Official eBay "How To Play"
Official Instant Win Game Rules
- The intermittent Clue Giving is eBay's way of "shaking monkeys from the tree" (No offense to the monkeys that are present.) The more people have to wait, the more impatient they get, the more they clear the system, the better the site runs again.
- It seems all of the actual pages we are supposed to find contain these commonalities:
Buy it now
No PayPal icon present (So far...)
A "camera icon" for the gallery picture
Listed within the past few days or so.
- The Official Winning page will tell you
IMMEDIATELY that you have won. No, it will NOT popup to tell you that. It will be one of the first things you see when checking through the auction.
- Do you have to click on the auction link to find out if you won?
YES. It is NOT apparent from the outside!
- Can I search in Titles AND Descriptions for it?
NO! Only the title will help to give it away. And that is where your logic comes in.
- What do I do if I find the winning auction page? Click Buy It Now. Confirm the purchase and then wait for an e-mail. THAT IS ALL! The e-mail and/or money could take up to 24-48 hours to arrive, so be patient!
- Do I have to pay anything to win? Does the auction require me to make a payment on PayPal?
NO, NO, NO! eBay has made it pain-stakingly clear that you will NOT have to pay anything! So, if you pay for something, you might have just been duped!
The game is relatively straight-forward. If you have issues, feel free to ask them! But PLEASE, for the love of PETE, please don't keep asking these same questions that have been answered hundreds (seriously!) of times!
Anyone have anything else to add that I might have missed?
