Yay Internets! Tonedeff—the artist who won Lollapalooza’s Last Band Standing over a year ago but never received the 10k prize package from Gibson—has received his prize. He emailed us today and wrote, “Thanks for covering the story and your support.
Gibson Screws Musician Out Of $10,000 Worth Of Equipment
By January 25, 2008
A musician named Tonedeff won the Lolapalooza Last Band Standing contest in 2006. Part of the prize package was “$10,000 worth of equipment from our friends at Gibson. (yes, believe it!).” Well, Tonedeff believed it, and he’s spent the last year and a half trying to get Gibson to make good on their promise. As Tonedeff notes on his blog, maybe he should have seen this coming when Don Pitts—Gibson’s Ambassador of Empty Promises (shown above with devil eyes)—told him, “I mean, this is kind of weird, because you know, you DON’T play the guitar or drums.”
By December 13, 2007
Pillsbury has told a New York food co-op to stop using the phrase “bake-off” because they own it. Pillsbury coined the phrase back in 1949 (according to this unverifiable web source), and then trademarked it in the early 1970s (according to another). Now you know. (Thanks to Sarah!)
Didn't Win BOBs
By November 23, 2007
Oh, by the way, we didn’t win that Deutsche-Welle Best of The Blogs contest. We got third for our category. We probably could have finished stronger if I had done another post about voting for us, but I couldn’t get excited about trying to beat a blog that was all about helping people in the deaf activist community. Come on everybody, let’s beat the deaf people! Didn’t sit right. Plus, the voting site got hacked. Oh well, there’s always the Rhode Island blog awards… [The BOBS]
UPDATE: Centex Offers New Home To Second Contest Winner
By November 8, 2007
DENVER, Nov. 8, 2007 — The Denver division of Centex Homes has offered to give a house to Veronica Baca, one of the original finalists in a disputed home give-away contest in Denver. In addition, the Company has offered to provide furnishings for the home and payment for all reasonable legal fees that Mrs. Baca has incurred.
By October 26, 2007
30,000 people will get free couches, mattresses, and other furniture if the Red Sox win the world series, thanks to a furniture store promotion back in March and April. Special Bonus: One of the worst, if not the worst, abuses of Photoshop ever perpetrated by a major network. [ABCNews]
Cycle Store Screws Up Giveaway, Now There Are Ten Winners
By September 20, 2007
A cycle shop in Mississippi accidentally gave away an ATV ten times in a row during a promotional contest, when all ten of the people who were randomly selected from over a thousand turned out to have working copies of the same key. The store’s owner still doesn’t know how it happened, but he held firm to the intent of the original promotion and gave away only one ATV, which has angered at least one non-winning winner.
Honda Dealer Sends Out Scratch-Off Tickets Where Everyone Is a Winner
By July 20, 2007
Here’s a typo you don’t see every day. A Honda dealer contracted the services of a direct mail marketing and promotions agency. The agency was supposed to send out 50,000 scratch-off tickets, one of which was the grand prize winner—entitling the customer to a cash prize of $1,000.
Send Us Your Customer Service Calls And We'll Mock Their Flaws
By April 26, 2007
Call centers of the world, we’re gunning for your asses.
Fill Out Our Survey, Get Chance To Win iPod Shuffle
By March 2, 2007
UPDATE: Survey max response number reached. