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Post by bear92455 on Dec 6, 2015 10:47:03 GMT -7
A $500 Walmart gift card is nice... don't get me wrong... But I would rather see (5) $100 Walmart gift cards. Even a mixture of $100 and $25 ones would be even better. That would spread the cheer around. Looks like the Daily $25 Gift Card up for auction will ALWAYS be an Amazon. Click on the Gift Card and read what it says "Every week etc". So no more Target or Walmart.
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Post by doubleduece on Dec 6, 2015 20:35:27 GMT -7
A $500 Walmart gift card is nice... don't get me wrong... But I would rather see (5) $100 Walmart gift cards. Even a mixture of $100 and $25 ones would be even better. That would spread the cheer around. Looks like the Daily $25 Gift Card up for auction will ALWAYS be an Amazon. Click on the Gift Card and read what it says "Every week etc". So no more Target or Walmart. I can't for the life of me figure out why they've done away with the $100 Target and Walmart gift cards and Black Friday and Cyber Monday - and also the Breast Cancer donations. All of these were popular items in the Prize Center and generated a lot of activity on the site. They made playing for oodles so much more fun because we had something worthwhile to work toward. As for what you said about the 5 - $100 gift cards, I agree with you. Like bearcatkarl said, the way things are now a $500 gift card is going to cost many, many oodles that the average player just don't have! I wish I knew GSN's reasoning behind making such drastic changes. It might be logical to them, but to us players it stinks!
I'd like to ask you and bearcatkarl an auction question: In your experienced opinion with auctions, what is a good amount to bid on the $25 Amazon Gift Cards?
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Post by Vee on Dec 6, 2015 23:58:04 GMT -7
Every month looks about the same, (unless cheaters are in:
Daily Gift Card Auction & Sweeps 11/17/2015 anitafkf.myp 262,140 Daily Gift Card Auction & Sweeps 11/18/2015 misaseer 261,716 Daily Gift Card Auction & Sweeps 11/22/2015 unknownlurker 247,000 Daily Gift Card Auction & Sweeps 11/6/2015 anitafkf.myp 276,000 Daily Gift Card Auction & Sweeps 11/1/2015 lsvistan1 222,303 Daily Gift Card Auction & Sweeps 11/8/2015 littlesisterlin 275,901 Daily Gift Card Auction & Sweeps 10/29/2015 Pinkycross1 255,802 Daily Gift Card Auction & Sweeps 10/28/2015 Raiders1950 245,002
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Post by doubleduece on Dec 7, 2015 5:59:55 GMT -7
Thank you, Vee!!! Dummy me never thought about looking at the WINNERS list! lol Some days I just don't have both oars in the water! lol
But, among MANY other reasons, there's two very good reasons listed on this page alone as to why we GSN players need a forum like Fellow Oodlers Chat. Things that some of us never think about checking out, others do, and then they are able to share it with us and answer our questions when questions from members crop up. Like for instance, I haven't bid on anything in a while so I hadn't noticed the $25 Gift Cards were all Amazon gift cards now. But thanks to our new member bear92455, me, and whoever else hadn't noticed this, are now in the know!
Then there's people like me who ask dumb questions - and people like Vee who can show us exactly where to find the answer! lol But in my defense, it's said...'there's no such thing as a dumb question' So guys, please don't ever NOT ASK about anything that you would like to know about because, I guarantee, somebody here WILL know the answer! But on the off chance they don't, they/we will do our level best to find it for you!
bearkatkarl, incucrash and bear92455...thank ya guys and gals, for starting, what's been, a very robust and enlightening conversation about all the changes in the Prize Center. We've not only learned from it, but been able to do a little venting as well...which, come to think of it, is another good reason for having Fellow Oodlers Chat! Here we can vent and blow off steam and it doesn't fall on deaf ears, as we are all in this together!
