Missed out on a chance of a lifetime

[Yuhi]

look what came in the mail... which I've found like 10 days after the due date... Currently suffer from severe depression after reading this... :bang::bang::bang:

12 April
Dear Jeremy,
Leica Camera has got very good news for you: you are the lucky winner of the Leica quiz on Facebook. You guess the right amount of lenses.

That means we give you the exclusive opportunity to attent at our event in Berlin on May 10th (including flight, hotel, etc.) and contribute to our blog.

Please get in touch with us ASAP (jean-jacques.viau@leica-camera.com / cc: rene.winklbauer@leica-camera.com) so we can clarify with you all details.

We're looking forward hearing from you soon!

JJ and René
Leica Internet Team


13 April

Hello Jeremy,

you might think this is a scam. But I can totally confirm that I am an actual employee of Leica Camera, how has the authorization to award you with our price - provided you get in touch with us!!!

since we have to arrange all details, we can only give you a deadline unitl monday, april 16th, 9.00 a.m. (GMT).

please, please mail us: jean-jacques.viau@leica-camera.com / cc: rene.winklbauer@leica-camera.com
- you won't regret it [;-)]

 

[rxmd]

write to them anyway, see what happens.

 

[jippiejee]

Holy moses... 🙁 what made you miss that email?

 

[Yuhi]

its not an email... they fb messaged me... but since its from a 3rd party sender (not my friend) it went into the "other" tab (which i don't check since most of it is spam)...

 

[Yuhi]

I did write to them and this was what I got (the prize has since been sent to another person):

Jeremy,

We apologize for the mix-up with the contest and we understand your frustration. We really wanted to have you as a guest! We did try very hard to get in touch with you (we could not send you a direct message as Leica camera at the time, but instead, Rene contacted you from him personal account two different times, we tried to tag you in photos and comments, but possibly due to privacy settings, we could not, and we also tried to contact you through your website, but had no luck that way either).

Thank you for contacting us about this issue and again, we are so sorry that it did not work out!

Sincerely,

Leica Internet Team

 

[rxmd]

Too bad, really!

Wouldn't call it the chance of a lifetime though.

 

[Nigel Meaby]

Quite a few spelling mistakes in those messages so I'd be slightly doubtful of the validity. However did you enter a competition? I must have missed that one on the Leica page on Facebook.

 

[jippiejee]

Quite a few spelling mistakes in those messages so I'd be slightly doubtful of the validity.

True. But if really a scam, wouldn't they have pushed it forward again disregarding the deadline?

 

[Yuhi]

The quiz was real you can find it here. Its was on the official Leica facebook page http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f....80684602734.94440.75684997734&type=3&theater

I just mashed a number in and did not care about the rest because i didn't know that i would've won. I was the 2nd person to guessed the correct amount of lens element in the jar. the first person was inactive so they tried their best to contact me but failed... So they gave the prize to the 3rd person who correctly guessed it.

 

[Nigel Meaby]

Apologies for my skepticism! Wow that's too bad. :bang:

 

[Yuhi]

I understand... but going to Berlin for the potential announcement of the M10 for a student like me would be a chance of a lifetime!

p.s. I really did this >>>:bang::bang::bang:

 

[Griffin]

So how many lenses were in the jar?

 

[Yuhi]

according to them, its 127 🙄

 

[huntjump]

Sorry to hear this. With all the typos, it sure did look fishy...but hey I don't speak German so what can i say?

Anyway, again sorry about the bad luck

 

[KoNickon]

The prize was to go to Berlin for an event on May 10? Well, I don't know how much of an attraction that is, really -- unless they're going to give you an M10 also....

 

[ark8012]

BIG sorry to hear this.

 

[andersju]

The prize was to go to Berlin for an event on May 10? Well, I don't know how much of an attraction that is, really -- unless they're going to give you an M10 also....

If you live on the other side of the world, going to Europe (and Berlin, at that - one of the most interesting cities around here) can be Big Thing in itself.

Anyway. That's a bummer, man. 🙁 You're not the only one who's been bitten by the "Other" tab. I wasn't even aware of its existence until months after people had sent personal messages that I should have replied to..

 

[jsrockit]

That sucks... free vacation missed. Sorry to hear that.

 

[carpark]

Sorry to hear that. I probably would have been sceptical as well.

If you need to find the others tab it is here http://www.facebook.com/messages and I too have found messages from old freinds months after they were sent.

 

[coelacanth]

So so sorry to hear this. It really is just too bad. Sigh. I'd do :bang: for real too if that happened to me.

I hope this somehow "credit back" in your future "luck usage"...