I have been with BookishFirst since it started. Back then, nobody had 2000 points and I won many books. It became more popular and now has many more people participating.
The only books I have gotten in the last couple years are ones I “guarantee” using my 2000 points OR unpopular books that don’t run out of guaranteed copies.
Are there still random copies that are raffled off or can books run out with those using guaranteed points? I have been wondering this for awhile.
It seems like there are less and less copies available for sure! I read the first look and left a review for a book in this week’s raffle and there wasn’t a box for me to click on to say I was interested in winning and reviewing the book. And I was interested!
Thank you for your question - there is a cap on the number of book claims available for each book (to be fair to everyone trying to enter the raffle). Once the cap has been reached, the “Get it now” button will appear gray and a message will appear that there are no books left to claim. The rest of the books are randomly raffled to Readers entering the raffles.
If there are multiple books in a current raffle, readers can use their points to claim only one of those books and will not be eligible to win any other books in the current raffle.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the answer! So there are still raffled books even after those use points to claim? That is good to know.
I won 2 books in February alone from raffles, so those are definitely working.
Same here – I have not won a raffle for a LONG time. The only books I have received are the ones I redeemed my points to get. But still grateful for free books, thank you BookishFirst!
I believe so, yes. The quantities are limited as they are for the “get now with points” copies. I am quite sure that I have won a couple of books (in the past) when none were available to claim immediately.
Sometimes it feels like the people that win the raffles (with the leftover copies not claimed with 2000 points) are new users. My first year with Bookish First I won a raffle every few weeks, now it’s maybe once every few months or longer. I’m still extremely grateful of course, but unless I use my points now, I rarely win anything (and just like you said, it’s only the unpopular titles). There haven’t been a huge influx of new users since I started using it either, so it just makes me wonder if new users are somehow given priority.
I’m pretty sure they are because I won the first raffle I ever entered and maybe 1 other besides that. I’ve seen many others also say they won their first raffle they entered, so I think that might be a common “priority” status like you mention.
I am a newer user. I won the first 3 books that I joined the raffle for… and then suddenly have not won any.
I’ve been in since October I think. I’ve won 18 books and 5 of them have been through my 2,000 points.
Ive won 11 books and have been on here for about 2 years now and I always enter raffles when interesting books appear but most times I don’t get them but I did notice I got most of those 11 either in the beginning or the 2 times I have claimed something.