FREEStuff Drawing Mon. May 1: Two $40 Gift Certs! **WINNERS**

[Mike Peace]

I just read this. Not sure how I missed that I had a private message since I read SMC daily. Oh well. Easy come, easy go.

Mike

[Jackie Outten]

Mike,

You're still good. Congratulations.

Jackie

[Matt Meiser]

You're still good. Congratulations.

No fair!!!

Just Kidding. Congratulations Mike. Now if we all keep quiet a little longer we'll all still have a shot at the other one.

[Mark Rios]

Mike Peace it is!!!.......so sayeth Jackie, so be it.

Okay...here's how to get your cert.

First, go to Amazon.com. Then, scroll down to the heading that says: "Gift Certificates". Then, enter all your personal info including your credit card number. Then enter $40 in the amount box. Click enter and click confirm.

There you have it. You got your $40 gift cert!





Just teasing......Congratulations.

Mike, please pm me so I can get you your cert.

[Mark Muckelberg]

I got your PM last week and replied, but something must not be working right. I apologise for the delay, but I'm just now getting around after having surgery on my foot. Thank you; Lee Valley is one of my favorite places to shop, and this will be the first thing I've won in 55 years; which is to say EVER.

[Matt Meiser]

Uh oh......

[Steve Clardy]

Uh oh......

Houston. We got a problem.

[Mark Rios]

FreeStuff donated by SMC Member, Mark Rios:


Two lucky winners will be drawn next week, Monday, May 1, 2006. Winners will have 1 week to respond to this thread, at such time Mark will give you the details on getting your gift certificate. Thanks Mark!!

***UPDATE: Sorry for the delay, folks! Here are the winners randomly selected from the database:

Prizes:
Lee Valley $40 Gift Certificate - Mark Muckelberg (updated 5-22-2006)
Amazon.com $40 Gift Certificate - Mike Peace

Mark, first of all, sorry about your leg and I hope you get better soon.

As far as the drawing, I have looked through the whole thread and it doesn't look like you responded to the thread as is stated in the above quote. After waiting for more than a week and after having the blessing of the SMC admins (per Jackies post number 64) the drawing went on and the cert was awarded to someone else. Sorry for your bad luck and, again, I hope you recover soon.

Thanks.

[Mark Muckelberg]

Hey what the heck, I can live without the $40 from Lee Valley.
I do have one question though, why wasn't the message that I had won sent to my email address, which my wife would have seen in a timely fashion because she checked that about everyday while I was "laid up" in bed. (she doesn't log onto this site though)
I could only surmise that it is because you are encouraging people to go to this site often, or miss out on this type of opportunity.
It kind of suggests that if your not a frequent visitor, you're not "part of our club."
No hard feelings.
Well okay, just a little maybe.

[Jim Becker]

Mark, the drawings all require the winner to post in the thread announcing them as the winner within a proscribed time period. A good way for a less-frequent visitor to handle this is to stop by SCM once a week or so and if you see a Freestuff drawing thread, subscribe to it. In this manner, the forum software will notify you via email of new posts in the thread in case you want to monitor things.

There is no intention...no intention...of any exclusivity relative to the drawings. But yes, having to respond personally does kinda encourage folks to visit once in awhile. It really is a great community, which is a little different than most forums out there.

[W Craig Wilson]

If you 'subscribe' to the FreeStuff Drawings forum, you can get an automatic email whenever a new posting appears. Sure is helpful for those of us who have a real life and only occaisionally get time to visit the Creek.

[Z_Aaron Koehl]

Mark,

Actually, I did send you a PM in case you visited the 'Creek but didn't get a chance to visit the drawing thread; alas, better luck next time!