June 2009 
IKEAFANS is celebrating our 4th birthday and 100,000 members by launching a contest!
Thanks to you, IKEAFANS.com is the fastest growing website devoted to IKEA products, IKEA co-workers and YOU, the IKEA fans. It is our goal to have a strong, active community that serves our purpose of ‘Personalizing the IKEA Experience’ for every member and guest of IKEAFANS.com
To that end we are starting a contest that will award a total of $350 in prizes! And in what better form than as an IKEA Gift Card?! There will be 3 prizes awarded: a $250 IKEA Gift Card, a $75 IKEA Gift Card and a $25 IKEA Gift Card.
That’s right! $350 in IKEA Gift Cards to be given away!
What do you have to do to have a chance to win an IKEA Gift Card? It’s easy! All you have to do is participate in the community here at IKEAFANS.com.
Here’s how it will work:
We’re installing a system to reward participation on a point basis. This 3 month contest will begin on July 1st, 2009 and conclude on September 30th, 2009. (Official Contest Rules will be posted and linked to when the contest goes live!)
- You get points for checking in to the website each day
- You get points every time you start a thread
- More points every time you post in an existing thread
- Even more points when you refer your friends, neighbors or co-workers to join IKEAFANS.com
- Additional points can be earned for various activities on the site which will be detailed in the official rules post available on July 1st.
The people with the top 12 overall point totals at the end of the contest (11:59:59pm, September 30th, 2009) will win one entry each to the drawing.
Even new members have a chance to win!
In addition, to give more people an opportunity to participate throughout the contest, each week the one person with the top number of points (i.e. greatest participation) for that week will also win an entry into the drawing to be held the first week of October. That’s 13 more entries into the drawing!
There will be a total of 25 chances in the final drawing to select the winners of the 3 prizes. If you win one of the weekly participation contests (one’s the limit), you can greatly increase your chances of winning a prize!
So, even if you are not THE top point earner overall you’ll still have multiple chances to win!
So, to keep it simple, just participate in threads. Start new threads or polls. Help others by responding to threads. Refer your friends, and welcome new members. Read, return, reply and you’ll see your points adding up and your chances to win increasing.
Good luck everyone!!
P.S. Please don’t violate the ’spirit’ of the contest. Anyone found to be ‘gaming the system,’ posting “me too” repeatedly, or starting nonsense threads will be disqualified from the contest. If you join under another membername to gain referral points, you will be banned. We’ll be on the lookout, so please don’t try it.
One more thing should be mentioned: The contest system we are installing is fairly complex. Many of the calculations will not be visible in the point listings. We don’t wish to create a huge administrative process to award these prizes. Disputes will be mediated by the website’s administration and no one else. All decisions made in this process are final and will not be up for arbitration. The goal is to make this as fair and fun as possible. Anger, fights, disputes arising out of the process obviously work counter to this “fun” goal and are not appreciated nor will they be tolerated.
