Count Your Beans August Collector Appreciation Sweepstakes

MYSTERY PRIZE Package Referral Bonus - M'Lissa Virginia Timeless, Isabella Teddy Bear & Treasure of the Emerald Isle Fairy Doll package - Terri Adams - Tampa Bay, FL (Thank you for your 15 Referrals!)

Winners have been emailed and your prize will be shipped within the next 7 - 10 business days.

The Count Your Beans family cordially invites you for some cool Summertime Fun! If it weren't for our customers and website visitors, we wouldn't be where we are today and that deserves a big thanks! As we are always looking for ways to make your collecting experience more fun and enjoyable, we are happy to say that we will now be offering special promotions like this on an ongoing basis. If you're new to our website and have a few minutes to spare, you might like to read a little about the history of Count Your Beans here.

So without further delay, we are pleased to present you with the first of many special events this year! Welcome to the Count Your Beans August Collector Appreciation Sweepstakes! This promotion will offer 11 terrific main prizes and one bonus prize! To add extra incentive and make everyone a potential winner, each person who sends in a complete entry will receive 25 Bonus Beans! (If you don't yet know what our special Count Your Beans "Bonus Beans" are, you will soon!) There is no purchase necessary to play or win. Please tell your friends!

To make this more fun and to also learn more about how we can improve our website, we do have a few simple trivia questions that need to answered and submitted with each entry. (Don't worry, we'll give you hints!) Please read the Rules and Restrictions below before sending in your entry.

(retired Knickerbocker Bears. Please visit our Bear Resource Center or you can find these offered from us in our eBay Store)

(produced through Show Stoppers / Florence Maranuk. White and Black face series offered at our Show Stoppers Resource Center)

+ Read our rules to see how you can get EXTRA entries and have the chance for a BONUS prize!

11 Great Prizes & 1 Bonus Prize! And this is just the start! If we have a great response to our sweepstakes, we'll start giving away bigger and more expensive prizes. Who knows, one of these days we may even give away a car! (It's fun to dream!)

Entering is extremely simple. Well, relatively simple. Well... you might have to do a little work, but it's relatively painless and you ARE getting something for free if you enter correctly, so let's have some fun!!

Below you will find six sections with six questions. Four of them are trivia questions and the last two are questions are asked to help us make Count Your Beans more fun and a better place for you to shop and visit. We know in many parts of the world right now, it can be too hot to think, so being the cool people that we are, we've provided links to most of the answers for you!)

1) Marie Osmond is celebrating her 12th Year in doll designing. Her dolls and those of her sculptors are well loved throughout the world. Count Your Beans is an authorized Marian Dealer and we carry a full selection of Marie Osmond dolls which we sell through our website and at eBay.. At any given time we have hundreds of Marie Osmond dolls in stock and we also happily accept pre-orders. We also carry many of Marie's retired Little Miracles Figurines produced through Ashton-Drake. As with all items on our site unless otherwise noted, we offer FREE UPS Ground/Insured S/H in the continental USA on all website orders of $50 or more.

To make it easy for our customers to find what they are looking for, we have created a Marie Osmond Resource Center with news, specials and easy links to Osmond dolls and collectibles that we carry. Our alphabetical pages make browsing for Marie Osmond dolls easy!

Part a) How many specific alphabetical pages are in the Alphabetical section for Marie Osmond Dolls?

Part b) What is the name of the second doll on the "M - Q" page and how many Bonus Beans can you earn with her purchase?

Technical Note: If you use your mouse and "right-click" a link, you should be able to open that page up in a separate browser window thus leaving this window intact.

2) We are proud to offer dolls from the world renowned doll artist Linda Mason produced through Paradise Galleries. Linda Mason offers a wide range of affordable dolls that include Fairies, Asian Dolls, Native American Dolls and African American dolls. Her Treasure of the Emerald Isle Fairy was a 2003 Doty Award winner and is one of Count Your Beans top sellers both on our website and when we auction her at eBay under the username countyourbeans.

3) Richard Simmons and Goebel of North America have teamed up with some very well respected award-winning doll artists to bring you the Richard Simmons Collection of the Masters. Count Your Beans is an authorized dealer for this wonderful collection and is proud to offer these items at special value pricing. Two of the most popular series in this collection are the Nana's Family dolls and the Reminder Angel Dolls.

The Reminder Bear Angel, "Remember: Bear Hugs Are Best" was produced to honor 100 years of the Teddy Bear and is one of our top sellers.

Question: Who is the Doll Artist for the Reminder Angel: Bear Hugs are Best?

