View Full Version : i won the grand prize of the Dr. Pepper Indiana Jones Sweepstakes?
kontonChaos
07-08-2008, 03:15 PM
I got an email from expedia saying my name has been drawn and that i won 1/4 adventure trips. Did anyone else get this or I really won? I found out that I got in the contest when i registered in the 1 in 6 wins promotion and i probably will turn it out down because i don't want to go on a vacation right now
Nathan_Sama
07-08-2008, 03:26 PM
:applause:
Liquidx01
07-08-2008, 03:35 PM
Me thinks you won dude... Nice!!
cin84_12
07-08-2008, 03:44 PM
Wow, congrats!
n64ra
07-08-2008, 04:00 PM
can you give it to me?
Bavgate
07-08-2008, 04:45 PM
Damn, nice! Congrats man.
kicker_of_elves
07-08-2008, 04:45 PM
what was the prize?
SuperSonic128
07-08-2008, 04:49 PM
Dang man! Congrats. :P
kontonChaos
07-08-2008, 05:00 PM
what was the prize?
It was a trip for two to Egypt ,jordan ,Peru, and India.
xBrandonx
07-08-2008, 05:13 PM
Congrats dude!
BoSoxFan900
07-08-2008, 05:17 PM
Congrats man, it sounds legit!
crunchberries
07-08-2008, 05:18 PM
Congrats! Make sure you can afford the taxes on your win; I hear they're a bitch.
oasisboy
07-08-2008, 05:45 PM
I got an email from expedia saying my name has been drawn and that i won 1/4 adventure trips. Did anyone else get this or I really won?
You did not win, it was a scam. Do not reply to them because they will ask for personal information and then you will be a victim of ID theft. :lol:
kontonChaos
07-08-2008, 06:52 PM
You did not win, it was a scam. Do not reply to them because they will ask for personal information and then you will be a victim of ID theft. :lol:
Really!?
Shady3011
07-08-2008, 06:55 PM
Yes. Give me the e-mail. I'll "handle" it.
becuzimbrown
07-08-2008, 07:11 PM
Really!?
He's joking.
Congrats!
If you turn it down, do they give you anything else?
doraemonkerpal
07-08-2008, 07:21 PM
If you don't want to go on the trip, ask them for a cash equivalent if possible. If that doesn't work out, give it to one of the CAGs or a relative and let them pay the taxes on the prize :)
Definitely ask for cash instead, although it would probably say in the rules whether that is allowed or not.
If it isn't, I'd really recommend going. How often would you be able to take a trip like that?!
kontonChaos
07-08-2008, 07:55 PM
Actually there is no cash option so i might turn it down
cyberduelist2
07-08-2008, 08:05 PM
COngrats man, have fun!
DarkRider23
07-08-2008, 08:08 PM
Give it to someone else then. Don't just throw it away ;).
lucao
07-08-2008, 08:55 PM
congrats
Mowgli87
07-08-2008, 09:51 PM
Congrats dude!
But seriously, don't throw something like that away. I am sure you could find someone who wants to go to one of those places. I would love to go but I can't really afford a vacation right now.
ineedstuffhelp
07-08-2008, 10:05 PM
Y Would U Turn It Down Are U Insane?
billyrox
07-08-2008, 11:10 PM
give me to me, message me
BoSoxFan900
07-08-2008, 11:18 PM
Man, I'd think carefully before turning down something that is most likely a once in a lifetime opportunity.
TheEyecon
07-08-2008, 11:22 PM
congrats
jaydepps
07-08-2008, 11:30 PM
Don't turn it down. You could likely "sell" it to a relative or someone else.
Pookymeister
07-08-2008, 11:44 PM
15th the don't turn it down. I'm sure you could find someone who would want to go.
MrFriday18
07-09-2008, 12:15 AM
go!
Stoneage
07-09-2008, 12:44 AM
WWCheapyDD?
Ikohn4ever
07-09-2008, 01:21 AM
CML for trade, go on the trip man, you only live once, might as well enjoy it.
MikeHoncho
07-09-2008, 01:42 AM
Go on it. You will regret it for the rest of your life if you turn it down
Foo228
07-09-2008, 01:50 AM
Go on it. You will regret it for the rest of your life if you turn it down
I agree wholeheartedly. Good job winning and enjoy :D
cdrober
07-09-2008, 02:12 AM
Just for the sake of quantity I'm going to chime in that you should definitely go. The taxes are going to cost nothing next to what you would have to pay if you ever decide later to go, especially with how the costs of these trips are going up and up, usually much faster than inflation.
RAMSTORIA
07-09-2008, 02:39 AM
turn it down?! me thinks you didnt really win.
Thongsy
07-09-2008, 02:47 AM
Unless you make good money, ala $75,000+ a year and can afford your own holiday, take it. It's almost a free vacation except for the taxes. There probably isn't a firm date of when you have to go, so you probably have a choice of when the trip will be, no reason not to go.
