Have you ever won...

[AustinTink]

I LOVE to answer these posts

Last year I won an all expense paid trip to BOTH DisneyLand & DisneyWorld Deluxe accomodations on site, tons of gifts in our room, cookies and milk sent to our room at night, special viewing sections to parades, fireworks, a PRIVATE breakfast at Cinderella's castle with all the princesses/princes in California and ended with a PRIVATE dinner at WDW with Mickey/Minnie/Pluto/Goofy/The Incredibles.

That is only a little bit about it - it was absolutely AMAZING!

You're my idol.

Tell me more...

 

[Freyja]

This summer I won an awesome competition with Radisson Blu and the prize was 365 hotel nights to be spent at any of their 240 hotels over a 5 year period
That´s definitely the biggest prize I have ever won

 

[luvmarypoppins]

I forgot to add that I did win like 8 southwest credits for dh this year and that added to what he had means a free ticket to disney for our dec. trip

Last year I won a $200 rite aid gift card. I was really hoping to win the boxtops for the ds school instead. I never even shop at rite aid.

 

[krcit]

This summer I won an awesome competition with Radisson Blu and the prize was 365 hotel nights to be spent at any of their 240 hotels over a 5 year period
That´s definitely the biggest prize I have ever won

That is AWESOME!!!


Loving reading about all these cool prizes

 

[AustinTink]

This summer I won an awesome competition with Radisson Blu and the prize was 365 hotel nights to be spent at any of their 240 hotels over a 5 year period
That´s definitely the biggest prize I have ever won

I remember reading your thread about that. So cool! Didn't you have to enter a video diary, or something?

 

[Handbag Lady]

I won a stay in Hawaii courtesy of the Budget Board here letting posters know about Last Minute Travel's contest. Several of us won, and a few were for WDW. (I'd never been to Hawaii so I picked that instead.)

I won a weekend in Laughlin via a Kiwanis club years ago.

I still enter contests all the time as long as they are free.

 

[pixiewings71]

I enter contests all the time, and I don't win. But I keep entering because one of these days.......lol

 

[Ashton7]

I win contests all the time -- well, I used to. The last couple of years have been slim pickings for really good contests (I suppose it's the economy and PR budgets getting slashed). And I think a lot more people are entering them, too. There also seems to be a shift to companies running smaller contests on blogs and Facebook and Twitter. So I haven't won as much the last couple of years but I can't complain. I still win a small prize here and there and hope to win another big one someday! Some of the big ones I've won are:

50 inch Sony projection TV with home theater system

Trip to Vegas (stay in a deluxe room at the Flamingo, $400 in traveler's checks and airfare) as well as $50 Blockbuster GC and some other smaller prizes

Trip to Vegas to see the ACMAs a couple of years ago. Included weekend at the MGM Grand, tickets to pre-party and concert, a special charity concert the Saturday night, post-party and concert, seats on the floor for the televised concert (they were worth $450 each!), breakfast every day, transportation, $100 dinner vouchers, tons of presents, and free food and alcohol at every event. It was the most awesome thing I've ever won. Dr Pepper was the sponsor.

$2500 cash (from one of the Hearst magazines)

Tickets to American Idols live

$250 cash (from local radio station)

Ipod Nano (again radio station)

And lots of different GCs, movie tickets, etc. As for Disney, I have won in their contests a few times -- mostly Enchanted Calls which I pass along to my niece. She's loved them. And once I won a limited edition pin, which was nice since I collect and trade Disney pins. But I've never won anything bigger from a Disney contest.

 

[goofystitchfan]

I too am a contest junkie. A few of my winnings have been:

Bahama cruise with a private concert with Kenny Chesney

Trip to Atlanta for a concert, Trip to Miami for concert, Disney Wonder Cruise, Trip to South Beach, A trip to LA for the Shrek 4 premier, 2 Universal Orlando trips, TONS of $$$, concert tickets, and much more that I can't think of right now...

 

[zalansky]

Funny you bring this up - I have been wondering about this too lately. All you winners, do you mostly enter online sweepstakes and are they daily entries or one time entries?

