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impossible to win instant awards

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
April 8, 2021
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I'm deeply distrustful of the whole Rewards operation.

For one, I've gone through more than 400 consecutive Instant Wins and won nothing. NADA.

And why is that? Anyone explain that?

And what about finding out some general information on who's winning the rewards sweepstakes? Is there any attempt on the part of the provider/operator or AARP Rewards to give out some information that explains there are real people winning the sweeps?

AND why can't the provider of AARP Rewards provide me a running total of my cumulative entries into a sweepstake? It used to do that, provide a running total on all my entries, but now it doesn't do that.

As always, I'm deeply skeptical of the people running this thing...

why can 18 year olds and non members enter sw

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al45009948

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Hello everyone 🤗. Hope everyone is doing well. This is the second time I'm replying to this topic. First time disappeared and asked me to sign in. I tried to reply to Beachgirl23 it said I couldn't do that. To the point, I believe AARP has about 44 million members . Which compromise of associate member ( age 14 to 50 ) and full members. Odds of winning an Instant Win Game prize depend on the number of prizes available divided by the

number of eligible Instant Win Game plays. Also ( . If you are the first player to play the

Instant Win Game at or after one of the randomly-generated times, you will be a potential instant winner

of the prize offered for this calendar day ). So what are they actually saying. Someone please explain it to me. I also noticed that Beachgirl23 mentioned that certain people seem to be winning rather frequently. I've mentioned this before. I've even seen the same name and initial twice for the same prize. Someone REALLY NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE THIS. I'm just saying. Everyone have a Blessed Day and happy holidays

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AJF2K1

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I have posted several times before that this "rewards" program needs to be renovated again. It has as now been over a year as a paid AARP member that I have not been able to win one Instant win or a Sweepstakes Gift Card. The only way that I am able to receive a gift card is through the Gift Cards by points. Can you please explain why that is? There is definitely something wrong when you have many members complaining with this same issue. But the best AARP can do is increase the amount of winners to 125. Like if that was going to fix this problem. I have asked before, why is it that AARP does not try to help explain to us why this program so hard to win. What good is it if your paid members can't win a simple $10.00 gift card in over a year. Ridiculous.

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AJF2K1

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Well folks I have come to a conclusion, why bother. I am sure that some of you will agree that why do we try to complete any of the quizzes if you can't win anything with those points. As I stated before I haven't won a single instant win in over a year. Now even the gift cards by points are less and less. So why bother. Basically, it's a waste of time. I will continue using what I have left in points towards the gift cards by points if and when I do happen to come across any. Until then I will no longer need to complete any of the quizzes. It's sad ☹️ and frustrating, because several years ago it used to be fun trying to get an instant win card but now it's like trying to win the lottery.

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CandiceT89042

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I'm done with the whole AARP thing. Their rewards are pathetic. For instance, the coloring sheet...Come on! I'm not 2 years old! Lol

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al45009948

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😂 I really can't stop laughing. Hello everyone 🤗. Not only that, but what about points for senior dating ( we can't afford to eat out anymore lol ) Along with the senior dating, they should provide some $10 - $25 e-gift cards for points to some restaurants. I don't see any dating for the members that are 13 yrs old and under 40 yrs old , I guess they're to busy winning. You know that they get paid for the ads that start before the videos we watch. I'm just saying. Happy New Year to everyone

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rednexsrus

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Hey Al: you did notice that none of the vendors in those ads are contributing to any gift cards in the catalog. I will continue to click on "skip ad" as long as they don't

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lisak691619

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I am extremely disappointed and really not happy = earning rewards to redeem for gift cards is a joke! And there's not much to redeem with the points! Really a scam in my opinion - shame AARP! I don't want to have to use my points to enter sweepstakes which the change of winning nearly 0% and I am not paying a discount amount to buy gift cards. The points should be allowed to be used. This whole earn points and redeem is a joke! and waste of time. I don't need fitness tracker - I have 2 already so using points to redeem for that is useless!

andrewtoo

Community Champion ⭐⭐

Just to share some data...

