I often have issues with my giveaway winners not having an email listed so I end up picking a new winner because I have no way to contact them. From now on, no email – whether it be in your Blogger profile or in with your comment – I will have to move on to a new winner. Also, I wanted to let everyone know that even though you have to put in your name and email in the fields when you leave a comment, I don’t get to see your email. I don’t understand why, but it is not given to the website owner. So please either leave it in with your comment or mark it as public in your blog profile.
Here are so awesome instructions I borrowed from Two of A Kind Working on A Full House:
Go to your dashboard. To the left click on edit profile. The third option is to Show my email address. Make sure that box has a check in it! THEN, scroll ALL the way to the bottom and click SAVE PROFILE. Now, go view your profile and make sure that the word EMAIL is to the left of your profile!
If you want to create a new email JUST for blogging, go do that. Then under edit profile, go down to where it says Identity and change your email Address.
Zara says
I emailed you with my contact info for the Tyson giveaway. Did you get it?
Thanks for the tip about the email address, I went and added it to my profile.
Thanks!
Sheila R says
Oh MY! Thanks for the heads up. What about contests that ended on May 11th or 12th? I didn’t realize it didn’t go thru for the record my email is [email protected].
Cher says
Thanks! I am glad I am not alone! It is so frustrating, I have posted about email addresses like a million times and still I get so many useless entries.
Joy says
I have the same problem, it drives me crazy.
gahome2mom says
I agree with you. 🙂 If a person doesn’t have an email after I specifically asked them to list it in each post, I overlook their comment and pick someone that followed instructions. Thanks.
Storm, The Psychotic Housewife says
I’ve been having the same problems with some of my winners 🙁