anybody here ever win....
gmill880
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anybody here ever win the cigar.com email sweepstakes?
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No, I'm not saying they ARE doing that... I'm just saying they COULD be... Without any sort of offical announcement it's just kinda "blind"... Even a simple "Hey, we just drew a winner for our latest contest and "Josh D" of Chutesville, AL" or something like that....
I enter my e-mail address every time I get that pop-up, but I always wonder if any random, faceless customer actually wins. It's really just a mechanism to collect more e-mail addresses, and probably some statistics regarding visitor/purchase ratio.
Still, if you stop and consider the number of customers out there, it would be a little surprising if anybody posting up on this forum actually did win once. If you want a glimpse of the volume of people you're up against, spend a little time on a few of the cigar auction sites and try to inventory all the people there. You'll quickly realize that the people who have signed up on this forum (even the ones who never post) are but a tiny percentage of the traffic this site likely sees on a daily basis from a shopping perspective.
Oh, and I've never won, either. But then, I've never entered.
A few months back I sent them an email letting them know they had a serious security problem regarding their "blogs"... They were allowing ANY member to edit/post... As an example, I went in and added a word to the end of one of Alex's posts...
A few weeks later it still hadn't been addressed... So I emailed again...
Still nothing...
Finally on the third attempt they finally changed the permissions so that the average "joe" couldn't edit/create blog entries in there anymore...
I was a little disappointed... Not only did it take so long to get it taken care of, but I didn't even receive a reply email telling me thanks...
And as pointed out there is thousands of hits to this page every day so it could be someone other then the group that post are the forum rather easily.
To get an idea of how many hits they get a month check this site out: http://www.statsaholic.com/cigar.com
/holds pinky to lip