I enter contests when I can’t sleep. As a result I win occasionally. I figured I would start a thread to see what we as members win in 2019.
List your winnings
@reg036 I’d be interested in discussing taking it off your hands, if you really don’t know what to do with it. I’d happily pay for shipping and packaging at least, and we could discuss remittance for your efforts. If you’re interested in talking about it, let me know!
Thanks @mfladd for the mention! That was really thoughtful!
@MagnaVis@reg036 Of course. If you have ever looked at the thrift thread, I love to see items that may not be wanted by one person make it into the hands of another who does. I hope it works out for you. I definitely want to see that print!
It’s not a contest win, but yesterday when I was checking in for my flight, the desk clerk asked me if I wanted a wheelchair. I said no I didn’t need one, puzzled. She said there’s a request for one on your ticket, did I want one at my arrival gate. I told her, no, it was some kind of mistake. I’m TSA precheck, but no disabilities. I don’t even know how I got pre, I’m not old enough and didn’t pay the fee but I’ve been TSA pre for several years. She said okay, but you have preboard status on your ticket, so go ahead and take advantage of that. I was flying Southwest, no assigned seating so it was quite a perk. I waited for all the legit preboard people to get on and seated, then just went first in line of the regular passengers. Got the very front seat on the aisle, no tray table but acres of leg room and bend forward room. I’d gotten that seat for the first time by luck on the flight out and really liked it, so I had it both flights.
I won a $100 gift card from Vitamin Shoppe on Facebook. Previously I won a Heidi Das necklace from HSN on Facebook and a pair of earrings from a local store, also on Facebook.
Question:. Are those giveaways on Amazon legit? I must have entered 300- 500 of them and won zip. I’ve also entered in for some strange things that I’m sure noone else wants to win… I don’t want the prize I just want to win for once.
@OnionSoup Yes they are legit, but they changed the way they worked in the last few months. There used to be different kinds of giveaways. Such as random entry based on defined odds (1 in 400 chance of winning), certain entry wins(400th entrant wins), raffle style based on total entries etc… Now, I they might all be certain entry wins, or at least that how it seems. In other words, being the first one to enter is a disadvantage, so you have to be aware of how many entries are accepted and then estimate when you should enter. They also base the odds off of the product value now, you won’t find as many good items with favorable odds.
I find this site helpful because it shows the odds and I can exclude books and ebooks. https://giveawaylisting.com/index2.html
Also can sort by price so I can enter the high-value giveaways.
@OnionSoup for a while I was on there daily trying to win and after a week or so I won a $25 exfoliating body scrub stuff. Which I was excited about then received and it was too perfumey which I can’t handle. So that sucks. I need to get on there and try some more.
/giphy try and try
@OnionSoup With some of them the boxes appear, I click, they vanish and then they then drop again, I click… Makes me wonder if I was to be a winner but they didn’t want it to end so early.
I refuse to play videos or follow on facebook or where ever and it used to be, until a few weeks ago, you could see which ones made you do that. Now the have the email rigged so you have to click on each of them to see the entry method.
I’ve been listening to his podcast for a few years now and when he has a new book out he is gracious enough to have fish bowl drawings for bound copies of his books. I never win anything! Maybe this will be the year I win the Saint Jude’s Dream House!
The only thing I ever won was 3rd place in a Cheerios contest many years ago (sent the entry in during the last week of the contest). It was a table top nerf pool game which I gave to a friend of my sister’s who was financially stressed. It was to be the big santa present that year except she screwed up and opened the box in front of her son. Oops
Hey -you want to possibly win something later this month? Then sign up for the (unofficial mehrican exchange).
Due to the generosity of two people we now have an added special component to this exchange - several of you will receive a mystery box as a bonus present. If you are signed up for the exchange you are automatically entered to be a possible winner. I am in conversation with the donors on how they’d like to proceed (I figure their boxes, their money, their choice).
If you have signed up and DON’T want to be part of this, please let me know.
So far the odds of winning one of these boxes is far higher than the odds of getting a fuko/I.R.K. So sign up and join the fun!!!
A bunch of fukus, some top ramen swag, some passes to an indoor waterpark, several coupons for various products for free. It was a pretty quiet year for wins here. I hope to hit the sweepstaking hard this year and make it another big win year. I have won a tv, an xbox, a 250 dirt bike, a Yeti cooler, and other great stuff. I need to get back to it.
@Kidsandliz Not who you asked but I’ll share my side anyway lol…
I can spend and hour up to a few hours depending on my life at the moment a day. I usually play all the instant win games daily along with any text and big ticket daily entries every day when I’m sweeping. I’ll enter 1-entry contests when I get the time.
