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  1. Grad Student Gets Richer Quick

    March 5, 2010  | Comments (7)

    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.”

    February 18, 2010  | Comments (4)

    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

    February 12, 2010  | Comments (0)

    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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  4. Jersey Winner Only Watches Ads on AdJack

    February 11, 2010  | Comments (4)

    Since Tom McMahon of Oradell, New Jersey, bought his TiVo, the only place he willingly watches commercials is on AdJack. 

    He plays at least a couple times each week, clicking on the E-Trade babies when they’re on the front page, and if they’re not, then he’s on the lookout for something else that’s fun. He has been playing AdJack for so long he says he was about to give up when he got the notice that he won on December 4.

    He shares the $1,000 CrackaJack with two others who won on that day. … more

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  5. Luckiest Week of a Lifetime…So Far

    January 20, 2010  | Comments (1)

    Tom Haddon was poking around on the Internet one day, looking for the E-Trade babies ‘cause they make him laugh, when he came across AdJack. 

    “A hobby of mine for the past ten years or so is to go on the Internet and find contests, and kind of just look around.  I was looking for those baby commercials; you know the ones.

    “I enjoy all the commercials more than I enjoy television now. I look for things that are humorous these days. I don’t need all that gloom and doom on TV. I find a lot of comedic relief in the commercials. I don’t want to know about the darkness and problems in the world. I’d rather laugh.”

    Tom found himself a rural retreat in Selinsgrove, PA several years ago, a tiny town that is home to Susquehanna University.  When the weather is good, you might find him at the fastest half-mile dirt track in the east, Selinsgrove Speedway. He cheered the high school football team to the state AAA championship this fall. He likes football commercials, too. 

    The week of November 27 Tom says was a very good week.  He won the $1,000 CrackaJack, and was notified that he also won a 2010 Volkswagen GTI, the fourth of only six available in the contest.  “That’s by far the luckiest week I’ve ever had in my life.”

    On a larger scale, Tom says he lucked out in daughters, claiming to have produced… more

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  6. Persistence and Loyalty Pay Off

    December 15, 2009  | Comments (1)

    Most Friday nights you’ll find Phyllis Holmberg and her husband, his brother and their sister-in-law at the Biloxi, Mississippi casinos where they meet for dinner and to indulge a little cash in Phyllis’s favorite sport: gambling. When the Holmbergs get back to their house 40 miles away, Phyllis always checks her AdJack numbers, then makes her first entry for the next go ‘round.

    When she got home on Friday, November 20, she checked her numbers and this time she couldn’t believe her eyes. “’Honey, I think I won,’ I said to my husband. I checked again. Then I looked at my account to make sure that I hadn’t written the numbers down wrong, and there it was. It said ‘CrackaJack.’ ‘Oh, wow!’ I said. I DID win! I never win anything!”

    The $1,000 CrackaJack is the first big one for Phyllis, but she doesn’t let that stop her. “I love to gamble,” she says. “I might win a little bit, but I never win the really big money.

    “I used to spend a lot of time entering sweeps, and I got some small stuff. I was spending too many hours in front of the computer. But then I came across AdJack. I quit entering everything else and I just do AdJack now. I’ve been entering for a about a year and a half.  I read about these people who win the first time they play, and I think, how do they do that?”

    She said she’ll use her AdJack winnings to… more

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  7. Luck on Friday the 13th

    November 18, 2009  | Comments (2)

    Rachel Shahvar.jpgThree or four weeks ago Rachel Shahvar of San Francisco started looking on the Internet for risk-free sweepstakes, “something that didn’t cost anything to enter,” she said.  In about five minutes she found AdJack near the top of a list of the top one hundred sweepstakes.  “I’m in the advertising industry, so I thought, ‘why not? Watch some ads, maybe win some money.’” So she signed on for her first contest ever. On November’s Friday the 13th she checked her numbers, and wham, there they were, matched right up for the $1,000 CrackaJack.

    Was she shocked to win so quickly?  Um, not particularly.  “My friends tell me I’m lucky,” she said.  “I win stuff all the time.”

