In case you haven’t tried it yet, here is the scoop on NPD’s latest addition Sweepland. NPD has spiced things up a little by adding a new sweepstakes system they call sweepland. Now for each survey you complete you get the usual sweepstakes entries for the daily, monthly, and quarterly sweepstakes plus 25 sweepland points and a chance to spin the sweepland wheel. They don’t have Vanna White, but it is still entertaining. The wheel contains prizes ranging from $500 instant winner to additional sweepland points ranging from 25 to 500 points. Once you earn your points, then the real strategy begins, how to use them. They have a menu of prizes, and you must bid your collected points for a particular prize for a chance to win. They give you details such as number of prizes per item, percentage of people bidding, etc, so you gotta be savvy on how you spend your points. I still do not thing it is as good as taking surveys for money, but the excitement of possibly winning the big prizes keep it entertaining. I tried a couple of times but haven’t won yet, anyone else given this a try?
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Hello all! I have been doing Sweepland for a few years and have 7640 points saved up. I just entered all of them into one contest, so we shall see what happens. I used to enter a few points at a time into one prize but now my strategy is to just save up a minimum of 5000 and put them all in one prize. I never try for the $5000 though because everyone puts money into that one. I usually go for prizes that have less than 40% of the players.
I will update at the end of July.
Ryan- I have about 7,000 points saved up from a few years as well! I hope you win something because I’m in the same boat you are. Thanks for being the guinea pig!
I put over 7500 points into a sweepstakes that had less than 3% and I didn’t win. This is the second time I’ve put major points (over 5000) and didn’t win anything. I’m pretty much done with this survey site.
I was thinking about doing what you did. That sounds really fishy to me that with all those points you could not win a prize. Makes me wonder if this site is legit.
Just to update – I now have 7990 points in one sweepstakes with the end date being 7/31.
Okay guys, here is the final announcment. I had a total of 8554 points towards the HDTV Home Theater. On July 31st at the end of the auction, the popularity rank was at 8%.
Unfortunately I did not win.
So after saving up over 8000 points in over two years I came away with nothing. Lame.
Looks like the dumping massive points into one auction idea isn’t so great after all
I put a couple of hundred points on one contest and won. I think what they show you is a percentage of PEOPLE bidding, and the person with the highest bid wins. That, or it’s just completely random and not even worth it.
I just wanted to say thank you. At last my hard work has paid off.
I was just told I won something.
Thank you
what did you win? Ive been trying for over a year and I think Im just going to stop..I go for the prize with the lowest entry and that never works for me
I am glad you won. I have not won anything, I have started playing all my points in one items. I am glad someone is winning. I will try a little longer. Thanks
I won air line tickets for 2 people
I have been trying to win a prize for over 2 years and have not had any luck yet. I could not even win a magazine subscription. I wish that you could use your points to get items instead of using them for sweepstakes entries. Everytime I see this it makes me think that the survey company is making lots of money, while you on the other hand are not getting anything in return. I will give it until the end of the year, after that I am going to stop doing surveys and close my account. I feel that I am waisting my time with survey companies who have these scam sweepstakes and stick with those who pay with cash–something that I can use.
This site is crap! The hours of your life that you waste away on this site over the years is stupid. The last time I checked if you spend your time doing a service for someone you get paid to do so. This is not what this site does, it gains the benefit of thousands of peoples valuable time with very little to no pay back.
I remember seeing those 2 airplane tickets. I’m glad you won. I’m new to this thing. It’s been like 1.5months. Question, what was the e-mail address they sent your winning notification from? I want to make sure that it’s not going to spam
I just recieved an email from sweeplandwinners@mardenkane.com today saying that im a winner of a portable gaming system and i was wondering how long it will take them to send it and everything or is this just a big hoax and how long will it take if i do actually get the prize?
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