It all depends on what time you want to commit as you need to consistently enter to get the wins coming in. I play more in the winter as I’m doing less outside projects. There are various tips and tricks to peed it up such as Roboform and using bookmarks/spreadsheet/premium service to track your entries.
I won a pair of sunglasses from Marlboro and a couple of candles and a Himalayan salt lamp from Camel. Some other stuff maybe a hammock or tent. I’m not sure if I won those this year or last year.
Uh oh…my USPS Daily Delivery Digests shows I’ll be getting an “Important Tax Document” from Amazon.com, Inc. I’ll see tonight how much prize value I got in 2018…
@reg036 I had a good run in 2018 because they use to have more giveaways with better odds and it was advantageous to enter early. They changed the system and early entries are actually at a disadvantage, so I don’t win nearly as often now.
I don’t think they’re required to send me anything unless the total is over $600, so I’ll see when I get home today. The problem is I think Amazon started reporting the retail value of the prizes that I won. For example, I won a hammock that supposedly retails at $40, so that adds up pretty quick even though hammock was realistically worth $20 at most.
@medz When you win something do a search for the item and if you see it below the ARV, screenshot it and record the price, that is the FMV (fair market value). You can ask Amazon to adjust the tax form to reflect this but if they don;t there is a form that you fill out for the IRS that if you provide proof will reduce the taxes to the FMV price.
@reg036 Yup. It was a 1099-MISC for just over $600. Payment Source on a summary is just a single line titled “Amazon Giveaway”. One part of the page reads “this if for info purposes only and is not provided to the IRS”, but another spots says “accounts are reported to the payee and to the IRS”.
I’m not ever sure where to see what I won unless I kept all the email confirmations…
@CaptAmehrican a bottle of hot sauce from an amazon contest.
That search link is great for when i am bored. I have been ordering by change of winning then go down and scan for stuff i might actually like.
@callow You misunderstand what that bucket is. Clearly it is a cat nap bed. I have an IKEA cloth container that I obviously failed to understand what it was to be used for. I gave up and gave it to the cats.
@yorkrk Yep, very valid concern. Frequently you’re changing the edge geometry to a different angle than the knife factory. This model is set to a 15 degree angle whereas they say most factory kitchen knives are 20 degrees.
It’s a somewhat slow (to me) process of running the knife through 20 times on each edge, then progressively through the finer stones.
So far I’ve been using it on some cheapies, and I’m very pleased.
Jan 2019
2 tickets to On the basis of sex. The RBG movie
@CaptAmehrican
Also 4 sharpies
10 dollar Starbucks card
@CaptAmehrican LOL I only got a single sharpie!
Did win an Overwatch Art Print this weekend, no idea what to do with that.
@CaptAmehrican
Also boat show tickets
@CaptAmehrican tickets to the lego movie 2, tickets to pet expo , whole wheat mac and cheese from an amazon prize my first of those
@CaptAmehrican Nice, where is the Lego ticket sweep?
Just got an email that I got an 8th teir $25 Amazon GC from Mission Foods.
@reg036 local paper
@CaptAmehrican so an interesting start for February I won a coupon for a free bag of dog food. I don’t have a dog.
@CaptAmehrican LOL Congrats, local shelter will gladly take em.
@reg036 Just so you know, @Targaryen might really want the Overwatch print. Or, maybe @MagnaVis.
@reg036 I’d be interested in discussing taking it off your hands, if you really don’t know what to do with it. I’d happily pay for shipping and packaging at least, and we could discuss remittance for your efforts. If you’re interested in talking about it, let me know!
Thanks @mfladd for the mention! That was really thoughtful!
@MagnaVis @reg036 Of course. If you have ever looked at the thrift thread, I love to see items that may not be wanted by one person make it into the hands of another who does. I hope it works out for you. I definitely want to see that print!
@CaptAmehrican
May pizza party
Rocketman pre release tickets
@CaptAmehrican
September ticket to Downton Abbey movie
I snagged on of those Taco Bell Xboxes among various gift cards from Coke contests also.
You on SD or any of the various sweeping sites?
The right to purchase antihistamines.
Ok that’s not what you meant
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No prizes yet except normal life wins.
I recently won a personal wand massager from an Amazon giveway. (awaiting delivery)
Edit: also a $5 coupon from a meh.com forum game
Meh $5 coupon
Free Texas toast at Raising Canes
Won late last year, but prize is for this year: New Kids on the Block tickets for their Mixtape tour
It’s not a contest win, but yesterday when I was checking in for my flight, the desk clerk asked me if I wanted a wheelchair. I said no I didn’t need one, puzzled. She said there’s a request for one on your ticket, did I want one at my arrival gate. I told her, no, it was some kind of mistake. I’m TSA precheck, but no disabilities. I don’t even know how I got pre, I’m not old enough and didn’t pay the fee but I’ve been TSA pre for several years. She said okay, but you have preboard status on your ticket, so go ahead and take advantage of that. I was flying Southwest, no assigned seating so it was quite a perk. I waited for all the legit preboard people to get on and seated, then just went first in line of the regular passengers. Got the very front seat on the aisle, no tray table but acres of leg room and bend forward room. I’d gotten that seat for the first time by luck on the flight out and really liked it, so I had it both flights.
