[Other] Contest Discussion(s)

[onomeister]

Awesome idea Magneto!! Thank you RFD for allowing this thread and to be stickied.

Now that we have this thread, can someone help me? (I asked this question in another thread, but didn't get a response).

Hey guys, I'm a little worried... We have Call Display on our phone, and my wife never answers the phone if it's a 1-800 toll free number that calls. It's because 99% of the time it's one of those annoying telemarketing sales calls.
But perhaps this could actually be a winning contest call??? Should we answer all calls, toll-free or not? Any winners out there who got a call who remembers what phone # displayed on their phones (was it a 1-800 number)? Do some contests only call and not email for winning entry? (I enter about 50 daily's a day..)

[ginger001]

When contest organizers call to tell you that you won, will
they leave a message on your answering machine if you're not
home?

I was just checking past phone calls on my call display and
on Nov. 11th, I received an unknown call from Florida.

Did I just miss a big win???

[dmont08]

When contest organizers call to tell you that you won, will
they leave a message on your answering machine if you're not
home?

I was just checking past phone calls on my call display and
on Nov. 11th, I received an unknown call from Florida.

Did I just miss a big win???

Probably not. When most contest sponsors call, they will generally leave a message with their name, company name and a phone number to call them back at. Also, the majority of the contests on this site are held by Canadian companies, so it's unlikely that the company was located in Florida.

[radchaddy]

Awesome idea Magneto!! Thank you RFD for allowing this thread and to be stickied.

Now that we have this thread, can someone help me? (I asked this question in another thread, but didn't get a response).

I have never won anything big, most of the notifications have come by email. My son won $1000 from Crush and later a Zune and he was notified by phone both times. The only time I have received a call is when I won a second prize in the Hain contest (value $110) in the summer and they phoned but did not leave a message the first time they called.

It seems that they usually phone for the big wins, like the trips that have been mentioned recently. And one of those big winners said they left a message for her to call back.

It would drive me crazy not to answer the calls from unknown numbers if that was the number I was using for contests. Do you have another phone number you could use for contests, like a cell?

[jjj3663]

When contest organizers call to tell you that you won, will
they leave a message on your answering machine if you're not
home?

I was just checking past phone calls on my call display and
on Nov. 11th, I received an unknown call from Florida.

Did I just miss a big win???

Eeks, I have been missing a few calls lately too.

Usually those marketing companies will use e-mail as a way to notify the winner first. If they do call, they will try to get a hold of the winner as much as they can (for a certain number of days); and they will try to leave a name, company, and a number to call back.

On the other hand, telemarketing calls, they will just keep calling non-stop. It helps to double check on the internet, by doing a reverse phone number check, or just type in the number in a search engine; and if it's scam/telemarketing/a company outsourcing their numbers, somethings should come up.

[radchaddy]

I have another beginners question:
If someone that I am following posts something and I respond, hitting :reply" should my response show up on their page? (If they are following me also?)
I just tried to reply to someone then checked their page and it wasn't there, so then what does the "reply" do, other than show up on my own page?

[ladyb]

*snip* Also, the majority of the contests on this site are held by Canadian companies, so it's unlikely that the company was located in Florida.

Three of the prizes I won this year came from the states, and of those the phone call I received was for the Norton GI Joe contest. I find it odd that the call came on Nov 11, which is a holiday. More likely a telemarketer than a marketing company for a contest.

I get very few telemarketing calls, which may be because 1) I never allow 3rd party contact and 2) I show up as single and unemployed, which doesn't make for a lot of sales. I don't have call display so I answer everything.

[katieo]

Do you guys have some sort of a system to keep track of the contests that you have entered?

[dmont08]

Three of the prizes I won this year came from the states, and of those the phone call I received was for the Norton GI Joe contest.

Touche haha

Do you guys have some sort of a system to keep track of the contests that you have entered?

I bookmark all my dailies, weeklys, and instant wins to keep track of them. For the one time entries, I just usually post in the thread so I can see from the main thread listings if I have participated or not.

[tvwatcher]

I have another beginners question:
If someone that I am following posts something and I respond, hitting :reply" should my response show up on their page? (If they are following me also?)
I just tried to reply to someone then checked their page and it wasn't there, so then what does the "reply" do, other than show up on my own page?

I *think* the person you reply to sees it on their "home" page - which you can't see - the page that you do see is the page with all the tweets they make themselves


if you can see the reply on your own page, and if that person is following you, then they can see it on their page

does that make sense? LOL

[Horndogg]

Do you guys have some sort of a system to keep track of the contests that you have entered?

I keep track of them in my favourites file and I have also joined Contest Girl and keep track of them too. Contest Girl is good when the contest expires they take it out of the system for you so you don't enter expired contests.

[ginger001]

Ok, so I did a reverse lookup for the Florida missed call….

Carnival Cruise Lines!!!!

I freaked!

So I called them back and was informed of their wonderful
specials they currently have going on…

Oh well! At least I got an adrenaline rush out of it!

[Magneto]

Ok, so I did a reverse lookup for the Florida missed call….

Carnival Cruise Lines!!!!

I freaked!

So I called them back and was informed of their wonderful
specials they currently have going on…

Oh well! At least I got an adrenaline rush out of it!

Well at least it wasn't the Captain John boat calling to spam you

[Leahjz]

I wonder what the ratio of wins is for one-time entries versus dailies? For the contesters that have won big prizes, which type is it usually from?

[ungars3]

Most of my bigger wins were from Daily entry contests.