PS3 Giveaway Raffle

Back when the PS3 hype machine was in full effect, I thought I’d be so smart. I bought 2 PS3’s at $750/ea thinking I could still turn a profit. The market for them was already dropping, I gave one away, and here I am with another overpriced PS3. There is no way I can recoup my $750 outright in a sale, but I figure if I can get 750 people to chip in $1, one of them can walk away with a pretty cheap PS3. It won’t make the PS3 suck any less, but at least it will be cheap. I hacked together a connection to Paypal via their awesome IPN service and linked it to the (almost) real-time counter on this page.

So when the following counter gets up to 750, I will pull a random row out of the database, and ship you this PieceofShit3.

750/750


Update: Wow. This was a really cool thing. The tickets sold out, and the winner was chosen. I won’t link him or post his email until I contact him though. For those that are curious, the winner bought 5 tickets. I guess proof it pays to gamble big. Thanks to everyone who helped me unload this silly thing.

Update 2: The winner, Dan, asked me to post a link to his latest project.

46 Responses to “PS3 Giveaway Raffle”

  1. Win A PS3 From Dillsmack - ShoeMoney™ Says:

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  2. Paul Says:

    I bought 10 but the counter didn’t budge. jdubland99 [at] gmail

  3. david Says:

    I got you. Didn’t hit the DB for some reason.

  4. Playstation 3 Giveaway Raffle Says:

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  5. andrew Says:

    bought one.

  6. Matt Coddington Says:

    I bought a few :) Raffles are always fun!

  7. George Says:

    I bought one too but I wasn’t brought back to your site to complete the IPN call. Did it work?

  8. david Says:

    George,

    IPN happens in the back end, your browser doesn’t actually have anything to do with it.

  9. John A Says:

    Hey is this the 20 GB or 60 GB version?

  10. phaithful Says:

    Cool idea!

  11. John A Says:

    is this the 60 GB system?

  12. david Says:

    20GB.

  13. Vijay Teach Me Says:

    Hi Dave this is wicked cool.

    ME WANT A PSP

    Vijay

    Good Luck to all the fellas I started at 356/750 after payment it was 358/750 wow many psp fans for 1 buck

  14. DagonDesign Says:

    Bought some - nice idea! :)

  15. Christine Says:

    Got one!

  16. Vijay Says:

    Well, I got myself a single ticket.. one in 750 chance, I ll go with it!

  17. Hans Says:

    Have to be in the US to participate? Or is Europe ok too?

  18. Cheng-Hao Liang Says:

    i had bought 3 .. just to get in the 500 mark.. right on the dot..

  19. Cheng-Hao Liang Says:

    i had bought 3 just to get into the 500 mark

  20. Joshua Says:

    Good deal! I got 7!

  21. Fable Says:

    As I said on Shoemoney’s blog: this is an awesome idea and raffles are always a treat. Count me in! :D

  22. Adrian Says:

    I’me in.

  23. ritchie Says:

    very nice idea! had to buy some, too.

  24. james Says:

    hi dave, bought 10 and the counter reg’d it 492 - 502, then i bought 30, but counter only went to 519??? thanks, good idea.

  25. Derek Says:

    I’ve bought a total of 10 (1, 3 and then 6) and I think the counter only updated for 3 in total (when I bought the 1st one, it didn’t update, when I bought 3 it updated 1, and then moved up 2 when I bought the 6..

  26. Bas Says:

    Bought one, but didn’t see the counter increase? (PayPal address is the same as the one I used for this comment)

  27. Keith Says:

    Nice Idea, Just bought one

  28. david Says:

    The counter isn’t totally real-time, but it’ll stop when it gets to 750.

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  30. abednego Says:

    I bought 1 but the counter did not budge for me either…

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  31. Omar Says:

    Same here, bought 20 and counter only move about 8 numbers.

  32. Robert Says:

    I got 10 tickets. The counter is not showing it. I see others report the same problem so I guess you got it all anyway.
    What a cool idea this is.

  33. ClarkeW Says:

    Cool idea, I just bought a couple.

  34. Hop Says:

    I bought a lot and it only put about 1/4 of what about in the counter, please fix it.

  35. Chris M Says:

    I bought a few tix…not worried about the ticker, I have my x amount of chances I purchased, does not matter if it is ‘exactly real time’.

    Thanx for the cool contest/raffle

  36. Omar Says:

    Sup. My email is omar.nyc @ gmail. I bought 5 tickets but it didn’t update. I hope you got a note of that, thanks alot man!

  37. Jericho Says:

    I bought 2 :)

  38. Omar Says:

    I bought 15 tickets. Good luck everyone!

  39. Andy Says:

    750 tickets will pay for the ps3. :) Nice idea!

  40. Success Online » Blog Archive » Create My Contest! Says:

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  41. max ostap Says:

    My XBox fried two weeks ago :[

  42. Robert Says:

    Congratulations to the winner! Unfortunately it’s not me :-(

  43. ritchie Says:

    yeah, same here - congrats :-)

  44. Chris M Says:

    congrats…=)…I bought like 60 tix =(

  45. Chuck Says:

    OK…so he spent 5 bucks…won a gaming console worth hundreds…AND got a link to his stupid mini-sites junk?

    I spent 4…how about if I just get a link to a far less worthless site? LOL…

  46. androo Says:

    wow crazy post too bad i didn’t make it to be one of the 750