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Are you pumped?

The solar powered pump that you could receive from RainPerfect pumps!
The second part of your fabulous prize!
The solar powered pump that you could receive from RainPerfect pumps!
The second part of your fabulous prize!

Fine Gardening magazine and RainPerfect Pump are bringing you FOUR chances to win great prizes!

Week 1: March 5 to March 11, 11:59 p.m.

Week 2: March 12, 9:30 a.m to March 18, 11:59 p.m.

Week 3: March 19, 9:30 a.m. to March 25, 11:59 p.m.

Week 4: March 26, 9:30 a.m. to April 1, 11:59 p.m.
Click here  for entry details and prize information.

The RainPerfect pump provides an eco-friendly and cost effective way to power the water out of your rain barrel. The pump is powered by the included solar panel which is easy to install and works with most standard rain barrels. The RainPerfect doesn’t require electricity and provides plenty of pressure through an ordinary garden hose to run most low pressure sprinklers, water your garden, or wash your car.

How to enter the contest
For the next FOUR Mondays at 9:30 EST, a question, thought up by Fine Gardening magazine’s editor, Steve Aitken, will be posted on Fine Gardening magazine’s Facebook page. To participate you have to go to RainPerfect Pump’s Facebook page to “like” them. Then you can post your answer to OUR question on THEIR wall. There is no right or wrong answer to these questions; we just want to hear from you! On the following Monday morning, Steve will read everyone’s answers and choose one winner!

The second week’s prize is:

•    (One) RainPerfect Pump. RainPerfect is available online and through select retailers nationwide for approximately $139.00 (MSRP, USD$).

•    (One) Outdoor Ideas & Solutions Special Interest Publication

Total approximate prize value: $146.99 (USD$)

The prize for the week that starts Monday, March 12, will be announced at 9:30 EST on that day.

If you don’t win this week, don’t get discouraged. There will be a brand-new question posted on our wall every Monday morning for FOUR weeks. Head on over to our page to check it out and then zoom to RainPerfect Pump’s page to share your answer.

You could be the next winner!

Full rules and regulations below:

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER. Entries for this contest (the “Contest”) will be accepted during the period beginning at 9:30 a.m. ET on March 5, 2012 and ending at 11:59 p.m. ET on March 11, 2012 (the “Submission Period”). All entries must be received during the Submission Period. The Contest is open to legal residents of the United States and Canada (except Quebec), who are at least 18 years old. Contest void in Quebec, and anywhere else where prohibited.
 
HOW TO ENTER: To participate in the contest, visit the Fine Gardening Facebook Page during the Submission Period, and follow the directions to the RainPerfect Facebook page (i.e. the “WebSite”) to submit an answer to our editor’s question on the RainPerfect Facebook wall. There is no limit to the number of entries. At the Website, participants will be required to “like” the RainPerfect page to be able to post to the RainPerfect wall. All entries become the property of the Sponsors (hereinafter defined) and will not be returned.

Submission Requirements: Each answer submission that is entered into the Contest must meet ALL of the “Submission Requirements” set forth below (any Submission that, in Sponsor’s good faith judgment, violates the following criteria will be disqualified):
 
The Submission must be the submitting entrant’s original unmodified, previously unpublished work; The Submission must not include images or text that is obscene, pornographic, libelous, illegal, discriminative or otherwise objectionable; and The Submission must not include any corporate logos or any material that may infringe on the copyrights or intellectual property of any third parties.
 
By entering into this Contest, each entrant represents and warrants that (i) his or her Submission is entrant’s own original, previously unpublished work; (ii) The submission, the response, is not subject to copyright.); (iii) that such Submission does not violate the rights of any third party or infringe or violate any law, and as of the date of the Submission, is not the subject of any actual or threatened litigation or claim; and (iv) the Submission does not and will not violate any applicable laws, and is not and will not be defamatory, libelous, pornographic or obscene. Note: Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any Submission in the Contest if Sponsor views the Submission as potentially infringing or otherwise a violation or potential violation of a third party’s rights or seek to secure permission for Sponsor’s benefit and allow the applicable Submission to remain in Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Submission in the Contest if it deems the Submission to be lacking in taste, quality, or to
be otherwise objectionable.
 
Submissions must be received by the end of the Submission Period. The Website’s database clock will be the official timekeeper for the Contest. Submissions become the exclusive property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged. Proof of submission is not considered proof of delivery or receipt of such Submission to Sponsor. Sponsor shall have no liability for any Submission that is lost, intercepted or not received by Sponsor, for any reason.
 
All Participants must comply with these Official Rules. The Website is governed by the Taunton Press Privacy Policy, which is available at the Website. Sponsors are not responsible for unavailable networks, failed server or other connections, miscommunications, interrupted, misrouted or scrambled transmissions or other errors or problems of any kind whether mechanical, human, electronic or otherwise. The Sponsors assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected entries or for any failure of the Website during the contest period, for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail entry to be received by Sponsors due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, of any combination thereof including any injury or damage to a participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from playing or downloading any material related to the contest. Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel or suspend the Contest should a virus, bug or other cause beyond the reasonable control of the Sponsors corrupt the security or proper administration of the contest. Any attempt to deliberately damage any website or to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Sponsors reserve the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution. Entries are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are illegible, forged, falsified, altered or tampered with in any way. The Contest Rules are subject to the interpretation of the Sponsors, and all decisions related thereto are final.
 
