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« Reply #100 on: Wed, 01 August 2012, 14:38:17 »
This has now ended. Since it's our anniversary today we will start looking at all the entries tomorrow :).

Thanks to everyone that entered and showed interest!

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Re: Glissant's bonanza extravaganza! ENDED.
« Reply #101 on: Wed, 01 August 2012, 14:46:08 »
Good luck all!

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« Reply #102 on: Wed, 01 August 2012, 14:55:17 »
And I almost forgot!
I got something else in the mail today that I will be adding to the giveaway!


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« Reply #103 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 00:25:24 »
Well, I couldn't stay away until tomorrow, so we have had a look at all the entries. We will give the people that have multiple entries until tomorrow some time to pick ONE entry and make it clear that it's your entry.
Private message me if you had multiple entries. If you do not do this, you won't be in the running for any of the prizes. We gave ample of warnings throughout the giveaway :).

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Re: Glissant's bonanza extravaganza! ENDED.
« Reply #104 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 15:17:01 »
I just got rid of all my double entries, and my post on DT just to make sure.

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Re: Glissant's bonanza extravaganza! ENDED.
« Reply #105 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 15:20:07 »
What do you consider multiple entries? I have one keyboard entered but I have 3 pictures of it. Do I need to choose just one picture?
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Re: Glissant's bonanza extravaganza! ENDED.
« Reply #106 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 15:26:51 »
I'm pretty sure that's okay.
I had a picture of before my plate mount mod, and after on both forums. I got rid of all my pics except for a pic of my plate mod here.

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« Reply #107 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 15:37:06 »
The_Beast, your entry clearly indicates the same board, keycaps and wrist rest in all pictures, so it's perfectly fine :) .

It's just the people that had different layouts, different keyboards entirely and different mods that need to choose one of their entries. There aren't too many of them, but I would like not to have to remove anyone simply because they didn't follow the simply guidelines.

We have around 60 entries we need to look through, so it will take a little bit of time before we get the winners announces.

If you have multiple entries, and you don't choose one by the time we get back from dinner, we will discard your entry and you will not be in the giveaway.
I hate being a stickler, but I can't flip flop on what I've been saying since day one :) .

And besides, this is my giveaway  :P .

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Re: Glissant's bonanza extravaganza! ENDED.
« Reply #108 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 20:09:48 »
The anxiety... :(


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Re: Glissant's bonanza extravaganza! ENDED.
« Reply #109 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 20:29:20 »
magicmeatball, i dont know why, but that is freaking me the hell out lol.  im expecting cookie monster to turn to me and just stare...
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Re: Glissant's bonanza extravaganza! ENDED.
« Reply #110 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 20:32:15 »
So, we have the winners.. among all the entrants :))

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Re: Glissant's bonanza extravaganza! ENDED.
« Reply #111 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 20:38:19 »
Happy Anniversary man.

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« Reply #112 on: Thu, 02 August 2012, 21:31:08 »
Gotta agree with daxx. that is one creepy ass .gif o.o

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« Reply #113 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 00:35:04 »
Winners announced!


Thanks to everyone that submitted an entry :D.

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« Reply #114 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 00:42:56 »
Wow thanks just for the honorable mention, congrats to all who won ;D
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« Reply #115 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 00:51:17 »
Congratulation all :D


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« Reply #116 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 01:54:19 »
Thanks for the giveaway,
I never thought I would win anything, I submitted a photo just for fun;)
And now it appears it really was fun.
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« Reply #117 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 01:55:38 »
gogo ergo dox!
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« Reply #118 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 02:12:15 »
All winners and honorable mentions have been contacted :).

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« Reply #119 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 02:30:56 »
overseas shipping for keyboards will only have to pay half, i'll cover the other half

as i promised that before GH went down.
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« Reply #120 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 02:44:42 »
overseas shipping for keyboards will only have to pay half, i'll cover the other half

Thanks demik, this changes things a huge deal!
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« Reply #121 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 02:48:28 »
Added that info to the first post just in case :). Thanks, demik. You are a champ!

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« Reply #122 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 05:01:52 »
Congratulations to all winners and honourable mentions!

Some fantastic keyboards and key caps in there.
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« Reply #123 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 07:19:42 »
Wow!  I just want to thank Glissant and his wife for all the time and work they put into this givaway and especilly for their generosity.  Thanks to all the others who donated all the awesome prizes.  This community truely has some great people.  Congratulations to Dox and everyone else who posted pictures of their awesome keyboards and to Mrinterface for that switch sample bag.  How cool is that!

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« Reply #124 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 07:24:48 »
Awesome giveaway!
Thanks Glissant and your wife!

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« Reply #125 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 10:29:30 »
Congrats to all the winners =)

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« Reply #126 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 10:35:05 »
Congrats to the winners! You're awesome for doing this, Glissant!

I will be winning the next one!  :P



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« Reply #127 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 11:23:47 »
Awesome :D!! I took the Access IS.

Thanks a lot Glissant and everyone!
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« Reply #128 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 11:24:33 »
Now that I've had some sleep I have to say this: There were just too many awesome entries. We had a really hard time picking ones that we both liked. That's also why we are sending out gifts to 9 honorable mentions as well as the winners!

