Not to alarm anyone but it’s like there’s no one home at Zooppa. I won a Zooppa prize from the Get Creative About South Africa competition.

Or at least, I thought I did.

I was told that they were having some trouble acquiring the prizes from the advertiser. After months of emailing around, I just don’t get responses to my emails. Not Josh barnes, not Kirk Mastin, not Will Merritt. I know that when I mess up in business, I eat the cost of fixing the problem because it saves everyone headaches. Some friends have told me to get my legal representative involved but I like zooppa and that would cost them way more than the prize is even worth.

Is anyone else having a similar issue?

me too on Danone contest zooppa brasil

I won a trip to NYC during the Pause to Support a Cause Campaign almost a year ago. Haven’t seen that yet. And the whole no response thing to the TGI Friday’s competition is getting pretty ridiculous too.

Me too as XCpuckstopper35 I won a trip to NYC for the contest “Pause to Support a Cause” about year ago, and without any response.
This behavior is really ridiculous and unprofessional!
Now I’ve lost all desire but is it possible to receive at least the money $1700?
I think that it’s the best solution!… However happy new year!

What do you think Josh?

Finally got my prize for South Africa. It seems making a post about it may have helped. Good luck everyone.

Hi everybody-

All of these prizes, with the exception for Danone, were to be delivered by a company that Zooppa partnered with.

We have been having trouble getting this partner company to follow through on its commitments. We were finally able to get a meeting with these guys today.

For those who are still awaiting a prize from Pause or South Africa, you will be contacted today with an update on your prize’s progress.

Fremantle – sorry, but you’ll have to take it up with Zooppa Brasil for the Danone competition. You can write to Boni at zooppa.br@zooppa.com.

Sorry for all the troubles, folks.

Josh

I am not alarming about the Samsung Contest because it has been a week plus a month and zooppa is saying a month for the payments. So a few days of delay is not a problem i think. But i `also` don`t like about the no reply to emails issue. I have sent some emails to a few email adress in the contact list and no replies still.

I wanted to learn if there is anything i need to do, or at least wanted to learn if they have gotten the documents.

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Not to alarm anyone but it’s like there’s no one home at Zooppa. I won a Zooppa prize from the Get Creative About South Africa competition.

Or at least, I thought I did.

I was told that they were having some trouble acquiring the prizes from the advertiser. After months of emailing around, I just don’t get responses to my emails. Not Josh barnes, not Kirk Mastin, not Will Merritt. I know that when I mess up in business, I eat the cost of fixing the problem because it saves everyone headaches. Some friends have told me to get my legal representative involved but I like zooppa and that would cost them way more than the prize is even worth.

Is anyone else having a similar issue?

I’m having the same issue with the AT&T Simplify your life contest.

Hi BarisCigal, Tdentsav

I just wrote to Lena to see if we have everything we need for both of you.

- I know that she’s going to try to process payments for AT&T early next week. I’ll check on Samsung.

JB

Josh thanks for your attention on the issue. i have received the payment today. thanks a lot. hope to see you in the next contests soon.

Boy, reading this forum about all the negative goings on sure is bumming me out! I just shot my Whoopass segment Sunday and shot my Silk Milk one today.Not very conducive to get me in the editing mood now. This stuff is pure bull shi* on somebody’s part, and I have NO problem making a video about whoever starts jacking me around when I come to collect my prize soon. Word.

No prize for my Russel Whiley banner, also! Its been three months now.

Hello:

I won the Hormel contest like 1 month ago and i just send the email to Zooppa to receive my prize, but i would appreciate a reply from Zooppa to know when are you gonna send the money to my Paypal acount?

Thank for your reading.

Hey,

Initially i had a great response from Zooppa, when i came 2nd in the cold shower challenege. I sent off all the forms, or at least i thought i did. Then 50 days later i got told i needed to send a W8-Ben form and i have done so accordingly. I then emailed to see if i would have to wait a further 30-60 days after they received this form and no response. I wouldjust like to know when i can expect to receive my payment. Other than that i have had nothing but a great experience with Zooppa. Thanks

Hi VioletaCotero and Mrgmw07,

I’m looking these up with accounting. I’ll let you know where they are asap.

