I'm a grand prize winner !!!!

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jdini76

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Originally posted by: AznMaverick
you're going to be paying for it at the end of the year when tax time comes up.

I am not sure on the amount, but you are given a limit on the amount of income gained by prizes, and awards without having to declare them for income tax.
 

Kadarin

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You sure you don't have to go somewhere and listen to a timeshare sales pitch? ;)
 

feralkid

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Originally posted by: AznMaverick
you're going to be paying for it at the end of the year when tax time comes up.





Oh, god! Someone always has to invite Captain Bringdown!


:thumbsdown:
 

BrokenVisage

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Nice work, if you're looking to sell one of those babies throw me a PM, I'm in that 1% of people who don't own an iPod. :p
 

Geekbabe

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Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Nice work, if you're looking to sell one of those babies throw me a PM, I'm in that 1% of people who don't own an iPod. :p

Lol, the funny thing is that I must have won around 150 itunes but can't win any sort of ipod to save my life.


I also won a $900 baby stroller and a babygap gift card a couple nights ago :)

other wins- gorgous fossil watch, designer PJ's, BKE perfume :)
 

torpid

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Strange prize. 6 unlimited music accounts. That's like one person going to an all-you-can-eat buffet and paying for 6 people.
 

Geekbabe

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Originally posted by: randomlinh
geezes... you must be rigging the system :p man, i'd be all over ebay... i would like to get some bills paid off soon... haha

The truth ? I don't always sleep well and entering contests is a quiet, safe way to keep myself from totally losing my mind at 3am :)
 

swtethan

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i should start entering into contests... im up late too! You now have more competition
 

jcovercash

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Wow thats awsome. If you decide to sell one off cheap LMK as my GF has been dying to get an MP3 player.

Josh
 

Aztech

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Originally posted by: TheTony
Share the love!
Congrats, luck you! I always wanna hear about the winners of such contests. I wish the people running the contests would always list the winners. Someone should interview you on TV or something...
 

EPCrew

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Congrats!

I was almost a grand prize winner once. I was entered into the Etrade You've Got Mail trading contest back in '00 (?). Going into the last week i was killing the field. With some poor advice from my mother, i sold only half of my holdings instead of cashing out the whole shabang. The market dropped a day before the last and i ended up in 4th place by $50 in my portfolio. First place prize was $10k. Second place was $5k. Third place was $2500 i think. I got a t-shirt which i wear to go to sleep at night. =(

I still hold it against her to this day. I was in college then and really didn't know any better. oh well...
 

Need4Speed

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Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Originally posted by: randomlinh
geezes... you must be rigging the system :p man, i'd be all over ebay... i would like to get some bills paid off soon... haha

The truth ? I don't always sleep well and entering contests is a quiet, safe way to keep myself from totally losing my mind at 3am :)


mmm...i could think of at least one other thing to do
 

pontifex

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geekbabe, you're the one that enters all the contests right?
didn't you give us the link at one point to a site that you used to enter them?
can you repost that again?