We support reforms to the financial marketplace to curb bad practices by banks and lenders.
The Dangers of Debt Image Contest was a raging success. There were 147 fabulous submissions. The competition was fierce, but one great cartoon prevailed.
With 4,309 votes Sean Kleefeld is our grand prize winner and has won $1000 and a year subscription to Consumer Reports Online!
Obscene Contracts & Outrageous Fees
We also had three runners up who will be getting a one year subscription to Consumer Reports Online!
Jon Costello is our first runner up, with 1,113 votes
Drowning in Debt
Lauren Banks is a second runner up, with 746 votes
Trickle Down Effect
Kelly Sawyer is our third runner up for her two entries, with 634 votes
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Your contest obviously needs some criteria for measuring merit of the entries rather than just number of vote hits. There’s too many ways to rig results.
This “contest” was nothing more than a who can get the most facebook votes contest. Very disappointed that some of the more original quality pieces were ignored.
Congratulations to the winners for a job well done in getting the message out that Debt is truly dangerous in all its forms.
I like some of the winners entries! But, this whole contest seems more like one huge popularity contest…I’m just so puzzled how in the world someone could get over 4,000 votes and don’t even have any comments on their entry…I don’t think this was done very fairly. Maybe next contest the judging/voting for entries could be stricter. After all, it’s so easy to cheat by getting access to several computers/accounts….
Well, congrats to all the winners.
Seems like this could be stacked in favor of who can round up the most friends to vote. There were lots of excellent cartoons that seem to have been overlooked. For future contests, how about giving everyone ONE vote, and NOT one vote every day?
1st place winner says it all; but was too kind by NOT showing the BIG magnifying glass in that readers hand…….