I am getting ready to post about a sponsor that has made my life a living he&% for the last 3 days and has actually charged me for shipping and then recharged my card for merchandise I won in a blog giveaway. I want to know if there are others out there? Please post, share with a friend who has had this issue and let’s see how many there are out there.
I know as a blogger who often hosts giveaways I want to avoid the companies that do not follow through. I know it’s not the bloggers fault, unless they are the sponsor. This sucks because we as bloggers depend on companies to sponsor and follow through and then it makes us look bad when the sponsors fail. That is why I am not posting the blog that I won from because I know for a fact that this blogger runs successful giveaways all the time.
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1 2 3 Next »On june I won a giveaway at The Adventures of J-Man and Miller bug and I am still waiting for this prize, she didn't have to send it directly, but she gave my address to the company...
I wrote her an e-mail and a contact form on her blog but I still didn't receive any answer from her :-(
I don't know if I can directly contact the company that provided the prize...
I would definitely contact the company and I would be very upset that the blogger has not responded. She may not be able to fullfill their prize but itleast the blogger could answer you back and say I am sorry!
I e-mailed the company and they told me it was the first time they received my mailing address and that they would be very happy to send me my prize! °__°
I put the link to the giveaway to prove I was telling the truth, I hope this prize won't cost a thing (shipping) I'll tell you how it goes...
Good luck!!!
right after three days I mailed the company... I received my prize with NO shipping costs or other.
I am very happy because I really loved my prize, but right now I deleted my subscription to the blog where I won it, it doesn't seem to me professional the way she ignored my mails.
Actually that happened to me about 10 months ago. I was so excited as I won a lotus cleaning machine. The type with no chemicals and apparently turns water into ozone or something like that and can be used to clean any surface and even fruits and vegetables etc. The price I believe was around $250 or so and I was thrilled as I had heard about them and really wanted one.
I don't in any way blame the blogger, she is awesome and I have won other things from her site and she of course was upset about it too, perhaps even more so. The sponsor began avoiding her and never returning calls and emails etc. Why on earth would a sponsor do such a thing if they want a positive spin on their products? I certainly don't have the attitude that anyone owes me something but...don't sponsor and offer a prize if you have no intention of sending it. Pretty simple right?
I would have had more respect for that sponsor had they been honest and stated their reasons for not sending the product...you simply don't offer it and then make yourself scarce like it never happened! I am still a bit bummed out about it because I did really want it but, nothing I can do about it now...
I enter tons and have about 20 so far I have not gotten. I need to contact the bloggers and let them know. I usually go through and do missing ones every 3 months or so.
It took me 8 months to get my Sumo Lounge. Many emails between the blogger, me and the company. Eventually I got it, although not in the color I wanted.
I don't really stress when I don't get an item. I am just very thankful for the ones I do get.
I too have had that happen to me 3 times. I won blog giveaways but never received the prize. It is really discouraging and the sponsors should know it makes them look bad. I think the worst one for me was when my daughter with Epilepsy won a pin to wear on her sweater but despite contacting them, they never sent it. She cried about it. Us fans have to do a lot of things to enter these giveaways and we promote their products for them for free, the least they can do is follow through. I know it makes bloggers look bad too. I have really slowed down on entering giveaways because I don't want the disappointment of not receiving my prize.
I still haven't gotten a coupon for free Purex from one blogger (don't know if it was her responsibility or Purex's!) and I won Wholly Guacamole 3 weeks ago and haven't gotten it.Don't know if I haven't waited long enough or what.
Sometimes it takes a while, but most of them have been pretty good about it. I'd always say follow up. I keep a folder where I put emails saying "you've won!" ... and then once I've received the item, I move them to a "received" folder. That way I can go back through and follow up on things I didn't get.
The ONE company that has not fulfilled their prize to me, and actually has been very dismissive when I tried to contact them was Zero Water. I won the pitcher and the water tester from Jabbering Jessi.
I wasn't getting anywhere with contacting her, so I went straight to them. Their response was this:
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Leslie,
Sometimes we get requests from bloggers who would like to test our product and write a review, but we don't know anything about blogger giveaway contests. You will need to contact the blogger directly for redemption.
Thanks,
Customer Service
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This just seems odd to me, as SO many bloggers were giving away this pitcher all around the same time. I'll just stick with my Pur & Brita I guess. :)
If I win, I usually receive the prize within 2 months. If sfter 2 months, I contact the blogger and ask if they can check it out. Most of the time they email me back saying they will contact the sponsor and it comes in. If the sponsor takes more than 2 months I question if I would get the same service If I purchased their product so at least I know there is poor customer service. So it is not always about trying the product, but also knowing if the company cannot process the order in a timely manner or make mistakes in the process.
I've won from more than one blog and never got what I won. I emailed all of the blogs and heard back from most of them but I still never received what I won. At one blog we emailed back and forth for a while but it didn't do any good. I finally just let it go because there's not much else you can do and I didn't want to be a big pain.
Well, I have my complaints, YES, PLURAL, complaintS...........I am an avid giveaway/contest player, so I've had my share of wins & fails but there has been on two separate occasions that I have won a giveaway & been strung through heck to get an answer on my prizes. One was from a company in Canada, I won first prize & there were 20 different items in that pool of products I could choose from, so I did so , sent the email back to the page that hosted the giveaway & the girl sends it on to the company in Canada. This goes on for over a month & she sent emails to them & everything & it's been at least a year or close to it since then & I still have NOT gotten the first item out of the 20 promised!!!!!
Also, I had won a contest on a Facebook page for eye shadow, one for me & one for someone I choose to give it to, well, I had lost three immediate family members in a very short time, so I couldn't remember if I got the shadows or not & what I do is keep all correspondence so I can keep record of what I won & did or did not get yet & I didn't have anything stating I got the shadows , so I contacted the girl's page & asked her if she'd sent those out because I couldn't remember with the deaths & all & do you know this chick had the balls to talk pure crap to me!!!!! She called me a free loader & all that stuff & it was uncalled for. I mean, she's the one who posted the contest for the giveaway, not me, I entered it just as she was wanting people to do , so why all the heat??? Oh, that's not the good part, the good part was when she posted a nice letter on her Facebook for all her little "buddies" could read & it said everything but my name. I was livid!!!!!! I couldn't respond because the psycho blocked me & all I had done was ask her if she sent the eye shadows out because I was going through a hard time & couldn't remember if I got them yet or not!!!! I would LOVE to call her out on here so all of you would know to NOT enter her contests because she's not a nice person & she's NOT real, she's NOT for the consumer, she's out for the gold & don't care how she talks to others!!! And to think I was going to order more from her, yeah...it'll be a cold day a Haitis before I do!!!!
Thanks for putting this page on here. I've been dying to vent to somebody about these instances!!!!
seems like out of 10 giveaways I may win about 1 or 2 of the prizes never get received. The most recent one was a Sony mp3 player, man I was so bummed by this. I won back in may and have emailed the blog person a few times but never received a response. I know its the sponsor but I would have appreciated a response back even if it was an I'm sorry but...
Once I did not receive a dress and the blog site disappeared, I was in an email conversation with another blogger who happened to know the blogger that disappeared under sneaky circumstances. This other blogger knew the sponsor company and contacted them for me and got me my dress. I was so happy and impressed how this blogger went above and beyond!