10.06.11

Blogiversary giveaway: celebrating 200 reviews with 600 bucks!

Oh snap, my friends! This week is my 3-year blogging anniversary, and I’ve hit 200 reviews written! I wrote 35 reviews off-site before I began this blog, and this blog is the home for the other 165 reviews. I’ve been reviewing for 4 years, which is the equivalent of one review about every 7 days. Over time, I have learned to not say stupid shit in my reviews, and I’ve become increasingly more snobby discerning.

To mark this dual momentous occasion, I asked several awesome sex toy companies to help me give away an epic ton of gift cards.

Behold, the bounty I have rounded up for all y’all:

  • SheVibe donated four $50 gift cards!
  • Babeland donated one $50 gift card!
  • MyPleasure donated one $50 gift card and one $25 gift card!
  • Early to Bed donated one $75 gift card!
  • FunWares donated one $50 gift card!
  • Tantus donated one $150 gift card!

For a grand total of $600 in gift cards, and so there will be ten winners in this giveaway, which makes me very, very happy. Spread the wealth!

I was trying to think of how to make this giveaway unique, and I came up with the idea of tell-a-friend. And I don’t mean tweet something in the hopes that others will click it; I mean really, tell a real friend about this blog! I’ve exhausted most of my reach within the sex blogging community, and I’d love to acquire some new readers. So:

Ways to enter

Do as many or as few as you’d like. Separate comments for each are not necessary.

  • 1 entry — Subscribe to my RSS feed or email updates.
  • 1 entry per friend (limitless entries!) — Tell your friends about Hey Epiphora! I’d prefer if you didn’t tell people in the blogging community, or people who probably already know about this blog. You can tell your friends any way you’d like — in person, on Facebook chat, by handing out Hey Epiphora business cards at a birthday party — whatever works for you. Just tell them why you like my blog, and direct them to this giveaway. Then come back here and tell me how many friends you prodded. Don’t lie, or I’ll cut you.
  • 1 entryReblog this post on Tumblr and comment here telling me you did.

The winners will be chosen randomly from all entries.

Restrictions

If you live outside of the U.S., please be prepared to deal with international shipping fees. If you are selected as a winner, I will ask you where you live so that I can match you to a gift card from a shop that ships there. Also, you must be 18 to win. Duh.

Giveaway ends October 31, 2011 at 11:59pm PST.


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  • Kiki

    I subscribed to your RSS feed and told 3 friends about your site! :)

  • MasterV

    Subscribed to your RSS Feed. Looking forward to the reviews.

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  • tina page

    i told my brother and my girlfriend about your site…it’s not much but maybe!;}

  • tina page

    email subscriber
    trixie420247 at yahoo dot com

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  • Alison

    Following you through email. Thanks for the chance to win :)

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  • fymenfolk

    I signed up for your email updates. Keep up the good work!

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  • Rach

    I subscribed to your RSS feed!

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    I subscribe to your RSS feed.

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  • http://loveperpetua.wordpress.com Perpetua

    I just subscribed to your email updates!

  • http://drippingsweetlife.tumblr.com/post/12099809607/blogiversary-giveaway-celebrating-200-reviews Narcissistic Lust

    I reblogged your post here, http://drippingsweetlife.tumblr.com/post/12099809607/blogiversary-giveaway-celebrating-200-reviews, and suggested your site to four of my friends. First, my boyfriend because I’m trying to open him up to using sex toys as a couple and thought knowing there were more people in the world than me that read and write sex toy reviews would help. He snooped around and seemed relatively amused but we’ll see where that goes. The other two, single ladies who are dabbling in the sex toy world but haven’t completely taken the plunge. And the last, a very fantastic gay friend who I knew would appreciate your cynical humor and snarky reviews. Keep on lovin the love Hey Epiphora.

  • Lessica

    I subscribed to the RSS feed! Nice site you got here :)

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  • http://www.ScarlettSeraph.com ScarlettSeraph

    In total I managed to tell a bunch of people in person between cards and plain old telling:

    8 at a birthday party
    5 at dinner one evening
    28 between a munch and camping
    6 friends at different points
    40 cards handed out at RHPS

    Online I only got around to telling 6 people

    I believe that is 93, I may have missed some… but I’d rather be honest and not over-shoot. Hopefully some of them have come to check you out :)

  • Finn

    I reblogged the tumblr post as an entry in this giveaway!

  • jac

    I reblogged this on tumblr

  • Emily

    Reblogged on Tumblr! :D

  • http://macho-isms.com macho99

    You’re on my reader and I rebloged your tumblr post as macho99 :D

  • beforethedawn09

    Told one friend, subscribed to email updates!

  • http://funnyplacetofindafoot.blogspot.com Meyrin

    Hi! Yay!
    I signed up for the email notifications (how have I not done that before?) and passed the blog on to three friends through facebook email (and am currently talking to one of them about it on chat!)

    Great idea, and congrats on 200 reviews!

  • Shannon D

    I told three friends (who I am pretty sure do not look at sex toy stuff often and probably don’t read any sex toy blogs) and I already subscribe to the RSS feed and get email updates.

  • Amy

    I subscribed to your email updates and I reblogged you on Tumblr. http://www.tumblr.com/blog/amyelizabethocampo

  • http://twitter.com/#!/LinToxic LinToxic

    I dont remember if I entered this contest already but I subscribed to your email! Hope I made it

  • Breanne

    Google Reader subscriber.

  • http://abedroomblog.com the bedroom blogger

    Okay, so I have friends that work in a couple sex toy shops in my area, and they agreed to pimp your site out to customers as a great place to find honest and often hilarious sex toy reviews. They had no super reliable method of tracking the number of people reached, but they had a total of 13 shifts between them over the last few weeks and they figured they each reached between 10-15 customers each shift…so…that’s…130? 150? Whatever. There was a flyer involved as well. Some of the employees stuck them in customers bags, so yay. Also, I love you.

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  • Kevin

    I wore a sticker about this giveaway on my backpack for three weeks. I go to a university with 40,000 students. Now, they probably didn’t all see it, but I think you can put me down for 30,000.

    Just kidding. But really, you ballot stuffers bum me out.

  • http://heyepiphora.com Epiphora

    @Kevin: Those “ballot stuffers” are my friends, and they did exactly what I was hoping people would do with this giveaway — get the word out to those who would not otherwise know about my site. Yes, each of them will probably win a gift card, and that leaves 8 MORE GIFT CARDS for everyone else. Which doesn’t include you, since you didn’t even enter…

  • Kevin

    @Epiphora: I didn’t mean to offend, I love your blog Epiphora, and I’m thrilled that you’ll probably be getting a lot of new readers from this contest. And I did enter! (under a different handle) So I was a little (selfishly) bummed out to see that people had really gone the whole nine yards.

    Anyway, dumb joke, sorry.

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