@moondrake That’s good! I was crammed in like a sardine 2 days ago. 1st leg and 2nd leg of the trip. ugh. And we pay for the privilege!
I won a $100 gift card from Vitamin Shoppe on Facebook. Previously I won a Heidi Das necklace from HSN on Facebook and a pair of earrings from a local store, also on Facebook.
The only thing I won is a few Fukus and an Irk.
Some may say that I lost.
Question:. Are those giveaways on Amazon legit? I must have entered 300- 500 of them and won zip. I’ve also entered in for some strange things that I’m sure noone else wants to win… I don’t want the prize I just want to win for once.
@OnionSoup Yes they are legit, but they changed the way they worked in the last few months. There used to be different kinds of giveaways. Such as random entry based on defined odds (1 in 400 chance of winning), certain entry wins(400th entrant wins), raffle style based on total entries etc… Now, I they might all be certain entry wins, or at least that how it seems. In other words, being the first one to enter is a disadvantage, so you have to be aware of how many entries are accepted and then estimate when you should enter. They also base the odds off of the product value now, you won’t find as many good items with favorable odds.
I find this site helpful because it shows the odds and I can exclude books and ebooks.
https://giveawaylisting.com/index2.html
Also can sort by price so I can enter the high-value giveaways.
@OnionSoup Can confirm. After using the above link, I’ve won several prizes. Thanks for the tip @medz (Giggity)
@OnionSoup for a while I was on there daily trying to win and after a week or so I won a $25 exfoliating body scrub stuff. Which I was excited about then received and it was too perfumey which I can’t handle. So that sucks. I need to get on there and try some more.
/giphy try and try
@OnionSoup With some of them the boxes appear, I click, they vanish and then they then drop again, I click… Makes me wonder if I was to be a winner but they didn’t want it to end so early.
I refuse to play videos or follow on facebook or where ever and it used to be, until a few weeks ago, you could see which ones made you do that. Now the have the email rigged so you have to click on each of them to see the entry method.
@moonhat @OnionSoup If you win $600 (or more) worth of stuff amazon sends in an IRS form so be sure to declare on your taxed.
@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup so they don’t trust us, just like @medz huh.
/giphy trust meeee
Just won a free popcorn at AMC through a Coke contest! wooooooooo
Snagged a $15 Xbox gift card from Coke today and won a free Sharpie from a Sharpie IWG last night.
Got our first physical win of the year, a Ninja Professional Blender.
@reg036 nice
Won a $10 Ride Share Code & a $25 Amazon this past week!
I just found out last night I won a hard copy of “Mack Maloney’s Haunted Universe” yay!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FNBHHJW
I’ve been listening to his podcast for a few years now and when he has a new book out he is gracious enough to have fish bowl drawings for bound copies of his books. I never win anything! Maybe this will be the year I win the Saint Jude’s Dream House!
https://www.mackmaloney.com/military-x-files-radio.html
@therealjrn You’ve got karma!!!
Nice Win!
@therealjrn
/giphy Congratulations!
The only thing I ever won was 3rd place in a Cheerios contest many years ago (sent the entry in during the last week of the contest). It was a table top nerf pool game which I gave to a friend of my sister’s who was financially stressed. It was to be the big santa present that year except she screwed up and opened the box in front of her son. Oops
Hey -you want to possibly win something later this month? Then sign up for the (unofficial mehrican exchange).
Due to the generosity of two people we now have an added special component to this exchange - several of you will receive a mystery box as a bonus present. If you are signed up for the exchange you are automatically entered to be a possible winner. I am in conversation with the donors on how they’d like to proceed (I figure their boxes, their money, their choice).
If you have signed up and DON’T want to be part of this, please let me know.
So far the odds of winning one of these boxes is far higher than the odds of getting a fuko/I.R.K. So sign up and join the fun!!!
See all the information here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/unofficial-mehrican-exchange-ver--8-0-sign-up-now#5c40aee9dc5f2cb1a62edbba
@Kidsandliz bonus prize possibilities? That’s fabulouso!
@moonhat I know - so cool that 2 people (so far) want to do that.
