ACTORS OR PART OF A SECRET SOCIETY?

For the longest time this has been my stance on contests and their so called “winners”… ‘Why,’ you ask?,  As a young boy I never won a bicycle from the bottom of a Popsicle stick or a Nintendo from a the back of a magazine not even a chance to meet  tony the tiger from the bottom of my Frosted Flakes cereal box.

I am sorry to report that as the years went by it did not get any better.  OLG(C) has not clued in that the winning numbers should be a combination of my birthday and the last 4 digits of my phone number. What about my fellow Canadian Tim Horton and his Roll up the Rim to Win??- Yup,  you guessed it not even a free cup of coffee. Ellen DeGeneres? – I can do the cabbage patch into the running man and finish with my back bone sliding as my needle drops to the floor but will she give me 1000 in cash? HA! not a chance.

Yet day in and day out  the local newspapers  are littered across the world with elderly suburban couples  and their suspiciously auspicious smiles  holding on to their oversize Million Dollar cardboard cheques. who are these people?.  The TV brings  me no more relief, instead it provides more misleading news in form of young “stay at home moms” who are obviously not really staying at home (??) -  screaming OH MY GOD as they jump from their camera-perfect positioned seats all the way to contestant’s row!

THE TRUTH UNCOVERED

A while back a co-worker of mine introduced me to a Canadian Bargain Hunting Community Forum that has been life changing for me and my s/o,  I could go on and on about how great this site is but for purpose of  keeping this article somewhat focused around contests I will concentrate on the “contest” forum as it is here that I found my answer to my earlier question….

wait for it……………..

PEOPLE WHO WIN CONTESTS ARE PEOPLE WHO ENTER THEM!

WHAT?.. Well I guess I should have mentioned earlier that I have never been on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, I don’t buy coffee from Tim Horton’s and I only buy 1 lottery ticket a year.

I wasn’t completely in the wrong though – there is a “secret society” of sorts, I have given them the appropriate title of “professional contest enterers” (my creative mind at its best). Who are these PCE’s?  these are the people who seek out and enter contests daily and when the contest permits enter the same contest multiple times.  In some extreme cases like Pepsi’s yearly 1 winner every hour contests,  they put in 24 hour shifts – setting their alarms 5 min before the hour entering once then waiting 6 minutes to enter again at the beginning of the new hour – thus maximizing their rest periods.

SINCE JOINING THE SECRET SOCIETY

My s/o has won 1 Grand Prize of two passes to the EDGE Ultimate Frat Party which she so kindly donated to me and my friend for a guys night out. Value: A Party with Maxim Girls? Priceless?
I won 2 Preseason NHL Tickets Platinum Section  from the Coke Zero Fan First Game Prize  Contest – (My first NHL game, I am a horrible Canadian I know) Value: Approx: 350$
I am also happy to report that after 60 entries I won a MinoHD Camcorder a couple of days ago from the Pepsi Flip Us Your Smile contest.Value: 229.99$

PEPSI FLIP US YOUR SMILE CONTEST

PepsiCo will be giving away a Flip MinoHD camcorder from May 19 9:00:00 AM Central Time (CT) to July 11 at 8:59:59 AM CT . Previous years saw iPods Xbox 360s, TVs, as prizes. A total of 1272 prizes will be given away in the contest.

SEE YOU ON THE COVER OF THE TORONTO SUN!

The PCE’s work for their wins so remember if you don’t enter you can’t win and like any contest if you really want to win you need to be prepared to work for it. – Average Genius.

Amazon has a cheaper version of this type of camcorder – just in case you don’t win and still want one.

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