# i.won.com -- guess it's for real
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-com-guess-its-for-real/12362
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 31, 1999, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-com-guess-its-for-real/12362 "1999-12-31T00:52:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-com-guess-its-for-real/12362/1 "1999-12-31T00:52:00Z")
One of the engineers where I work won a $10,000 daily prize on [www.iwon.com.](http://www.iwon.com.)
Skeptical me – figured it had to be some kind of scam and those winners were imaginary people.
Apparently not.
Now I suppose I can go back to my original home page, since lightning is unlikely to strike twice.
But wait – there’s still the million dollar monthly prize!
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-won-com-guess-its-for-real/12362/2 "1999-12-31T01:40:00Z")
My girlfriend is on many of these sites that offer prizes in order for flooding you with advertisments (I guess you can’t call it spam if you’re asking for it). While I personally hold myself above whoreing out my demographics in order to possibly win sommething, I have to admit that in the last two months, she’s gotten several $15-$25 gift certificates from Barnes & Noble, a sound card, and some assorted minor crap like a return address tamp with her name and address on it, office supplies… etc etc. So, I guess it works for someone.
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“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”