A bunch of fukus, some top ramen swag, some passes to an indoor waterpark, several coupons for various products for free. It was a pretty quiet year for wins here. I hope to hit the sweepstaking hard this year and make it another big win year. I have won a tv, an xbox, a 250 dirt bike, a Yeti cooler, and other great stuff. I need to get back to it.
@tnhillbillygal you use a sweep site? OLS doesn’t appear to be updated in years.
@reg036 I use freestufftimes.com and sweetiessweeps.com mostly.
@tnhillbillygal How much time do you sink into this and is your email spammed into the next galaxy?
@Kidsandliz Not who you asked but I’ll share my side anyway lol…
I can spend and hour up to a few hours depending on my life at the moment a day. I usually play all the instant win games daily along with any text and big ticket daily entries every day when I’m sweeping. I’ll enter 1-entry contests when I get the time.
It all depends on what time you want to commit as you need to consistently enter to get the wins coming in. I play more in the winter as I’m doing less outside projects. There are various tips and tricks to peed it up such as Roboform and using bookmarks/spreadsheet/premium service to track your entries.
If I were the Pats, I might be about to possibly win the right to be even more obnoxiously triumphant.
Good thing I’m not the Pats, huh?
I entered a bunch of Super Bowl sweepstakes. So far not a winner :’(
I won a pair of sunglasses from Marlboro and a couple of candles and a Himalayan salt lamp from Camel. Some other stuff maybe a hammock or tent. I’m not sure if I won those this year or last year.
Uh oh…my USPS Daily Delivery Digests shows I’ll be getting an “Important Tax Document” from Amazon.com, Inc. I’ll see tonight how much prize value I got in 2018…
@medz Sweet on the wins, sucks on the form lol. You win that much on Amazon?
@reg036 I had a good run in 2018 because they use to have more giveaways with better odds and it was advantageous to enter early. They changed the system and early entries are actually at a disadvantage, so I don’t win nearly as often now.
I don’t think they’re required to send me anything unless the total is over $600, so I’ll see when I get home today. The problem is I think Amazon started reporting the retail value of the prizes that I won. For example, I won a hammock that supposedly retails at $40, so that adds up pretty quick even though hammock was realistically worth $20 at most.
@medz When you win something do a search for the item and if you see it below the ARV, screenshot it and record the price, that is the FMV (fair market value). You can ask Amazon to adjust the tax form to reflect this but if they don;t there is a form that you fill out for the IRS that if you provide proof will reduce the taxes to the FMV price.
@reg036 Yup. It was a 1099-MISC for just over $600. Payment Source on a summary is just a single line titled “Amazon Giveaway”. One part of the page reads “this if for info purposes only and is not provided to the IRS”, but another spots says “accounts are reported to the payee and to the IRS”.
I’m not ever sure where to see what I won unless I kept all the email confirmations…
One thing I won was this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014JV44UC
which is a cool toy, but worth $50 of “income”? Another was this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M99MHTQ which at the time was a retail value of $30 supposedly. $30 of income for a travel pillow? Booo…
Feb 2019
John mellencamp tickets
@CaptAmehrican a bottle of hot sauce from an amazon contest.
That search link is great for when i am bored. I have been ordering by change of winning then go down and scan for stuff i might actually like.
@CaptAmehrican
More march fishing and camping show tickets
Local country music concert
March
GreenBook movie tickets
Party at local howl at moon bar
Not really a contest, but still a win, right?
@ruouttaurmind $4000 on a $5 bet??? Absofuckinglutely!! Nice
@llangley I’ll take those wages any day.
The nice thing about video poker, it won’t suck you dry like slots do. I can play for a few hours on $20 on the quarter machines.
We won a cat approved tool bucket and multi-screwdriver flashlight at a company picnic last weekend.
@callow Star Wars tools! Congrats
@callow Nice! I think your cat wants to poop in your bucket.
@callow You misunderstand what that bucket is. Clearly it is a cat nap bed. I have an IKEA cloth container that I obviously failed to understand what it was to be used for. I gave up and gave it to the cats.
Oh yeah! Thanks to KaL’s necromancy I’m reminded I won a Chef’sChoice 15 Trizor XV EdgeSelect Professional Electric Knife Sharpener a couple of months ago over in one of TT’s giveaways. It does a great job!
@therealjrn always wanted one of these but concerned they may do more harm than good.
@yorkrk Yep, very valid concern. Frequently you’re changing the edge geometry to a different angle than the knife factory. This model is set to a 15 degree angle whereas they say most factory kitchen knives are 20 degrees.
It’s a somewhat slow (to me) process of running the knife through 20 times on each edge, then progressively through the finer stones.
So far I’ve been using it on some cheapies, and I’m very pleased.
I won a contest here at work. Got a $50 Amazon card, couple of logo t shirts and some ear buds or something.