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Post by incucrash on Dec 7, 2015 14:12:48 GMT -7
you're welcome and I just posted in rants & raves- first it's great to finally use tokens to bid but some things seemed misleading:
"Carve yourself a chance at a big slice of $5,000 all month long. Score 1 entry in the Gobble up the Green Sweeps every time you play 100,000 Tokens in Video Bingo Deluxe: Gobble ’Til You Wobble. Five winners will take home a share of the palate-pleasing prize of $5,000. Enter now – your feast of fortune awaits! Sweeps ends midnight ET 11/30. Details on My GSN."
first you cant tell from this that they would split up the winners this way:
Congratulations to the winners of the Gobble up the Green Sweepstakes! See your GSN username below? Be on the lookout for an email to claim your prize!
leengram – $3,000 mike1r – $1,000 vernyvern – $500 dski81 – $350 niunio – $150
one name hasn't even logged in over 11 days and the poor guy on the bottom only got $150. good luck
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Post by x0lelee0x on Dec 8, 2015 13:35:40 GMT -7
you're welcome and I just posted in rants & raves- first it's great to finally use tokens to bid but some things seemed misleading:
"Carve yourself a chance at a big slice of $5,000 all month long. Score 1 entry in the Gobble up the Green Sweeps every time you play 100,000 Tokens in Video Bingo Deluxe: Gobble ’Til You Wobble. Five winners will take home a share of the palate-pleasing prize of $5,000. Enter now – your feast of fortune awaits! Sweeps ends midnight ET 11/30. Details on My GSN."
first you cant tell from this that they would split up the winners this way:
Congratulations to the winners of the Gobble up the Green Sweepstakes! See your GSN username below? Be on the lookout for an email to claim your prize!
leengram – $3,000 mike1r – $1,000 vernyvern – $500 dski81 – $350 niunio – $150
one name hasn't even logged in over 11 days and the poor guy on the bottom only got $150. good luck Ha! I totally agree incucrash. When they said 5 winners splitting $5,000, one would assume that each winner would get $1,000. GSN is so lame, & that was very misleading!! Even though they still won SOMETHING, I hope those last 3 (who won under $1,000) complain to GSN about how misleading this was & how upset they are (because I'm sure they are like me & thought everyone was getting $1,000 & I'm sure they're pretty upset). I know if I was one of them, I'd definitely let GSN know how upset I was.
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Post by pat on Dec 13, 2015 22:45:08 GMT -7
Question for Fellow GSN players - - what are you doing with your oodles? ? I played to enter the Black Friday or Cyber Monday Auctions. For the last 2 years I managed to win $100.00 gift cards for Home Depot and TJ Max. I don't want any magazines - no oodle collectibles - nor an Amazon gift card. So what are YOU doing with your oodles? Do you think GSN will go back to Auctions? THANKS for your reply, Pat
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Post by kittyx11 on Dec 13, 2015 23:41:51 GMT -7
Hi pat, Welcome to the forum. We have been discussing this very thing in several different threads and many of us are very disappointed that there were no Black Friday and Cyber Monday Auctions. I saved up all year for this. Several of us expressed our feelings in Players news too. Since then the $500 dollar gift card is back in the auctions but from what I've seen it takes a whole lot of oodles to win that. The $25 gift card is still in Auctions too. Personally I feel that a $25 gift card is not worth the time and effort it takes to win oodles. GSN Angel did mention somewhere in players news posts that Auctions would return and maybe these two gift cards are going to be the only ones to return. It would be very nice if the $100 gift cards would return, I think more people would have a chance of winning those. I have used some oodles for the $100 daily cash sweeps but in all the years since I've been here I've never won. I will bid for the $500 gift card tomorrow. I'm sure I won't win so I'll just keep saving my oodles and maybe someday I'll have enough to win. I will on occasion still enter the daily $100 cash sweeps. So that's it for me, hopefully the $100 gift cards will return to the auctions and I will bid on those too.
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Post by doubleduece on Dec 14, 2015 6:53:02 GMT -7
Hi pat! I would also like to welcome you to the forum! Thank you for joining!
Like Kitty said, Pat, just about everybody here has been in an uproar over all the recent changes in the Prize Center! Taking away the most popular reasons for playing for oodles has all of us oodlers a little upset! One thing that really upsets me about Black Friday and Cyber Monday though, is that no announcement was made prior to these events that there would be NO BF and CM auctions this year! So nobody even knew this until Black Friday got here and it didn't happen! Like you, there was a LOOOOT of disgruntled and unhappy players that day for sure!!!
