This past year I've been crazy about entering online giveaways, but lately I've slowed down because life caught up with me. So naturally, I won a lot of those giveaways. But, strange enough, I haven't received a lot of the prizes. In my email account, I keep track of my wins and which ones I've not received, so I know for sure which ones haven't arrived. So far, I'm waiting on 25 to arrive from MONTHS ago, the earliest being in May.
What is going on with bloggers and their sponsors not sending out the prizes? Are they just setting up the giveaways to get more followers and not planning from the first to award the winner?
I (and others) have invested a lot of time in entering online giveaways, so the least these people can do is actually DO what they said they would do: host a legitimate giveaway, choose a winner, and (a few weeks later) the prize appears in the mailbox. I don't live in some far off island where mail takes 6 months to get to me. I live in the United States and most of the bloggers live here too.
I have emailed (sometimes more than once) the blogger about it not arriving, and in every instance they said they would check up on it. More times than not I have not heard back from the blogger. And at other times they've said that they can't get in touch with the sender of the prize. I've done all I could and still nothing.
Thoughts? Opinions? Has this happened to anyone else?