    The digital artist for a Sausalito advertising agency said she’s going to put her winnings in the bank, then had a second thought.  “Maybe I’ll take my boyfriend out to dinner.”… more

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  8. Psyched in Illinois

    November 18, 2009  | Comments (0)

    Mikaela OsilajaMikaela Osilaja was looking for good sweeps contests on the Internet one day last summer when AdJack popped up.  Some weeks she plays often, and some weeks not at all.  The week of September 25 she looked up a few Geiko ads, and voila, she’s $1,000 richer. 

    The Joliet, Illinois psychology major is a senior at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois.  She says she doesn’t have much time for playing sweeps during the school year, but when she does, it’s usually AdJack.

    “It’s a good way to look up ads you may have missed on regular television,” she says.  “Usually on Adjack you can see the full length of the ad.  On TV, sometimes they’re cut short.”… more

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  9. Winners’ Circle Expands to Include Three

    November 12, 2009  | Comments (0)

    Winners from Indiana, Rhode Island, and Texas make up the first-ever trio of AdJack winners. Their lucky numbers came up on Friday, October 16. Charlotte Klein, Ronnie Henry, and Don LaCroix have one thing in common—they are all AdJack regulars.

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    Crackajack winner, Charlotte Klein and grandson.

    The win is a windfall for Charlotte Klein of South Bend, Indiana, who has been recuperating physically and financially from sickness that left her jobless earlier this year. She was recently able to resume her cab driving job in the hometown of Notre Dame just in time for busy weekends when football fans from all over the nation flood into town.

    “When I got the email that I had won, I was absolutely elated” she says. “I love the site. It’s a real stress buster for me. Sometimes I drive for fourteen or eighteen hours a day, and I don’t have time for much of anything else. The money is a blessing, believe me. I’ve been feeling lucky lately, and life is beginning to get better.

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    Crackajack winner, Ronnie Henry and son Christian

    Ronnie Henry of Ft. Worth, Texas is taking it easy these days after 30 years of pounding the pavement carrying the U.S. mail. Among his favorite pastimes now is logging onto AdJack.tv.

    He comes regularly to the site, looking at commercials, sometimes putting his two cents’ worth in when he likes or doesn’t like them, and every week, he hopes for the big MadJack win. He says he’ll keep coming back, with his eyes firmly on the prize. “I’m hoping for that MadJack” he says. “That’s it for me.”

    In the meantime, he’ll spend his winnings on his 14-year old son and two grandchildren, a boy and a girl.  “They love their Paw Paw,” Ronnie says.

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    Crackajack winner, Don LaCroix.

    For nearly two years now, Don LaCroix of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, has been getting up every morning and faithfully going to AdJack where he watches his five commercials and enters his numbers. AdJack isn’t the only sweep he enters, but it’s the only one that’s paid off so far.

    “This is the first time I’ve ever won anything,” Don says “I was very surprised when I got the email.”

    Even though he hasn’t won in the past, he says he’s not discouraged. “I’ve always believed you can’t win if you don’t play” he says. The plus with AdJack is that he enjoys the process."Some of the ads I really enjoy watching. Shaq as a jockey is pretty funny. And I like the E-Trade talking babies.  But the best thing about AdJack is the odds, he says. “They’re pretty good. That’s always a plus.”

    His win came at a very good time. “My wife’s birthday is coming up” he says. “This will help.”… more

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  10. AdJack Comeback Brings Double Luck

    October 28, 2009  | Comments (0)

    Beckett_Rippey.jpgBeckett Rippey found AdJack one day on the Internet when she was searching for jobs.

    The University of Colorado graduate hit the job market last December with a degree in communications at one of the bleakest times to get a job in the past 80 years.  In February, she joined AdJack to take a break from the arduous task of job hunting.

    “I actually don’t know how I found it, but I decided to join because I was interested in doing something with advertising.  I thought the site was fun, so I bookmarked it on my computer.”

    She played every day for a while, then got caught up in a move across the country to San Diego, still on the hunt for a job.  After a couple of months, she decided to see what was up on AdJack.

