About Timberdoodle Drawings

How our Facebook and Doodleblog drawings work:

Easiest Way To Enter
Option one is simple, just leave a comment in the white box at the very bottom of the post (below the Facebook comments) answering the mandatory question.

You don’t want to use the Facebook comments if that is the only way you are entering, just scroll all the way down to get to the blog comments. (Facebook comments are used when entering the drawing with the second entry method, below.)

“Best Odds” Way To Enter
Use this Punchtab plugin to enter:

It looks something like this (they continually upgrade the interface)  and will allow you accumulate multiple entries as you click through the various tabs. It has had glitches in the past which have resulted in not every option being available to every entrant. (IE occasionally it won’t let people who are already Facebooks Fans like and unlike the Timberdoodle page in order to count that as an entry. It just shows that you haven’t done that page.) That is why we have chosen to always offer both this method and the simple one mentioned above. Mare about PunchTab and our initial experiences here. Also, just so you know, the ‘blog post’ you like is usually the giveaway item. We can’t change that text and wanted you to know!

More Details About PunchTab’s Giveaway Widget
Punchtab is constantly upgrading and refining their options, but as of 10/21/11 here are the ways you can earn entries:

I Don’t Want to (or can’t) Use Punchtab but I Want Multiple Entries
As you can imagine, we just don’t have an option for that right now. But please don’t despair; simply leaving a comment as the first method shows will enter you just as surely as through PunchTab, and it only takes one entry to win! (Limit of one comment entry per person and email address, if more than one are submitted, we’ll simply count the first one so you don’t have to worry about it. This rule is to prevent anyone from spamming the drawing by commenting over and over again to get more entries.)

It Won’t Let Me Comment
Occasionally we hear that someone has trouble leaving a comment. Whether your ad-blocker is blocking our captcha code or you just have something crazy going on with your display, there is a last-resort option for entering. Simply email HelpMeEnter@Timberdoodle.com with your entry comment (answering the question from the post) putting the giveaway name in the subject line and I’ll manually enter it here before drawing a winner.

Picking A Winner
When a contest ends we simply use Random.org to select a winning entry from among all of those which we received. That entry is then verified for eligibility (see below) and the winner is contacted via email or Facebook as well as being announced on our Facebook page. The winner will have 48 hours to claim their prize, after that time Timberdoodle is free to draw another winner or simply close the drawing as unclaimed.

Eligibility

• To be eligible you must have a USA shipping address for us to send the prize to.
• Winner must answer the question to be eligible.
• After winning a prize you are not eligible to win again for 30 days. (Just to give everyone a chance.)
• In addition to all other legal requirements, these giveaways are not open to  Timberdoodle employees.