HP partnered with Buzzcorps to do the 31 Days of dragon giveaway during May and early June. They found 31 sites and told them to give away the dragon (a 5,000 dollar laptop) anyway they saw fit. One of those sites was Windowsconnected.com, and they told people they needed to promote the site as best as they could. Well tons of people entered and the winner was William Ragan (a.k.a Zane Savage). Heres his video he submitted for the giveaway:
Awesome video Zane, and touching story:
...At work I'm allowed to be on the computer all night long, and I currently have a laptop that is inadequate for what I need to do. So I really need to Win this dragon Computer...I really really need it
Just how much did he need it? Just enough to stick it for sale on ebay the day it came in.
Yep he really needed that laptop. I'm not sure how much he sold it for, but lets assume he sold it for 5000 (about what the thing is worth), total that with the 5,000 Buzzcorps was going to give him to off set any taxes he'd have to pay, and zane made out with 10K. I was one of those people who entered some of the contests, and I really woud have used the dragon if I had won. Not turn around and sell it on Ebay. So Zane if you read this, care to explain why you lied about what you would do with it?
(I should also make it clear that zane was probably not the only person to do something like this)
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