OT: I think I just won a new laptop!!!!

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 8/3/2006, 11:27 PM
How you ask? http://dell.eprize.net/backtoschool06/ but this is just to diswade you from asking if it's a scam. anyway - I entered and won (unbelieveably enough) but I still have to send back an afidavit saying that I relinquish all the rights I was born with or ever will have and that they can do anything they want to/with me, my likeness, my biography, and I think my first born in there somewhere - I didn't read it all too carefully. :)

anyway - it's an E1705 with a Core duo 1.73 Ghz proc. an 80 Gb HD, a CD/DVD rom, 1 GB of memory, an onboard integrated Intel Graphics card (ie a drain on my system) and a wsxga+ 17" screen. anyway - this is all assuming that I didn't bend over and touch my right foot three times turn around and did the hokey pokey before I tried to win it in which case I was probably disqualified and will be shot on sight.

I don't know when they approve my winning but I will get it 8-10 weeks after that. Hope it all goes well :)

Dave

Comments

apit34356 wrote on 8/4/2006, 3:43 AM
Congrats,DAVE!!!!!!!
Grazie wrote on 8/4/2006, 4:03 AM
Superb Dave!! I've got me fingers crossed . .
Laurence wrote on 8/4/2006, 8:45 AM
It sounds like a scam. Did you send them any personal info?
johnmeyer wrote on 8/4/2006, 8:52 AM
I just checked, and that URL is indeed a site that can be linked to from the Dell main site.

Congratulations, I didn't think real people (you are real, aren't you?) actually every won these things.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 8/4/2006, 10:33 AM
well, I might be ficticious, but I don't think so.

I was going to sell it but now my wife has laid claim to it if it actually comes.

I'm pretty sure it's legit because I started entering the contest becasue of an advertisement I saw on TV. However I never really try and count my chickens before they're hatched, so I'm not depending on this actually coming through, but if I do get it, that would be pretty cool :).

the funny thing is, they say that it's not affected at all by purchases and it came right on the heels of me buying a laptop for school! LOL - pretty curious :)

Dave

vitalforce wrote on 8/4/2006, 1:35 PM
Hey wait a minute--who took my Dell?