Share Your Wins for October!
Thursday November 6, 2008
I'm a little late with this post this month, but I'd love to hear about the great prizes that all of you have won in October. I know that it was a lucky month for many of you -- some people have been reporting fantastic prizes in the Sweepstakes Forum. So whether you've shared your wins in an email, on the forum, or haven't told us yet at all, click on the "Comments" button below to let us all know what you won this month, so that we can cheer you on and get more motivated ourselves!
October was a bit of a slow month for me, but it was my own fault. I had a whole bunch of obligations that made me too busy to enter my sweepstakes on most days. Nevertheless, it was still a better month than September, and I entered regularly throughout September. Among my prizes were a four-pack of tickets to a movie and a Baltimore Ravens t-shirt.
How about you?
In case you're not winning as much as you'd like to, here are some tips that might help:
- 10 Reasons Why You're Not Winning More Sweepstakes (and how to fix them)
- Sweepstakes with Lots of Prizes
- How to Create a Winning Sweepstakes Strategy
Now, click that "Comments" button below to tell us all about your prizes for last month!
Comments
Won a soccer.com t-shirt. Still keeping my once per month win average going. I recently received 3 of my previous wins from the last several months.
Sandra – despite all your travels and how busy you were – you did a super job of keeping the site updated for all of us – thanks!!! September was really skinny for me too but October was much better – an ipod shuffle and an MP3 player, a magazine subscription, a pair of Hanes underwear and a partridge in a pair tree – oops, getting ahead of myself with the holidays.
Hi everyone. October was a good month for me but my wins were all small items.
2 bags of Hershey’s Bliss
1 bag of M&Ms
1 pair of Hanes underwear
2 tshirts from BurgerDebate.com
Not much in the way of value but I have fun entering the contests.
Tbirdtony
I only ever win from the sweepstakes that offer 1000s of prizes, as my October winnings show:
1 bag of Hershey Bliss Chocolates
1 Dole Salad
1 Pace product
1 music download from Sony Mission for a million
100 MyCokeRewards points from McDonalds
I also won a Harley from Miller. Wish I could get it this week end the local USMC Reservcs are kicking off their “Toys for Tots ” campaign. Love to have some of the local TV stations around to spread the news. I will give a couple of RC Motorcycles. Heck I got a BIG BOY TOY the kids should get something
The hardest part of winning is waiting until the end of the month to share my wins here! This month, I won a $50 AmEx prepaid card from the Kraft Best School Year Ever sweeps.
That makes three $50+ wins in the past four months. I think I’ve had an overabundance of luck recently.
I also won a bag of M&Ms.
I had a very profitable October. I won a ticket to 6 flags, bag of M&Ms, 3M tshirt, coke reward points from MCDs, Lifetime fitness membership from Chrysler Go Green which is in the form of a $1200.00 check, and a Disney Enchanted phone call. Good luck to all!
Forget to other wins….a box of Mike & Ike Candy, and Clinque Skin Care set.
I’ve actually only won one sweepstakes, but it was a great win. I had nothing better to do one day at work and entered a daily sweepstakes just ONCE. I won an AT&T Tilt. It’s a great smartphone with wifi and windows mobile! Since then, I’ve been addicted to sweepstakes and haven’t won one since. lol
But I’ve got high hopes! =P
This was not a win in October, but I took my prize in October…. I won a 7-night cruise on Royal Carribean!!! (val $3,500). The prize paid for airfare from NY to Miami and ground transportation. I enter sweeps only sporadically, so this was HUGE for us!
I hadn’t entered any sweeps in a long time, but after winning $25,000 in Progressive “Pump up the Savings”, I’ve got the bug BIG TIME!!
Ugh. Still no wins and am hoping for some form of luck really soon. Enter all that I can, every day and still nothing. Will keep the faith and keep on going (trying).
Nintendo DS hand held Thing… Goes right into the christmas bag from the nintendo Golden power Sweeps,, second place
Nothing major – just a $10 Starbucks gift card from Herbal Essences, but that was perfect for me, the coffee addict. =)
I commented a couple of months ago that I was new to sweepstakes entry but had faith I would win something big. I just won a 2009 Dodge Journey in the “It’s a New Day, Win a New Dodge III Contest” with a prize value up to $22k. I am really excited and going to the dealer this afternoon to decide exactly what I want. As you said Sandra, persistence and patience.
BHG.com/win I won $50 gas card.
PCH search and win I won $25 Walmart card.
I won a bag of hershey’s bliss, I also won chaplin 15th anniversery edition on dvd, plus I won 5 greeting or note cards.
My first decent win!! A Glamour spa gift basket, with robe, slippers, candles, lotion,cosmetic bag, 2 weeks-supply of Smart Water and a current issue of Glamour magazine!! I’m thrilled!
Wow you guys give me hope that I will win one of those big ones! I have one some smaller prizes this month.
