Hi guys,My friend won the CPR Beta..Good for him....Thing is though I came home
and entered at CART.com.My buddy called me when he got home to see if I wanted
to do something.I told him to go to CART.com before he came over and enter the
contest.Well he did and won...How?If they took the first ten then how could he
get in before me.Not to mention that he was about a half hour late.
Brian
Could you have maybe made a mistake on the form such as putting in a typo on
your e-mail address?
I would hate to think that Microsoft was selecting entries based on more
desirable profiles (e.g. more games purchased during the past year, more
desirable age group, etc.) than purely on the first ten. Still, the fact
that anyone got it by filling out a form 30 minutes after the link opened up
is amazing. As someone who was pressing refresh every three minutes at one
web site, the latest I feel I could have been was three minutes from the
opening of the link. Granted that site might have been more popular than
Cart.com. But 3 minutes vs. 30 minutes? Its not like there was a routing
issue like you could encounter with newsgroups and the arrival of messages
at your news server. This was a form at THEIR site. It doesn't travel
anywhere and time stamping forms should be automatic. I wonder if there was
a problem with the whole thing and that was the explanation of the two day
delay in notifying winners.
Still, I'd be curious what you and your friend put on the forms regarding
the questions such as age, system, number of games purchased in the past
year, etc.
It is possible?? that you made a mistake on your entry form an all the
people after you whould have been chosen from another site that they signed
up at. Cart.com was the first I signed up at and I didnt remember typing my
complete E-Mail there due to all the e***ment!!! Also I think Cart.com
took the first 50. Was this the only site you signed up at???
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>>Hi guys,My friend won the CPR Beta..Good for him....Thing is though I came
>home
>> and entered at CART.com.My buddy called me when he got home to see if I
>wanted
>> to do something.I told him to go to CART.com before he came over and
enter
>the
>> contest.Well he did and won...How?If they took the first ten then how
>could he
>> get in before me.Not to mention that he was about a half hour late.
>Could you have maybe made a mistake on the form such as putting in a typo
on
>your e-mail address?
>, Still, the fact>that anyone got it by filling out a form 30 minutes after
the link opened up
>is amazing. As someone who was pressing refresh every three minutes at one
>web site, the latest I feel I could have been was three minutes from the
>opening of the link. Granted that site might have been more popular than
>Cart.com. But 3 minutes vs. 30 minutes?
Well.......>Could you have maybe made a mistake on the form such as putting in
a typo on
Well,Im pretty dang sure I didnt make a mistake,Because I signed up at CGW
also.But when I signed up it didnt ask for my system specs...Whatever happend
really peeved me though..I think its rediculous that they screwed up.....And
that it took then half a week longer than what they said to notify winners.
Anyway,Congrats to all that won.Post your experiences with it in here
please.Also,Since I have a AMD K-6.Tell me how the Gold version runs on
it..Since i havnt ruin the Gold version on it yet.
Guess its time to stop pouting about it and go buy a Diamond Stealth
II!!Called Best Buy 2 days ago and they expected a shipment firday..So im
gonna take a ride out there and get me one of those bad boys...hehe.
Once again,Congrats to the winners.....
Brian
Simple...It all depends on how many places your e-mailed
response (the form packet) gets bonced around the country.
I could send an e-mail to my neighbor next door, and before it
actually gets to him, it would have gone to my server in Riverside,
bounced to Seattle, zipped on over to Washington DC, cruised
through Denver, and finnally landed back on his server.
Sometimes the routing is more complex and longer than that, and
sometimes it gets held up. Mail from Compuserve's server in Ohio
sometimes takes several hours before getting to the AOL servers
in Boca Raton, FL. =(
A mess to be sure.
Cheers!
Marc
Even stranger, I have a friend from school who got a call from Microsoft saying
he was one of the finalists for CPR Gold. Now this I dont understand.
Sean
Same here, Julian! Figured I was in pretty early being they CHANGED the
webpage. I had the day off (meaning, spent all day checking out those 15
sites) and registered on EVERY page I really expected to win. I'm really
not a cynic but it seems this contest was BOGUS in some shape or form!!
My .02
jp
Hi,
Maybe they didn`t choose the guys who signed up on every page. I have just
filled out ONE sign-up page and one. Maybe you should try with fair things
to wing in such a contest.
Cheers - Chris
> Simple...It all depends on how many places your e-mailed
> response (the form packet) gets bonced around the country.
By the time you get a response from the http server, your form
submission has by definition arrived at the server.
---Jim
