Check in here if you won a OMDD trip! UPDATE: We HAVE 16 (+1) Winners!!

[Blessed_wth_Triplets]

Sorry...but some of you crack me up! Already thinking like you are going to win and plan your vaca! Good luck...and more power to ya!

 

[Jennasis]

Sorry...but some of you crack me up! Already thinking like you are going to win and plan your vaca! Good luck...and more power to ya!

You gotta believe!

 

[SnoWhiteRabbit]

Remember the taxes, about $2K or so for most people/

My husband would not be as thrilled with me winning a "free" trip
...Of course that hasnt stopped me from entering each day!

 

[CandleontheWater]

I have been entering every day by text with no issues. I've been getting my Mom to do it too, because I know she'd take me and DS (or never hear the end of it! ). I really hope a DISer wins, It would be fun to even "know" someone who won!

I'll be eagerly checking back on the 11th!

 

[SnoWhiteRabbit]

I'm thinking that a husband and wife CANNOT both enter unless they're living at different addresses per the underlined section of the rules that you quoted. It's one entry per day per person (H&W can both enter), per cell (H&W can both enter if they have different cell #s), AND per address (only H OR W can enter unless they have different addresses).

This is how I am reading it too. To be safe, only I'm entering, even though DH has his own cell and email address.

 

[SnoWhiteRabbit]

You gotta believe!

I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies!!

 

[lobmcf]

Entered for today!

 

[tkitty]

Starting early 1/1, I tried to enter online and keep getting error message so as with many Disney sweeps that offer a text alt. entry, I've texted mine each day.
Now I'm worried. My DD, SIL, DH and myself are all on a wireless family plan under the same name (DD's) and each of us are entering each day and getting the "Congrats. you're entered" reply. I would hope that they realize that most people, families or couples have joint accts and family plans and that would not be a problem.....because I really would like to win!

 

[OBChristine]

I entered today without any problems. Can't wait to see if a dis'er wins!!

 

[5forDis]

I can't wait to see if anyone from The Dis won (1st drawing is 1/11/12, right?)!!!

You guys will be the first to know if I am one of the lucky winners. Good luck everyone---I thinks someone here will be part of the 60 giveaways.

 

[It'sWDW4me]

This is how I am reading it too. To be safe, only I'm entering, even though DH has his own cell and email address.

Actually, the outcome of that tangent was that "Address" refers to email address.... so:

If both cell phones are under 1 name - either both of you can enter daily online using 2 different email addresses OR one enter daily via text and one enter online daily

OR

If your cell phones are listed under separate names you can both enter daily via text.

Heck, both of you enter daily - more chances to win!

Er..... wait..... on second thought.... NEITHER of you should enter.... at ALL! More chance for ME to win.

 

[lpizzuro123]

Ok - I entered again for today - just keeping track.

Linda

 

[Coconuts]

I'm in! I can't believe I just found out about this yesterday and missed 4 days of entries. At least as I read through the last 17!!! pages, I had my question answered about whether address means email or house.

 

[Jennasis]

Getting closer and closer to the first drawing. Hope everyone is still entering...or at least trying to!

 

[nchulka]

So I have been entering everyday and just had a wonderful thought come into my head this morning. What if someone won more than one day I wonder if Disney would let them combo the two trips into a giant 8 night stay with 2000.00 spending money!!! Of course the chances of someone winning the drawing twice in 60 days would be would be so astronomical, they would probably also be struck by lightening before they got to take the trip What if a husband and wife both won on separate days!!! That would be so cool

 

[kidd_freeper]

Lets see if I can answer some of the questions I've seen here...

I've won two WDW trips, one through Alamo (2005) and one through McDonalds (2006). Both trips were administered through the WDW Contest Winners Department (yes there is such a department).

I would believe that a contest offfered by Disney would also be administered by the WDW Contest Winners Department.

1. You can pick almost ANY standard room on site, provided that: (a) it is available, (b) it is not DVC, (c) it is not a Ft. Wilderness cabin, (d) I seem to recall, for the McDonalds trip, that GF was not a choice either, maybe because of availability. For both of our trips, we selected three choices - and in each case we got our first choice. And you can be rather specific. For example, on our Alamo trip, we chose AKL (Savanah view). On our McDonalds trip, we chose the Poly (Tuvalu - MK view).

2. Yes, you can add extra people AND extra days ... at your own expense. Of course you will have to pay the extra airfare/tickets/etc. The WDW Contest administrator will help you get everyone on the same flight. We turned our McDonalds trip (4 people, 4 nights) into a 6 people 2-week vacation. We had a crib for our youngest at the Poly, which normally sleeps 5 but were thus able to squeeze six into the room. After our 4 nights were done at the Poly, we stayed offsite. And we had unused park tickets from a previous trip (which back then didn't expire).

