Problems with Hearst Magazine Sweepstakes
Friday October 10, 2008
Many people are reporting trouble with Hearst Magazine's creative presentation sweepstakes. Hearst is holding creative presentations across several of its magazines including Good Housekeeping, Country Living Magazine, Home Beautiful, Redbook, Seventeen, and more with a chance to win $250,000. Many, though not all, of these sweepstakes have been branded as "Dare to Dream Sweepstakes."
For the past few days, people who have tried to enter these sweepstakes have received the following error message:
Sorry but you must agree to the terms to submit your entry.This is the type of message you usually receive when you have missed a check box to agree to the rules, but the Hearst Magazine Sweepstakes don't have any visible check box to click.
This appears to be a glitch on the part of Hearst Magazines, not something that entrants are overlooking. There are some other problems on the website as well, like the Customer Service link not loading. I have contacted one of the Hearst publications about this issue, but in the meantime, the best thing to do is to keep checking back to the site, and enter some other great sweepstakes in the meantime.
If anyone has any news or ideas about this topic, click on the Comments link below to share!
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I discovered that the problem can be solved by clicking “yes” and then back to “no” on the subscription, and then “no” back to “yes” on the two email newsletter permissions.
I had that problem all day thursday & tis AM. I tried re checking the yes & no boxes but still have the “sorry you must agree to terms”
I had this problem yesterday but was just now able to enter without error. Thanks for your attention to this!
I contacted Good Housekeeping and they told me that there was a server problem. It has been fixed and you no longer get the message.
I also had the same problem and good houskeeping I got that I order a magazine and I didnt so the pain I had to go through to have that taken care.
I also got the “Sorry you must agree to terms” message for one day, but now I have noticed that the icon in front of each of the magazines, Redbook, Goodhousekeeping, etc. that I have saved in Favorites is now BT rather than the usual e for Windows Explorer. If I go directly to the entry from the website, the address will change from beginning with the e in front of the address, to BT in from of the of the website address. I have emailed customer service but have received no reply. Has anyone else noticed this problem and what does the BT mean?
This is the first I’ve heard of it. I enter them all everyday and don’t have any problems.
Hi, Denise,
Yeah, luckily this problem was resolved in mid-October, so no need to worry about it anymore
I am not getting through at all for the COUNTRYLIVING’S CASH.COUNTRYLIVING.COM/DARE TO DREAM SWEEPSTAKES? Says 0 finds.
What good is a contest if you can’t enter it?? I’ve tried several times without success and am now very frustrated!
I enetered the country living mortgage sweepstakes, it said no purchase necessary to enter. After i hit the enter button, I got a message saying i would be billed $12.00 for my subscription. What the heck!
Well I just tried entering the sweepstakes, Fantasy Fund Sweepstakes, aka Pay off your mortgage, at mortgage.countryliving.com for the S100,000 and what comes up is the same sweeps you all are talking about for the @250,000 and that says its no longer running.
I think either these aren’t real or they have a lot of problems setting them up??? I haven’t entered too many sweepstakes so maybe this is just the frustration one has to deal with in order to enter? So much for my sweepstakes career!
I finaly got to enter the $100,000.the new pay off your mortgage contest and when I hit enter, I got a confirm on ordering the mag. when I am already a subscriber. I had to answer two times to cancel. I hope they got the message. Now I can’t even bring the contest up.
I tried to enter this contest today and I received a message stating “we are not accepting entries”. I am perplexed and a little teed off.
I just entered this contest a few weeks ago, and I too recieved a magazine I did not subscribe to. I do not know if I will be billed again,but could someone tell me how to fix this problem.
I TRIED TO ENTER THE FANTASY FUND SWEEPSTAKES AKA PAY OFF YOUR MORTGAGE SWEEPSTAKES AT MORTGAGE.COUNTRYLIVING.COM FOR THE $100,000,AND IT COMES UP WITH A SWEEPSTAKES FOR $250,000 AND TRIES TO SELL YOU THE MAGAZINE!!
Ditto #16 or no such subject found
Back in April, I too tried to enter a sweepstakes and instead was signed up for a mag subscrition to Oprah. I sent them an email to tell them that I was not interested in the subscription but never heard back from them. Last week I received a letter from a credit collector for a magazine I never received or ordered. I just got off the phone with the company and they said they never received my email but that they were going to “cancel” it and take care of the credit services. I think these people need to be reported for their scam and Oprah needs to know that they are using a link on her website to do this.
I tried to enter the “Win a Million Contest” through Country Living online and ended up being told that I would be charged $10. for the magazine, which I already had a subscription to. I had to make numerous phone calls to get the problem solved.
Go to the link where it says “$1000000 Sweepstakes”. In fine print it will say “if you are already a subscriber CLICK HERE”.