Facebook contest questions

[sunshine_09]

I have a questions about Facebook. You know the type of FB contest where you have to like them and fill out a form to win, the like is part of the entry. I was wondering if they can see every single person who likes them? I had been told by a person who had a page that they could only see the last 500 likes on their page. Is this true? If I am entering and I already liked their page a year or so ago and I was picked how would they know I liked them?

 

[pmeek]

That sounds like a question for FB. I know on alot of them that you can't even enter without first liking them. I wouldn't want to DQ myself after going thru all the steps. I usually wait to unlike them when I get notification that a winner has been choosen.

 

[sunshine_09]

Thanks for the advice! I do like them but I am thinking that I may not get picked because they can't even see I like them because if they look through their list of likes, they only see the last 500 names. Some of the pages I've liked for quite awhile. I might just ask a page to see what they have to say. That's a good tip! Here's to winning

 

[sunshine_09]

I did a little research and the only answer I could find was from over a year ago so maybe it has changed but it did state that the owner's page can only see the last 500 likes. Still waiting to hear back from a FB page.

 

[sunshine_09]

Ok the answers get more interesting and interesting lol. According to this great techie, contests aren't even supposed to use the action of liking a page as a way to be an entry into a contest. One poster said his company was throwing a contest and they couldn't see all the people who had liked the page, only the last 500 so they were ending the contest. She replied that, "it is a violation of Facebook’s promotion (contest) rules to use like as a contest metric."
However, I still see FB contest promoting liking their page as an entry. My concern is am I wasting my time? So I like a page, and 600 more people after me like the page. My entry no longer counts because they can't even see that I liked their page even though I do.

 

[amyshulk]

Right - they *usually* get around the action of liking a page to get an entry into a contest by offering an alt form thru the rules.

So, you either LIKE them to even access their sweeps form, or you look thru their rules.

Ok the answers get more interesting and interesting lol. According to this great techie, contests aren't even supposed to use the action of liking a page as a way to be an entry into a contest. One poster said his company was throwing a contest and they couldn't see all the people who had liked the page, only the last 500 so they were ending the contest. She replied that, "it is a violation of Facebook’s promotion (contest) rules to use like as a contest metric."
However, I still see FB contest promoting liking their page as an entry. My concern is am I wasting my time? So I like a page, and 600 more people after me like the page. My entry no longer counts because they can't even see that I liked their page even though I do.

 

[sunshine_09]

Thanks Amy! I will enter via the rules so I know they see me . I like "liking" the pages; I just want them to see I did so too but entering through the rules seems easier.

 

[desil815]

Wow! I had no clue this was an issue and I enter FB sweeps all the time. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I guess I will be looking more closely at the rules for entries too. Good luck!

 

[sunshine_09]

Yeah, I just stumbled upon it and was very surprised. I think most pick from the entry forms because to see the form you have to like their page but I just wanted to double check too because I had heard that some pick via their likes and most pages weren't seeing past a 100 past likes and some only 500 likes so if they had 20,000 likes and were using the "likes" as part of the picking process, it would seem they would pick a newbie since that is all they could see. But using the rules help out big time so I will use that when I can. Also, I see some that pick you from your share of their personal post which we can all see so that one is safe too.