Welcome to the Isaved5K $2,017 giveaway during 2017. To celebrate the year 2017, we will be giving away a total of $2,017 CAD during this year. For our first giveaway, we’ll be giving away $200 of the $2,017 to one winner on January 17, 2017. This contest is 100% sponsored by yours truly, Leo T. Ly. There are two main purposes to this giveaway. The first is to promote my blog. My philosophy is, “why give money to advertising companies when I can give money to my loyal followers?” With that in mind, I will be using this method to promote my blog going forward. The second purpose of this giveaway is to promote financial literacy. I feel that the public school system is not teaching enough personal finance material in our schools. If you spend 15 minutes browsing through my blog, you’ll find that I cover many money concepts that will help the average person to be more disciplined with their money. I truly believe that anyone can build a sound and secure financial future for themselves if they are willing to take the time to learn how to do it. So without further delay, good luck everyone. May the most diligent and luckiest person wins.

 

We’ll be giving away two of these $100 CAD bills
 

The easy ways to enter this contest:
1) One Ballot – Like the Isaved5k facebook page,
2) Two Ballots – Share the Isaved5k $2,017 facebook give away post and tag three of your friends or more if you like (share the wealth)
3) Three Ballots – Subscribe to the Isaved5k blogs (the subscribe form is either at the top right side or bottom of this page)

 

The Learning ways to enter this contest:
1) Two Bonus Ballots Per Article – Contributing to my articles by participating in the comment section. Please note, the comments must be related to the topic of the article (and DON’T spam. You will not get the extra ballots if you spam or type in comments of only a few words. I read all my followers’ comments and try my best to respond to them. If you want a good example, one of my most loyal followers, MustardSeedMoney is a good example for comments related to my posting topics.) Currently, there are a total of 20 posts and counting. So if you read all 19 (I am assuming that reading this article fully is a given) articles and contribute, you can get at least an extra 38 ballots. (You don’t have to read all in one sitting as you have till 7 PM EST January 17, 2017) 🙂
2) 10 Bonus Ballots for the top 10 contributors/commenters – As you can see, learning and contributing do come with awesome rewards. The top 10 commenters (excluding yours truly) are either posted at the side or bottom of this blog.

 
My recommended reading list
– Part 1: How To Improve Your Financial Health
– Freedom 48 Investment Toolkit: Minimizing Your Income Tax
– How I get pay when borrowing money from the bank
– How I earned a 72% return on my saving the easy way
– How do I love saving money? Let me count the ways …
 

When is the draw?
– The contest will be closed at 7:17 pm EST on January 17, 2017.
– The draw will happen at 10:17 pm EST on January 17, 2017

 
Why should you subscribe to this blog or like our facebook page?
– When you subscribed to this blog, you’ll be automatically entered into this giveaway and any future giveaway going forward. There are still $1,817 left to be won after this giveaway.
– When you liked our facebook page, you’ll also be automatically entered into this giveaway and any future giveaway going forward.
– We will never give away your email or sell your email to any marketing company.
– You’ll only get emails relating to our future blog posts or giveaways.

 

Who can win?
– Anyone who entered our contest. No restrictions.

 

What will the winner get?
– For the Canadian winner, a $200 CAD e-transfer will be sent to the winner’s email (hopefully you have a bank account to accept the money).
– For the International winner, the $200 CAD will be used to convert to USD in the form of a Visa or Mastercard gift card and sent to the winner.

 

How will the winner be chosen?
– We have written our own Excel Macro to import our participants into our lottery list
– We will generate a random number between 1 and the number of ballots
– The winner will be the ballot that matches the random number generated (below is a screenshot of our Excel Macro interface).

 

 

How will the winner be announced?
– The winner’s name will be posted on the Isaved5k facebook page
– This blog post will also be updated with the winner’s name
– The winner has 48 hours to claim the prize
– If the winner does not claim the prize within 48 hours after the announcement, a new winner will be drawn.

 
Ways to claim your prize
1) Private message isaved5k on facebook with your facebook account to notify us OR
2) Send an email to Leo dot Ly at isaved5k dot com OR
3) Use our website’s contact page to send us an email

 

Rules/Private Policy
– Isaved5k reserves the right to update our contest rules/private policies at our sole discretion. (Don’t worry, the winner will be paid. We just want to ensure that the winner claims the prize on time. In the rare case if the winner doesn’t claim the prize within 48 hours, we still want to giveaway our prize by making a second draw to find the winner. This item is here for the sole purpose of giving us the power to find another winner if the original winner doesn’t show up.)

 

The lucky winner
– Drum roll playing …
– And the winner is …
-Congratulation to the first isaved5k giveaway winner of $200 – Raphael, who took full advantage of the opportunity by receiving a well-deserved total of 61 ballots (3 for subscribing, 48 for commenting on 24 posts, 10 for being a top 10 commenter).