AutoZone survey rules do exist as a document, and the survey domain still serves them. What they describe is the AutoZone 2016-2017 Customer Satisfaction Sweepstakes: four grand prizes of $10,000 paid by check, a total value of $40,000, entrants aged 21 or over across the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Its last entry period closed on 31 August 2017, and the entry screen names no successor.
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Open the rules before you open the survey
The document sits on the survey domain rather than on the entry screen, which is why few people covering this topic have seen it. Its first page settles the age question and the prize question together.
Read the heading, then the dates
It is headed for the 2016-2017 customer satisfaction sweepstakes. Four entry periods ran from 1 September 2016, closing on 30 November, 28 February, 31 May and 31 August. The last of those was nine years before this page was written.
Take the $10,000 as genuine and dated
One grand prize of $10,000 cash by check was available in each entry period, giving four winners and $40,000 across the promotion. That figure was written down by AutoZone Parts, Inc. It belongs to a promotion that ended.
Note the age, because it is unusual
Twenty-one at the date of entry, not the eighteen most receipt surveys use. Anyone promising a draw to a younger reader has skipped the eligibility clause.
Check who was named alongside AutoZone
National Sweepstakes Company, LLC of Rochester, New York conducted the drawings. A named administrator with a street address is one of the marks of a real draw.
Watch the entry screen for a new period
A running draw announces itself on the form: a prize, dates, and a rules link that opens. Checked on 25 August 2026, autozonecares.com asked which country you shopped in and nothing else.
If something goes wrong
A page says I can win $5,000 today
- Cause
- That figure belongs to later periods described only by third parties, all of them expired
- Fix
- Ask which entry period it covers. The rules AutoZone serves give $10,000 and a period that ended on 31 August 2017.
I am 18 and want to enter
- Cause
- The published age floor for this draw was 21
- Fix
- Higher than most receipt surveys. The survey questions themselves are a separate matter from entering a prize draw.
The rules link will not open for me
- Cause
- The bare domain blocks automated retrieval of that path while the www form serves it
- Fix
- Try the www version of autozonecares.com. Absence from one address is not absence from the site.
I want the odds as a number
- Cause
- The document gives a formula rather than a figure
- Fix
- Odds depended on the eligible entries received during the respective entry period, which nobody can quantify in advance.
The entry form never mentioned a prize
- Cause
- No current promotion is named on it
- Fix
- Expected. The first screen asks which country you shopped in, and no prize, entry period or rules link appears alongside it.
Someone asked me to pay to release winnings
- Cause
- No published AutoZone ruleset has ever required a payment
- Fix
- Close it. The named administrator drew winners at random, and the survey asks for receipt details rather than card details.
What’s fixed, and what actually varies
Almost every hard number here comes from AutoZone's own document, so the disagreement is not about what the rules say. It is about whether they still apply.
Fixed
- AutoZone Parts, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee is named as sponsor
- National Sweepstakes Company, LLC of Rochester, New York is named as administrator
- One grand prize of $10,000 cash by check per entry period, four in all, $40,000 total
- Entrants had to be 21 or older at the date of entry
- Eligibility covered the 50 states, the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico
- One entry per person per entry period, with odds depending on eligible entries received
- The promotion those rules govern closed on 31 August 2017
Varies
- Whether any AutoZone sweepstakes is running now
- The prize in circulation, given as $5,000 by most write-ups and $10,000 by others
- What the form asks for after the country question, which no reachable page settles
- Whether a later ruleset was ever published and then withdrawn
Ask three questions of any page quoting an AutoZone prize. Does it name an entry period? Does it name a sponsor and an administrator? Does its rules link open? The served document answers all three, and its answer to the first is a date in 2017.
How AutoZone compares
Three survey sweepstakes, three states of paperwork.
| Chain | Rules reachable | Prize as published | Age for the draw |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutoZone | Yes, on the survey domain | $10,000 per period, four periods | 21 |
| Family Dollar | Yes, from the survey operator | $100 gift card, five of them | 18 |
| Taco Bell | Yes, on the survey domain | $500 gift cards, eight of them | 18 |
Documents are read from the survey domains and change without notice.
All three publish. All three describe promotions whose entry periods have closed. The useful lesson is that a served rules document is evidence of a past draw rather than a present one, and the date line is the part worth reading first.
A live document about a dead promotion
Most survey brands covered here publish nothing, so the interesting failure is usually silence. AutoZone fails the other way.
Read on 25 August 2026, the survey domain still served a rules document headed for the AutoZone 2016-2017 Customer Satisfaction Sweepstakes. It opens with the line no purchase necessary to enter or win. Sponsorship is credited to AutoZone Parts, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates, at 123 South Front Street in Memphis, Tennessee, with National Sweepstakes Company, LLC of Rochester, New York conducting the drawings. Four entry periods ran from 1 September 2016 to 31 August 2017, closing on 30 November, 28 February, 31 May and 31 August.
Each entry period carried a single grand prize of $10,000 cash in the form of a check. Four winners, $40,000 across the whole promotion. Entrants had to be 21 or older at the date of entry and resident in the 50 states, the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico. One entry per person per entry period. Odds, the document says, depend upon the total number of eligible entries received during the respective entry period.
That settles a good deal. The $10,000 everyone argues about is real, first-party, and attached to a promotion that closed nine years ago. The $5,000 in wider circulation belongs to later periods that third-party listings describe and mark expired.
What the document cannot settle is the present. Checked on the same date, autozonecares.com opened with one question about which country you shopped in, offering USA and Puerto Rico or Mexico, and named no prize, no entry period and no rules link. A served document is a record. It is not an offer.
Questions people ask
Are there official AutoZone survey rules?
Yes. The survey domain serves a rules document, which puts AutoZone ahead of most brands here. Its subject is a promotion that closed on 31 August 2017.
Is the $10,000 prize real?
The figure is first-party. One grand prize of $10,000 cash by check was available in each of four entry periods, worth $40,000 in total.
Why do most pages say $5,000 instead?
Later promotions carried that amount, and listings describing them mark those periods expired. Both figures are genuine and neither describes a current draw.
How old did entrants have to be?
Twenty-one at the date of entry, which is unusually high. Most receipt surveys covered on this site set the floor at 18.
Who was the sponsor?
The sponsor is named as AutoZone Parts, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates, at 123 South Front Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Drawings were conducted by National Sweepstakes Company, LLC of Rochester, New York.
Could people in Puerto Rico enter?
Yes. Eligibility ran to the 50 states, the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico, and the entry screen still offers USA and Puerto Rico as one option.
What were the odds?
No number is given. Odds depended upon the total number of eligible entries received during the respective entry period.
How will I know when a new sweepstakes starts?
The entry form will name it and link rules carrying a sponsor and dates. Until then, a prize quoted with no entry period attached is describing something finished.