What's your ratio of e-mail notifications vs phone call notifications for wins?

[laydeebugg]

I've been entering sweepstakes as a hobby off and on since August 2010. I've never had a winning notification via a phone call, but to be fair, I don't answer numbers I don't recognize 99% of the time so I very well could've missed some winning phone calls these past 7 years. I think I'm going to start answering all phone calls in hopes of getting some phone wins. I was just curious as to what ratio you would say your winning notifications come in, example 75% via e-mail 25% via phone call. Is there a trend of the smaller stuff being notified by e-mail and the big wins being via phone calls?

 

[badgercontest]

My notifications have probably been about 80% e-mail, 15% postal mail and 5% phone... although I've only really been paying attention to unknown phone-numbers for about half the time I've been entering sweeps. The one major win I had over phone the sponsor thankfully left a message for.

 

[amyshulk]

laydeebugg - I'll scan the rules for the biggies & if they say they notify only via phone [Valpak/etc] I usually pass, since those tend to only call once & if you don't answer, they move on & draw/call another winner

As to those unknown #'s? I have never missed a call from a sponsor - every single time they are a telemarketer!

I use this to scope them out:

http://whocallsme.com/

http:// whocallsme. com/

 

[luckycat777]

8 winning calls so far this year. I met a new sweeper that didn't know to ALWAYS answer the phone. He had a number that had called 3x over a couple of days I think. He finally decided to answer on the 3rd attempt. The lady told him he was lucky to have answered as she was about to hang up and call another winner.
It was HGTV calling and he won $50,000.