Does anyone else feel a bit of a loss on this one?
Never won, but there was always that chance....
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Does anyone else feel a bit of a loss on this one?
Never won, but there was always that chance....
I too never won one, but they'll be sorely missed, that's for sure.
There were of course some that I never entered due to not having any interest in the prize anyway.
:hexlub:
Oh yeah, I never entered ones that I wouldn't have use for, and always said IF I won something and that prize was replacing something then that old bit of kit would go back out here, pay it forward and all that...
I entered most but never won a thing so I just gave up. I have no luck with things like this.
I won a GPU (7770) in 2012, I just looked up the email where I told Dave I'd kiss him...
I remember a prize draw at an HP press event at Comdex and, as I was sitting next to the Marketing Director, I said "I never win anything at these events".
Guess who's name was drawn for first prize, about 5 seconds later. Yup. :embarrassed:
You should have seen his grin. ;)
I never won any of the regular comps, but I was one of the lucky recipients of those swish BenQ W1210ST projectors.
My 'luck' hasn't always been so great. When the lottery first started, a guy I knew wrote one of those 'predict the numbers' buts of lottery software. Yes, I know. I did a lot of stats at university as part of an economics degree, and predicting lottery numbers? Uh huh. Riiiiiight!
So he gave me a copy to play with. The idea was you put each week's numbers in and it tells you what to buy next week. So for a couple of months, I did. First week, a 4-number win. £143, IIRC. Not too shabby for £2 in tickets.
Roll forward a couple of months (10 weeks, I think), and I had a three week trip to the USA. When I got back, I thought "What the hell" and put the numbers for the first week I was away in. Nothing. I put the second week's numbers in. Nowt. I put the third week in, and ....
I could not believe what it did.
These were historical, of course, as it was done when I got back. So, the draw was over. But, had I been here, well, I had been sticking a couple of quid on each week.
It only went and predicted the correct six numbers for the following week, didn't it?
Yes, I know it can't. It just faffing did. A £6.7m jackpot.
And I wasn't here to have put the £2 on.
It makes me want to cry even now.
There will be a competition posted at "the new place" on Monday, according to a social media posting.
Some kind of Radeon card.
Certainly looks AMD related, some sort of Ryzen and Radeon bundle perhaps...
Not sure you need to call it "the new place" though, we're not at OcUK here where you cant mention anyone that sells the same things that they do...
As far as I know, I never won any of the competitions, although could have won but not been contactable as for the last few years I realised I wasn't receiving any emails from competitions@hexus to my gmail account. Never got to the bottom of why, but switched to an outlook.com account recently and that seemed to sort it. Of course there are no more competitions anyway now, but Hexus certainly had some great prizes over the years.