The Gospel According To Rhys Regifting Competition!
I never expected to win. Really I didn’t.
Jordan Cooper ran a competition on his (hilarious) Not A Pro Blog blog, the competition was “Regift & Win $500“, where to win you had to come up with the best joke relating to technology. Mine was simple, really unfunny, yet I won.
The prize – 2 Months Paid Subscription to Problogger.com forums. A prize that was won by Jordan on a competition on Erica Mueller’s blog. As well as an hour’s comedy coaching with Jordan. However, if I was to regift it, I could win $500.
So here we are, a Gospel According To Rhys Competition!
Rules
The rules are simple – simply write a comment below to enter. You get 5 further entries if you are a registered member the Gospel According To Rhys Newsletter. However, the comment must be an answer to this question:-
“What has been the worst gift you’ve ever given or received?”
The winners will be announced on my Birthday post (March 4th) in a contest organised by random.org.
The Prizes
The prizes for this contest are long & numerous:-
- 2 Free Months on the Problogger.com Forums (from Erica Mueller)
- 1 Hours Private Comedy Coaching for Bloggers (from Jordan Cooper)
- 3 Months Advertising on The Gospel According To Rhys (from me)
The Regift Element
With a massive disregard of duplicate content rules, I’ve copied this verbatim from Not a Pro Blog’s original post:-
Now, this is where the fun stuff starts happening. The contest isn’t over yet. The person that wins the above joke contest has a choice of two options:
1. Accept the prize of two months paid membership at the ProBlogger forums.
2. Regift the prize in their own blog contest and get entered into a drawing for $500 cash.
What’s the catch, you might ask? Well, here are the ground rules if you choose #2.
- You must regift the prize on your own blog within two weeks of winning.
- The winner of your contest must be given the same choice: Accept or Regift.
- That blogger must continue under these same guidelines as laid out here.
Every regifted prize winner will get one entry into a random drawing for $500 cash.
If the “chain” is broken and anyone accepts the prize outright without regifting it…
The contest is over and no one wins anything!
I will be keeping track of the prize transfers from blog to blog on the bottom of this page.
Everyone can then “play along from home” and see what happens in the course of this year.
This process of regifting will continue until December 17, 2010 (which just happens to be National Regifting Day) where all the bloggers who have participated in the regifting will have their names put into a bucket. The $500 winner will be chosen at random live on UStream that day by yours truly.
Suggested protocols for regifting participants:
On your blog contest, please include a link to this post so others entering will know the rules.
Also, please include a link of the blog you received the prize to regift. (if possible, all of them!)
Support all blogs this prize appears on. Remember, if they don’t regift it, you lose out!
Finally
Both my prize & Jordan’s Prize can be accepted or regifted if you want, it’s only the membership prize that you must regift to keep the $500 prize going.
Good luck! Any questions please leave a comment below.
Tags: competition | Comments: 6 Comments
Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
The worst gift I ever gave was a supposedly “gold” necklace that turned my girlfriends neck a dazzling shade of green.
Needless to say, I didn’t get luckily for a little while after that debacle.
I was working with a car manufacturer at the time, and a supplier decided to give me a fresh turkey on Christmas. (No longer ethical, but in those days a common and accepted practice).
As my car was being cleaned at the time, and I didn’t want the turkey sitting in the office, I got someone to put it in the boot for me.
Later that day, the first version of a top secret new model arrived, and I got the OK to take it home for the Christmas break and check it out. I made sure my own car was safely locked in the secure garage, put the keys in my pocket and headed to my new ride.
In my excitement at the new car, I forgot all about my turkey, and when I came back from a ten day holiday, I was met by a security guy at the car park entrance.
Apparently, he had been alerted to by a foul smell coming from the boot of my car between Christmas and new year, and investigated.
He found blood dripping from the boot floor and immediately called the police.
The parking area was immediately turned into a crime scene and taped off, while forensic specialists were called to get access to the car.
Not wishing to contaminate the boot area, they entered the car by breaking a front side window, then spent some time removing the rear seats to gain access to the boot that way.
When they found the turkey, they weren’t impressed.
It was the worst gift I have ever been given.
An ex went to New York for two weeks. She returned home with bags packed with all manner of new clothing and the like, from a variety of high end retailers and famous names. And in amongst all her shiny newness, there was my gift. A pair of thermal socks.
My worst gift: Dove Pro-Age manicure set.
I don’t know what’s more offensive.. that I received a gift meant for old folks, or that the person thought I would want to give myself a manicure.
Mike’s story is the best so far
Probably a pair of pirated CD’s. If you want to buy a CD or DVD to someone, buy original!