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janedrozd said:
It is my turn :cry: I haven't won a prize in a while and then I realized I am not a loser just an unlucky lazy sweeper. When I am consitent I win, when I am nilly willy, just entering the instants and spending all my time on FB looking for sweeps, not many wins. just wish I was one of those lucky people that just enter and they win alot. Even if I was the only entry they would find a way to give the prize to someone else.

Happy Sweeping
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OOPS...I answered this already....but I was just posting I feel a win coming your way....enter, enter, enter!


Peoplefood....It took me a while to win on Robitussin...and I was surprised when I did! But it wasn't "the big one"....LOL
 
Just broke a dry spell with a week of luck! Before this I whined a little and congratulated a lot. I think the good energy had something to do with my bad luck streak ending!! Good luck everyone, keep at it! Here's to many more wins for all of us! :cheers:
 
Okay.....I needed to whine for luck because although I have won some nice prizes and a fairly nice sized win a while back winning the Samsung weekly prize valued at about $350 (Thanks for that!), I am looking for my Holy Grail! LOL! So, I am looking for more wins....and whining to get one! :cry:
 
Well I've been entering sweepstake after sweepstake everyday with no results
and I have become a little discouraged but my husband tells me to not give up
but sometimes I just don't know.
 
tantip said:
Well I've been entering sweepstake after sweepstake everyday with no results
and I have become a little discouraged but my husband tells me to not give up
but sometimes I just don't know.
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WOW, your DH is supportive??? Most spouses think it's a waste of time because they think sweeps are scams, lol!!! :crazytongue:

That's a BIG WIN right there, especially if you haven't won anything!!!
 
:wave: Don't give up! Your win is right around the corner! My husband was skeptical at first and still calls himself a 'sweeping widower' because of all the time I spend in the evening on my laptop and although he won't enter anything himself, he has been quite happy with my wins. In 2 years of sweeping, this month has already turned out to be one of the best ever, so keep going! When you're in a dry spell, enter even more and believe you can win! I am sending good thoughts your way, hang in there! :)
 
A little whining seems to help others so....I thought I would give it a try.
Started sweeping again back in June, no wins yet.
Hope to win a BIG one, would love a vacation!
 
Ok....here's my whine.......

Facebook contests! I see everyone winning on them but I can't enter because I don't have a FB page anymore. Most of the FB contests don't give an "alternate means of entry." I understand the marketing concept behind these contests, but for us who don't want to be subjected to the "games" FB plays with our privacy, we miss out on some really good contests!

Ok, now I feel better! :laughing:
 
I feel the same way about facebook, i don't want a page on there, there are some undesierable people i wanna leave in my past and don't want them knowing anything about me. There are alot of instant wins that are only fb and that sucks. Also i haven't won anything in 2 months, i am happy that SA members are winning but it makes me sad that i can't win even a candy bar. Ok i feel better now too..Good Luck Everyone :)
 
I haven't won anything in a while...then finally won a subway gift card for $5. :)

Now for my whining--Is it just me or does anyone else think this sweeps site is quite unorganized and a bit hard to look at. I'm sure the administrators/owners work hard. But when I look at the lists of prizes on each sweeps listing, a lot of the times I feel myself wanting to get a headache. It's very, very messy and jumbled together.

In addition, the navigation between main pages leaves a lot to be desired. The sweeps check feature is a good feature but it's very low key-it doesn't stand out at all. There's nothing to distinguish it stylistically from the rest of the listing and therefore it's easy to miss that I've entered something already if I'm in a hurry. And I won't even go on about the number of duplicate listings I've found, and I'm sure I've missed some and disqualified myself.

And the reasoning and insistence of the adminstrator on listing daily entry instant win, facebook and blog sweeps under anything but daily entry sweep listings is confusing and not user-friendly. I'm not able to quickly and easily find them again on a daily basis if they are listed under non-daily listings. That definitely doesn't help me stay organized, and isn't helping it's users stay organized one of the main purposes of this site, or am I way off base on that? I mean if so many users are pointing out that a listing should go under daily or weekly instead of another category that the administators feel the need to notate the sweep listing with 'we know it's a daily entry but it's staying under fill in the blank,' you think they'd listen to their users instead of being stubborn to their own wishes.


