Yes, I was in Chicago for the annual Hostingcon conference and one of the big talks for this event was a lottery with a Harley Davidson valued at over $12,000 as the first prize. The point of it all was to show that all of us hosting geeks also could be cool (sigh…).
Anyways, the companies responsible for this competition was Gawkwire, DesignVAR, Host4Yourself, BobCares, The Cloud Talk, CRE Loaded and SeeksAdmin. And I can tell you that there were many wishing to win that bike, including yours truly, and the expectations were running high. What should have been a fun and joyful competition ended up as somewhat of a … In lack of better words – it ended up as somewhat of a scam! You see, once they had a winner it turned out that he only had 1 chance in 250 to win the bike.
I can promise all of you that weren’t there – the mood quickly changed among all involved and in particular among all of us who entered the “competition”, or scam if you so will. It simply felt as cheap trick to get attention and what could, and should, have been good attention for the responsible companies turned out to be nothing else than a fiasco. All wasn’t good in the hood at HostingCon 2008. Rough times in the web hosting industry, 
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3 Responses to “A Scam Was in the Air”
Tris Pulford Says:
August 7th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Hello
I would just like to note that we at Seeksadmin did not know that this would not be won. Neither did any of the other sponsers. Only PingZine knew the rules of the competition. We are sorry that it was not won, as that would be the much prefered outcome in our eyes
Once agian sorry
Kind Regards
Tris Pulford
Seeksadmin CTO
Seeksadmin Blog Says:
August 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Ping!Zine’s Motorcycle Giveaway…
For those of you that visited Hostingcon 2008 I’m quite sure you are already aware of the motorcycle giveaway. For everyone else, we here at SeeksAdmin liked the idea of giving away the opportunity to win a great big ticket item at Hostingcon an…
Steven Clarke Says:
August 7th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I’d like to say sorry to you and any of your readers/visitors that feel as if they were scammed. This was by no means the intention of SeeksAdmin (and while I can’t speak for PZ I’m sure not theirs either.) The rules were there, but I guess just not made clear enough.
Entry was free if that is any kind of consolation.