lcs@remus.rutgers.edu (Lyle C. Seplowitz) (03/20/91)
About that AmigaWorld Contest that everyone is so upset about...
I don't own an Amiga yet (but I would very much like to get one). I
have been purchasing newsstand issues of AmigaWorld since they did the
series of articles on the A3000 and AV (June 1990).
I've known about the contest since the January (91) issue. I wasn't
sure if AW was offering this contest to its subscribers, but based
on the advertising of it, "AW Frequent Buyer Sweepstakes"
I thought it might only be in ^^^^^^^^
newsstand issues. Reading your messages, I've confirmed my assumption.
The reason I am posting this message, (please take this as a joke and
not entirely seriously) now that you all know about the contest, that
decreases my chances of winning the A3000!
Actually, I think AW's intent was to try to get people who casually
read their magazine and those like myself, interested in the Amiga,
but don't own one, to buy the magazine on a somewhat regular basis. It
also opens the door for a couple of people to enter the Amiga world by
winning Amiga equipment. True, if I was a subscriber, I would be
disappointed and even mad at AW...
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Everything stated or expressed in this post is strictly my opinion or viewpointamiga@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Boing) (05/05/91)
Hello, you may remember me from a while back as the malcontent who posted an article here in comp.sys.amiga.misc about the mysterious missing "Win an Amiga 3000 Contest" in the subscription issues of AmigaWorld. Well, I finally got around to penning a letter to send off to the publishers about it. (Yeah, a little late, but better late than never...) If you would like to add your name to it, or have any suggestions, or would like to add your own postscript to it, I'd be happy to compile them and send them off with this letter. If you would like me to include your name in this letter, please reply via email and tell me your name, address (in whatever form you like, if at all), and whatever contribution you would like to make, as you would like this information to appear in the letter. I will probably mail the letter in a week or two, depending on how the responses go. Thanks for listening! -baron // uhccux amiga archive | amiga@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu | amiga@uhccux.bitnet \X/ "just another peon" | baron@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu | baron@uhccux.bitnet ----------------------->8 begin proposed letter 8<---------------------------- Stephen Robbins Publisher AmigaWorld Magazine Dear Mr. Robbins, I am writing to you at this time to express my extreme displeasure with the AmigaWorld staff responsible for the decision to announce the recent "Win an Amiga 3000 Frequent Buyer Contest" only in the February, March, and April newsstand issues of the magazine. I can find no justification for the deliberate attempt to exclude those of us who subscribe to AmigaWorld from knowing about this contest. I would not have known of the contest at all were it not for a printing error on the cover of the April subscription issue which announced the contest (but still contained no mention of it within its pages). A subscriber should certainly count as a frequent buyer of AmigaWorld, and as a subscriber, I fully expect that the magazines I receive at home contain the same information, content, and benefits of the newsstand editions. I later learned via e-mail with senior editor Lou Wallace that the contest could be entered with a postcard, but the fact that entry was still possible did little to assuage my feelings that I had been deliberately deceived. I sincerely hope that future decisions by the staff responsible will prove to be more ethical. Sincerely, Baron K. Fujimoto
es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (05/05/91)
In article <12854@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> amiga@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Boing) writes: > >Hello, you may remember me from a while back as the malcontent who posted an >article here in comp.sys.amiga.misc about the mysterious missing "Win an Amiga >3000 Contest" in the subscription issues of AmigaWorld. Well, I finally got >around to penning a letter to send off to the publishers about it. (Yeah, a >little late, but better late than never...) If you would like to add your name >to it, or have any suggestions, or would like to add your own postscript to it, >I'd be happy to compile them and send them off with this letter. If you would >like me to include your name in this letter, please reply via email and tell me >your name, address (in whatever form you like, if at all), and whatever >contribution you would like to make, as you would like this information to >appear in the letter. I will probably mail the letter in a week or two, >depending on how the responses go. Thanks for listening! > After hearing the complaints, AmigaWorld decided to open the contest to everyone. They proceeded to post the rules on CompuServe, and presumably elsewhere. -- Ethan "Brain! Brain! What is Brain?"
