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1. Grad Student Gets Richer Quick

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   Lorraine Hoey was surprised by how quickly she won on AdJack.

   “I’d only been playing for two or three months when I won on Friday, Jan 1, 2010,” she said. “I really didn’t expect to win that quickly. But I read on the site where some people won early, like me. That’s really encouraging. If you do it every day your chances of winning are really good.”

   An aspiring children’s writer and graduate student at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lorraine appreciates a good commercial on several levels.  “Some of them are very, very clever. Sometimes they’re even kind of exciting. I have certain commercials I look for and watch over and over again. The commercial with the linebacker in the office--I could watch it every day. I love that one. I love the Starry-Eyed Surprise Diet Coke ad for the song.  And any Will Farrell video--the basketball player—they’re great. I like that you get to rate them and give the companies feed back. That’s really cool, too.”

   Her enthusiasm for smart commercials spills over to AdJack.  “I think it’s great,” she says. “I signed up because it’s such a clever idea. Watching commercials for the possibility of winning something, and you don’t have to put any money into it? Well, yeah!”… more

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2. “I Ain’t Gonna Believe It ’Til I See It.”

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   Jim Valdez brought in the New Year in fine style, winning the CrackaJack prize on Friday, January 1, along with another winner.

   A sweeps player for only about a year, he watches commercials every day on AdJack, then spends an hour or so entering other contests.  His diligence paid off with two cash prizes so far, but he’s still waiting to see if this sweepstakes thing is for real.

   “A lot of my friends say ‘nah, you didn’t really win. I ain’t going to believe it until I see it.’ One friend of mine was shocked when I won this one, and then another one. My buddies say they’ll believe it when they see the checks,” and I say ‘you’re just like me. We’ll see what happens.’”

   Jim called in from the road where he works construction in southeastern Utah. He doesn’t ski—“Why is it people expect everybody from Utah to ski? I’m afraid of heights,” he says—but he hunts and fishes, and goes four wheeling when he’s not out building or repairing roads to oil rigs in the Utah mountains.

   When the AdJack check comes in, he’ll get to treat his buddies to a hot cup of we told you so.… more

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3. Lucky Sandy Adds AdJack to Win List

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   She has won lots of stuff in her long sweepstakes career, with a $5,000 prize in a cookie sweepstakes standing out in her memory, so Sandy of Portland, Oregon took the December 4 CrackaJack prize she shared with two other winners in stride.  She enters about 10 sweepstakes contests a week, but until the end of 2009, her luck had been pretty dry.

   Her husband is an AdJack member too, who encouraged her to start playing about three months ago.  “He’s been playing for a long time,” she says.  She won within a month of joining.

   She’s at her computer before dawn most mornings, playing AdJack before she leaves for a day of delivering babies, a job she has been doing for the past 32 years.  It’s often 4:30 or 5 a.m. when she clicks on the E-Trade babies.  “I love those talking babies. Maybe it’s because of what I do for a living. I’m into babies. I saw on the Super Bowl that there’s a whole new series coming round.”

   When she’s not working, she’s taking advantage of her adopted state’s big outdoors, or painting.… more

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