Play-Asia & CAG Charity Raffle for Child’s Play Winners Announced: $10,485 Raised!

[Roufuss]

Threw down a donation... it was small, but I'm kinda broke and every little bit helps, right?

[marten]

Threw down a donation... it was small, but I'm kinda broke and every little bit helps, right?

Absolutely! Somewhere, a small child is dreaming of Viva Pinata, and your donation has brought them that much closer to it.

3 hours!!!!

[kjauburn]

Absolutely! Somewhere, a small child is dreaming of Gears Of War, and your donation has brought them that much closer to it.

3 hours!!!!

Fixed

[GenDV138]

Put in $20 for my donation. Can't wait to see the final total!

[Firestorm]

Ah screw it, I'm donating another $10.

[marten]

2 hours!

Sell the in-laws you hate so much...sell your sperm (or eggs, for the female variety), and sell your blood.

You can get it all back, I promise.

[EXStrike]

Just threw in $10 more to the pot, grand total is now $60. :)

[TC]

Damn I almost missed out this year been so damn busy. Donation made!

[marten]

10 minutes, you cheap bastards!

[kjauburn]

Drumroll...

[CheapyD]

Raffle is closed!!!! Unofficial final tally forthcoming...

[marten]

Best of luck to everyone (and especially ME and my whopping 1 entry).

Look at it this way....even if you don't win anything, someone else is winning because of you. (insert hallmark moment here) :roll:

[CheapyD]

Unofficial Final Total
Final: $10,285 [updated 12/19 3:20am est]
Goal: $5,000

The above is the unofficial final tally as some payments still haven't cleared.
Because of this, I will need to wait a few days before drawing the winners.

I want to congratulate the CAG community on this awesome achievement. I never would have guessed we would have smashed our goal and topped $10,000. I am really so proud of all you who contributed.

Also, I'd like to send a big thanks to Play-Asia.com (http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-ci2.html) who were so easy to work with!

[judyjudyjudy]

Wow! More than double our goal! Yay CAG!!! :)

[marten]

10k...that is a LOT of 360's, Gears of War, and Condemned.

CAG, corrupting the young minds of America, from coast to coast.

I like the sound of that. Way to be un-cheapasses :applause::applause:

[Sporadic]

Unofficial Final Total
Final: $10,285 [updated 12/19 3:20am est]
Goal: $5,000

The above is the unofficial final tally as some payments still haven't cleared.
Because of this, I will need to wait a few days before drawing the winners.

I want to congratulate the CAG community on this awesome achievement. I never would have guessed we would have smashed our goal and topped $10,000. I am really so proud of all you who contributed.

Also, I'd like to send a big thanks to Play-Asia.com (http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-ci2.html) who were so easy to work with!

Damn, that is crazy.

I'm glad to see people put some of the savings they got here to a good cause.

[Ikohn4ever]

wow good work everyone

[Bazz]

Holy Crap over 10k nice , that is so awesome!

[FrankieFiero]

$10K... I guess CAG also stands for Charitable Ass Gamer now...

[brokelikejoke]

Good Job... thats awsome... and its cool that people donated prizes... i guess its too late to donate my copy of superman returns....oh well, next time

BTW my son really wants Viva piniata, hes only a month but he Kills in Gears...JP

[foltzie]

$10K... I guess CAG also stands for Charitable Ass Gamer now...


http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/7926/cagcharitytv3.gif (http://imageshack.us)

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4765/cagcharity2wf7.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[zoward]

I was thinking about this. I regularly come to this site in order to save a few bucks on game X or the hint book for game Y, or maybe even (in the case of my 360) a game console. It's literally implict in the site name - Cheapassgamer - for "cheap ass gamers". So I wondered: since everyone comes here to save a few dollars here and there, are they going to pony up, or cheap out, when it comes time to donate to a worthy cause?

It felt really good to see the answer! Thanks to CheapyD for setting this up, to Play-Asia and the other prize donors for the prizes, and to everyone who (like me) put up some of the money they saved by visiting the site throughout the year!

[Wolve11]

10K WOW! Absolutely unexpected, but amazing indeed. Good job everyone!

