Sweepstakes: Headlamp for your Emergency Kit

Win a Headlamp for your Emergency Kit
    

Last week, we discussed the BEST type of Lighting to include in your Emergency or Evacuation Kits.  We promised a Giveaway too.  Well, here it is!  Techlaurels is sponsoring an Amazon Giveaway for a Headlamp, perfect for stashing in your own Hurricane Kit.

Click here to enter the giveaway on Amazon.com

To enter, you must have an Amazon Account and a Twitter Account.  Amazon will contact the winner and handle prize fulfillment.  No purchase is necessary.  Open to US Residents over the age of 18.  Techlaurels has paid for all prizes and associated shipping costs. This sweepstakes is sponsored by Techlaurels, and NOT by Amazon.  Sweepstakes ends Oct 5, 2017 11:59 PM PDT.

If you want to buy this particular Headlamp, it is available at Amazon.

We think Twitter is a good way to keep up with Techlaurels and with new Blog posts, and our Amazon Giveaways typically bring us a lot of new followers.  But we primarily sponsor these giveaways for fun. We hope you enjoy it.  Good luck to all participants!

We'll finish talking about what we learned during Hurricane Irma, and then we'll get back to our Alexa Smart Home Series. If you do not already, we hope you'll follow us on Twitter and participate in this Giveaway.

Privacy Implications of Sweepstakes, Freebies, and Like-Farming Sites

Sweepstakes and Freebies are great for Marketing Purposes;
They're Also Great for Mining Your Information

Be Smart When Entering Contests or Requesting Freebies

Our last few posts have focused on the privacy implications of Internet Quizzes.  We are currently evaluating SAFE quiz sites, and that series will resume when we've had a chance to complete our research. (The bad sites are MUCH more numerous than the legit ones.) But quiz sites are not the only data miners out there.  You must be just as cautious when participating in sweepstakes and contests, as well as when signing up for freebies of any kind.

Playing the "Sweeps"

I have been an avid "sweepser" since the they went online.  (Those of us who enter contests and sweepstakes as a hobby affectionately call it "Sweepsing."  People who do this are "Sweepsters.") Before there was a World Wide Web, I returned the occasional sweepstakes card, figuring I might get lucky for the cost of a stamp.  I foolishly dropped my business card in bowls at restaurants, promising a drawing for a gift card or exotic vacation.  Then I wondered where all that junk mail and those time share calls were coming from.

May the Fourth Be With You Flash Drive Sweepstakes

Techlaurels is sponsoring an Amazon Giveaway 

for a Stormtrooper Flash Drive

to Celebrate "Star Wars Day."

May the Fourth Be With You!

Techlaurels had so much fun with our last Amazon Giveaway, we've decided to sponsor another one!  This time, one lucky winner will receive an 8 gb, USB 2.0  Flash Drive, shaped like a Star Wars Stormtrooper.  Like I've said previously, I LOVE novelty flash drives, so long as they work.  I have several Star Wars Flash Drives in my collection.  (C3PO resides in my car and is filled with music.)

Entry is handled through the Amazon Widget. Entry requires both an Amazon Account and a Twitter Account.  Techlaurels has paid all fees for the prize, including shipping and handling fees.  Prize will be shipped directly from Amazon to the winner, upon completion of the sweepstakes.  Amazon will select the winner randomly. The contest closes on May 10, 2017.

This is a cute flash drive, even if you are not a Star Wars Geek.

Click here to enter, or visit https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/d050a9e12908b575

And if you want to purchase one of your own, I'll post the link below.

Good luck!  Be sure to share this giveaway with your friends!

Power/Charging Pack Sweepstakes

TechLaurels is sponsoring a USB Charging Pack Giveaway!

Prize: One (1) liger smart dual usb car charger 3.1A (pink) and one (1) iclever dual usb wall charger

TechLaurels had a lot of fun sponsoring our Amazon Giveaway, and we attracted quite a few Twitter Followers.  In fact, we had so much fun, we've decided to do it again!

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One lucky participant will win an iclever dual usb wall charger and a liger smart dual usb car charger 3.1A in pink.  (Use the widget below to submit your entries; you may need to disable your ad-blocker if you do not see the widget, or if the widget starts to act up.)

TechLaurels Sponsors an Amazon Giveaway

Who Doesn't Love Monkeys?

In order to promote the new @TechLaurels Twitter Feed, we are sponsoring an Amazon Giveaway. Enter our Sweepstakes for a chance to win a super-cute Monkey Flash Drive. Who doesn't love monkeys, and who can't always use another Flash Drive? We hope you will enter, and share this #Giveaway with your friends so that they, too may have a chance to #win.


Contest runs until the end of the week. You must have an #Amazon Account and a #Twitter Account to enter.  You can see the prize here (and purchase one for yourself, if you do not win):

http://amzn.to/2lMVmc -- Buy the Monkey Drive.

Please share to help spread the word!

Enter at https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/2b314f570b13b201