FAQ
First, we have a link to Get Satisfaction, an independent third party service where businesses as small as ours and as large as The Fortune 500 have the opportunity to openly, honestly and transparently face their customers, provide customer support and answer the tough questions. Read through our user's comments, complaints and our response to their complaints and make up your own mind. Anybody can comment on our Get Satisfaction page, so imagine the hell we'd catch if someone won a prize and we failed to deliver it or if someone experienced us as a spam site. Also note that our page at Get Satisfaction has a Change Log as one of the top tabs. If we delete or change anyone's comments you can see the history of all changes there. We never delete or change criticism.
guys afford to give away money for nothing?
We are or rather shortly will be in the market research biz. While most of the surveys are fun fluff and vehicles to winning the prizes, sometimes you will come across questions in our little survey widget that someone, likely a small biz owner is asking to help them make an intelligent business decision. They pay us and we share the bounty with you through our cash prizes. We appreciate you providing us with your truthful demographics in your account since that adds value to our service and helps our business and your prize-producing ecosystem remain sustainable. Since we do not ask any personally identifiable information in the demographics questions such as your full name and complete address you should feel assured that even when you tell us your household income, we don't know who you are. Please correct any errors in your demographics. Many thanks for your candor about your demographics. Also, we never share your email address with any 3rd party.
of winning cash prizes?
Inviting friends helps Instant Cash Sweepstakes grow larger as a community and inviting friends brings the fun of sharing the ICS experience with your peeps. Because we 100% match all lottery tickets and cash prizes your friends win to you, you are increasing your odds of winning a cash prize by having a lot of friends playing. We only allow you to play 5 surveys during every three-hour block of the day. If you get 9 friends also playing to the max then in effect you are getting 50 plays every 3 hours. Take a look at the Past Winners and notice how often members have won a matched prize because of an invited friend's win. And yes... we will even pay a match win on a weekly lottery grand prize.
matching of their wins to me?
When you go to the Invite page you will see a link that uniquely identifies you in our system. Copy that link. You can then email it to your friends and explain why you think they should join Instant Cash Sweepstakes. Paste the link in your email and encourage them to click it. It will take them right to our registration page. Make sure to let them know that they should register immediately from that page in order for you to get credit for inviting them. If they follow these instructions you will then get matched 100% for whatever they win. Besides placing the link in your email you can place it anywhere that you think a friend or acquaintance might click it such as in all of your email signatures.
collecting my cash using Paypal?
We can only pay you through Paypal and you must set up your own account there to receive your winnings. Remember that until you have at least $2.00 in your Instant Cash Sweepstakes account, you are not vested and the money is not yours to claim. The Paypal email address that you supply for payment must be unique in our database. If you supply an address that has already been used by another account we will consider that you have broken our rule of "one Instant Cash Sweepstakes account per user" and your winnings in that account and any cash in all accounts associated with that Paypal email address will be canceled and nullified. Your accounts will also be banned from future wins. Remember that we are committed to keeping a level playing field by strictly enforcing the one account per player rule.
Once your account has reached the $100 threshold, you are REQUIRED to cash out and initiate transfer of your money to your Paypal account within thirty (30) days. Failure to do so will result in forfeiture of all funds in your account and your balance will be reset to $0.00. We apologize for this rule but we are a small self-funded company that can't afford to have dramatic cash flow swings.
We promise to send the money to your Paypal email address within 72 hours but in practice we have been doing much better than that. Sometimes we have sent the money to our winners in minutes and usually within 6-8 hours, sleep permitting. Look at our past winners history and you can see when people win, cash out and get paid. It is critical that you supply the correct email address that you registered at Paypal.
Great question. The short answer is, we're not telling. The longer answer is we have an algorithm constantly being tweaked that is based on random chances along with an effort to maintain fairness. In general, the more you are playing as well as the more invited friends and lottery tickets you have, the greater the odds are that you might win the weekly grand prize sweepstakes drawing as well as the smaller cash prizes that are awarded throughout every day. As for how you answer the survey questions, there are no right or wrong answers in the surveys and YOUR SURVEY ANSWERS HAVE NO AFFECT UPON YOUR ODDS.