Cheapy may now have to get one of those giant checks and present it to them in person. I could see that happen.

[arfin]

It feels good knowing your money will make someone feel good this Christmas, even though i didn't donate much. Good job CAG!! Good Idea too.

[TC]

Great work everyone!!!

[HuBu]

they better mention CAG now.

[Firestorm]

Awesome efforts guys =) And still a $285 buffer in case some payments don't clear. Or a $5285 buffer if you take into account our original goal =p

[nharmon91]

Please tell us what the guys from Penny-Arcade say when you tell them!!

[starman9000]

Top notch work gang!

[dude2003]

Please tell us what the guys from Penny-Arcade say when you tell them!!

"holy schmidt"

[Proprius]

Most excellent.

[Firestorm]

Please tell us what the guys from Penny-Arcade say when you tell them!!

I e-mailed Gabe with a link and some others did too apparently:

I wanted to point out a couple of people who are doing cool things for Child’s Play. First CheapyD from Cheap Ass gamer (http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/../) had a fundraiser over on his site with a goal of bringing in $5,000. Well he updated yesterday (http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117126) with news that they had actually managed to raise $10,285! All of my interactions with CheapyD are on Xbox Live, R6 Vegas specifically. It’s usually him at the far end of the elevator hallway in Calypso shooting me in the face as I breach the slot room. Because of this I had come to think of him as a real son of a bitch and one night I think I actually called him a “garbage fucker”. I was very angry. I feel sort of bad now. He’s obviously a good guy and he’s got a lot of very generous readers. So thanks to CheapyD and the Cheap Ass Gamer community. You're not a garbage fucker.

:lol:

[magiic]

that's awesome :D

[spudypresto]

I <3 Gamers.

[CheapyD]

haha....Gabe's update is too funny.
For some reason, he is a bullet magnet for me in R6: Vegas.
Garbage fucker, indeed!

[MassiveDuck]

Wow, I never thought of that combination of words as an insult, "Garbage Fucker". Warms my heart to see the community coming together like this.

Ohh and Cheapy, do you expect to see/ can you see, a spike in traffic after being linked on Penny Arcade? Becuase they are a pretty popular website.

[rustyrage]

gj guys

[Salmonday]

Wombat's got the Wombat Liberation Army, and now CheapyD now has his own potential tribe -- the Garbage Fuckers. Congratulations on raising ten grand!

[Graystone]

I wanted to donate more but I missed the deadline, damn. I don't care about the Play-asia money. Oh well I'll just give even more next year.

I want to personally thank everyone for donating. I've had a couple family members that were younger, and stuck in hospitals till they died. Trust me this is making a huge difference in those children lives.

[foltzie]

I wanted to donate more but I missed the deadline, damn. I don't care about the Play-asia money. Oh well I'll just give even more next year.

I want to personally thank everyone for donating. I've had a couple family members that were younger, and stuck in hospitals till they died. Trust me this is making a huge difference in those children lives.


You can still donate directly. (https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=childsplaycharity@penny-arcade.com&item_name=Childs%2BPlay%2BCharity&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD)

[Trakan]

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2710/cagib7.th.jpg (http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cagib7.jpg)

Just got this in my weekly Play-Asia update email. Pretty cool.

[chakan]

You know I'm hoping for the Matted Print of Chakan the Forever Man!

That's so cool that a site dedicated to cheapassedness raised 10,000 for sick kids!

[brokelikejoke]

Merry Christmas to all the Garbage fuckers everywhere... so any word on how soon we can find out who won the best christmas present ever?... not that i think i have a chance...i just think its unhealthy for me to keep window shopping on play-asia pretending i`ve got a grand to spend....the sooner reality hits the sooner i can start :cry: and :beer: till i :puke:

[CheapyD]

Winners will be announced early this week!

[magiic]

What a fucking christmas this would be if I won $1000 to blow at play asia

[brokelikejoke]

What a fucking christmas this would be if I won $1000 to blow at play asia
i fucking know... it would be fucking awsome fucking christmas if i had a fucking G to spend... hell the first thing i`d get is a Sega Genesis and a copy of Shaq-Fu

[CheapyD]

Congratulations to thespamofpower, our grand prize winner of the $1,000 Play-Asia shopping spree! Play-Asia will be contacting you soon!

