Has anyone ever actually won??
12Okay I’ll jump on board this “add topic because the giant button demands it” movement and ask this question:
Has anyone actually ever won one of the Amazon Giveaways? You know, the ones with the bouncing box where sometimes you have to watch a video or sometimes you have to do nothing but click the bouncing box?
I have never won. I don’t know that I believe anyone ever really does.
So have you? If so, what did you win? Have you won often? How often do you try/how many bouncing box offers do you try at a time? Is there a secret to winning??
There Meh. You got another one of us with your silly button. Happy now? 
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IDK. I have not won the two or three I tried. I think I deleted my Amazon app when I quit Amazon Prime, so I don’t get the opportunity to try anymore. IDK.
/giphy idk
Yeah. Pro tip: enter the ones with the best odds.
We’re all losers -sob-
/giphy crying loser
Here is some reference material:
Have you ever won anything from Amazon Giveaways?
What did you win 2019
I won a small, good quality flashlight early on. I have since stopped trying since it was taking more time than I was willing to spend.
I’ve won two of them. First was a 7" Fire Tablet, and the second was a decorative shelf I have having in my kitchen. I’ve done hundreds of them and have no idea if there’s any kind of trick to it.
I spent ~6 months of my life entering a ton of Amazon giveaway contests, and won jack squat.
/image Chris Farley jack squat
As I was getting towards the end of my patience I started entering contests for crap I hoped I wouldn’t win.
Still nada.
@UncleVinny you mean like an IRK?
I won a Sonos Play:1 last year in one of the giveaways where you click to join. But not those with the bouncing box that tells you instantly whether you won or not. I haven’t won anything on those, yet.
I won 261 prizes worth a total of $4,444.14.
Be aware that after you win so many items or at a specific dollar amount, Amazon will send you an IRS 1099 form at the end of the year reflecting your winnings. The dollar amount included is the full retail value even though they item’s price usually goes lower after the giveaway and/or they offer up to 30% off to people who entered and did not win.
In my case, I no longer try to win anything because I have to pay tax on it. With my specific tax situation, I had to pay approximately $2000 on that $4000 of winnings. I would not have accepted the items I won had I known that ahead of time. Your specific tax situation may be different so it could be worth it, or not.
@cengland0 Don’t they need your SSN to send you a 1099?
@capguncowboy Yes, that’s true. After you win the threshold amount, they send you this email:
And they really do verify it with the IRS. I have a business account with Amazon so I attempted to use my Business Account tax EIN number and it failed the verification so they sent me a followup email:
I then filled out their form with my personal information and it passed their verification but they never tell you it passed. They send you a message stating it’s pending verification and then when you actually receive the prize, you know it passed.
@capguncowboy @cengland0 so… All you had to do was not fill it out and not get that last prize
@capguncowboy @unksol Yes. If I didn’t fill out that form, I would have forfeited the last prize and probably wouldn’t have to pay taxes on the previous winnings. But I won 223 of the 261 prizes after receiving the email and would have forfeited those as well. The dollar amount that would be forfeit is $3,820.40.
More trivia. I did win in 2017 and did not get a 1099 (probably did not meet the threshold). Then I also won in 2018 and only got the tax form in May (but I didn’t win anything until April because I didn’t get the hang of it until then). I continued to win in 2018 until I received the 1099 in January 2019 so I have some winnings in January too.
I’ll be interested to see if they send me a 1099 for the few items I won in January 2019 since they already have my SSN from the previous year’s registration but don’t have as many winnings.
For anyone interested, you can see a list of all the crap I won here: https://giveawaylisting.com/cgi-bin/search.fcgi?winner=Cary E.
That’s actually a good site to help you win instead of going to Amazon directly. You can sort by date and odds of winning which is important because you do not want to enter contests too early especially those where you have to be a specific entrant number. If you need to be #2000, for example, you need to wait a little before entering.
Most of the crap as given away to friends and family so I didn’t get too much value out of the winnings. There were a few great items that I’m still using today but the vast majority of them were just crap and I wouldn’t want it if I knew I’d have to pay the tax bill on it.
@cengland0 That’s quite an assortment! I like the shotgun slings and the cremation jewelry.
@therealjrn That cremation jewelry is definitely one of the weirdest things I won. I couldn’t even give it away so it’s still around the house here somewhere.
I have stopped trying. I am convinced it’s 100% geography and routing. I never will get a fukubokurokokoruko. Or a bundle of carrots. Or an irk.
Wait, “Amazon”, did you say?
I’ve never won anything on Amazon, but my wife won a giveaway once. I think it was a tube of activated charcoal toothpaste or something similarly exciting.
Won nothing on Amazon but I have with coke rewards -
Cedar Point tickets - Gift cards - magazines
slick deals has a link to all the current free entry ones
https://slickdeals.net/f/12441004-all-current-coca-cola-amoe-sweeps?p=123274576#post123274576
Nope, never on Amazon. Rarely anywhere else.