I was on 99 for over 5 years and won over 100 contest ,which sounds pretty good but it was a lot of work,it was well over 1000s of entries.They have a designer level structure ,which allows (gold level) to design in the most profitable contest,which seemed very suspicious because designers that had a lot of wins and had been there for many years were not becoming gold designers,yet new designers with 1 or 2 wins were made gold,perhaps friends of staff or staff members?,who knows?secondly there r blind and non blind contest,non blind will almost always mean you will be ripped off of your dlesign once the Contest holder scores your design and not much recourse other than reporting them and that's not a 100% resolution,and another problems is designers reporting you as using clip art and you will be flag and have to prove it and sometimes you will not a chance and u will be suspended and ultimately your profile will be deleted. THE PROBLEM WITH 99 IS THAT THEY LET ANYONE W/ART PROGRAM JOIN!.... so you can make money on 99 ,but it's a lot of BS to get to it ,my advice ,be prepared to design a lot and don't have thin skin .
