Remember when I went to the Boston Globe Travel Show and all of a sudden I kept getting calls saying I won a free trip to anywhere? The catch was that in order to earn what I had allegedly won, I had to go watch a presentation at a hotel in the middle of nowhere and stay there for a night. I was also given very restricted timing.
I am standing by the fact that it was a hoax.
Recently, I signed up for a wedding expo I never attended. While I missed out on the show, I didn’t miss out on all the gimmicks that go along with it. For the past couple of weeks I have been getting nonstop phone calls, tons of snail mail and probably about a million emails a day, all congratulating me on my engagement and offering me the world, allegedly.
I will admit that my name and contact information is floating around a few other wedding websites as well, so I won’t completely attribute this to the show. Either way, since my engagement, my evenings have consisted of sifting through postcards from bridal shops and vendors, fake boarding passes and notes from realtors reminding me of the first time home buyer tax credit.
Anyway, as I catch up with my email and my reader, it was nice to break out of the wedding industry for a bit and actually find some worthwhile, no gimmick attached, contests that have some amazing prizes…
This month, Nomadic Matt is giving away an ipod touch and more.
Thanks Paul Johnson at A Luxury Travel Blog, you can win a luxury two-night stay in London.
Also, there are three days left in the Europe a la Carte Blog Twitter competition where you can win a seven day stay in a one bedroom apartment at the Parque de las Américas.
Fantabulously Frugal is giving away a gift certificate to Sunglass Warehouse – maybe I can get a pair for that fake cruise!
Know of any other good contest/giveaways/deals out there?
Thanks for these! I am desperately in need of a pick me up. I’d love to win a free trip.
I’ve been following people on twitter and there are some decent giveaways there. The Charles Hotel gave me tickets to a jazz concert last week @ Regatabar. So fun!
I could use a free trip right about now. Thanks for the heads up!
Ugh. That happened to me once too… so annoying! Now I NEVER give my cell out… email I don’t care about is it!
The flood of “offers” pouring in after we bought our house was ridiculous. And completely scamalicious. I’m so glad that it’s finally down to a trickle.
Heard about this “Tweet Your Way to Hawaii” sweepstakes; last week you just had to tweet about it, but with the current contest you have to upload a video: http://www.marriotthawaiitweets.com/
I hear ya about these wedding solicitations. Luckily my phone’s stayed quiet but I created a new email address with my married name-to-be, and it’s flooded with emails from vendors who got my info from these bridal shows.
I know what you mean with all the mail/email/phone calls. If you haven’t gotten the phone calls yet, just wait. As soon as I got engaged and signed up on even one site, the mail was unstoppable. Damn wedding industry.