Well guys vote on this to prevent this kind of shit happening

http://99designs.uservoice.com/suggestions/4821

I think we can't be completely sure about this... It might be a coincidence.

http://www.jennmurray.com/index.html
Jenn Murray is an experienced web designer that specializes in providing small businesses with websites.
mmmmmmmm?

Well, I guess this is no surprise at all...

Is it possible that this JennMurray is a Jenn Murray - Web Designer (first hit in Google)?

~~Aqueous - Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it. I will learn to be a better observer.

__ Digitalswirl... I've seen it happen a few times however I have also won as well. I guess we just have to get good at recognizing a good contest and one that is not. I'd say someone that has put a lot of thought into exactly what they want & have a lot of details with feedback would be a good contest to enter.

this site can waste your time and efforts...what a waste

no free ideas

you guys should Withdraw your Entries. I just did

I knew it. this guy was shady

Looks like we had another window shopper...

I'm new to 99designs, does this happen a lot? I really like the possibilities of what 99designs can provide, however, if this happens often thats very discouraging.

__ Indigooutline said - "feedback would be a wise thing to do". I whole heartedly agree. Designers are capable of giving something totally diferent from one submission to another if comments are given but a 1 star just says that you don't like it. So we are all here designing blindly with no direction.

Please give comments to the submitted designs. Also, please make sure you are opening them in a large view, not just the hover pop-up view and don't judge the design by the stock photos chosen. Those are easily swapped out if only you gave a comment to do so.

I have calculated that I have probably drummed up about 50 hours over the past 2 months on "ABANDONED" contests alone. :(

(this is under various user names)

@Stanliano... I just checked out the ThinkNetwerk project...

It would be great to get some feedback on this... I submitted an improvement on the 99designs uservoice site, more to generate a bit of discussion than to actually see the functionality implemented.

I realise that a lot of designers spend a lot of time on submissions to 99designs, and of course there's only ever 1 winner, and in some cases, such as ThinkNetwerk, the contest holder is more of a 'passive browser' than an active buyer, and so sometimes no one wins.

Have any of you been keeping track of your time spent vs money won on 99designs projects? I guess it will be different for everyone but would be great to get a general concensus.

If you want you can check out my entry in suggestions to avoid too much unnecessary chatter in this competition.

http://99designs.uservoice.com/suggestions/5441

This contest isn't like "ThinkNetwerk" right?
http://99designs.com/contests/6491
"Please only submit the highest quality ideas." - free ideas?