$5,000 Cash & Two iPads Holiday Giveaway from MyMoneyBlog (Winner Announcement)
Winner Announcement! The contest is now over. Congratulations to Devin A. and Julia D., the lucky winners of $2,500 and an iPad 2. You should have received an e-mail notification to your registered e-mail address. Thanks to all who entered, I hope to do it again next year.
‘Tis the season of giving so I’ve decided to award two lucky MyMoneyBlog readers with $2,500 in cold hard cash! And as an added bonus, each winner will receive a brand new iPad 2 (64gb). Yes, really! I don’t think you’ll find a richer giveaway on the web so please tell your friends, family and coworkers to get an entry in! Winners will be selected at random on the morning of Wednesday, December 21st and to enter the giveaway, you need to follow two simple steps:
- Complete a short 10-question multiple choice survey which will help me understand your credit card preferences better in 2012. Remember to hit the blue arrow on the bottom right of the survey so your survey is submitted!
- Subscribe to the MyMoneyBlog RSS feed by e-mail. I know that many of you may already subscribe in other ways, but this is the only way that I can actually track. I want to reward regular readers, not just one-time visitors. If you’re already subscribed, then half of your entry is complete!
The email address you register when completing the survey must match the email address you use to subscribe to my RSS feed. Unfortunately, if you are selected and I can’t find your email address in both places, you will forfeit the prize so please make sure to enter your email address carefully, because this is how you will be contacted. When entering your name and email address on the survey, the information will only be used to select a winner for this giveaway. All personal information is 100% secure and will not be used for any other purpose.
The obligatory fine print… please read!
- Only one entry per person / two per household will be accepted. US residents only. Exceeding this limit will result in the forfeiture of winnings if you are randomly selected.
- A W-9 form must be submitted in order to receive your prize. It’s free money, but I’ve still got to follow IRS rules.
- Entrants have 10 days to claim their prize and submit their W-9 (even during the holiday season). If 10 days pass, the winnings will be awarded to someone else, again at random.
- Cash prize and iPad 2 will be mailed separately but should be received one to two weeks following receipt of the W-9 form.
- SURVEY LINK
- RSS FEED LINK
If you have any questions about the giveaway or just want to express your exuberance, feel free to leave a comment below. Happy Holidays and good luck to everyone that enters!
By Jonathan Ping | Deals & Offers, Giving Back | 12/22/11, 1:17am
December 7th, 2011 at 6:09 am
Wow Jonathan… Nice of you. Cheers and happy holidays!
December 7th, 2011 at 6:15 am
So what’s the impetus for this contest?
December 7th, 2011 at 6:25 am
I registered and subscribed (even if I prefer reading it in my Reader)! I’ll pass this along to some family and friends. Thanks!
December 7th, 2011 at 6:46 am
Wow…very generous. Never won anything online before let’s hope this’ll be a first from my favorite blog.
December 7th, 2011 at 6:47 am
I registered and subscribed. I hope I win
Happy Holidays! Thanks!
December 7th, 2011 at 6:49 am
Jon,
Gary here. A fan of your posts and your blogs. The comments also have been of knowledge most of the times.
I did sign up and don’t expect to win. But did anyways. However, I was wondering whether you are doing this on behalf of anyone or are you using your personal funds? I don’t need to know the reason for doing this.
Looking forward to your reply and your good posts.
December 7th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Thanks! happy holiday and good luck to all!!
December 7th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Wow, thank you for the contest!
December 7th, 2011 at 7:21 am
That’s not the only way you can track. If you use a FeedBurner RSS feed, any subscription will be tracked.
December 7th, 2011 at 7:24 am
Thanks for offering this up! Recently got laid off so any extra cash would really help – long time RSS reader (via google.com/ig)
December 7th, 2011 at 7:25 am
Love your site! Glad to see my daily stop might pay off yet again! Thanks.
December 7th, 2011 at 7:30 am
Impressive giveaway! Wish your family wellness and prosperity! Good luck to all entrants and congratulations to winners!
December 7th, 2011 at 7:31 am
*crosses fingers*
December 7th, 2011 at 7:42 am
Have to say that this is a heck of a give away especially during the holiday season. Whoever wins will have a happy belated holiday.
