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Two months ago, I read Justified Expectation of Pleasant Surprises and was vaguely reminded of the site Win For Me (link zapped by a spam filter, looks like). For a fee of $71, Win For Me enters you into every free sweepstake it can for a year. I decided to try it out, mainly because if it actually works it'll be a fun birthday present to give others.
Yesterday I won my first sweepstakes. The prize was a copy of the book "The Amish Midwife," by Mindy Stafford. It's available for $7.55 on Amazon, meaning my expected monetary value for the year's subscription to Win For Me can now be estimated at $45.30, plus a ridiculous amount of variance.
Interesting. It reminds me of the something store, which isn't a sweepstakes-type thing in the traditional sense, but fills a similar niche.
That looks brilliant.