Hilton HHonors - Seven Tickets to Your Paradise Sweepstakes

Just curious if anyone has managed to win the $100 gift card they offer on the promotion. I enter every day and play the game to no avail. Sometimes I stare at the tiles as they move and become convinced you cannot win but perhaps victory is predetermined before the game begins?

No clue what I'm talking about? See here -

http://hilton.promo.eprize.com/leisure/:b=chrome/?affiliate_id=paradise

I have not won, but when reading through some of the contest rules, I read that the winner is the first person who hits the "stop" button after a randomly generated time each day. So there is no skill, just luck.

I don't see the game you are speaking of, but is that promo even through Hilton? The website isn't Hilton and the email received from it is not from Hilton. I think this may be a phishing scam as I cannot find anything on Hilton.com.

I clicked that darn button for a few weeks and after a while I thought about Desmond from "Lost".

I asked myself, "why am I wasting my time clicking this button". At that point I stopped, and was content knowing that I will never win a dream vacation provided by Hilton.

Has anyone around here ever won one of these giveaways? I've entered every day during the promo, but I even wonder if they actually give the trips away at all.

Has anyone around here ever won one of these giveaways? I've entered every day during the promo, but I even wonder if they actually give the trips away at all.

They do. ePrize runs sweepstakes on behalf of a # of corporations, including Hilton.

In the Contest/Sweeps forum, there's a Doubletree sweeps going on right now & an FTer won one of the instant prizes. There's also a sticky in that forum for people to post their wins.

Cheers.

I've been playing every day. Nothing but rocks for me

Good to see I'm not the only one losing every day! :p

I was a "grand prize winner" for the Advance Your World Giveaway fiasco in 2009.

I was a "grand prize winner" for the Advance Your World Giveaway fiasco in 2009.

Got any of the 1M points or $10k left?

And yet another Hilton sweepstakes which ignores almost the whole world outsides the US. Well, this time UK residents are included but the customers in the rest of the world are not interesting to Hilton...

And yet another Hilton sweepstakes which ignores almost the whole world outsides the US. Well, this time UK residents are included but the customers in the rest of the world are not interesting to Hilton...

It really isn't that the rest of the world isn't interesting to Hilton.

Sweepstakes rules vary by country & it's quite complicated to navigate them all/be in legal compliance. So oftentimes US-based companies will stick with the US-based laws or just a few countries such as Canada or UK.

Sometimes sweepstakes will be open only to those in certain European countries but is not open to the US or rest of world. I read the rules of one European contest, and the legalities amongst the 11 countries was quite complicated & definitely varied by country.

Cheers.

It really isn't that the rest of the world isn't interesting to Hilton.

Sweepstakes rules vary by country & it's quite complicated to navigate them all/be in legal compliance. So oftentimes US-based companies will stick with the US-based laws or just a few countries such as Canada or UK.

Sometimes sweepstakes will be open only to those in certain European countries but is not open to the US or rest of world. I read the rules of one European contest, and the legalities amongst the 11 countries was quite complicated & definitely varied by country.

Cheers.

Well, you are right that legislation definitely varies between countries. But I don't really buy it anyway. It is a matter of not doing anything more than what is absolutely necessary.
For eg. in a competition where there is only a few prizes to win and given that the vast majority of HHonors members are US-based the odds are low that the prizes anyway will be won by US citizens. And in the odd case that a non-US based citizen would win a prize I would think that it would be possible to sort things out when it happens rather than to exclude the rest of the world from entering the competition in the first place.

When it comes to European sweepstakes I really cannot recall a single one that has come to my attention. US-only promos one the other hand goes thirteen to the dozen...

Well, you are right that legislation definitely varies between countries. But I don't really buy it anyway. It is a matter of not doing anything more than what is absolutely necessary.
For eg. in a competition where there is only a few prizes to win and given that the vast majority of HHonors members are US-based the odds are low that the prizes anyway will be won by US citizens. And in the odd case that a non-US based citizen would win a prize I would think that it would be possible to sort things out when it happens rather than to exclude the rest of the world from entering the competition in the first place.

When it comes to European sweepstakes I really cannot recall a single one that has come to my attention. US-only promos one the other hand goes thirteen to the dozen...

It's easy to say sort things out at the end, but there are legal issues involved & (any) corporation has to be in compliance with them from the get-go. For example, even within the US, different states have different rules. When you multiply legal rules by a multitude of countries it can be a lot. One of the European sweepstakes I saw was for 10 countries & in the rules, each country was different with regards to what's allowed/not allowed. If a company doesn't follow the rules up front, then there could be possible lawsuits, fines, etc.

Sweepstakes seem to be more prevelant/a thing in the U.S. vs. rest of world, so it's not totally surprising that most comply with US laws along with a couple of other countries such as Canada & the UK.

There have been some sweepstakes that are rest of world-based in the Contest/Sweeps forum. Are there are a lot of them? No, but again I think that has more to do w/ the US companies utilizing sweepstakes as a marketing tool than the rest of the world has done to this point.

Getting this back to Hilton, there is a current Doubletree sweepstakes in the Contest/Sweeps forum. One FTer has won 1,000 Hilton points as an instant prize; another won a DT Sweet Dreams pillow in the instant prize segment. I didn't win an instant prize, but all of us who entered are also entered in the grand prize drawing.

Cheers.

Sent in my claim form today.

Sent in my claim form today.

That's fantastic news if you have^.

The landing page says people would find out by email on 14 September - how and when where you notified?

got an e-mail a few days ago.

Mind if we ask what you won?

RT air to Bali, 6 nights at Conrad Bali, $1,000 HHonord goft cards, $1,500 resort credit, 500,000 HHonors points and $10,000 cash.

RT air to Bali, 6 nights at Conrad Bali, $1,000 HHonord goft cards, $1,500 resort credit, 500,000 HHonors points and $10,000 cash.

Do post your Conrad Bali trip when the time comes. ^