Next time I hope to get over 100 entries :D ! (we got a little over 60 entries in total this time)

Thanks again for entering, and please don't hesitate to do a little dance when you see this thread and all the winners

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« Reply #129 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 11:25:39 »
Now that I've had some sleep I have to say this: There were just too many awesome entries. We had a really hard time picking ones that we both liked. That's also why we are sending out gifts to 9 honorable mentions as well as the winners!

Next time I hope to get over 100 entries :D ! (we got a little over 60 entries in total this time)

Thanks again for entering, and please don't hesitate to do a little dance when you see this thread and all the winners

I will donate to the giveaways on the next one :)

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Re: Glissant's giveaway! WINNERS ANNOUNCED INSIDE.
« Reply #130 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 11:36:13 »
Now that I've had some sleep I have to say this: There were just too many awesome entries. We had a really hard time picking ones that we both liked. That's also why we are sending out gifts to 9 honorable mentions as well as the winners!

Next time I hope to get over 100 entries :D ! (we got a little over 60 entries in total this time)

Thanks again for entering, and please don't hesitate to do a little dance when you see this thread and all the winners

I will donate to the giveaways on the next one :)

I'll try to donate on the next one too ;D
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« Reply #131 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 11:48:43 »
<-- {does a little dance}

Thanks, Glissant! Awesome of you to do this, really.
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« Reply #132 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 12:43:41 »
OT: Every time I see a post by you Beast, I imagine you actually being pinkie pie, chillin at a desk typing with shades on.

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« Reply #133 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 12:47:12 »
OT: Every time I see a post by you Beast, I imagine you actually being pinkie pie, chillin at a desk typing with shades on.

Typing with hooves is hard, but I manage ^__^
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« Reply #134 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 15:33:47 »
That **** is just weird man.

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« Reply #135 on: Fri, 03 August 2012, 15:35:44 »
OT: Every time I see a post by you Beast, I imagine you actually being pinkie pie, chillin at a desk typing with shades on.

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« Reply #136 on: Sat, 04 August 2012, 22:54:06 »
Still waiting for a few winners to get back to me. Will post with updates when I can.

I might cancel the honorable mentions that don't get back to me if it takes too long :).
Please get back to me about your address if you haven't already.
« Last Edit: Sat, 04 August 2012, 23:05:45 by Glissant »

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« Reply #137 on: Mon, 06 August 2012, 02:05:20 »
Awesome :D!! I took the Access IS.

Thanks a lot Glissant and everyone!

I took the Siig minitouch, so Half-saint gets the M1.
Thanks Glissant, the giveaway was a great idea!
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« Reply #138 on: Mon, 06 August 2012, 16:58:05 »
I'm only waiting for one person to get back to me before I can start shipping stuff out. I am also still waiting to receive the mint gum green skull from net2522, so that will ship out as soon as I get it.

I am waiting for Half-Saint to get back to me. Anybody have him on speed dial?
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« Reply #139 on: Mon, 06 August 2012, 18:29:34 »
Gratz to the winners!!!
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« Reply #140 on: Mon, 06 August 2012, 18:44:01 »
Hope soon I'll be able to use my ErgoDox for an entry :D

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« Reply #141 on: Tue, 07 August 2012, 00:27:01 »
Sending some of these to the honorable mentions too :).
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« Reply #142 on: Fri, 10 August 2012, 00:39:53 »

Finally got the honorable mentions packed and ready to go.

Only able to ship to jdcarpe out of the top three winners at the moment as I am still waiting for the ragnarok tsangan kit for megnin's prize.
I also have to wait for the skull from net2522, but that should hopefully come soon.

I hope people will post what they get in the mail :). I didn't send any special message with the packages. In retrospect I guess I should have so you would know what you got, but my Philly address is on there, so that should make it a little more clear.
« Last Edit: Mon, 13 August 2012, 02:32:11 by Glissant »

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« Reply #143 on: Wed, 15 August 2012, 03:23:54 »
One of the honorable mentions posted a picture of what he got.
Check it out here http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/y7x0v/glissant1_and_wifes_prize_for_dtgh_best_mods/?sort=confidence

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« Reply #144 on: Wed, 15 August 2012, 14:48:16 »
Thank you for the GEEKHACK key Glissant.
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« Reply #145 on: Wed, 15 August 2012, 16:14:08 »
Glad you got them :) Hope you enjoyed the little drawing my wife made for you.

But didn't you like getting the thirteen other keycaps? I guess I should have thought about who would get what in the honorable mentions, but I just picked a handful of things and put them in the envelopes.

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« Reply #146 on: Wed, 15 August 2012, 16:31:58 »
Haven't forgotten! Just been busy and broke to ship out the boards.
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« Reply #147 on: Wed, 15 August 2012, 16:34:11 »
Mine's the one that says YAY on it :3

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« Reply #148 on: Wed, 15 August 2012, 17:50:02 »
Thanks for the caps, I would have been happy with just one or two. Also thank your wife for a the neat drawing on the package seal :D



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« Reply #149 on: Wed, 15 August 2012, 18:29:07 »
Thanks very much, Glissant!

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