We also have a good many unhappy members/players over GSN discontinuing the breast cancer donations! We have one member here (recordqueen) who played for the sole purpose of collecting oodles just so she could donate $10.00 to Breast Cancer Research every 10 days! People were making a lot of noise in Player News about that one too! When asked why they had stopped doing it, they said it was because their contract with the breast cancer foundation had expired. My thoughts on this are - Duh! Re-new it!!! It's a very worthy cause and even if just one player played to donate to it this prize would NOT be for nought! However, I know first hand, that more than one player was playing so they could donate oodles regularly to this noteworthy cause.
As for what we are spending our oodles on these days! That's a good question, but unfortunately, I don't have a good answer. But I can tell you what I WON'T be spending my oodles on...the same as you...magazines and oodlelectibles!
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Post by dan24 on Dec 14, 2015 11:38:59 GMT -7
Currently, I'm saving my Oodles for when they offer game credits for world winner. Currently, they have some auction for reward points, but I never win them.
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Post by pat on Dec 18, 2015 21:18:13 GMT -7
Thanks for the responses!! I am hoping that GSN listens to its players and brings back the $100 gift card auctions. And lets us know ahead of time. There are a few games I really love and I like the trivia, always interesting. Used to play on POGO - anyone else? What will I do with my POWER HOUR addiction?? My GSN COMPULSION may be over!!!!!!! Pat
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Post by doubleduece on Dec 19, 2015 7:04:07 GMT -7
Currently, I'm saving my Oodles for when they offer game credits for world winner. Currently, they have some auction for reward points, but I never win them. You sound like a man with a plan, dan24! I've never played the Cash Games, so I don't know much about 'game credits' and how things work on that part of GSN. But I do know there are others here who also play the Cash Games, so it could be that this is also their plan for what they will be using their oodles on. But our motto here is: No OODLE shall go to waste! lol Especially considering how much time we spend in front of the computer trying to earn them! But just like with the mini skirt and bell bottom jeans that we thought were gone forever, but eventually came back, I keep hoping GSN will eventually do the same thing with some of the stuff we players keep asking them to please bring back! Let's hope they do anyway, it's so much more fun playing when you have a goal (like you do) for using your hard earned oodles on.
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Post by doubleduece on Dec 19, 2015 7:39:23 GMT -7
Thanks for the responses!! I am hoping that GSN listens to its players and brings back the $100 gift card auctions. And lets us know ahead of time. There are a few games I really love and I like the trivia, always interesting. Used to play on POGO - anyone else? What will I do with my POWER HOUR addiction?? My GSN COMPULSION may be over!!!!!!! Pat I hope they do too, Pat, on the $100 gift card auctions! I didn't realize how popular that particular prize was until we began this current conversation a while back. But I've fast learned that this one was obviously a big to-do with players! So, I too, hope GSN is listening and puts it back in the Prize Center soon!!!
No, on POGO, Pat. Ttruth is, I've never played on any other game site except GSN. Oh, and I like Trivia too! I've learned things in Trivia that I had no clue about before reading them here in the forum! Like for instance the other day when one of the questions was, where does Cream of Tartar come from? I was floored when I learned it came from WINE BARRELS!!! Who knew! lol
Hang it there, Pat... and never say never, because there's always hope that things will turn around in just about every situation!
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Post by Vee on Dec 28, 2015 21:33:54 GMT -7
Well, well, looky here:
$500 Walmart Gift Card 12/14/2015 debraleader bid 2,029,000
Here's their profile: debraleader Member since: 01/08/2014 State: California Last login: 1 day ago Oodles won: 26,845
& Here's a blast from the past : $500 Walmart Gift Card 8/18/2014 debraleader bid 1,956,124
Ok, so she joined new in Jan. 2014, and by August had almost 2 million oodles, and now has over 2 million more to bid again? nice haul! Gee... "AMAZING" ..... (or another thought) ?
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Post by kittyx11 on Dec 28, 2015 22:08:26 GMT -7
I don't know but it looks like somebody is cheating. I see no way that is possible!!!
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