Canadian ICOKE Contest - Wiihacks

retrogamer · 12-22-2006, 08:21 AM

http://www.icoke.ca/home.do

Trout · 12-22-2006, 06:33 PM

Is that the PS3 contest? It's closed if it is. Brutal giveaway as well. Run by a firm called eprize. If you see a contest being run by eprize, just run away.

retrogamer · 12-22-2006, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Trout

Is that the PS3 contest? It's closed if it is. Brutal giveaway as well. Run by a firm called eprize. If you see a contest being run by eprize, just run away.

I posted this one because it said you can still redeem your points for prizes. Not too familiar with the eprize company though. Thanks for the info about them.

Trout · 12-23-2006, 01:57 PM

Yeah they are scary. Icoke and eprize ran a laptop contest last year. The tried switching the prizes listed with a cheaper laptop and hoped no on would notice. Got alot of complaints on that one. I guess the law states you can only switch prizes if they match or exceed the value listed.

retrogamer · 12-24-2006, 06:56 AM

That's rotten. Hopefully they shipped the prize to the winner though.

jitterbugjohnny · 12-28-2006, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Trout

Yeah they are scary. Icoke and eprize ran a laptop contest last year. The tried switching the prizes listed with a cheaper laptop and hoped no on would notice. Got alot of complaints on that one. I guess the law states you can only switch prizes if they match or exceed the value listed.

Man that is horrible. I have to admit the execution of this years ps3 contest was trash as well. Apparently you had to send them a registered letter stating your intention of recieving the prize. Plus winning was pretty difficult as the site constantly would go down and eat pins. I heard of a few people winning but, Pepsi still conducts the best contests.

jitterbugjohnny · 12-28-2006, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by retrogamer

That's rotten. Hopefully they shipped the prize to the winner though.

They did but, for a while there were rumours of people having to pay tax on the ps3's...luckily that didn't pan out.

retrogamer · 12-28-2006, 04:45 AM

Those people were lucky. I guess they were afraid to annoy the winners any further.

jitterbugjohnny · 12-28-2006, 11:33 PM

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Those people were lucky. I guess they were afraid to annoy the winners any further.

I think so...plus they were getting a tonne of emails and phone calls from participants. I hate when companies offer prizes but, it's more so that they can advertise on their product and associate a hip prodcut with their brand. I wish they would construct an interesting contest that would build a solid customer base. (although I guess the only reason they ever run a contest is to associate hot products or events with their products)

retrogamer · 12-31-2006, 08:45 AM

Talking about that, has anyone heard the results about the latest Comedy Central Wii giveaway. It's like the contest never existed. They never announced the winners.