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    A fundamental Mistake

    So for a very long time on this forum I have seen a notification next to my name, naively I ignored it assuming it to be a welcome to the forum kind of message, fast forward 3 years and I decided to click on it:

    One message...

    ...'Fractal Compo - You've WON!'...

    Well balls only 2 years too late on my end (also my PC kinda died due to terrible landlord)

    So Lessons learned, don't just use the hexus website and depend on emails to tell me this kind of thing, and instead maybe become more of an active member of the community....

    As such with my extraordinarily long summer break being a Uni student and all, I guess I may be able to lend some expertise here and there (especially if anyone is a]designing CPUs in their spare time, or more likely b] doing any electrical case mods or any other electrical nonsense as that is kinda my life).

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    Re: A fundamental Mistake

    Ooh, bad luck (well, sort of ) but I hope you have found more reasons to use HEXUS than just the opportunity to enter the competitions, but as it wasn't a welcome message...

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    Re: A fundamental Mistake

    I'm fairly sure every competition I've seen mentions that "Winners will be notified by email" in the terms.

    There's also an option to turn off "receive email on private messages", so really not reading a PM isn't your fault as you'd have expected an email as per the competition terms.


    Worth a look, someone could owe you some (old ish) kit


    edit: can't tell from your post if you did actually receive an email but had no way of checking it, in which case - shame!

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    Re: A fundamental Mistake

    Quote Originally Posted by virtuo View Post
    I'm fairly sure every competition I've seen mentions that "Winners will be notified by email" in the terms.

    There's also an option to turn off "receive email on private messages", so really not reading a PM isn't your fault as you'd have expected an email as per the competition terms.


    Worth a look, someone could owe you some (old ish) kit


    edit: can't tell from your post if you did actually receive an email but had no way of checking it, in which case - shame!
    There's a distinction between forum competitions and website competitions though.

    No idea what the terms were for that comp, or indeed any current / future ones but forum-specific comps could easily have different terms.

    Oh, and bad news sir corby, but welcome back I guess

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    Re: A fundamental Mistake

    Quote Originally Posted by jim View Post
    There's a distinction between forum competitions and website competitions though.

    No idea what the terms were for that comp, or indeed any current / future ones but forum-specific comps could easily have different terms.
    I believe the Fractal giveaway in question one was a forum comp (I won a case there too), I quickly checked the T&Cs in the last NZXT Forum-only comp before posting and that states Email notifications too.

    Just a thought anyway, got to stir it up a bit before the weekend

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