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.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
[...] is having a contest for a Playstation 3 he bought way back when they were crazy expensive on [...]
June 29th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I bought 10 but the counter didn’t budge. jdubland99 [at] gmail
June 29th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I got you. Didn’t hit the DB for some reason.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
[...] Playstation 3 Giveaway Raffle Dave from dellanave.com is currently holding a raffle to win a Sony Playstation 3 ! Details 750 tickets for $1 USD each One of the 750 tickets will be randomly drawn to win the Playstation 3 You can buy as many of the remaining tickets as you like 206 out of 750 tickets are currently sold as of writing this so get in quick for what could be the best odds and cheapest playstation 3 ever! Dellanave ยป PS3 Giveaway Raffle [...]
June 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
bought one.
June 29th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I bought a few
Raffles are always fun!
June 29th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I bought one too but I wasn’t brought back to your site to complete the IPN call. Did it work?
June 29th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
George,
IPN happens in the back end, your browser doesn’t actually have anything to do with it.
June 29th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Hey is this the 20 GB or 60 GB version?
June 29th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Cool idea!
June 29th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
is this the 60 GB system?
June 29th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
20GB.
June 29th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
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
June 29th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Bought some - nice idea!
June 29th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Got one!
June 29th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Well, I got myself a single ticket.. one in 750 chance, I ll go with it!
June 29th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Have to be in the US to participate? Or is Europe ok too?
June 30th, 2007 at 12:44 am
i had bought 3 .. just to get in the 500 mark.. right on the dot..
June 30th, 2007 at 12:45 am
i had bought 3 just to get into the 500 mark
June 30th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Good deal! I got 7!
June 30th, 2007 at 2:54 am
As I said on Shoemoney’s blog: this is an awesome idea and raffles are always a treat. Count me in!
June 30th, 2007 at 3:22 am
I’me in.
June 30th, 2007 at 4:48 am
very nice idea! had to buy some, too.
June 30th, 2007 at 5:48 am
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.
June 30th, 2007 at 7:09 am
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..
June 30th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Bought one, but didn’t see the counter increase? (PayPal address is the same as the one I used for this comment)
June 30th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Nice Idea, Just bought one
June 30th, 2007 at 9:28 am
The counter isn’t totally real-time, but it’ll stop when it gets to 750.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:17 am
[...] chance to win a raffel for a PS3 Dave over at dellanave.com is offering a chance to win a ps3 raffle. All you need to do is send him at least $1 USD to be entered. Visit this webpage for more [...]
June 30th, 2007 at 11:21 am
I bought 1 but the counter did not budge for me either…
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June 30th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Same here, bought 20 and counter only move about 8 numbers.
June 30th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
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.
June 30th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Cool idea, I just bought a couple.
June 30th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I bought a lot and it only put about 1/4 of what about in the counter, please fix it.
June 30th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
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
June 30th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
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!
June 30th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I bought 2
June 30th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
I bought 15 tickets. Good luck everyone!
June 30th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
750 tickets will pay for the ps3.
Nice idea!
June 30th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
[...] read about a cool contest at ShoeMoney.com and thought that giving away a PS3 might be a good idea. Dave did it. Should I? $600 max at a $1 a [...]
June 30th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
My XBox fried two weeks ago :[
June 30th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Congratulations to the winner! Unfortunately it’s not me
June 30th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
yeah, same here - congrats
June 30th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
congrats…=)…I bought like 60 tix =(
June 30th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
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…
July 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pm
wow crazy post too bad i didn’t make it to be one of the 750