I do not have a tried and true answer for you on this one, it’s done both ways. For my own giveaways, I prefer to send out an e-mail to the winner. That way I know I have tried to contact the winner. I can put a time-limit on how long I’ll wait for a [...]

My feeling on this is that it would be wrong to save the item for another giveaway. Usually, if you offer something as a giveaway, you need to give it away–even if it means picking multiple winners until someone steps up to claim the prize. I give winners of my giveaways four days to respond [...]

If you have contacted the winner of your giveaway and he/she has responded, but without supplying an address, send them a reminder e-mail. This e-mail should remind them that they have X number of days (I usually limit it to four) to respond with an address or they will forfeit the prize. If you don’t [...]

Last week I received many questions regarding the etiquette of giveaways on blogs and it’s oh-so-appropriate because I just took on the administrative duties at Bloggy Giveaways! Over the next few days I’ll be answering these giveaway etiquette questions. Selecting a winner for your giveaway is fairly simple. Many people use a random number generator [...]