As for me, I won a 3 night stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge last year through that Last Minute Travel contest...two years ago I won 2 tickets to Halloween Horror Nights plus 2 tickets to Universal and Islands of Adventure, and recently I won two single admission tickets to our local water park over the summer.

I would die if I won some of these trips you all have won! Congrats on your wins everybody

 

[J3nn78]

I have only ever won 2 lift tickets to a local ski mountain via a radio call in contest like 16 years ago.

My old pastor won $1 Million in the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes. I always send the stuff in and my dad used to make fun of me because he said no one wins. Now he knows better.

 

[lyncecelia]

I have only ever won 2 lift tickets to a local ski mountain via a radio call in contest like 16 years ago.

My old pastor won $1 Million in the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes. I always send the stuff in and my dad used to make fun of me because he said no one wins. Now he knows better.

Wow....people actually win those?!

Is it true that you have to subscribe to something? I've tried to do the application, but it seems like I need to buy something to sign for it...

 

[Freyja]

I remember reading your thread about that. So cool! Didn't you have to enter a video diary, or something?

Well, we had to make a profile about us on their website and then it was up to us whether we wanted to submit photos and/or a video. You can see our profile on www.5littleelves.com

 

[jiminyC_fan]

I won an all expense paid trip for four to Disneyland from our local mall. It was when they were promoting the (new) Toon Town.

 

[Fantasmic23]

I LOVE to answer these posts

Last year I won an all expense paid trip to BOTH DisneyLand & DisneyWorld Deluxe accomodations on site, tons of gifts in our room, cookies and milk sent to our room at night, special viewing sections to parades, fireworks, a PRIVATE breakfast at Cinderella's castle with all the princesses/princes in California and ended with a PRIVATE dinner at WDW with Mickey/Minnie/Pluto/Goofy/The Incredibles.

That is only a little bit about it - it was absolutely AMAZING!

I try not to use this word too often but ... Dude, that's awesome!!

 

[J3nn78]

You don't need to subscribe for PCH, my pastor never did and is now $1 million richer

 

[Kirby]

You don't need to subscribe for PCH, my pastor never did and is now $1 million richer

That's good to know since I don't choose to buy anything either when I fill out all that paperwork.

 

[Philagoofy]

We won a trip to Disney World! This was many years ago, I'm really dating myself here. If anyone remembers the old Atari games, it was way back then. The company had set up several Atari games in a center city park for anyone to play. High score on each type of game won. I scored highest on Space Invaders & won 3 games. The names of everyone who played, whether they were high scorers or not, were entered in a big drawing. My husband won that which was a 4 day trip to Disney.

We asked if we could put the money toward a longer trip to Disney so that we could spend more time in Florida to visit my grandparents. At the travel agency where Atari had us go to make plans, they had our photos taken holding a Mickey Mouse plush. We have a copy of it somewhere.

 

[georgina]

A few years ago, I used to enter a lot of online sweeps. My best wins were a 40" LCD TV, a $1000 Jos A Bank gift card, a $500 JC Penney GC, a $250 American Eagle GC, $100 Lady Footlocker GC, a flip camera, Nintendo DS Lite, Corning ware, and numerous smaller GC. I don't enter many trip ones because there are a lot of restrictions, my DD did win once and we were unable to take the trip due to the constraints. I would enter faithfully every day for the duration on the contest. It was rather time consuming, and I don't do it much anymore.

 

[Ashton7]

Funny you bring this up - I have been wondering about this too lately. All you winners, do you mostly enter online sweepstakes and are they daily entries or one time entries?

As for me, I won a 3 night stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge last year through that Last Minute Travel contest...two years ago I won 2 tickets to Halloween Horror Nights plus 2 tickets to Universal and Islands of Adventure, and recently I won two single admission tickets to our local water park over the summer.

I would die if I won some of these trips you all have won! Congrats on your wins everybody

Most of the biggest prizes I've won were one-time entries, as best as I can remember. Or it was just that I only entered them once! The big TV was a weekly and I think I entered it 3 or 4 times. I enter dailies but I rarely enter them every day, especially lately. I figure as long as I have an entry in, I have a chance of winning.