It's Back-January Trip-A-Day Contest!

[DisneyDreamer421]

lol... i was there twice in dec.... looks so pretty! I'm over the snow...

 

[loveshak22]

I have not told my daughters about staying at the castle just yet.... waiting on the call from DISNEY first! .... I actually re read the emails just to make sure it is real. Wishing you all more PIXIE DUST....

I bet they will be so excited!!!

 

[taythecray]

Congratulations to all winners! I'm jealous and excited at the same time. I wonder what day they've gotten through now.

I had the most realistic dream last night. I was lying in bed and checked my phone one last time to find the "potential winner" email. Thinking it was a dream, I "woke myself up" and opened my phone again to see the email still there. I started poking my fiance to wake him up and freak out, only then I ACTUALLY woke up to no email :/ Foreshadowing maybe? I hope so!

 

[mom2rtk]

I have not told my daughters about staying at the castle just yet.... waiting on the call from DISNEY first! .... I actually re read the emails just to make sure it is real. Wishing you all more PIXIE DUST....

Can you imagine how fun it would be to tell them about the trip but not the castle...... until you actually GET THERE?

 

[DisneyDreamer421]

Can you imagine how fun it would be to tell them about the trip but not the castle...... until you actually GET THERE?

That might work..... surprising them with the castle! Im such a HUGE disney fan... i really can't believe this myself.... I never win anything so this is all new to me!

 

[RejoyceoverDisney]

I have not told my daughters about staying at the castle just yet.... waiting on the call from DISNEY first! .... I actually re read the emails just to make sure it is real. Wishing you all more PIXIE DUST....

WAIT!!! Do we have 4 confirmed winners on this thread?

I've lost track of who has reported in.

 

[Pfau]

How exciting!! Congratulations, y'all!

 

[DisneyDreamer421]

I was thinking of what to write when Serial wrote... Pixie Dust to all!

 

[Reality to FANTASY]

I was thinking of what to write when Serial wrote... Pixie Dust to all!

CONGRATS!!! 4 OF 31 AWESOME!!!

 

[Disney Mama of 2]

I'm trying to be optimistic. I've counted the weekends and two holidays which would be non business days. It seems that they will still be notifying potential winners until almost mid-February.

Congratulations to the winners so far.

 

[MommaBerd]

So, so excited for the two latest winners!!! I can only imagine how hard your heart was beating when you saw the subject of that email!

 

[DisneyDreamer421]

So, so excited for the two latest winners!!! I can only imagine how hard your heart was beating when you saw the subject of that email!

I had an anxiety attack! You have NO IDEA... I am still rereading the emails!

 

[RejoyceoverDisney]

Optimism is that we now know of 4 people who won't be clogging the lines to enter the contest and getting in the way of my winning trip.


Congrats to the 4 of you!

Hmmm the phone just rang and caller id was my own name and number. And now my mother in law called and asked if I called her. hmmm I should have jumped on asking her to watch my son so I can go on vacation.

Maybe Betty is thinking about me and the pixie dust came through the lines to get me ready.

 

[cel_disney]

Optimism is that we now know of 4 people who won't be clogging the lines to enter the contest and getting in the way of my winning trip. Congrats to the 4 of you! Hmmm the phone just rang and caller id was my own name and number. And now my mother in law called and asked if I called her. hmmm I should have jumped on asking her to watch my son so I can go on vacation. Maybe Betty is thinking about me and the pixie dust came through the lines to get me ready.

Totally unrelated to disney - but we just got a call that spoofed our own number too! We are in MA and the call was from a credit card offer type place...it was a first for us to get called by our own number!

 

[RejoyceoverDisney]

Totally unrelated to disney - but we just got a call that spoofed our own number too! We are in MA and the call was from a credit card offer type place...it was a first for us to get called by our own number!

Sadly it happens often here. Between telemarketing and collection agencies looking for someone with the spanish version of my husbands name. Never a dull moment. I rarely answer anymore.

 

[wendow]

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 we’ve gotten lots of useful information from these boards over the years. So, please understand if I don’t 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 don’t venture here very often and found this thread as we begin to plan our vacation. I’ve scanned through the thread, and congratulations to winners Iri920 and Reality to FANTASY and good luck to all of you entering (there’s still time left)! I also see there are a lot of questions out there so I’ll answer what I can. I know we’ll have plenty of questions in the coming months to ask WDW vets and we appreciate the reciprocity.

I’ll say we won a drawing in the first two weeks of January; received an email notifying us that we’ve 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 sender’s 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 can’t mistake this for spam if you’ve entered the sweepstakes and read the email. The email goes to the one you use to enter everyday – so make sure it’s 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 you’re 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 you’ve 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 employer’s information because Disney and Ventura employees are excluded from the sweepstakes. They need your SSN for tax purposes, i.e., the 1099 form they’ll 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 don’t respond and your number is available in your Disney account. We never received any calls. I don’t 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!

Congrats!!! So happy for you

 

[wendow]

I was thinking of what to write when Serial wrote... Pixie Dust to all!

So you won too!?!?! If so, wow and congrats

 

[DisneyDreamer421]

So you won too!?!?! If so, wow and congrats

Yes, thanks!!! wishing you Pixie Dust your way!

 

[riverbend]

Yes, thanks!!! wishing you Pixie Dust your way!

Congrats to you and your family!!! What a wonderful surprise that must have been! Have you been daydreaming about when you'd like to go, where to stay, etc?

Hopefully we'll get even more DIS winners before this thing is over!

 

[Mbuksa]

I keep checking everyday. I have been having some issues registering at times, but it would be amazing to win this trip. We couldn't afford to go this year without this sweepstakes. Congratulations to all the winners and good luck to everyone else. I hope to see more DIS winners