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Connected Internet: Connected Internet $100 Birthday Giveaway

  • Everton · 2 years ago
    feel free to post 3000 entries! and don't forget pennies and cents ;-)

    I'm going to stipulate dollars so I'm rounding your entry up to $4800 as I can't be bothered to use my calculator
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    lol Melvyn -your spamming got picked up by the spam filters and I pressed the wrong button. Sorry!
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    Now Everton, you can't have it both ways!
    Either "feel free to post 3000 entries" or I'm a "spammer". You pick, I said I'd limit myself 'cos I didn't want to take the mick. You're the one that said "let 'er rip" and since $100 of Amazon vouchers would be a nice way to start April (the 1st is actually my birthday - no jokes I've heard them all) I followed your instructions.
    Should I continue "spamming"? Can you add me to a safe list?
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    you can continue spamming if you want. Whenever I go into my spam folder I just go into auto-pilot mode so I clicked delete rather than recover without thinking.

    I'll pay more attention next time. It'll be interesting to see how many entries you make before you get bored ;-) You must really need that $100!
  • Martin · 2 years ago
    I'd say $4811,34 if the rev of the 6 month ciao ad will be added fully to march, if not I'd say $3192,34. :)
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    I'm difficult to bore ;)

    BTW, happy birthday.

    $4,109
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    A day with meetings and only silly short breaks between them. How to fill my time?

    $4,300
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    $4,444 is a nice number
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    Many happy returns.

    $4,642
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    $4,781
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    Does persistence pay off? We'll soon find out....

    $4,996
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    When is the deadline for this contest?

    $5,099
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    Never thought of myself as a spammer before.

    $4,004 - a symetrical number
  • Daniel · 2 years ago
    $4560
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    I meant palindrome. Like this one:

    $4,334
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    What would you do with $100 if you won?

    An Olympus Camedia C-50 5MP Digital Camera perhaps?
    http://www.amazon.com/Olympus-Camedia-Digital-O...

    $4,555
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    Are these messages even making it to the comment thread?

    $4,855
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    I feel like the Marvin 404 bot

    $3,755
  • Ryan Wagner · 2 years ago
    I'll go ahead and guess $3756.23
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    Ryan you need to stop sharing a PC with Ashley!
  • Vincent Chow · 2 years ago
    It isn't really your birthday right? It's your blog's. Well, for the contest - I will go for $4125.54 :)
  • SoKoOLz · 2 years ago
    5,500$ !!
  • Martin · 2 years ago
    I would suggest only one vote for every voter :P
  • Vinod Ponmanadiyil · 2 years ago
    $ 4100.12 for you!
  • Enblogopedia · 2 years ago
    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    I`ll say 5170.5 :D
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    "Update: Please enter a guess to reduce the chances of Melvyn winning who’s created a whole new problem for my spam filters to deal with!"

    Ouch! Man, you're taking this hard. Wasn't I (a) the first commenter and (b) the guy that pointed out that allowing "as many entries as you like" was a sure fire way of inviting this kind of response?

    Furthermore, in my first post (which isn't showing right now - did you delete it to make me look bad?) I said that I'd limit myself to a few entries and you immediately replied with "feel free to post 3000 entries".

    It really feels like you're trying to have your cake and eat it.

    $5,123
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    $3,952

    Just found an interesting pricing error on Amazon. Turns out that this $100 wouldn't buy me Doctor Zhivago on DVD:

    http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Zhivago-Sam-MacLin...
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    $5,200

    (This would be a very good month for your blog)
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    If you earned this guess you could afford a better spam filter (one that allows visitors to follow your advice of "feel free to post 3000 entries" without getting flagged):

    $5,439
  • Ashley · 2 years ago
    My guess is..$4,123.67
    Oh, and we're not sharing a computer.. we're sharing an IP Address :)
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    I'm not going to recover anymore from the spam folder Melvyn as it got boring after about the 3rd entry. You're just embarassing yourself now
  • Melvyn Mildiner · 2 years ago
    I honestly don't understand the abuse. I wasn't trying to spam and I posted a message as soon as I saw your latest post to say that I'd limit myself to a few entried. I was immediately welcomed and encouraged to "feel free to post 3000 entries". Happy birthday Connected Internet and I wish everyone good luck.

    I'm enjoying the blog and I enjoyed the recent "Friday Fun: Hallucinogenic Animation" post.

    Once again, good luck to all and thanks Everton for running this giveaway.
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    No abuse Melvyn, just saying that you've proved your point but all your posts are just going to discourage other people from entering
  • tash · 2 years ago
    I'm gonna go with $4,700.00. Unless I can guess something like "more than $100"
  • Mosey · 2 years ago
    $5092.26 :)
  • Mosey · 2 years ago
    $5894.83 This is my second guess :)

    Happy Birthday to Connected!
  • sinner · 2 years ago
    i guess it would be about $ 4102.02 ...happy bithday ..keep up the good work
  • Mark from Bloglyne.com · 2 years ago
    Going to guess 5200
  • Enblogopedia · 2 years ago
    another guess.... 5300$ ;)
  • Mr.Byte · 2 years ago
    Now, don't tell me that you got something around $7100, like how John Chow got last month...Ok I think that's a little too much as his traffic is 4 times more than yours (yeah, I checked with alexa).... So, my suggestion would be $5500...
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    Ok I think that’s a little too much as his traffic is 4 times more than yours (yeah, I checked with alexa)…

    Actually the numbers quoted by Alexa for my site and John's are a classic example of how bad Alexa's stats are as according to Google Analytics John's site had 266K page views in Feb whereas my site had 360k - 100K more!

    I think this is because John has done something to improve his rating or more of his users have the toolbar installed or something. It's on my list of things to investigate as unfortunately many advertisers do exactly the same thing as you.
  • Sanketh · 2 years ago
    8428
  • knupNET · 2 years ago
    Why not! Great idea. $5444 for March.
  • Mark from Bloglyne.com · 2 years ago
    Is this contest still going on? If so, I'm going to add an additional guess of 8429
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    competition will run until the end of the month. Still plenty to play for as no one has got within $100 of the current expected amount yet!
  • Madhur Kapoor · 2 years ago
    I will go for $3985.
  • Alpesh Nakar · 2 years ago
    Happy Birthday
    4689.21
  • Alpesh Nakar · 2 years ago
    5158.13
  • Alpesh Nakar · 2 years ago
    4220.29
  • Mosey · 2 years ago
    7032.45 (because...)
  • Enblogopedia · 2 years ago
    ................................7150$ ?! :D
  • Mosey · 2 years ago
    5349.24
    9067.80
    4368.29
    6756.23
    8475.45
    7243.21

    I think that's enough guesses in one post :) thanks for creating this competition in the first place! :D
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    play fair mosey-I'm not counting any of those entries
  • Melvyn · 2 years ago
    So have you now done the maths? How much was it?
  • Andy · 2 years ago
    Hopefully I am not too late! :) My guess is 4333.33!
  • Mosey · 2 years ago
    Aww, fair enough :) I thought I'd try not to do a .... and create a problem for your spam filter.
  • Mark from Bloglyne.com · 2 years ago
    @Sanketh - We were dang close, eh?
  • Sanketh · 2 years ago
    Yes mark... very close.
    And you won.. congrats!
  • j · 2 years ago
    id guess $1256.23
  • j · 2 years ago
    2543.48
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    you're only 6 months late j!

    If it's any consolation, you wouldn't have won ;-)