3. The park tickets that you win as part of the prize cannot be upgraded or extended. They are considered to have zero value promotional tickets. If you want to visit the parks more than what the prize allows, you'll have to buy a seperate set of tickets. Nor can you add extras, like waterparks.

4. The ARV of the prize was non-negotiable for both of my wins. What is stated as the value of the prize in the rules will be added to your income, and your taxes will increase in accordance with the increase in income. You WILL be sent an IRS form from the contest administrator for withholding of these taxes. My understanding is that the WITHHOLDING on a prize is quite high (on the order of 50% of the ARV), but that is NOT the taxes that you actually end up paying. In our case, we were successfully able to show, for both of our trips, that we had very large refunds from the previous years that would more than cover the cost of the additional taxes...and we had nothing extra withheld. In the end, we got a couple of top notch Disney vacations for the entire family for about $1000 each (which was the extra taxes we ended up paying).

5. Read the rules carefully. If you win, you WILL be required to sign an affadavit stating that you entered the contest in accordance with the rules. If you cheat on the entry (or enter too often), and then win and sign the affadavit, and are caught cheating, you could get into legal trouble.

 

[sl_underwood]

So I have been entering everyday and just had a wonderful thought come into my head this morning. What if someone won more than one day I wonder if Disney would let them combo the two trips into a giant 8 night stay with 2000.00 spending money!!! Of course the chances of someone winning the drawing twice in 60 days would be would be so astronomical, they would probably also be struck by lightening before they got to take the trip What if a husband and wife both won on separate days!!! That would be so cool

I doubt it, but I had the same thought. LOL.

 

[Millermom0606]

hmmmm

SO, it sounds like b/c DH and I both texted from the same AT&T account we 'voided' each others entries?

BUT the ones I did from the computer using my Disney Account probably went through???


Why in the blazes is this so confusing LOL!!

 

[ProudMommyof2]

Lets see if I can answer some of the questions I've seen here...

I've won two WDW trips, one through Alamo (2005) and one through McDonalds (2006). Both trips were administered through the WDW Contest Winners Department (yes there is such a department).

I would believe that a contest offfered by Disney would also be administered by the WDW Contest Winners Department.

1. You can pick almost ANY standard room on site, provided that: (a) it is available, (b) it is not DVC, (c) it is not a Ft. Wilderness cabin, (d) I seem to recall, for the McDonalds trip, that GF was not a choice either, maybe because of availability. For both of our trips, we selected three choices - and in each case we got our first choice. And you can be rather specific. For example, on our Alamo trip, we chose AKL (Savanah view). On our McDonalds trip, we chose the Poly (Tuvalu - MK view).

2. Yes, you can add extra people AND extra days ... at your own expense. Of course you will have to pay the extra airfare/tickets/etc. The WDW Contest administrator will help you get everyone on the same flight. We turned our McDonalds trip (4 people, 4 nights) into a 6 people 2-week vacation. We had a crib for our youngest at the Poly, which normally sleeps 5 but were thus able to squeeze six into the room. After our 4 nights were done at the Poly, we stayed offsite. And we had unused park tickets from a previous trip (which back then didn't expire).

3. The park tickets that you win as part of the prize cannot be upgraded or extended. They are considered to have zero value promotional tickets. If you want to visit the parks more than what the prize allows, you'll have to buy a seperate set of tickets. Nor can you add extras, like waterparks.

4. The ARV of the prize was non-negotiable for both of my wins. What is stated as the value of the prize in the rules will be added to your income, and your taxes will increase in accordance with the increase in income. You WILL be sent an IRS form from the contest administrator for withholding of these taxes. My understanding is that the WITHHOLDING on a prize is quite high (on the order of 50% of the ARV), but that is NOT the taxes that you actually end up paying. In our case, we were successfully able to show, for both of our trips, that we had very large refunds from the previous years that would more than cover the cost of the additional taxes...and we had nothing extra withheld. In the end, we got a couple of top notch Disney vacations for the entire family for about $1000 each (which was the extra taxes we ended up paying).

5. Read the rules carefully. If you win, you WILL be required to sign an affadavit stating that you entered the contest in accordance with the rules. If you cheat on the entry (or enter too often), and then win and sign the affadavit, and are caught cheating, you could get into legal trouble.

This was all the same for the trip we won last year except that we were able to add on to the tickets. Our prize included 4 day park hoppers. I was able to extend them to 7 day tickets and swap out the hoppers for WP&M option.

 

[kathleendsm]

It seems unbelievable Disney would be unable to reconcile cell phones on family plans (i.e. 2 or more phones on one person's name) given the percentage of people who probably have that situation. That's pretty much like multiple people at the same address. Maybe I'm crazy, but if you're entering from two different cell phone numbers via text, I'm sure you're probably fine, even if the two are on a family plan. If that weren't the case, I think they would have made it clear in the rules.