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    Hexus Competitions

    Does anyone else feel a bit of a loss on this one?
    Never won, but there was always that chance....

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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    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.


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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    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...

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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    I entered most but never won a thing so I just gave up. I have no luck with things like this.
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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    I won a GPU (7770) in 2012, I just looked up the email where I told Dave I'd kiss him...

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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    Quote Originally Posted by Rob_B View Post
    I won a GPU (7770) in 2012, I just looked up the email where I told Dave I'd kiss him...
    he stilll wakes up in a cold sweat about that email

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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    Quote Originally Posted by Kovoet View Post
    .... I have no luck with things like this.
    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.

    You should have seen his grin.
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    I never won any of the regular comps, but I was one of the lucky recipients of those swish BenQ W1210ST projectors.

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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    Quote Originally Posted by Spreadie View Post
    I never won any of the regular comps, but I was one of the lucky recipients of those swish BenQ W1210ST projectors.
    Swap you for a 7770?....

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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen999 View Post
    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.

    You should have seen his grin.
    LOL I bet. Seriously I have zero luck in 60 years I have won zero in anything like these things.
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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    Quote Originally Posted by Kovoet View Post
    LOL I bet. Seriously I have zero luck in 60 years I have won zero in anything like these things.
    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.
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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen999 View Post
    It makes me want to cry even now.
    You didn't have it, so you didn't lose it, plus, if you had won it and gone out and bought a flashy sports car and ended up in a ditch upside down on fire, or taken a holiday somewhere and died of food poisoning...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen999 View Post
    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.
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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    There will be a competition posted at "the new place" on Monday, according to a social media posting.
    Some kind of Radeon card.
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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    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...

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    Re: Hexus Competitions

    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.

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