December 7th, 2011 at 8:20 am
You are so generous this year! Having designed and built these surveys myself, I can tell you chose to randomize the choices to get more honest results because the choice “None of the above” was in the middle of the list. So, after the contest, are you going to publish the results of the survey?
December 7th, 2011 at 8:42 am
I hope I win… $2500 and an IPOD2?! Who cares what his motives are or where the money is coming from. Whoever wins is going to have a nice Christmas!
December 7th, 2011 at 9:02 am
It is a very generous contest. I tried to subscribe, but I receive a message that the link is broken.
December 7th, 2011 at 9:28 am
I haven’t been a subscriber for very long, but I very much enjoy all the personal finance blogs I read. This one is pretty great – good enough to keep on Google Reader!
December 7th, 2011 at 9:34 am
That’s an amazing giveaway! (And from a great blog, no less.) I definitely entered, and I’ll be tweeting this out as well.
December 7th, 2011 at 9:38 am
Subscribed and took the survey. thanks for the giveaway!
December 7th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Thanks Jonathon!
An amazing give away!!!
Although, I don’t know why so many people would share with lots of random people. The more that enter, the less chance you have of winning!!!
December 7th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Wow, what a nice giveaway. I gave it a shot with fingers crossed. Thanks Jonathan!
December 7th, 2011 at 11:19 am
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
December 7th, 2011 at 11:30 am
Yes …thanks I’m in….Happy Holidays to all
December 7th, 2011 at 11:49 am
Nice giveaway… hope I win!!! Love the blog!
December 7th, 2011 at 11:58 am
Very cool Jon. Always been a fan. Keep it up!
December 7th, 2011 at 11:59 am
For the rss subscribe i am getting 404 Error.
I will check back later.
December 7th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Thanks for the chance to win!
December 7th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Thanks – your site is great!
Would you mind sharing any details on how you provide these gifts? Aren’t marketing folks interested in our emails and survey data?
thanks!
December 7th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Jon,
Long time reader here. I probably start reading this blog five year ago. I have earned thousand of dollars just by reading your blog. It’s nice of you to do this little contest. I won’t mind winning the $2500 at all.
December 7th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
I just tried out the RSS subscription by e-mail form, and it worked for me. (Sorry for the annoying captcha.) Please let me know if there are ongoing problems with that.
Good luck everyone!
December 7th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Holly Switzerland. Wow. I just gave you all my credit card details (lol) and signed up for your email newsletter although am a RSS subscriber.
Cheers, (and Merry Xmas!)
Missy
December 7th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Nice prizes! Thanks for the contest!
December 7th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Thanks for the contest! If I win, I will put the money in my 2012 Roth IRA in honor of this blog.
December 7th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Thanks for the chance!
December 7th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Thanks for sharing some holiday cheer with your readers. Hopefully this will bring new traffic to your site and you can do more of these next year.
December 7th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Very generous ! Keep up the great blog !
December 7th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Thank you!
December 7th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Awesome that you are doing this, but would of preferred 10 -$500 cash awards and avoided the W-9 Less work for all of us
December 7th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
I agree with Nic. Less paperwork and more winners
December 8th, 2011 at 4:23 am
Great prizes. I’ve been a reader for years now and an RSS subscriber, but first time email subscriber. Good luck to everyone, and especially me.
December 8th, 2011 at 5:50 am
It _is_ very nice of you, but there’s something you didn’t add (maybe because it’s obvious to you); to whom is this open? i’m thinking it’s open just to US residents, but I might be mistaken (many blogs specify their contest being open to more than US, because they pay the rewards via paypal anyway)
Anyway, like i said, it _is very generous of you, on the top of taking time to research and make public so many financual tups.
Merry Christmas
December 8th, 2011 at 6:10 am
Done. Have been a reader and learner from your blog for a long time. Happy holidays.
December 8th, 2011 at 6:29 am
I have been reading your blog for years and signed up for many great reward cards by reading your blog. Keep it up! This is a great way to keep readers excited about returning. I have entered the contest *keeping fingers crossed!
December 8th, 2011 at 7:03 am
That’s my birthday! How about an extra chance at winning?
December 8th, 2011 at 7:12 am
Thanks for doing this!
