How I Won a Comment Contest

January 8, 2008

Hi, it's been a while since my last post. Finally I made sometime to do a quick post about contests last year. My blog is new but I did participate in 2 or 3 contests, surprisingly I won 2 of them:

1. Yeepage's comment contest, and
2. PlainBeta's free theme contest.

Well, I don't like the idea of combining few different things into a post, so this one is about the Yeepage's Comment Contest.I was only participating in commenting on Yeepage's blog naturally. I admit that I only skimmed over Simon's My dreaded 1st Contest… and had some quick thought about some strategy to win the game. I had the idea of checking out the latest comment on the side bar and take note of the comment number in the URL. For example from this URL:

http://www.yeepage.com/increase-rss-subscribers-2#comment-842

I can clearly see that the last comment is #842. Since Yeepage had giveaway for every 100th comment so I would watch over the x99 and jump in to put a x00 comment, which can make me win the contest.

Things never work exactly as it's planned to be. Time passed, tension passed, passion passed. I commented on Yeepage.com with only one intention: participate in the discussion. I totally forgot about the contest and posting my comments just for the sake of saying my opinion.

Good luck come to good purpose. Suddenly on 21st Dec he emailed me to notify that I won his commenting contest for $40 and invited me to leave a "thank you" comment on Dreaded Comment Contest Closes. Yeepage was indeed very fast at responding to people. He immediately sent me the $40 as soon as I notify him my PayPal address.

The funny thing about what happen is that:

1. I did not comment for money
2. I did not use the strategy I planned.
3. The strategy I planned didn't work.

"What?", say you. As stated by Yeepage on his post Dreaded Comment Contest Closes, the way he counted the comments is via the Comments admin page, which greatly differs from the number located in the comment URL.

Well, the world is round and unfair. Some people might have taken the comment contest as the motive to participate in discussion. I on the other hand just do what I do for my own passion and got a reward.

Here is another thing to brag about. Thanks to Simon, the owner of Yeepage.com personally invited me to participate in that Definitive List Of StumbleUpon Articles post. At that time I was lacking in visiting Yeepage.com. At the right time, Simon was the main cause that made my comment the 400th and became the contest winner.

Thanks to that contest my relationship with Yeepage.com has increased 1 level. Thanks Simon for giving me the money, enough for few months hosting with this cheapest best hosting I ever used: FastDomain.com.

Tags: commenting, contest