Hollywood
07-09-2008, 04:15 AM
Dude, maybe you can auction it. Are you crazy to just say no?
ticalmc2k2
07-09-2008, 04:37 AM
If you seriously won this, do not "give" it to someone. A free trip to Egypt is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, I agree with some of the other guys, find a way to take that trip. Unless you're really strapped for cash, in that case, take the cash equivalent if that's possible.
Or if you wanna be super awesome, do a raffle on here and randomly give it to a fellow CAG.
zewone
07-09-2008, 04:48 AM
Bullshit.
Why would you turn it down?
Either full of shit or you're really smart.
NegativeZero
07-09-2008, 10:02 AM
you only won a quarter of a trip? what the hell is that? transportation to the airport is free but you have to buy the airfare both ways and hotel fees?
heathdud
07-09-2008, 10:21 AM
I smell troll
griffin6601
07-09-2008, 10:55 AM
I think your all being taken and falling for it hook line sinker and everything else he throws at you. Think people, I really don't want a vacation at this time? I'm just going to turn it down.
If I won, my family would be clawing down the door to go, if I said I won, but didn't want to use it.
Think before typing people, makes things go much smoother.
mcroa7
07-09-2008, 11:57 AM
According to the promos website the drawing won't be until after 07-31. Also the value for the trips are all under $3000 so taxes on that are nothing. Also since the OP is clearly being scammed or lying who cares.
Walt Jay
07-09-2008, 01:41 PM
Did the email involve any kind of wire transfers to Nigeria? :D
Post the email (minus personal/contact info), IMO!
Walt Jay
07-09-2008, 01:43 PM
According to the promos website the drawing won't be until after 07-31. Also the value for the trips are all under $3000 so taxes on that are nothing. Also since the OP is clearly being scammed or lying who cares.
Oddly enough, as I read this, I am drinking a bottle of Dr. Pepper, and read the label.
Game ends 11:59 PM PST 7/31/08
numbier_wun
07-09-2008, 01:55 PM
It's great to see a CAGer win one of these things. It sort of gives us hope that we might win one of these 1 in a million contests sometime. Anyways, congrats.
SaraAB
07-09-2008, 02:06 PM
Ok, I have some experience with this and I don't like to brag but I recently won a Wii from Nintendo Power. The email will likely say "potential" winner, don't let that throw you off, you have been picked as the winner. There will probably be instructions and you will have to follow up with them either responding to email, calling them or some other thing. If you have entered your phone number in the contest form look for a call from the sponsors soon. I understand that some contests are email only which makes it hard to differentiate from a scam since you have to respond to the email or else they pick someone else as the winner. They will also have to send an affidavit of some kind, and you will most likely have to get it notarized so be prepared to do that. The affy's usually come snail mail but sometimes they can come in email although its rare. There should also be email/fax information at the end of the email for someone from the sponsor, and the email should be in plain text but not necessarily. If none of this is happening then its probably a scam.
sodapopinski
07-09-2008, 02:12 PM
It's great to see a CAGer win one of these things. It sort of gives us hope that we might win one of these 1 in a million contests sometime. Anyways, congrats.
wake up.
kontonChaos
07-09-2008, 04:10 PM
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zewone
07-09-2008, 04:27 PM
So, you're not full of shit, you're just really dumb to turn down a once in a lifetime opportunity.
kontonChaos
07-09-2008, 06:32 PM
Alright, I just called them and I officially turned down the offer.
SpitFire158
07-09-2008, 06:34 PM
Alright, I just called them and I officially turned down the offer.
#-o#-o#-o
darthbudge
07-09-2008, 06:41 PM
My God. You are the most fucking stupid person ever. Why didn't you sell it? Give it to family/Friends? Why didn't you give it to someone here? My God, you must be retarded.
tiredfornow
07-09-2008, 06:45 PM
Biggest failure, ever.
Rocko
07-09-2008, 06:46 PM
Dude isn't serious.
Not after all this.
Moxio
07-09-2008, 06:47 PM
Fake.
mr ryles
07-09-2008, 06:48 PM
We need a "point and laugh at the dumb ass" smiley.
evilmregg
07-09-2008, 06:55 PM
This fills me with hate.
Chase
07-09-2008, 06:56 PM
Ban him.
Hey now, there are starving kids in other countries who would gladly eat that trip!
HypnoWaffle
07-09-2008, 07:01 PM
That email looked really unprofessional...
Pookymeister
07-09-2008, 07:10 PM
If that was all sequential, i don't think i could go away for 40+ days if i had won.
I'd prob just do Peru and Egypt =]
Maklershed
07-09-2008, 07:18 PM
fission mailed
darthbudge
07-09-2008, 07:19 PM
If that was all sequential, i don't think i could go away for 40+ days if i had won.
I'd prob just do Peru and Egypt =]
No...
You only get to go to one of those destinations.