December 8th, 2011 at 7:37 am
Wow, Jonathan is showering us with more gifts for this christmas!! Good prizes! I been reading your blog via RSS feed for few years and always like most of the posts. I even refer or post your blogs in my own blog post if really worth to spread it.
Keep it up!! Curious like other person, are you doing this for any advertisers or just by yourself?
December 8th, 2011 at 7:44 am
I subscribed to the RSS feed through my Outlook RSS feed. Not sure if you can tell this or not when I do it that way.
December 8th, 2011 at 7:45 am
I accidentally forgot to put my name. Am I still in it?
December 8th, 2011 at 7:56 am
This is SO nice of you!! I posted it on facebook…hopefully you will get more entries and people to follow you…you have SAVED and MADE me a lot of money with your info. THANKS!!
December 8th, 2011 at 8:05 am
Better odds than the state lottery!
December 8th, 2011 at 10:01 am
just did the survey and subscribed
December 8th, 2011 at 10:02 am
Done.
December 8th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Thank you for NOT making twitter shout-outs and facebook likes a requirement! I love reading your blog and have no qualms about recommending your site when friends ask me what they should read re: personal finance, but I hate link-spamming my friends with canned twitter messages just to enter a contest.
December 8th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Best holiday give-away that I’ve seen so far.
December 8th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
“Thank you for NOT making twitter shout-outs and facebook likes a requirement! I love reading your blog and have no qualms about recommending your site when friends ask me what they should read re: personal finance, but I hate link-spamming my friends with canned twitter messages just to enter a contest.” – Ryan
Well said and I whole-heartedly agree
December 8th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
I use to not believe in sweepstakes until I won the grand prize in a raffle. My husband and I enjoyed a week-long luxury river cruise down the Danube river valued at $10,000!
December 8th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Thanks for your generosity, Jonathan!
December 8th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Thanks for the great giveaway! Entered the one at the other site as well!
December 8th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
just wanted to say a quick thank you…so, “thank you!” loved the site for years, and while winning would be great given things these days, you have already been a great help to me in so many ways just my running the site.
happy holidays!
December 8th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Wow, there’s 16,820 RSS readers!? So….if everyone enters the contest, we’d have only 2/16820 chances of winning? Aww….
Been a long time reader of MMB, since waaaay back in the beginning.
December 8th, 2011 at 6:46 pm
I prefer using Google Reader Feed
December 9th, 2011 at 6:14 am
I always thought this blog was something you did on a part time basis, is this your main gig now. I hate contests, lotterys, gambling in general it is a PF killer. Having said that your blog has made me money and a little cash smarter, so I will continue to be a loyal reader.
December 9th, 2011 at 6:30 am
Merry Christmas, Jonathan. Thanks for all the great info!
December 9th, 2011 at 8:04 am
Thanks Jonathan! Great give away.
December 9th, 2011 at 8:08 am
To clear some confusion about ordering, Options I tried,
Using erebates.com, you have to login to get the Premium Shipping option and won’t be able to use the fee waiver code. You will get Promotion code not accepted or expired.
Using americanexpress.com, you just login as explained, use premium shipping option and use fee waiver code. All works out.
Its upto you to decide whether you want to get 1% back or waive fee $3.95 for each card.
Hope this helps.
December 10th, 2011 at 6:12 am
Thanks for the contest Jonathan. I have been an RSS subscriber for a long time so all I had to do was fill out the survey.
December 10th, 2011 at 7:25 am
I’ve been a long time lurker, but after years of watching the site, you can watch me now
I look forward to reading these by email.
December 10th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Cant argue with free or a chance for free. I have been subscribed for along time. Just filled out survey. To easy.
December 11th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Real shame that I’m not a US resident. What a great way to reward your loyal visitors. I wish more blogs did this!!! Thanks for all your excellent blog posts this year, it been very enjoyable reading them
December 11th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Great Offer!. I have been following your blog for 3-4 years now.
If I win I keep the IPad and donate 2500 to Catholic Charities near my place.
PS: (I am not a Catholic)
December 12th, 2011 at 12:37 am
Question. How many readers you average per week?
December 12th, 2011 at 4:57 am
I have been subscribed for along time.
December 12th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
@Man,
I donated to our local Catholic Charities with my Chase Sapphire card I just received. $3000 for them, $1300 (after taxes) for me. ‘Tis the season!
