 1 weekly sweep, 1 single, and 1 IW. I try to just mix it up. Good Luck and don't give up. :sunny:
 
LIDARKSIDE said:
That's what ups the odds doing daily's compared to one-time sweepstakes. Everyone who enters a one-time sweepstakes, all have the same odds of winning. However, those same people may enter a daily but not be dedicated to entering it everyday, most days, or might enter just one time. If you're dedicated to entering everyday, you get more entries in than those giving you better odds.
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Technically, that is reverse thinking ... your odds do not increase if you enter every day since the majority of people entering are doing so on a daily basis. But your odds do decrease if you don't.

Per se:

  • [li]90 day contest[/li]
    [li]one entry per day[/li]
    [li]20,000 people entering[/li]
    [li]= 90 chances out of 1,800,000 ... or factored down: 1:20,000[/li]

Which is exactly the same as a 90 day 'one entry' contest entered by 20,000 rabid sweepers! The only difference is how much time you have invested:


  • [li]3 minutes for the one entry[/li]
    [li]or 4 1/2 hours (270 minutes) for the daily[/li]

There are MANY folk here that enter a 90 day daily entry contest every day to win a candy bar ... or a $3.00 tube of lip goo ... or a book from a author they've never heard of ... or a DVD/CD nobody is willing to buy!

:scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

And then they brag about it!

:crazytongue:
 
Loren Brothers said:
Technically, that is reverse thinking ... your odds do not increase if you enter every day since the majority of people entering are doing so on a daily basis. But your odds do decrease if you don't.

Per se:

  • [li]90 day contest[/li]
    [li]one entry per day[/li]
    [li]20,000 people entering[/li]
    [li]= 90 chances out of 1,800,000 ... or factored down: 1:20,000[/li]

  • [li]3 minutes for the one entry[/li]
    [li]or 4 1/2 hours (270 minutes) for the daily[/li]

There are MANY folk here that enter a 90 day daily entry contest every day to win a candy bar ... or a $3.00 tube of lip goo ... or a book from a author they've never heard of ... or a DVD/CD nobody is willing to buy!

:scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

And then they brag about it!

:crazytongue:
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Actually, that wasn't what I was saying. Most people from what I've seen posted here do not enter daily's every single day. So, if you have 90,000 people who entered a daily sweepstakes, but only about 40,000 are actually entering everyday, and the rest are entering less frequently or only one time, those 40,000 people will have better odds of winning out of the 90,000 since they will have more entries in in the end.
 
Well, I could argue this for hours with you ... but if you want to believe that and it makes you happier to think that way ... so be it. Whatever knocks your knickers off. :sunny:

But the fact remains that all statistics (ie: odds) are founded on a basis ... and in the case of daily sweeps that basis is that everybody will enter the maximum amount of times.

Take for example the Marlboro sweepstakes one (or whichever) that just got finished. It listed odds. That list was based on that criteria. Your best odds might have been 1:20,000 (or whatever) and will only decrease if you fail to enter the full 30 times (or whatever).

But your odds are no greater of winning a daily than they are of winning a one entry. That's a fact, Jack. :)

As I stated above: it is all dependent on the ratio of your entries to the total entries ... 1:20,000 is 1:20,000 no matter how you look at it or wish it to be. :)
 
:sunny: I can say I remember entering a daily everyday for almost a year for a car. One of our members entered one time on the last day and won! So although my odds should have been better than his, he won. I still do my dailys everyday unless I am away.
 
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