There is a specific and particularly frustrating way to lose a sweepstakes prize, and it has nothing to do with the randomness of the drawing. It happens after your name has already been selected, after the excitement of a win notification has...

If you're entering sweepstakes with any regularity using your primary personal email address, you already know what happens: your inbox becomes a mixture of things that need your attention and an ever-growing flood of promotional emails, entry...

There's a category of sweepstakes that doesn't get much attention in online communities, doesn't show up prominently in sweepstakes aggregator sites, and rarely generates the kind of excitement that drives thousands of people to enter...