xpp - event in philly - What a (bad) experience

[beekman]

To sum up:

1) drove from queens, NY to PA at 1:00am

2) got there at 4:00am with huge crowd already there

3) AMD marketting guy was annoying

4) marketting girls were only decent

5) all I got was a t-shirt

6) 1000 people showed up

7) got lost in new jersey

8) hit sicko traffic on lincoln tunnel

9) I am going to be exhausted this week for nothing

also the marketting dude did some off-color bin laden comments that were offensive.


now I am at work, with no sleep, I think I will die today.

 

[SaltBoy]

Kinda curious, how many boards+chips+hsf did they give away?

 

[beekman]

gave away 200 boxes of all the stuff.

Anybody else go home lucky?

 

[loup garou]

You woke up at 1 am and drove 3 hours from Queens to Philly just to (maybe) get a processor & motherboard for free?

Damn, you're a hardcore geek.

 

[Bozo Galora]

suggest you go to 690 post thd in hot deals

 

[Bozo Galora]

Seattle 1

Seattle 2

Seattle 3

 

[phatcow]

waaaaaah.. nothing cool comes to hawaii

 

[glenn1]

not me... i went, and all i got was a t-shirt

And i do have a bit of a bone to pick with AMD, why they didn't make the prizes "one per household" is utterly beyond me. There were entire families which showed up, at least one family ended winning two or three boards :|

 

[LordJezo]

My buddy down the hall won this morning. Lucky jerk.. he now has a nice AMD chip and a motherboard sitting in his room waiting to get installed...

 

[somethingwitty]

went, didnt win, didnt even snag a t-shirt. sucked (for me)

 

[worth]

Bah, just go buy an Athlon XP from Fry's.

 

[DDad]

Ummm, I don't think they have a Fry's on the East coast (midwest either....)

 

[Gillbot]

did they give them away at the event, or did they do a drawimg type thing?