Corporate King
07-09-2008, 07:31 PM
the guy probably turned down the deal because he found out that it was a scam and was too ashamed to admit it
Coyotezeye
07-09-2008, 07:32 PM
What a waste of a thread
Pookymeister
07-09-2008, 07:33 PM
No...
You only get to go to one of those destinations.
Ah, then Egypt.
Wouldn't go as far as saying its a once in a lifetime opportunity, but its def not the best move to pass up a free vaca.
zewone
07-09-2008, 07:35 PM
I know. I win grand prizes of contests all the time, pooky.
Everyone's always offering me 10 free days in Egypt.
kontonChaos
07-09-2008, 07:47 PM
Sorry for the trouble everyone, after much consulting Ive accepted the prize after emailing them back saying Ive changed my mind.
Gladler
07-09-2008, 09:07 PM
This thread sucks.
Seriously, What a waste of time. It always amazes me when people believe that stuff. I should stop being amazed and realize that a whole lot of people are just really stupid. If the poster of this item REALLY believed he won that prize, I certainly hope he didn't respond to that e-mail, because his computer has likely been infiltrated and all his personal information is being stolen. If there are any OTHER idiots out there, DO NOT respond to e-mails that you are not totally sure are legit.
Shady3011
07-09-2008, 09:45 PM
Okay. I admit it. I was the one that sent the fake e-mail. You're really not going to Egypt.
You're going to Antarctica!
ohram
07-09-2008, 10:04 PM
Okay. I admit it. I was the one that sent the fake e-mail. You're really not going to Egypt.
You're going to Antarctica!
Why would he want to spend ten days out on the open water?
Shady3011
07-09-2008, 10:08 PM
Why would he want to spend ten days out on the open water?
I hear they have penguins or some other poo poo Americans just adore for no good reason.
Leggo
07-10-2008, 03:37 AM
Hey now, there are starving kids in other countries who would gladly eat that trip!
Actually, starving kids are the primary tourist attraction at all of those locations. Well, except for Egypt, people go there mainly to see the pyramids, which are impressive because of how much work and intelligence went into constructing them without modern tools. Anyone can make starving kids.
integralsmatic
07-10-2008, 03:58 AM
what a letdown for a thread.
its now going to be
pics of your trip or GTFO.
sendme
07-10-2008, 05:32 AM
If this is true then like someone else said you chance are would not have had to go when they told you to go. I have never won a trip some place but from what I have always read or heard you can pick any time in that year. So it is not like they say you have to go on the 23rd or August or you dont go.
lucao
07-10-2008, 08:32 AM
You are not a true cag if you wont accept free shit.
Walt Jay
07-10-2008, 11:45 AM
Sorry for the trouble everyone, after much consulting Ive accepted the prize after emailing them back saying Ive changed my mind.
Better hope they didn't move onto the next person.
Now, we will expect a Flickr page filled with pictures from this trip! :bomb:
ryoga79
07-10-2008, 12:17 PM
When I won the grand prize in the Virtua Fighter 5 contest, I got a random email that looked like a scam too. It was legit though.
You better go on this trip and freakin enjoy it, lest you angry the CAG community. lol
Xfactor19990
07-10-2008, 02:00 PM
dude wtf??? Go!! lol its a rare opportunity go now, or give it to me!
Arakias
07-10-2008, 02:23 PM
He says he rejected it but then somehow got it back when he changed his mind and emailed them back.
Also, antarctica is a landmass, there isnt just water there to float on, yet...
packerfan10
07-10-2008, 03:22 PM
I wouldnt have took the trip as well. I lost my job due to the buget cuts and I didnt make much so the taxes wouldnt have been cool to pay.
kontonChaos
07-10-2008, 07:09 PM
I will make another thread when the forms arrive and I will take a photo of the
tickets when they also arrive.
Agrippan
07-10-2008, 10:15 PM
Congrats man, glad to see that you ended up deciding to take the trip. Make sure to keep a CAG blog with pics!
Gladler
07-10-2008, 11:43 PM
I will make another thread when the forms arrive and I will take a photo of the
tickets when they also arrive.
GIve those tickets to ME! You've made us all upset. The least you could do is make ONE person happy. And why did you change your mind?
oasisboy
07-11-2008, 12:32 AM
I will make another thread when the forms arrive and I will take a photo of the
tickets when they also arrive.
Please don't make a thread in this section, please!!! :roll:
crushtopher
07-11-2008, 12:45 AM
Why the fuck would you turn it down? "I don't want to go on a vacation right now" awww...you poor baby, must be tough to win a free trip and NOT want a vacation. Take it and enjoy it...
Gladler
07-11-2008, 02:00 AM
Maybe he's the poor little rich boy.....
the_punisher
07-11-2008, 03:38 PM
Vacation? phhhhhh
My vacation is right here playing Ticket to Ride on XBLA....
*runs away in shame*
Blade
07-11-2008, 05:34 PM
I agree with the tags. Please, don't just give it away or trade it. Egypt is an awesome place.