Sweepstakes and drawings....do you do them? Do you win?

Is it about the sweepstakes thing online? I don't. And I never wanna try. I also haven't tried the offline sweepstakes, I don't know how it works.

I have won free coupons and a small amount of cash over the years. Its easy to do the online ones, as there are no costs. The ones that cost postage are good sometimes, if there are a lot of winners.

My grandmother used to enter the publishers clearing house contest every year, and when I got old enough I entered it too. Neither of us have ever won even an honorable mention. I've gotten to the point where I don't enter any contest that is not local. Most of these that come to you through the computer are just a ploy to get your info so you can be added to their mailing list. Actually, I rarely enter any contest anymore, and I absolutely refuse to enter one that requires a fee for entering such as a raffle. I consider these a form of gambling and I will not participate. I did win a lawnmower once when our local hardware store had a grand opening. That is the only time I can remember winning anything.

No I wouldn't waste my time. Like you I use to enter these whenever I saw them in the hopes that I would win something, but I never did. Finally I realized that it was just a waste of my time & stopped entering them. That & also like you I don't like my information being out there too much because I really don't know what they do with it once they have it.

I do not like to enter sweepstakes like Publishers Clearing House. You have to respond to it within a certain amount of time but the sweepstakes drawing does not take place until sometime at the end of the following year. You is going to remember that they entered a year ago? Also, look at the odds of winning. It's not worth it. On the other hand, I receive raffle tickets for a drawing which is held every two months. I don't even have to pay for the tickets if I can't. And the prize is $10,000.

Never had a chance to win.Even way back in school like small raffles haven't experience to win even a single price.Even in Christmas raffles during parties I do always got a consolation prize,haven't experienced a major prize.But some people are so lucky in raffles,good for them.

My belief is that they just put people on "sucker lists" and then U get bombarded with junk mail. A trick some people use is to give a different middle initial when signing up for dubious things and then when you get unsolicited stuff you know where it came from at least. But I actually have 2 addresses, one for junk and one for real mail. So I never sign up for sweepstakes etc, but I do get the local restaurant coupons and other good stuff.

Not really all that interested in them to be honest. Granted, some of those prizes look rather nice. Especially the cash prizes, don't really have much of a use for the non-cash prizes. Of course, there are a lot of sweepstakes out there, that I wonder about the fact that "someone" has to win. I'm sure in many of them, someone has to win. However, I do imagine that there are times where the fix is in regarding sweepstakes. Especially with those who offer prizes that are a bit too good to be true. It is really hard to prove or disprove, that some company shill is not "winning". Some sweepstakes are legit, some are not legit at all but its hard to figure out which is which.