December 13th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Got an error from the survey provider after clicking the blue arrow…? Was my info submitted?
December 13th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
@Phil – If you used the same e-mail as in your comment, then no, I don’t see your survey response. Please submit again, sorry about that.
December 14th, 2011 at 8:54 am
I can’t believe i didn’t add my name to before my email. My entry is now void?
my email is my first and middle name, so can that count?
December 14th, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Great Giveaway Jonathan! Long Time reader and beneficiary of your research! $2500 will make a nice contribution to my son’s 529 plan! Thank you and Happy Holidays!
December 15th, 2011 at 12:38 am
@Deahna – No problem, in that case I’ll take care of that for you. Everyone else – please complete the survey carefully!
@Ken and everyone – Thanks for reading!
December 17th, 2011 at 2:50 am
I did the survey last week and forgot my name as well. You know I’m a regular reader. We’ve corresponded by email a few times!
December 17th, 2011 at 11:47 am
I second what some of the others have said above about maybe you can break the prizes down further and do like 4 $500 winners as opposed to one $2,000 winner.
Just my .03 cents.
Missy
December 17th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Awesome – thanks Jonathan!
December 19th, 2011 at 9:06 am
Thanks Jonathan
Happy Holidays to everyone!!
December 20th, 2011 at 8:38 am
I did the survey, then signed up for the RSS feed, but when I clicked through on the link in my email to confirm the RSS feed it said “FeedBurner could not find the subscription”
December 20th, 2011 at 8:51 am
Joined the first time you posted this, thank you Jonathan
-Sunil
December 20th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I read your blog since you lived in Portland, OR. Your blog has been helpful. I made a lot of money from credit card balance transfers during 2007-2008. Thanks, Jonathan.
December 20th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Same here. It says:
“Oops, the survey you’re attempting is now closed.
This may be because the author has received enough responses to this survey.”
December 20th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Yeah, is the contest done?
December 20th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Also can’t do survey. Says it is closed. Very unfortunate. Signed up for RSS feed though…
December 20th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Received the same notice as Mike above.
I enjoy your blog.
December 20th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
I’m experiencing some technical difficulties with the survey provider, it’s a bad time for it I know. My apologies. I will do my best to open it up for one more day (if I can get it back!)
December 20th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Don’t extend it, draw the winners!
December 20th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
What would Ayn Rand do?
December 21st, 2011 at 7:51 am
wow, nice, happy holiday!
December 21st, 2011 at 8:50 am
I hope everything workout okay. Good luck everyone!:}
December 21st, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Sounds good to me!!!
December 21st, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Good luck to everyone!!!
December 21st, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Entered right before new deadline of 12/21 9PM PST.
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:00 am
Congrats to the winners! Great contest Jonathan!
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:04 am
Congrats to lucky winners! I was trying my Law of Attraction mantra to see it works out to win the price. But it looks lucky charm doesn’t always comply with it.
Anyway, Happy Holidays to Jonathan and all co-readers. Take a break and celebrate your achievements and welcome 2012 with great charm
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:27 am
Yup… Nice job.
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:13 am
Thanks again Jonathan for being so generous and having this amazing giveaway! I am so grateful and excited to have won! This has been an amazing Christmas and I wish you and your family a great holiday. Many thanks!
December 22nd, 2011 at 1:51 pm
How many entries were there?
Oh and congrats to the winners!
December 22nd, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Thank you for offering this great giveaway Jonathan! It couldn’t have come at a better time for me.
December 22nd, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Congratulations guys!
December 22nd, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Thanks everyone for reading and for playing along with this giveaway. There were over 3,000 entrants! The two lucky winners picked by random.org have responded, so this contest is officially over. Happy Holidays!
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Congrats to both! Merry Christmas!
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:11 pm
1/1500 is great odds for a $3000 payout
kudos to all
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:44 pm
.06% chance of winning. I second what everyone else suggested. Please do this again with smaller prizes so more of us can win! =)
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Congrats to Devin and Julia…way to start of the the new year. Lady luck is on your side this coming year
December 23rd, 2011 at 6:42 am
I vote for the big gift, personally.
I think it’s great!
Congrats winners!!!
December 25th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Thank you for offering this great giveaway Jonathan
Congrats to both! Merry Christmas!
January 1st, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Congrats to both of the winners!