Another winner reporting in!
Let me preface by saying that my wife and I tend to be very careful with online privacy, but talked about it and thought the rest of the Disboards community would appreciate sharing in our good news since weve gotten lots of useful information from these boards over the years. So, please understand if I dont share too much personal detail or name third parties.
Let me also say that our home park is
Disneyland never been to WDW so I dont venture here very often and found this thread as we begin to plan our vacation. Ive scanned through the thread, and congratulations to winners
Iri920 and
Reality to FANTASY and good luck to all of you entering (theres still time left)! I also see there are a lot of questions out there so Ill answer what I can. I know well have plenty of questions in the coming months to ask WDW vets and we appreciate the reciprocity.
Ill say we won a drawing in the first two weeks of January; received an email notifying us that weve been selected as a potential winner 7 days after the drawing that it said we won, which gave us until 5 p.m. EST two days later to respond. The email came from Ventura Associates using an @sweepspros.com email address and arrived around noon PST, so +3 hours EST. I checked out the senders information and Ventura online and against the official rules, and everything checked out.
Despite what has been posted in this thread, neither the subject line nor the body of the email is ambiguous, and you cant mistake this for spam if youve entered the sweepstakes and read the email. The email goes to the one you use to enter everyday so make sure its one that you check. The email did not land in the spam folder. The subject line clearly states:
Disney Flip Side Sweepstakes - Potential Winner - Please Respond, with the date for which you won in parenthesis. The body is substantially similar to the email from last year that
wendow posted many pages back. It tells you that you entered the Disney Flip Side Sweepstakes and that your entry has been selected as a potential winner. It seems you are only a potential winner at this point because Ventura has to make sure youre eligible to win under the rules. The email then asks for your name, mailing address, phone number, and date of birth to determine your eligibility. We replied with this information within the two days.
Ventura followed up with another email with an affidavit attached and instructions. The affidavit asks you to affirm that youve complied with the rules and contains certain releases. The affidavit also asks for the names and occupation/employers of you and your immediate family, your address, date of birth, telephone number, email address, and social security number among other things. I assume they need your employers information because Disney and Ventura employees are excluded from the sweepstakes. They need your SSN for tax purposes, i.e., the 1099 form theyll eventually mail you. I can see why some people would be hesitant to disclose their SSN, but like I said they checked out. The affidavit needed to be notarized, then emailed or faxed back, and the original copy mailed to Ventura. We did so and, after a few days, we received the official congratulations by email.
Everything was done over email, which made sense because you enter with your email. I suppose they might call you if you dont respond and your number is available in your Disney account. We never received any calls. I dont know where the notion of FedEx packages came from. That seems to be outdated information. However, Ventura did need a non-P.O. Box address for mailing purposes. So I suppose at some point they'll send us something.
We were told to expect someone from Disney Parks to contact us in the next few weeks!
Pixie dust for my friend.
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