PRIZES/VALUES: One Prize will be awarded and will include:
•    (One) RainPerfect Pump. The RainPerfect pump provides an eco-friendly and cost effective way to power the water out of your rain barrel. The pump is powered by the included solar panel which is easy to install and works with most standard rain barrels. The RainPerfect doesn’t require electricity and provides plenty of pressure through an ordinary garden hose to run most low pressure sprinklers, water your garden, or wash your car. RainPerfect is available online and through select retailers nationwide for approximately $139.00 (MSRP, USD$).
•    (One) Outdoor Ideas & Solutions Special Interest Publication
Total approximate prize value: $146.99 (USD$)

NO PRIZE TRANSFER OR SUBSTITUTION. No prize or any portion thereof is transferable or redeemable for cash.  Any portion of the prize that is not used is forfeited.  No substitutions for prize except by Sponsor, in which case a prize of equal or greater value will be substituted.

TAXES. Except where prohibited, all federal, state, provincial, local or other tax liabilities, including but not limited to luxury, sales, use, income, VAT, GST, and PST tax, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winner.  In the event of a Canadian winner, Sponsor will deduct any applicable withholding taxes imposed by the U.S. and applicable state governments from value of prize award thd the prize award value will be adjusted accordingly.

TERMS/CONDITIONS: Sponsors shall not be responsible for any unsuccessful attempts to notify the winners. Employees, officers, and contractors (including immediate family members and members of the same household) of Sponsors, affiliated companies, subsidiaries, distributors, dealers, retailers, vendors of Sponsors, and all other entities associated with this promotion, are not eligible.

Each participant agrees to release and hold the Sponsors, their employees, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives, and their subsidiaries, parent companies, or other affiliated companies harmless from any and all damages, losses, claims and/or liabilities arising out of his or her participation in the Contest or resulting from accepting or claiming any prize awarded hereunder. Unless indicated otherwise by checking the opt-out box on the Website, participants acknowledge and agree that Sponsors may use personal information collected through the Contest from time to time to contact participants for advertising and promotional purposes.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, participation in the Contest constitutes permission (except where prohibited by law) for the Sponsors to use any winner’s name, likeness, biographical information, photographs and any statements or remarks made about winning or participating in the Contest for advertising and promotional purposes (in any medium) without additional compensation.
 
WINNING: Judging Criteria. Among all qualified entries received, the judging organization (the “Judges”) shall select one Prize on or about March 12, 2012. The Winners will be announced on or about March 12, 2012. Odds of winning will depend upon the total number of eligible entries received.  All decisions by the Judges shall be final and binding.
 
The winners will be selected from all eligible Submissions based on best overall answer as selected by our editors.

There will be one Prize winner. No more than the advertised number of prizes will be awarded.

Winners will be notified within 14 days of selection by telephone, mail or email.

CLAIMING PRIZES: The winner must sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release (or in Canada a Declaration of Compliance) within thirty (30) days of notification, or his or her prize may be forfeited. Publicity Release not required where prohibited by law. Prizes will be delivered to each winner’s residence within thirty (30) days of receiving the Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release. Winners will also be required to provide proof of age.
 
WINNER’S LIST: Send self-addressed, stamped envelope by March 10, 2012 to: “FineGardening.com’s Facebook “Like It” Contest Winners List Request, PO Box 5506, Newtown, CT 06470.
 
SPONSORS: RainPerfect; The Taunton Press Inc., Fine Gardening magazine 63 S. Main Street, PO Box 5506, Newtown, CT 06470-5506

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  1. Mary14889 03/12/2012

    The notice about this contest just came in my email today, March 12, even though it says that the contest is over March 11! I tried anyway and hope you are extending the open date.

  2. user-7006867 03/12/2012

    I hope you come up with a non-Facebook way to play the game in the future. What a shame that one has to participate in facebook (expletive-deleted) to be included. I think that is very discriminatory (not in the EEO sense of course). I am strongly opposed to facebook and its anti-privacy and tracking practices. Too bad for me.

  3. user-7006903 03/13/2012

    Mary,

    Here is the link to the blog post of the second week rules:

    https://www.finegardening.com/item/22314/are-you-pumped-for-your-second-chance-to-win-a-rainperfect-pump

    The contest is running for four separate weeks, so you still have three more chances to win!

    Garden,

    I understand your frustration, but the partnership with RainPerfect was to help them advertise their facebook page. Therefore, it needed to be a facebook contest.

  4. GrandmaFitz 03/14/2012

    Is this where I answer the question. I was just a bit unclear. Am I pumped? I am pumped about being a grandma! I am pumped about our new summer venture which this year includes getting really serious about the garden we are will be planting this year. In fact it will be the beginning of a complete redo of our property! So we have some long term plans we are putting together.

  5. user-7006903 03/15/2012

    Grandma,

    You have to be a member of facebook to answer the question. It is posted on our facebook wall. Then you go to RainPerfect Pump's facebook wall and answer the question there. 'Are you pumped?' is just the title of the blog post. Is that a bit more clear?

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