Count Your Beans August Collector Appreciation Sweepstakes

** THIS SWEEPSTAKES HAS NOW ENDED! Winners have been notified. Please check back soon for a new Sweepstakes in 2004! **

The Count Your Beans family cordially invites you for some Fabulous Fall 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 second of many special events this year! Welcome to the Count Your Beans Fall into Autumn Collector Appreciation Sweepstakes! This promotion will offer 11 terrific main prizes and one bonus prize for the person who refers the most new entrants! To add extra incentive and make everyone a potential winner, each person who sends in a complete entry will receive 15 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 and feel free to post our sweepstakes link at your favorite newsgroup!

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.

(Please note that is is a photo of the Adora Boo doll, the Bitty Boo we have been told is just a smaller version of the original Boo Doll)

(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. (HINT, tell your friends!!)

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 five questions. Five of them are trivia questions and the last one is asked to help us make Count Your Beans more fun and a better place for you to shop and visit.

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) What doll is listed last in the Count Your Beans alphabetical listings?

2) We are proud to offer bears from world renowned bear artists designing for the Annette Funicello Bear Company. Annette Funicello offers a wide range of affordable quality bears for every taste, many with extremely limited edition sizes.

3) We are proud to offer the Award-winning doll artist Flossie Maranuk and her Florence Maranuk Collection. Doty Award winner Skye and Jillian are just a few of her wonderful creations. We are in the process of expanding this section to our site and will have many new photos in the coming weeks.

Question: What fairy is currently pictured on top of the Showstoppers Fairy page?

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 editions 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) What was the mystery prize for the August Customer Appreciation Sweepstakes?

6) 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.

What kinds of items do you collect and would like to see sold on our website?

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 Fall into Autumn Sweepstakes". Alternatively you may send this information via mail to "Count Your Beans Fall into Autumn Collector Appreciation Sweepstakes", 321 Pinefield Road, San Jose, CA 95134-1241. Entries must be received or postmarked by 11:59 p.m. 10/31/03 to qualify.

2) In your email or regular mail, please include the answers to ALL six questions listed above. In order for you to be awarded 15 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 15 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 15 Bonus Beans entry prize bonus is non-transferable 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 transferable 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 11/15/03. For a win list, please send a SASE before 12/1/03 to: CYB Fall into Autumn 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 10/31/03 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 Fall into Autumn 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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