There's a noticeable difference between people who enter sweepstakes now and then and people who enter them as a genuine, ongoing hobby. The occasional entrant clicks on a giveaway when one happens to catch their eye, enters once, and forgets about...

Most people treat the dates on a sweepstakes as a simple window. There's a start date, an end date, and as long as you get your entry in somewhere between the two, you're in the running. That's technically true, but it leaves a lot of value on the...

Every regular entrant eventually runs into the same strange situation. You get the notification, your heart jumps, and then you realize the prize is something you have no real use for. Maybe it's a riding lawn mower and you live in an apartment, or...