Banning Other Bloggers From Winning Giveaways

It has come to our attention here at Two Classy Chics that several other blogs have banned review bloggers from either entering their giveaways or from winning any of their giveaways on their blogs. Today, we thought we would address that issue here on our blog.

First, We would like to state for the record that review bloggers are welcome to enter our giveaways and to win them here on our blog. Many review bloggers will tell you that they have indeed won giveaways that have been hosted here on the Two Classy Chic’s blog. We think that it is only fair that if someone is entering a giveaway correctly they have just as many odds as the other people entering the contest.

Second, if you are a review blogger and not allowing other review bloggers to enter the giveaways hosted on your blog this policy should be stated on your site so that other bloggers are not wasting their time entering your giveaways.

With all of that said, personally, we feel it is terrible and unprofessional for other bloggers to “ban” other review bloggers from entering their giveaways. You (the blogger), in the majority of cases, are not the one sponsoring the prize or service that is given away, the company is. While you legally have the “right” to ban whoever you want from entering your giveaways, it is just a very unprofessional thing to do, (unless that blogger has cheated or something to that affect), let alone unfair!

While yes, review bloggers do have the ability to request a review for the item they are entering, that is not the point of entering giveaways. The point of entering giveaways is that fact that winning and entering is a fun, relaxing way to spend some time, and if I as an individual want to enter a giveaway, I should expect to be able to win should my name come up as a legit winner. Why would I or anyone want to waste my valuable time entering giveaways for hours and then hear through the community that no other review blogger is going to win on such and such blog. That is BS!

If you choose to not allow another blogger to win on your sweeps, then for goodness sakes have some ethics and let us know. I would rather not waste my time on a site that does not welcome me there anyway. There are plenty of sites with just as nice stuff where we and other review bloggers are welcome. And like we said before, review bloggers are welcome to enter and win on the Two Classy Chics as long as the entries are done correctly.

Thanks for coming by and entering with us. We hope you win!