iWon.com and Sprint Double Winnings for Chicago Resident
Chicago Resident To Buy House with Sprint's Double Your Winnings Program
Irvington, NY, June 20, 2000 - iWon.com, a destination Internet portal, similar to Yahoo! and Excite, awarded its latest $10,000 Daily cash giveaway to Steve Henderson of Chicago, IL. Thanks to Sprint, however, Henderson is doubling his prize to $20,000 as the first $10,000 iWon.com winner to also win the Double Your Winnings with Sprint promotion.
The first and only Internet portal to award its users with chances to win cash prizes everyday ranging from $10,000 to $10 million, iWon has been giving away $10,000 every day since its October 1999 launch. In addition to the $10,000 Daily cash giveaway, iWon also awards 30 $1,000 prizes a week, a $1 million prize every month, and a $10 million prize on Tax Day 2001.
With the Double Your Winnings with Sprint promotion, Sprint will double the Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Annual Tax Day prizes in the iWon sweepstakes for new and existing Sprint long distance customers who elect to participate in the promotion. Winnings for Sprint customers could reach as high as $20 million. To date, iWon has given away more than $21 million in cash prizes.
"By signing up for Sprint Nickel Nights at iWon.com, new customers will get a great nickel-a-minute rate on their long-distance every night and it will also give them the chance to double their money," said Daniel Alcazar, assistant vice president of marketing for Sprint's National Consumer Organization. "It's our way of saying thank you for choosing Sprint as your long distance provider."
Upon hearing of his iWon.com $10,000 prize, Henderson said, "I have been looking at houses for a while. This money will help a lot toward finally buying a new house."
Launched only eight months ago, iWon currently attracts one out of every nine people who visit the Web from work, and one out of every fifteen people who visit the web from home (Nielsen//NetRatings, May). iWon.com provides users with world-class content and functionality with many of the same partners - Reuters, AP, WeatherNews Inc., Autoweb, Travelocity, Gist, and Lottonet - as Yahoo!
As an added incentive, iWon gives away to users, $10,000 every day, 30 prizes of $1,000 every week, $1 million every month and $10 million on Tax Day. By simply using the site to search the Web, check email, go shopping, read the news, or perform other regular Internet activities, iWon.com users earn entries with practically every click. Entries may also qualify for monthly prize drawings. For details and official rules, visit www.iwon.com.
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