Thanks,
Manny

really appreciate your help, you and josh need a pay rise i reckon as your response time is brilliant ;)

Haven’t still receive my grand prize for Razorfish…officially 1 year has gone by. No one seems to care, i’ve been in contact with Razorfish themselves and even though they are probably trying when they feel like it…Zooppa isn’t doing anything to help the creative…

Who ever Zooppa partner with isn’t really our concern, you guys make us “sign” contacts where even if we lose the competitions you retain the videos (since we can’t delete anything and the contracts have been updated with that clause without any warning) it would be nice to see the contract upheld in the other side of the spectrum.

I took 3 days off + paid a cameraman to do my idea because i thought there was value in winning the grand prize…the problem here is there is no prize and i’ve officially waited 1 year. If you can’t get the associated partner to give the prize then we need to be compensated somehow

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Haven’t still receive my grand prize for Razorfish…officially 1 year has gone by. No one seems to care, i’ve been in contact with Razorfish themselves and even though they are probably trying when they feel like it…Zooppa isn’t doing anything to help the creative…

Who ever Zooppa partner with isn’t really our concern, you guys make us “sign” contacts where even if we lose the competitions you retain the videos (since we can’t delete anything and the contracts have been updated with that clause without any warning) it would be nice to see the contract upheld in the other side of the spectrum.

I took 3 days off + paid a cameraman to do my idea because i thought there was value in winning the grand prize…the problem here is there is no prize and i’ve officially waited 1 year. If you can’t get the associated partner to give the prize then we need to be compensated somehow

Hi ootb,

Razorfish was before my time but I can help you! When you won, you should have been notified and sent an email with 2 forms in it. To expedite the process, follow these steps:

First:
Go to winner materials section of the website, download and fill out the affidavit and questionnaire.

Second:
Email the completed forms to winners@zooppa.com. This is a special email account we set up to organize the process of awarding winners.

Third:
We’ll get you paid out.

Thanks and sorry for the wait,

Manny

Hi Manny,
Thanks for the quick reply…the problem is that the prize isn’t monetary… I was suppose to have a chance to pitch to one of their major client. Since they asked you guys to run the comp…you would think that they would have had the prize ready…but after i won they asked me to wait 1 month and then wait another and here we are a year later :O

Hi, i’m sorry to go on and i appreciate how busy you are and your hard work in helping me last time. I sent off my forms originally when i came 2nd in the cold shower challenge which ended on the 18th April. I then repeatedly sent emails to check that everything was ok and i would receive the money within 30-60 days. Then after 50 days i got a response saying i forgot to include a W8-BEN form, so i can appreciate the error on my part. however, you have all the forms and details now so i was wondering if you could speed the process up in anyways as i have been waiting for over 3 months now. I know what is needed for the future so i appreciate i shouldn’t have to wait this long if i should win ever again. Thanks again

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Hi, i’m sorry to go on and i appreciate how busy you are and your hard work in helping me last time. I sent off my forms originally when i came 2nd in the cold shower challenge which ended on the 18th April. I then repeatedly sent emails to check that everything was ok and i would receive the money within 30-60 days. Then after 50 days i got a response saying i forgot to include a W8-BEN form, so i can appreciate the error on my part. however, you have all the forms and details now so i was wondering if you could speed the process up in anyways as i have been waiting for over 3 months now. I know what is needed for the future so i appreciate i shouldn’t have to wait this long if i should win ever again. Thanks again

Hey there,

I’m really sorry about that. We do our best to keep the lines of communication up with all winners. That’s why we made the winners@zooppa.com email address. I’ll get a response from accounting and sort this all out. I’ll send you an email too right now.

Thanks,
Manny

Have you announced the winner for the Samsung Galaxy Referral contest?

No we have not. That contest just recently closed on July 15th. We’ll get the winner announced asap.

Thanks!

Hi Manny, sorry to keep on at you and that you keep getting the brunt of this. I’m getting more and more frustrated by the lack of response and the time i have waited for my prize. I was finally promised i would have the money in my paypal account last week and still nothing. We have both emailed winners@zooppa.com for a response but still nothing. What is happening, as this doesn’t fill me with confidence about doing any other videos or claiming my prize for Orbitz