    “I lucked out!” she says.  “On the day I was notified that I won the CrackaJack, I also found out that I got the job I wanted.  It was a great day!”… more

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  11. Pot ‘o Gold in Nampa Idaho

    October 26, 2009  | Comments (8)

    Kathy McCandless.jpg“You know what?” says Kathy McCandless, a California girl who moved to Nampa 16 years ago, “I used to play a regular lottery quite a bit, so when things got a little tight for me and my husband, I started looking online and saw there are ways to play without spending any money. I started looking on the Internet for online sweepstakes. Some friends think I’m a little crazy, but I love Adjack. I spend 45 minutes to an hour and I do it five days a week.”

    “I won a 50-inch television, a $100 Amazon card, and also a $25 Visa gift card. When I won the AdJack Crackajack I was so… more

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  12. Winner meets the President, Sorta

    October 18, 2009  | Comments (4)

    Lisa Davis.jpgCrackajack Winner, Lisa Davis, meets former President Bush, with a little help from Photoshop

    Lisa Davis’s AdJack win on July 31st couldn’t have come at a better time, financially and psychologically.  She’s a Colorado girl who finds herself in Topeka, Kansas, unemployed at the moment and looking forward to an upswing in her fortunes.

    “When I first starting going to AdJack my mother said ‘You don’t get anything for free,’ but you know, the advertisers get product information out there, and the commercials are fun to watch.  I like the site a lot. It’s clean and straightforward, and I like it that I don’t get any junk.  Some of these sweepstakes things, you enter them, then you get hundreds of spam emails trying to sell you stuff.  They just want your email address, or your mailing address.  It’s a relief that AdJack doesn’t do that to their members. It’s upfront.”

    Lisa has been coming to the site regularly since November, 2008.  “Sometimes I get busy and forget on Saturdays, but I try to get there every day.”… more

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  13. Hello St. Louis!

    September 27, 2009  | Comments (0)

    Yukimo Heyer went to Missouri from her homeland of Japan to introduce high school students to her culture.  Missourians must have done a pretty good job of introducing her to their culture as well, because she decided to stay. That was nine years ago.  Today she is a wife and mother of a three-year-old to whom she devotes most of her time, except the few minutes she enjoys watching commercials on AdJack. She found the site about six months ago when she was searching for good sweepstakes contests, and she comes almost daily now.  Her AdJack win on August 28 is her first big sweepstakes prize.

    She says Japanese humor is very different from American humor. “AdJack is still entertaining,” she says. … more

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  14. Hey Shirley, This Time It’s You

    September 2, 2009  | Comments (1)

    “What did I win?” asked Shirley Dudzinski when AdJack told her we were looking forward to a conversation with her about her recent good fortune. 

    “I saw over on the right side of the site on the sweepstakes page that somebody named Shirley had won on August 7, but it had no last name or state. I just thought, ‘that’s not me.’ It’s never me.

    “I am still surprised!  I’ve been doing sweepstakes for twenty years, and all I’ve ever won is a couple of $25 gift cards.  I’ve kept hoping that someday I’d win something big. This comes at a great time.  My lounge chair is falling apart, and I’ve had to replace my sky lights.”

    Shirley, who describes herself as a “young 80,” walks the steps to her third floor condo in Vernon Hills, Illinois at least twice a day. “It’s good for your heart,” she says.  She reads books when she’s not watching commercials on AdJack.  She looks forward to postings of new commercials on the site.  “So does my son,” she says.  “He doesn’t have a computer of his own, so he likes to watch them when he comes to visit me.  ‘Any new ones this week?’ he always asks.

    “I’ve been playing for a couple of years now.  I love to watch the unusual ones. Sometimes I think, great, this… more

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  15. Dan’s the Man

    August 23, 2009  | Comments (4)

    “Maybe it’s the month, or the hat, or maybe the chair that has brought me a bit of luck,” Dan Partridge says, because on August 14, his numbers came up for the second time, a year later.  This time he’ll share the $1,000 CrackaJack prize with Abigail Stewart of Springfield, Illinois.

    Dan, who won his first $1,000 CrackaJack the week of August 8, 2008, (see Blog) said AdJack could use the same picture as last year because he’s sitting in the same chair wearing the same hat. “I might have another grey hair and maybe a wrinkle or two more, but not much else has changed,” he says.

    “AdJack is still an enjoyable thing to do.  It’s one of the few sites I get on.  I was totally surprised that I won again.  Now some of my friends… more

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