Won the $10 Sephora eGift card at 8:10PM (EST...opps!)

today 1/25/22. Today is the first day it was

available and I won using the "Free Method of Entry"

from the Official Rules.

Daily Instant Win Rules links I have been using are at

the following link :https://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/rewards-terms-and-conditions/instant-win-rules/

If others shared when they won, maybe we would see a pattern?

This is not the instant win that I wanted to win.

AndrewToo

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AnneG461594

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Congrats Andrew!!! I have not won in a while, but I have won twice while playing in the middle of the night when I wake up (nature calls!), like 3:00/3:30 AM ET.

Anne

Jason2020LovesKelly

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Good to see 7 IWs available, but I feel like a sore loser when I state that I am unhappy about not winning anything in awhile. 😞

[̲̅$̲̅(̲̅5̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] (☉౪ ⊙) Please cancel my subscription to your issues.

rednexsrus

Community Champion ⭐

I was just wondering about the circumstances surrounding the 7 Instant Wins.

We know that to win one of these elusive items you have to be on target when the random number generator or is it a random time generator comes up to get the "LUCKY YOU"

My question is: Does the random time that comes up apply to all 7 Instant Wins OR is there actually 7 different random times one for each reward card. Could you get that rare "LUCKY YOU" twice ?? on two different GC's. Hummmm

Something to think about. Just Saying

lucyp061351

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BeachGirl23

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This is an excellent question. One I have been wondering myself since another member wondered how the random times are generated and applied. I never know if I should do all my instant win entries at one time (all losers) or spread them out throughout the day (still all losers). The question you ask would resolve my dilemma. Of course loosing all at one time vs spreading it out over a 24 hour period still has the same result - that is loosing. I do hope you get an answer.

Thanks for asking.

andrewtoo

Community Champion ⭐⭐

Just hit an instant win...$10 Chipotle at 3:02 AM EST.

I used the free method from the official rules.

This Chipotle instant win game just started at

12AM today.

I fail to see a pattern of wins. I enter

all of them one after the other. I "play" everyday.

Instant wins...not hopeless, just very rare.

AndrewToo

rednexsrus

Community Champion ⭐

@andrewtoo

KUDO'S to you Andrew, I just cain't figure out this free method, just seems to take too long & I get too many errors. I will continue to pay the points

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KristinaD289916

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How many years does it take to win an instant win? Never seem to win.

rednexsrus

Community Champion ⭐

Hang in there, Your turn will arrive one day 🙂 🙂

lucyp061351

andrewtoo

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@KristinaD289916

I don't know how long it will take to win my next instant win prize. I have long draughts without an instant win and I get discouraged. However, with the win today, I have hit two instant wins in 2022. This is by no means typical; I'm not usually that lucky. The other win this year was in January at about 8:10 PM EST.

AndrewToo

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KristinaD289916

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Thanks for your response. Is this not funny....I posted a reply to you and low and behold....today I won an instant win. I rarely play sweepstakes as if it takes me a year to win an instant win, doubt I will ever win a "one chance" sweepstakes. Sadly, I play most instant wins (as a vegan do not try instant wins for restaurants without an option for me), and of course, won one I probably will not use....but can give to a friend who will. 🙂

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SeniorOmelette

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I'm going to reply as well to see if it changes my fortunes. I've only won one instant win game despite playing thousands of times!

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11320cs

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So, we now have six instant wins instead of seven? Or am I missing one?

rednexsrus

Community Champion ⭐

@11320cs

Yes you are definitely missing one !!! ( $10 Barnes & Noble, does not expire until 11:59 PM 3/8/2022) ?? 😡 Really makes it impossible to win instant rewards when admin won't even put it on the page

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Anyone else missing this IW ???

lucyp061351

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