amiga@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Boing) (05/06/91)
In article <1991May4.225504.2012@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > After hearing the complaints, AmigaWorld decided to open >the contest to everyone. They proceeded to post the rules on >CompuServe, and presumably elsewhere. > > -- Ethan This is true. I have even just found out that they apologise in the June issue of AmigaWorld (haven't seen it yet), but the letter was already written by the time I found out, and I'd still like to let them know how cheesy I thought they were anyway, as a matter of principle. :-) -baron -- // uhccux amiga archive | amiga@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu | amiga@uhccux.bitnet \X/ "just another peon" | baron@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu | baron@uhccux.bitnet
c60b-2fq@web-2e.berkeley.edu (Ben "Benno" Carroll) (06/29/91)
Does anyone know who won the AmigaWorld A3000 contest? how will the winners be notified? Please post...I am sure that all the millions who entered will be happy to congratulate the winner. :-) ----benno c60b-2fq@web.berkeley.edu benno@ocf.berkeley.edu later.
r0r6977@tamsun.TAMU.EDU (Raoul Rodriguez) (06/30/91)
In article <1991Jun29.085558.25025@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-2fq@web-2e.berkeley.edu (Ben "Benno" Carroll) writes: >Does anyone know who won the AmigaWorld A3000 contest? > >how will the winners be notified? > >Please post...I am sure that all the millions who entered will be happy >to congratulate the winner. :-) > >----benno >c60b-2fq@web.berkeley.edu >benno@ocf.berkeley.edu >later. Thw winners are... (envelope please... thank you Vanna) The Grand prize winner and also theproud owner of a new A3000 and a Video Toaster (something seems wrong here...) is none other than Brian Allgeier for the classsic "Don't Moo Over Spilt Milk" Best 3-D: 1st Prize Dan Steely for "Potshots", earning a GVP A2000-030 2nd Prize- Bert Huntsinger for "Digital Frankenstein",getting a copy of Imagine Best 2D: 1st Prize - Michael Salva for "Amoeba on the floor", earning DCTV and a copy of Sculpt 4D 2nd Prize - Robert Jackson for "Failure", and got PageRender3D and PageFlipper Plus F/X 2.0 Best Story: 1st Prize - Chuck and Chris Waite for "Looney" and got a SuperGen 2000S 2nd Prize - Brad Schenck for "Off the Record", and he got a copy of 3D Professional of the 600 entries 42 went onto the 90 minute Video tape. The above is from the July issue of Amiga World re-printed without permission.... but you may still buy their video Tape if you want... :) Raoul "My 500 Has a Detachable Keyboard" Rodriguez n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu Standard Disclaimers Apply (Within)
c60b-2fq@web-2f.berkeley.edu (Ben "Benno" Carroll) (07/01/91)
In article <2208@tamsun.TAMU.EDU> r0r6977@tamsun.TAMU.EDU (Raoul Rodriguez) writes: >In article <1991Jun29.085558.25025@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-2fq@web-2e.berkeley.edu (Ben "Benno" Carroll) writes: >>Does anyone know who won the AmigaWorld A3000 contest? >> >>how will the winners be notified? >> >>Please post...I am sure that all the millions who entered will be happy >>to congratulate the winner. :-) >> >>----benno >>c60b-2fq@web.berkeley.edu >>benno@ocf.berkeley.edu >>later. > >Thw winners are... (envelope please... thank you Vanna) > >The Grand prize winner and also theproud owner of a new A3000 and a Video >Toaster (something seems wrong here...) >is none other than Brian Allgeier for the classsic "Don't Moo Over Spilt Milk" > >Best 3-D: >1st Prize Dan Steely for "Potshots", earning a GVP A2000-030 >2nd Prize- Bert Huntsinger for "Digital Frankenstein",getting a copy of Imagine > >Best 2D: >1st Prize - Michael Salva for "Amoeba on the floor", earning DCTV and a copy > of Sculpt 4D >2nd Prize - Robert Jackson for "Failure", and got PageRender3D and PageFlipper > Plus F/X 2.0 > >Best Story: >1st Prize - Chuck and Chris Waite for "Looney" and got a SuperGen 2000S >2nd Prize - Brad Schenck for "Off the Record", and he got a copy of > 3D Professional > >of the 600 entries 42 went onto the 90 minute Video tape. > >The above is from the July issue of Amiga World re-printed >without permission.... but you may still buy their video Tape if >you want... :) > >Raoul "My 500 Has a Detachable Keyboard" Rodriguez >n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu >Standard Disclaimers Apply (Within) No....I meant the AW "frequent buyers" contest...the one where you just send in an entry form and there is a drawing...I think it was supposed to have happened by now... Does anyone know who the winners are (were, will be)...or if the drawing is yet to come...and how the winner will be notified... Sorry to take up so much bandwidth... once again, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>benno<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^