Barbarellany opened this issue on Aug 27, 2002 ยท 51 posts
Barbarellany posted Tue, 27 August 2002 at 10:25 PM
Spike, I was willing to wait for you to respond to me through IM, but you answered here. If you read the rules of the contest which I have linked above, you will see no mention of how many winners there would be. This is the introduction to the contest, and all that has been written officially regarding the contest aside from a few threads regarding who the winners were. Never did I see any notation that they decided to give more prizes or in fact only planned 3 winners at the start.. They in fact chose 5 winners which is clearly shown at the link regarding the contest. What went on behind the scenes doesn't bear at all in this case. That's right there with "what other contest has 5 winners". The contest says: follow the rules, enter and these are the prizes for the winners. What can be any clearer than that? The prizes are not listed in order of value or indicating in anyway 1st ,2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th prize. "by all rights we only had to give out 3 prizes" How do you read the contest ,see the results and come to that conclusion? I am astounded that you believe this can be divined from what you read in black and white. I don't see why I am seen as the bad guy here, the one who doesn't understand how nice everyone is being. The only person being damaged is me as I see it. I'm sorry Spike, but your answer sounds like another version of "no way in hell you are getting that program", not how can we fix this. Please let me know if I am mis-understanding you.