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Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

chipseo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:04:10 -0000

We have a niche blog / group that we give away a door prize each week, but it is not something we can't take care of, and as soon as the recipient gets the prize they always blog about it... I would think having 10 people blog about how cool it is, is better than this kind of press :)

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Susan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:41:44 -0000

Well I have to say I am surprised.. then after doing a bit of research I see that I shouldn't be surprised at all. Apparently there is a long history of such conttests at Darrin.cc

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Nick Ramsay — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:23:51 -0000

Wow, I suspected as much when I reviewed his site on June 18th:

Going back to the Wii contest, there’s no doubt that it was a huge factor in drawing visitors to his blog, but this is where things get interesting. The contest started on May 10th, with the winner due to be drawn on June 11th. Sure enough, on the 11th, Darin posted a reminder that there was only one hour left to enter the contest. However, when I last checked on June 18th, a full week after the winner was to be announced, there was still nothing! Could Darin be keeping the Wii to himself?

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Chris — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:58:22 -0000

No Ed, and I don't think he will. He also won't allow comments on his blog from people he's screwed like this. At least he won't with me, and of course he deletes all the comments and trackbacks that have anything related to this too.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

edlau — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:43:51 -0000

Hmmm, has Darin responded since?

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

jerrykhoo — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:30:54 -0000

If I were Darin, I would stop make a quick sale of the blog (if he can even sell it away now) and start another blog. Given his current reputation, I don't think he'll be able to live it up as the stigma sticks pretty well forever.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Roberta — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:58:14 -0000

What a crappy thing to do to people....he should've kept his word, plain and simple. Yet he blogs on and on....what a jerk.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Angel — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:49:39 -0000

They have to address it right away. Tyler Cruz did.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Wayne Liew — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:28:51 -0000

@ Angel and Teejay
If someone has done something not really good (I didn't say it's bad), will they publish it and tell the whole world? I am sure they will, either with a valid explanation or a lousy excuse. :mrgreen:

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Teejay — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:02:10 -0000

I am with you Angel. He hasn't addressed it. He should have read about this by this time. Shady.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

jerrykhoo — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:11:19 -0000

I'm actually on the flip side of the coin. I ran a contest and gave away the prize money. the condition was that the prize winner announced it on his blog that he won so that I can be accountable to my readers that someone really won. But that end of the bargain was never fulfilled even today.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Angel — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:01:55 -0000

How disappointing. He's updated his blog but not addressed this glaring issue. Now that is shady.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Forest Parks — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:03:37 -0000

I'd love the game please........ but I don't believe you would send it to me anyway :twisted:

What a sad sad story :???: I certainly won't be visiting his blog.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Mary_Freebies — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:57:32 -0000

If you're going to hold a 'fake' contest, at least pull a professional Ashwin, and don't announce real names, of real winners, of well known bloggers.
Two contests that come to my mind, in which I participated and who seem to have pulled shiningly obvious Ashwins are Dailywolf.com and Dailywaste.com
Is Darin some Dailydarin too? Beware of everything daily...
And of course, don't forget to drink your daily milk. ^^

Enter me, please.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Writing Nag — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:38:42 -0000

I've only had good experiences with contest wins, it's too bad people don't honor their commitment...thanks!

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

ms danielle — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:25:43 -0000

i don't know why anyone would hold a contest and not provide the prize. it's like shooting yourself in the foot. john chow sent me the zune. i sent the zune to enkay. enkay bought an mp3 and sent it to his winner, and so on and so forth. it's bad karma for darin. in this game you create your own reputation and so he's created his. therefore i don't judge, i let his actions speak for themselves. good luck to the winner of your contest! :)

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Matthew — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:14:07 -0000

you are joining the wrong contests. we always pay out! gotta pick our winners and 300$ cash is going out

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Rich Gilchrest — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:49:29 -0000

What a loser!

It's a good thing his blog kinda sucks anyway; I'd hate to lose all respect for someone I actually read :twisted:

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Angel — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:06:31 -0000

Can someone run a contest for a Dreamcast please? I gave mine away when I left the UK and I wanted another one.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Michael — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:05:08 -0000

The ps2 > ps3. Sorry Sony, but you really screwed up. No way they're going to catch Microsoft and Nintendo.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Making The Money — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:47:22 -0000

I've only run 1 competition but I send the prize the same day as the draw was one (with a little extra for good measure). Why the hell waste everybody's time if you've got no intention of honouring the prizes. What a *******

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Joyce Babu — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:25:21 -0000

I really appreciate the speed in which you processed my prize.

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Joyce Babu — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:22:51 -0000

We’ll send it over to the winner if we’re not too busy forgetting to write your address on it.

I liked that :grin:

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

Vijay — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:44:43 -0000

I would like to enter this contest as well!

Re: Pay Your Dues Or Pay The Price

akmal — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:19:30 -0000

wow...just give me the ps3.. :twisted: :twisted: