◊ Boethius

I am very pleased to announce that Elitist Jerks has teamed up with Alienware and Bigfoot Networks to offer a unique contest to all our community members. Alienware, long-time stalwarts of the high-end PC market, and Bigfoot Networks, makers of the Killer NIC gaming network card, are providing you with a chance to win this lovely machine:

Aurora Value Gaming Desktop PC

• AMD® Phenom™ 9950 Black Edition Processor w/ HyperTransport and Quad Core Technology
• 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 Memory at 800MHz
• 512MB ATI® Radeon™ HD 4870 Video Card
• 250GB 7,200 RPM - 16MB cache Hard Drive
• Killer NIC™ K1 Gaming Network Card
• 7.1/5.1 Digital High-Definition Audio (8 Channel) Sound Card

The only things required are that you be a registered member of Elitist Jerks and that you complete the following form: Best Stat Buff Loot EVER – The Alienware Online Gaming PC

Please note that you may only enter once (members with multiple entries will be disqualified from winning) and this contest is only open to our members from the United States (sorry world, shipping costs and whatnot), and also make sure to read the Terms and Conditions above the submission form*. This contest will run from Tuesday, February 3rd to Tuesday, February 17th.

Thanks once again to our generous donors!








*In case you actually read those T&Cs: please pay close attention to the statement in our Privacy Policy that states, "We will not sell, trade, or rent your personally identifiable information to others outside of Elitist Jerks." Only the prize winner's qualifying data will be given to Alienware/Bigfoot to complete the shipment of the actual prize package.

 

• Fogbug

That's pretty cool. The first real PC I ever bought for myself was a low-end Alienware box

 

Rinuu

Awww I can't enter. Dell/Alienware Employees can't play. That really sucks, because that's a really nice system.

 

Trimm

My highschool graduation gift was an Alienware Area-51 GAMING LAPTOP

You can't feed a baby onion rings.

 

tetracycloide

"By entering the sweepstakes, entrants and prize winners grant Sponsor permission to use his or her name, address, email address, photograph and likeness, voice and entry for advertising, publicity or other purposes without additional consent or compensation except where prohibited by law."

That is some impressive fine print there.

My vanity is justified.

 

Twid

I agree to the fine print, but only if they let me say "Dude, you're getting a spreadsheet."

 

Tzeni

Yikes. And if 20K of EJ's 125K member base submit an entry, then the actual value of this "free" offer to you is about 10 cents (0.005% chance of winning the $1900 prize).

Of course, 20K is a bit on the high side of expected entries, since EJ never has more than about 6K members online at any one time... and once people (like me) read your post there will be even fewer people entering, thus raising the value of the offer.

Now I need to go calculate the value of my time lost to making this post instead of doing work.

 

FalseMyrmidon

I think this would go in a trinket slot.

 

diospadre

It's fairly standard for contests.

 

• Zyla

Yeah, that's not surprising in the slightest.

We don't use words like that...St. Louise is listening!

 

◊ Boethius

Actually this line was somewhat redundant as earlier they make a statement that says that the promotion, etc. only applies to the prize winner. I have removed the above statement from the T&Cs since I am collecting the information personally and will not be handing any information over to Alienware/Bigfoot except the contest winner's qualifying data.

You all have nothing to fear.

 

diospadre

I read on malganis realm forums that you are profiting off of other peoples math why should we trust you any more than alienware???

 

tetracycloide

Says the robot overlord.

My vanity is justified.

 

Tzeni

Fine, I submitted my entry for my ~10 cents of expected value. Don't you dare share my super-secret personal information, you scoundrel. *shakes fist threateningly*

 

◊ Boethius

This is a very good point. I nominate Dios as new Robot Overlord.

 

Handa

I kinda lol'd at that along with a Phenom 9950.

But great anyway, too bad I'm from Sweden.

 

• Icetro

Dios is far too busy in his current post of Serious Casual Recruitment Officer.

 

Trimm

Guys this free stuff isn't good enough for me, no thanks.

You can't feed a baby onion rings.

 

Handa

Yeah because that was really my point. If you check the other hardware along with that harddrive and knew anything about it you would know what I meant.

 

Neurosisxeno

The Hard Drive is probably just a standard SATA2 HDD, which isn't horrible, other than the obscenely small size they threw in there. The CPU is a let down for sure, but considering it would all be free? Gut the thing and sell the parts lol. In most cases with Alienware the name and case are what you're paying for. It's still a fairly powerful PC given the nice GPU and solid amount of RAM.

 

Gonkish

Dear Boe: You own.


Now fix this in my favor thanks. (Do it.)

Why Hunters suffer...
Benefactor's Bar learns you some goodness quicklike...

 

Nadal

Bah..only for US citizens.. ¬_¬

 

Guntz

I just saw this post today. Got in just in time