Comments on: Why You Should Enter Contests

By: savealoonie

savealoonie — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:32:49 +0000

Wow! That is incredible! You’ve had some really great wins 🙂

Congrats and good luck in 2014!

By: Alison Braidwood

Alison Braidwood — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:24:47 +0000

I enter contests every day, and use Roboform to do my form filling, which saves a lot of typing. I noticed last year that I was missing out on a lot of the Christmas giveaways going on, so this year I used 3-4 contest sites to keep track of them (a lot of them on Facebook, as well as Savealoonie and Contestgirl).

I spent up to 2 hours a day entering Christmas contests from the end of November to end of December. And at first I was starting to wonder if it was worth it, as I wasn’t winning. But then the prize notifications started to trickle in. In the end I won nearly $2000 worth of stuff, including: An XBox One, an Apple iPhone, a $50 Cdn Tire gc, a KitchenAid blender, Denizen jeans, a Clarins lipstick, and prizes for my little nieces.

So putting in the effort is worth it. I also won a Las Vegas trip for 4 in 2012 (a daily Hershey and NHL contest). But I do go through periods (sometimes months) without a win. You just need to be persistent.

I used to avoid contests that were open to the US and Canada (as I figured I had much less chance of winning), but this year I’ve won a Logitech Facebook contest (iPad Keyboard Folio and $500 Visa card), a Michael Kors tote from Ebay.com, and a custom Strada bike from a Facebook Hotel contest. So it is worth entering contests that are open to both countries. These were all single entry contests.

By: KIM

KIM — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:05:26 +0000

always entering never seem to win

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:39:59 +0000

I haven’t not win anything. I hope someday I will!!

By: Lynda

Lynda — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:31:03 +0000

I haven’t won anything yet, but I keep trying…;)

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:52:27 +0000

I recently won a prize from Silk and tickets for a children’s play. I was kinda surprised as I have never won anything ever.

By: savealoonie

savealoonie — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:11:50 +0000

In reply to rose. We only post Canadian Contests that we find. Sometimes however Canada, USA and other countries are included into a contest.

By: rose

rose — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:45:32 +0000

I try so many times to win and I have not win anything . sometimes the contest are for America and not Canada. so how do you win if the America are winning too. you should show it for Canada or Canada then I know when to do it. nothing against the america but I wish I could win something

By: martina j

martina j — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:31:03 +0000

I won the hbc grand prize at a baby show a few years ago. Recently I won a roku

By: Karen Munro

Karen Munro — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:48:23 +0000

I’ve won 12 days of Zellers , 7dvds over the pass 2years.two movie passes…so far not bad eh

By: Jennifer G

Jennifer G — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:42:55 +0000

I was lucky enough to be one of the Europe’s Best grand prize winners!! besides that, haven’t really won anything before.. it was exciting that’s for sure!!

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:40:24 +0000

The last contest I won was with Coca-cola. It was their online contest where you entered your PIN code from a coke bottle and then shook a snow globe to see what you won. Amazingly I actually won a Nintendo Wii. I was so excited! I got all the paper work done and was ready to send it in the mail. Funnily enough…and kind of sad, I completely spaced on sending out the forms. I guess something came up, I can’t quite remember what, but it made me miss out on my prize. I guess I can consider this the contest I won and the prize I never received. I have now been entering daily on TodaysDraw hoping I would get a gift card one day. Have been entering for ages and haven’t won anything yet.
I believe the only contest I entered that I actually received the prize was when I was a young kid. It was a coloring contest at the local grocery store. I colored the picture of Tony the Tiger and submitted it. A few weeks later I won a Raleigh Tracker bicycle. That was so cool.

Never hurts to enter a contest. You never know, you might win something.

By: Raquel

Raquel — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:19:50 +0000

I have won several great prizes.

In 2008, Subway Restaurants had the “Greatest Contest Ever,” and you would enter a code that you had to peel off your drink (so you had to get the combo). Honestly, I only entered twice during that contest and won the grand prize, which was a brand new Nissan Versa. I think they only gave out 10 in Ontario.

This year I have won some great prizes as well. I won a 1-year gym membership to GoodLife, and a Motorola Razr Droid!

It is true, you cannot say that you don’t win anything if you do not enter 🙂

By: Cristina

Cristina — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:16:08 +0000

I do enter to most of the contests but hardly every win anything 🙁