And b4 everyone starts telling me to just go somewhere else, the main thing that keeps me coming back is the number of sweeps listed, and a few of the features are good ideas but may need some tweaking. Of course asking this may be futile but maybe there is someone who only comes here to supplement a better organized site that they go to more often...if so could you recommend it to me please? The one site I was going to that is incredibly organized seems to have the owner spending more time on other things than on listing sweeps-which is too bad bc it used to be a wonderful site.
 
slgraycols said:
I haven't won anything in a while...then finally won a subway gift card for $5. :)

Now for my whining--Is it just me or does anyone else think this sweeps site is quite unorganized and a bit hard to look at. I'm sure the administrators/owners work hard. But when I look at the lists of prizes on each sweeps listing, a lot of the times I feel myself wanting to get a headache. It's very, very messy and jumbled together.

In addition, the navigation between main pages leaves a lot to be desired. The sweeps check feature is a good feature but it's very low key-it doesn't stand out at all. There's nothing to distinguish it stylistically from the rest of the listing and therefore it's easy to miss that I've entered something already if I'm in a hurry. And I won't even go on about the number of duplicate listings I've found, and I'm sure I've missed some and disqualified myself.

And the reasoning and insistence of the adminstrator on listing daily entry instant win, facebook and blog sweeps under anything but daily entry sweep listings is confusing and not user-friendly. I'm not able to quickly and easily find them again on a daily basis if they are listed under non-daily listings. That definitely doesn't help me stay organized, and isn't helping it's users stay organized one of the main purposes of this site, or am I way off base on that? I mean if so many users are pointing out that a listing should go under daily or weekly instead of another category that the administators feel the need to notate the sweep listing with 'we know it's a daily entry but it's staying under fill in the blank,' you think they'd listen to their users instead of being stubborn to their own wishes.


And b4 everyone starts telling me to just go somewhere else, the main thing that keeps me coming back is the number of sweeps listed, and a few of the features are good ideas but may need some tweaking. Of course asking this may be futile but maybe there is someone who only comes here to supplement a better organized site that they go to more often...if so could you recommend it to me please? The one site I was going to that is incredibly organized seems to have the owner spending more time on other things than on listing sweeps-which is too bad bc it used to be a wonderful site.
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I should start by saying that the way the site looks and how it is organized was from SA member feedback. The categories are split up by blog, instant win, etc to try and make everyone happy. Some don't enter blogs or facebook sweeps and this is why they are distinquished on the site.

Regarding the duplicates, I'll look into that. We have a process we can run to check for that. Maybe we'll run it more often. Our members usually report a duiplicate far in advance of us ever finding it from running the duplicate check tool.

Not sure I understand the why you need SweepsCheck to stand out more?

Lastly the reason why we created Sweepstakes Plus the upgraded version of SA is to offer Custom My Sweepstakes. With Custom My Sweepstakes on Plus you can create endless categories like "daily blogs or daily instants" and assign sweepstakes to those categories. It would seem that this would really help with that issue right away.

You can try a 3 day free trial of plus here:

http://www.sweepsadvantage.com/contests-sweepstakes

As a side note, we started the site in 1997 and there are lots of copy cats out there. We appreciate and value our members and always strive to help people win more prizes.
 
I've won tons of small prizes, but I want the big one. Whining about not winning a car, vacation, or a huge amount of cash. I wanted to win Goya's Birthday Game :cry:
 
:wave: Just remember, you can't win if you don't play and sometimes you don't win anyways, but that's okay. Someone has to win, so just keep entering and then forget it. Also listen for local radio contests to win too! I have won a lot from radio stations! Best of luck to everyone for BIG WINS in 2012!
 
This is my 3rd time posting here and so far it hasn't helped but hey isn't 3rd time a charm. I have won plenty of small things that I am so happy for and love. I just dedicate so much time to entering that I would like my efforts to be paid off every once in a great while. I have been entering consistently for a year now and have yet to win anything over $500. I hate that I feel so down about it. Please let there be a bigger win for me soon! Fingers crossed!
 
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