What Do You Think About Entering Contests or Sweepstakes?

I have won concert tickets twice. All I did to win the first set of tickets was create a facebook group and invite the venue owner to it and they gave me vip. The other tickets I won.. I just messaged the contest creator and told him how I was a huge fan and was basically listing off reasons I need tickets.. and asked them if they had any extra.. They messaged me back saying I won. They also invited me for a personal meet and greet with the singer since I was such a "huge fan." I got to hang out with her for like an hour.

I don't enter them much because the ones I have entered have never paid off but I know a woman that enters online sweepstakes all the time. She has won some really great prizes too. She just won 4 tickets to a Nascar race in New York. Good Luck!

I am a contest junkie. I spend a good portion of my day entering daily contests... and I have won. Sure the prizes were little things at first but now patience and persistence have paid off and the prizes are getting bigger. I have written a few articles on this topic, including the websites with the best contests. The first article is about my favourite website. It's a sure thing. http://webupon.com/web-talk/the-winningest-website-on-the-web/ The next two articles are about other contest websites. I don't participate in all of them but I did find some interesting. http://webupon.com/web-talk/10-fun-and-easy-contest-websites/ http://webupon.com/money-making/online-contests-2/ I have won Amazon gift cards, VISA gift cards, concert tickets, books, an all day pass at an adventure park in our area, t-shirts and tote bags, and money. I won't give up until I win a large amount of cash or a laptop. I strongly believe they will come eventually.

I won a contest that was worth $300, $100 from a record store, $100 worth of tickets to a concert venue and $100 at the grocery store - I needed the food!

I went through a period about fifteen years ago where I would jump through all the hoops and enter all kinds of contests and sweepstakes. I would win afew dollars but not very often and just made up for stamps and such. I even bought lottery tickets when it first started here and managed to win until the amount of players became so rediculous you had no change of winning.

Congratulations on your gift card. I enjoy joining contest and sweepstakes. Though I do not expect too much when it comes to winning one, but being able to win one would be a pleasant surprise and treat for me.

Hi Stephanie Congratulations for that win No I don't enter anything any more as all I seem to win is annoying Phone calls lol that tries to sell me things so I am not entering nothing any more specially not if they ask for my Phone Number as well But well done on the Gather Voucher I have not been on Gather in months lol

Well, I have entered the UK lottery for around 20 years every week. I have won around £10 (GB pounds) now and again, but about 6 months ago, I got 5 numbers and won £112 (approx $175 US dollars). It could have been more but there were a lot of people sharing the prize, but I was very pleased anyway! _Derek

Wow, congrats Stephanie.. IO have won some things in the past, but in drawings where you put your name in and they draw out your name..But nothing really big, once was a houseplant, (at a nursery) and another at a bar I won a bottle of Jack Daniels.(This was obviously in my wild teen years..lol) I think a 50.00 gift card is an awesome win..I only occasionally enter sweepstakes though, I don't put too much into them, but you make me think differently.

I'm not much of a contest winner either. As a child I won a cake at a "Cake Walk" and a Barbie doll and a stuffed bear at a school carnival. As an adult I once won the office pool when I drew the World Series game ? inning that scored the most runs. That's been it, so far; but I keep trying for the big prize.

hi stephanicannc, congratulations for winning 50 amazon gift cards from gather,i have not embarked the site gather till now,so how can i get any gift or winning facility in this site,some body have to guide me about gather,i hope you will do,so that i have informed you that you are also having account in mylot,but nothing information came from you to enter in gather site,have a nice day

I enjoy the chance to enter a contest or sweepstakes. i know the chances of winning are small as so many people enter. Still, I like to give it a shot. You just never know what can happen.

Lucky you. Congrats!

I believe in lottery or sweepstakes and entering into this contests is just fine as long as we are NOT spending our full time, effort and too much money on it. I am bothered receiving a winning notice wherein I did not placed even a single a bet. Most of these are bogus and deceiving people. I once was a victim of this kind of scam. A guy called me over the phone, I won an "All expense paid vacation to Boracay" and all I need to do is claim my winnings immediately. So I rushed to their site to my excitement. The prize package is as follows: For 2 days, free breakfast, lunch & dinner, free hotel accommodation, free island tours with welcome drinks. I just need to pay 25,000 pesos for the transportation.

i moderately join or buy local lottery just hoping that it might change my life..but I am not expecting much, purely I guess for the sake of fun and thrill, but I never like gambling in general. Joining contest if it is free of charge is also a moderate habit of mine.

hi stephanieannc I enter the Publishers Clearing house net sweepstakes every day but I will probably never win a thing. It costs me nothing and takes just a few minutes. I once receive a fifty dollar gift card from Metformin company for filling out a minature survey on how I liked or disliked Metformin a medication for us diabetics. they must have liked my thoughts as they sent me a fifty dollar gift card for doing the survey.lol.Metformin really has been good for me in controlling my diabetes without any side effects a nd I just told them the truth. I have not won anything else in any contests, and I have won a total of 60 dollares in those lottery things you get for a dollar. some gave me five dollars and others six and one was ten. then I paid a dollar for years and never won anything again so have quit wasting valuable dollars like that.

Hi Steph! Congrats on winning the Contest! Nope, I never win anything so I just fill forms out and forget about them! I think if I ever did win I wouldn't believe it anyway! I have never won anything in my entire life! My boyfriend is a "scratch off junky" and a number player and has hit the number and made some money, but he is cheap and doesn't share so what's the point?

I don't mind entering in contests or even participate in lucky draws but I will never buy sweepstakes, the odds against small "investors" are too high. I have even advised my friend to pop her money meant for the lottery into a piggy bank, then at the end of the year, she would have accumulated some wealth and have a "strike", so to speak.

i think join in this contest or sweepstakes is now or then thing,you should not have great expectation about it,or the greatest hope have ,the greatest disappoint you will. it's just anentertainment.

hahaha that sounds amazing and am jealous. I have entered many contests and one of them was to win a 50 inch plasma screen television and that was the first time I saw a pop-up so I got happy and filled out the application but it took so long that i gave up o it lol but 1 thing i did win was the burger king scratch and win contest lol I got a free triple whooper burger :D