{"id":547,"date":"2011-06-10T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T10:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweepsadvantage.com\/sweepstakes-contests-blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2022-03-23T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T23:04:11","slug":"sweepstakes-some-personal-pet-peeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweepsadvantage.com\/sweepstakes-contests-blog\/sweepstakes-some-personal-pet-peeves\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweepstakes:  Some Personal Pet Peeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"sweep-2743370475\" class=\"sweep-before-content sweep-entity-placement\"><div style=\"min-height: 90px; width: 100%; max-width: 970px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;\" data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/22181265\/sweepsadvantage_970v_1'><\/div>\r\n<div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/22181265\/sweepsadvantage_mob_300v_1'><\/div><\/div><p>I love sweepstakes and I enter them all the time.\u00a0 However, there are a few things that I sometimes encounter that just annoy me to no end.<\/p>\n<p>The worst offender:\u00a0 sites with graphics that are so overwhelmingly complex and amazing that my computer can&#8217;t run them.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that website designers adore playing with new programs and coming up with graphics that are really mind-blowing.\u00a0 I get it, but when all I want to do is enter a sweep and I can&#8217;t because the graphics won&#8217;t load there is nothing more aggravating.<\/p>\n<p>Another sweep situation that rubs me wrong is when a Daily sweep doesn&#8217;t have a return users link that will recognize me and let me back in.\u00a0 It&#8217;s even worse if I have to fill out a questionnaire every time.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine how this is helping the sponsor as I am providing the same feedback every day.<\/p>\n<p>In a different vein, this is something I see on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweepsadvantage.com\/sweepstakes-contests-blog\/new-sa-sweepstakes-and-contests-blog\/\">blog sweepstakes<\/a> sometimes and\u00a0I always want to correct it.\u00a0 If you are limiting participation to residents of the United States, it&#8217;s &#8220;US&#8221; not &#8220;us&#8221;.\u00a0 Admittedly, this is the same thing for many visitors, but not all.<\/p>\n<p>There are other things I could gripe about, but really, these are the ones that really bug me.\u00a0 Considering how many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweepsadvantage.com\/sweepstakes-contests-blog\/wedding-sweepstakes-can-pay-for-the-big-day\/\">sweepstakes I enter every day<\/a>, most of them run smoothly and are easy to navigate.\u00a0 When I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweepsadvantage.com\/sweepstakes-contests-blog\/real-sweepstakes-enter\/\">enter a sweepstakes,<\/a> I am signing up to\u00a0 &#8211; hopefully &#8211; get a fantastic prize for free, so really, I can&#8217;t complain.\u00a0 Thank you, <a title=\"sweepstakes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweepsadvantage.com\">sweepstakes<\/a> sponsors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love sweepstakes and I enter them all the time.\u00a0 However, there are a few things that I sometimes encounter that just annoy me to no end. 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