Linda Eder signed cd and tshirt
Calico Critters
3-2-1 Penguin dvd
Pink Breast Cancer awareness water bottle
Ringtone
Wallpaper
Buffalo Bills “Playbook Promo” Sweepstakes
Free Coupon good for any 14 oz. bag of M&M’SŪ Milk Chocolate Candies
MARS instant win game on HalloweenMillion
75 My Coke Rewards Points
MONOPOLY(r) 2008 Game at McDonald’s
I’m new to this. It is exciting reading about some wins. I’ve never won anything. Good Luck to ALL!
Finally received my coupon for a free bag of Hersheys Bliss candy.
Still waiting for my $5 Starbucks card. Got a free coupon for a Nestle Crunch bar. Received free panties from the Wedgie Free Wednesdays sweepstakes.
Got my tickets and documents for my cruise to the Caribbean from APC that I won a few months ago. It’s really happening! Yahoo!
Won two Disney Enchanted calls from two different Disney sweepstakes. Gave one to neighbor’s granddaughter. That’s it for October.
won a 10 dollar gift ceftificate for target from herbal essence and a dollar general t-shirt
well we didn’t win anything, but I am so HAPPY all of you did so well!!!
In October I won 2 Hannah Montana CD’s. They will make great Christmas gifts.
This month I won a $10 iTunes giftcard and a Singing Pizza Elmo toy. I don’t have kids, so I”m going to donate the toy to Toys for Tots this Christmas!
I won a $25 gift certificate to pizza hut and a $5 gift gard to giant. Not huge but this is so fun!!
I won four free bags of M & M’s and also a $25 gift card from the Halloween Millions contest. I received my free candy right away but am still waiting for the gift card to arrive.
I won the Charter Communications “Go Mad, Go Anywhere” Sweepstakes – $5000!!!! When I got the notification that listed the prizes, I assumed that I’d only won the DVD, but oops I was wrong. The prize came as fifty $100.00 Amex Gift Checks. Oh, and everyone at work is sick of me talking about it….
Sandra, I wanted to tell you a funny thing. I have been winning between 2-4 things a month since March. I left a comment here towards the end of September that I had not won anything that month. It looked like my streak was over but my favorite team, the Phillies, won the Nationla League Eastern Division and I was there so I took that as my priceless win. The last night of September, I was discussing this with my 12 year old daughter on the way home from soccer at 8:45 when the dj of the radio station she listens to said they would play 9 songs and if you called in and said what they were, you would win 2 6 Flags Amusement Park tickets. She begged me to do it and I told her she had to write down the songs because I did not know her songs. Anyway, with 2 and a half hours left for September, I won!! We had fun at the park last week. October , I only won the Hanes underwear and a High School Musical tee shirt but I started November off winning 4 tickets to the Wiggles that went unused but it’s still a win right?
Thank you so much for your contest postings! I entered the Orbitz/Disney contest the first day I saw it, and was an instant winner of a $4500 trip for 4 to Walt Disney World!!!!! People really do win!
Biggest win in quite some time –
Chloe Saskia Bag & $5,000
The bag was delivered last week
Still waiting for the $5,000
Plan to pay taxes and bills
Anyone need a $2005 bag ???
In October, I won a Dole Salad and a 60 day free GameFly subscription. Still trying for a bigger win…
Won free tickets to a local festival from a radio station.
October was my best month ever!! I won a cell phone skin ($18 value) and a $200 gift card to use at restaurants of my choice!! The gift card was a first place win through Fancy Feast!
And here my husband thought my contesting was a silly hobby!!!
I got myself spoiled…I was averaging 1 win per week through instant wins, but traveling put a dent in my groove.
So in October, I’ve won several ringtones, wallpapers for the Eagles and the Giants, a bag of Bliss, $10 from Red Robin, 5000 points from Holiday Inn’s Warrior Challenge, and a bottle of lotion from J&J’s Escape from Stress. (all that before oct 10)
I guess it averages out to about once a week, so I’m happy:)
October was great!!
I won a gift card ($10) to a local restaurant;
$50 gas card from AARP.org;
Postcards and envelopes from my sweepstakes newsletter;
125 coke points from McDonalds;
Flash drive package from Quake Wars Live Weekend Play & Win Sweepstakes ($95 prize);
DVD set of 4th Season of Desperate Housewives from RachelRay.com;
AND!! I received an Ipod speaker system in Oct that I won in Sept.
It was a GOOD month!!
I WON A GIFT BASKET FROM 40.COM AND I AM SO EXCITED and I don’t remember what was in the basket but it is a win. HIPRAY !!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been entering contests for years and have won nothing…… are they all fixed or what???…. i keep entering but don’t win.. i am getting discusted……. i want to win something
Welp I won my first online sweeps! Whoo hooooo! I won a ticket to see the movie Australia.
I also won a Bears Keychain, (i’m from chicago) and then I won the Sears sweeps (picked a cookbook $25). They seem to be getter better! I will have a call for my new car hopefully in the next month! I need it!
Congratulations, Jennifer, on your first wins! Here’s hoping for that car to follow