4) Yes, Terri Lee is back and better than ever! Terri Lee and Associates, part of the Terri Lee family was proud to bring these much loved Terri Lee dolls back in 2003. This year Terri Lee has brought some friends including Patty-Jo, Benji and Bonnie Lou, Tiny Terri Lee, Tiny Jerri Lee and Linda Baby! Each of the Terri Lee & Friends dolls and outfits is very limited in edition size and many of the edtions are already sold out from the manufacturer but still available for pre-order and order at Count Your Beans. If you have not reserved your new Terri Lee dolls yet, please contact us and we will be more than happy to help you out.

As with all the lines we carry, (Terri Lee, Marie Osmond, Richard Simmons, Paradise Galleries, Annette Funicello, Magic Attic, Susan Wakeen, etc) we offer competitive pricing and Bonus Beans, however if you see an authorized competitor's overall price lower than ours on an item we both have in stock, let us know the site name and address and we will do our best to price-match.

5) The Bonus Beans Customer Loyalty & Reward Program is a fun new incentive program that Count Your Beans has designed to thank each and every person for shopping and visiting with Count Your Beans.

Bonus Beans can be earned with every website order. They can also be earned through special promotions such as this one. The idea is for you to count and save your beans to redeem for fun prizes such as dolls, bears, gift certificates, store credit and charitable donations. The more you save, the more the potential reward! To learn more about the Bonus Beans, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page here and Bonus Beans Store here.

Question: After browsing the different Bonus Beans sections, please let us know what else you would like to see in the Bonus Beans Store? There is no right or wrong answer. Please know your suggestions help us keep the store fresh and exciting.

6) We design our website by hand as time permits and learn as we go. We don't have fancy software but we do have a lot of heart and regularly look for ways to improve our website to enhance our visitors collecting and browsing experience. We have many new things planned that will be coming online in August and September to help enhance your collecting experience.

Question: How can we improve our site? What sort of enhancements would you like to see? Naturally, there is no right or wrong answer but go easy on us! (Just kidding... we really do want to know what you think as our success depends on consumer happiness.) Are there any other product lines you'd like to see us carry?

Well, that's it for questions! Whew! You've made it this far and your chance to win prizes and earn 25 Bonus Beans is just around the corner! Entering instructions are below:

1) Please send an email to countyourbeans@aol.com with your name, full mailing address and email address. Please title your email, "CYB August Collector Sweepstakes". Alternatively you may send this information via mail to "Count Your Beans August Collector Appreciation Sweepstakes", 321 Pinefield Road, San Jose, CA 95134-1241. Entries must be received or postmarked by 11:59 p.m. 8/31/03 to qualify.

2) In your email or regular mail, please include the answers to ALL six trivia questions listed above. A couple questions have two parts. In order for you to be awarded 25 Bonus Beans for entry, all answers must be correct. If you send in an incomplete or incorrect entry and the sweepstakes has at least 48 hours remaining, we will do our best to let you know so that you will have a chance to resubmit your entry but we will not be obligated to do so.

3) You may enter this sweepstakes one time per person / email address / household. One 25 Bonus Beans bonus per person or household. Limit one prize per household.

4) Employees of Count Your Beans or their immediate family members are not eligible to enter.

5) This sweepstakes is open to residents of the USA and also internationally. Void where prohibited by law. There is no purchase necessary.

6) You agree that if your name is chosen as one of the top 11 winners or Bonus Prize winner, we have your permission to post your name and home state on our Winners Page and possibly in other promotional material. You also agree that we may send email from time to time regarding sweepstakes or special promotions on our website but that this information will not be sold or given to a third party.

7) Winners will be contacted by email or US mail, depending on method of entry. Winners may be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility before receiving a prize.

8) The 25 Bonus Beans entry prize bonus is non-transferrable and will have an expiration date of 3 months from date of issue. It will be awarded within approximately 72 hours of a received completed and correct entry. It can be combined with other Bonus Beans earned through purchases or other special promotions.

9) The 50, 75, 100 & 150 Bonus Beans prizes ARE transferrable and will have an expiration date of six months from date of issue. They can be combined with other Bonus Beans earned through purchases or other special promotions.

10) The names of the 11 main winners and the Bonus Prize winner will be posted on this site on or around 9/15/03. For a win list, please send a SASE before 10/1/03 to: CYB August Win List, 321 Pinefield Road, San Jose, CA 95134-1241.

11) BONUS!!!! - You will receive 1 extra drawing entry for each new person you refer who enters our sweepstakes. Just tell your referral about our sweepstakes and have him or her list your name & email address on his / her entry! The person who has the MOST referrals by 8/31/03 will win a mystery prize package.

12) Count Your Beans fully reserves the right to change, modify and administrate the rules of this sweepstakes should necessity dictate this, however in doing so, we will strive to keep the best interests of our visitors and customers in mind.

If you're ready to enter now, please click here to submit your entry and title it, "CYB August Collector Sweepstakes". If you have inquiries that are SWEEPSTAKES related, please direct your inquiry to countyourbeans@aol.com, attn: John. THANK YOU!

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