Dellanave » Giveaway http://www.dellanave.com/blog Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:45:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 PS3 Giveaway Raffle http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/06/28/ps3-giveaway-raffle/ http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/06/28/ps3-giveaway-raffle/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:55:04 +0000 david http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2007/06/29/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.

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