bclark 0 #1 November 1, 2011 Hey all, My girlfriend of 5 years and I recently got engaged. She is in a contest (currently in first place out of several hundred). Grand prize is $5000 toward a wedding dress and $3500 toward a tuxedo. It is vote based, and ends at midnite 11/2/2011. You can vote once per 24 hours. If any of you out there would be willing to help out a retired tandem guy / jump pilot and his girl: http://bit.ly/oFej1R This should take you to the contest page. All you have to do is "like" Gilt City, go to the contest and vote for Nathalie! Thanks Brian and Nathalie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bclark 0 #2 November 3, 2011 One more hour left in this contest. My fiancee is in first place because she has busted her ass the last week. 10-12 hour days farming votes from people on her college campus. She is now in danger of being overtaken by people using paid online voting sites. (which are unfortunately being allowed, we have recently learned). So have a heart, take a second out of your dz.drama and help out someone who really needs it. Blues, Brian Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #3 November 3, 2011 Quote She is now in danger of being overtaken by people using paid online voting sites. (which are unfortunately being allowed, we have recently learned). Brian, for the record I did try and vote - but it seems you need a Facebook account, which I don't have. Still, I wish you and your fiancee luck. And I'm deliberately not posting until after the competition closes because I wouldn't want my griping to put people off! However this whole online voting thing is such a cynical scam that I usually just steer clear of it. The 'best' person will never win - rather the one who manages to mobilise the biggest army of voters, real or scripted. Meanwhile the site hosting the 'competition' collects large numbers of new user registrations, and paid online voting sites - which I didn't know existed until you mentioned them, but make perfect sense - rake in money for nothing. Sorry for the rant, but I think this is why these threads often don't get much of a response - there are too many of them, there's often more involved than just clicking on a button, and the biggest 'winners' are the website owners. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bclark 0 #4 November 4, 2011 Yes Mike, This is exactly what happened. I feel sad for her, as she is young and enthusiastic. She put nearly a week of her life into this. Couple that won used vote generator and got 600 votes in the last hour of the competition. On the plus side, she stayed honest. She met tons of friends networking on her college campus. Sad that so many people are lazy and dishonest these days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shah269 0 #5 November 4, 2011 ah shit! no way! bro.... i feel bad! :-( sorry brother!Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