Here are some of the runner-up prize winners. I can't post the full list as not everyone's paypal email matches up with their CAG account (or perhaps they don't all have CAG accounts). I don't want to post their real names or email addresses. All winners have been notified via email.

Kayday - 1 Year Xbox Live
briansraregames - Disgaea 1 + Disgaea 2 (the NIS preorder w/ all the artbooks, etc, sealed)
bone_matrix - Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence Limited Edition

[HuBu]

"Congratulations, you are a runner up prize winner from the CAG/Play-Asia Charity Raffle!
You have won FF12CE + LE guide

Please email me back your full mailing address and phone number.
If you have a CAG forum name, you may wish to include that too.

Thanks and congratulations!

CheapyD"

w00t and I don't have a PS2....time to persuade the Mrs to buy one.

[Ricochet]

Heyhey! I won the random box! I'll be sure to post it's contents once I get it.

[pop311]

rats:(. but it was all for the kids:D

[bone_matrix]

Thanks Cheapy!!! I figured I never win anything, but this is pretty cool. MGS3 limited edtion will go good with my GCN version of the first one, and Substance Xbox version.

Thanks to who donated it.!

[CheapyD]

I made a little video thank you...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbuKOTcpFgY

[nharmon91]

Nice

[chakan]

Did anyone win prize #10?( Matted Print of Chakan the Forever Man by the creator Robert Kraus. With the matting its 8 X 10 and Robert has done a original chalk drawing along the bottom of the matting.)

[marten]

Received the spreadsheet with the winners today. (hooray!)

.....I don't know who won the hundred bucks, but they really really should hurry it up and message Cheapy with their address. Money has this nasty habit of burning holes in pockets ;)

I'll be shipping out the items hopefully in the next two days (barring work, of course). So keep an eye out :applause:

[CheapyD]

Did anyone win prize #10?( Matted Print of Chakan the Forever Man by the creator Robert Kraus. With the matting its 8 X 10 and Robert has done a original chalk drawing along the bottom of the matting.)

They did...but they said they weren't too interested in the item and would consider giving it to someone who makes anther donation to Childs Play....I'm guessing by your username, that you might be interested.

[chakan]

Yes, I am very interested. How should I proceed? Can I donate again through the original link? How much would be appropriate; should I PM the original winner?

[marten]

Received the spreadsheet with the winners today. (hooray!)

.....I don't know who won the hundred bucks, but they really really should hurry it up and message Cheapy with their address. Money has this nasty habit of burning holes in pockets ;)

I'll be shipping out the items hopefully in the next two days (barring work, of course). So keep an eye out :applause:

I actually made the time today to ship all the prizes I donated out.

Yes, even the hundred bucks (no, I didn't MAIL it...those post office people are broke, you know) went out via UPS today as well.

Congratulations to all the winners...barring UPS being a bunch of asshats, you should all have your prizes by the end of next week.

P.S. As to the CAG that won the "random" box...well...it's a large box with a bit of weight behind it. Hope you're good at lifting :lol:

[Ricochet]

P.S. As to the CAG that won the "random" box...well...it's a large box with a bit of weight behind it. Hope you're good at lifting :lol:

Awesome! Can't wait to see what's inside.

[HuBu]

the ps2 has been sitting here un-used waiting for some quality time with the FF12. Still have MGS:PO to finish.

[Ricochet]

Just got the random box! Contents are posted in the bragging rights forum right here (http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2565829#post2565829)

[briansraregames]

I actually made the time today to ship all the prizes I donated out.

Yes, even the hundred bucks (no, I didn't MAIL it...those post office people are broke, you know) went out via UPS today as well.

Congratulations to all the winners...barring UPS being a bunch of asshats, you should all have your prizes by the end of next week.

P.S. As to the CAG that won the "random" box...well...it's a large box with a bit of weight behind it. Hope you're good at lifting :lol:

The Disgaea set was received today. Thank you so much!

[HuBu]

Received FF12LE and guide today. Thank you.