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THE WORST CONTEST IN THE HISTORY OF TIME: WIN SOMETHING BROKEN

posted by Grant on March 22, 2007 9:36 PM in Geek Culture

You read that right, I'm giving away the worst prize ever. A broken Nintendo WiFi Dongle.

Heh, dongle.

So here's the skinny: We had a Nintendo WiFi Dongle, it broke, we replaced it with a new one, and then I felt like popping the old one open to see what was inside. As it turns out, there were electronics on the inside.

Looking closer at it, I can tell exactly where the problem is. There's a little connector that came loose and isn't connected any more. I'm sure it's completely fixable with a little soldering or something.

But I have neither the resources nor the motivation to fix this myself. So what to do with it? Why, unload it on one of you, of course!

That's right, you can win your very own broken Nintendo WiFi Dongle. Use it with your broken DS or Wii, I guess. Or fix it, I don't care. I just don't want it any more.

In order to win this broken thing, just send me an email and do something to convince me to spend the money on a postage stamp, put this thing in an envelope, and drop it in the mail. Maybe I'll find some other crap lying around my apartment and put it in the envolope too. I'll pick an arbitrary date sometime in the future to end the contest.

Good luck.

Read More: contests , dongle , Nintendo , Wi Fi

comments (5) | permalink

poojalooba_cow says:

posted April 6, 2007 3:07 PM

Hey, it's been over two weeks. Are you going to announce a deadline for the contest?

Heh. Do you even have anyone that's "entered" the contest besides me? I've got the means to fix it, so it's just the same as getting a working WiFi connector to me.

The Geek says:

posted April 6, 2007 4:49 PM

I do have a couple entries, actually. I will probably make a decision very soon.

millhouse says:

posted April 10, 2007 2:37 AM

well there's at least one other guy who entered: me ^^

I also have the means and the time to fix it, and not like you other guys, I CAN'T buy a new one here and can't order one (they don't ship to Luxembourg)
so this is my only chance to get a WiFi connector, please have a heart and let me win ( ^ . ^ )

P.S. as I said, I live in Luxembourg, that's in Europe, so tell me if you to "seem to be unable to consider shipping to Luxembourg, Luxemboug"... man how I hate those fuckheads, they aren't able to just send someone drive the few miles from the french frontier to where I live...

poojalooba_cow says:

posted May 20, 2007 7:41 PM

*ahem* Well, it's been a month and a half... Not to be a jerk or anything, but... Has a winner been decided? Just wondering, you know...

The Geek says:

posted May 24, 2007 3:44 PM

I posted the winner a while ago:

http://weeklygeekshow.com/2007/05/worlds_worst_contest_winner.php

What say you?!

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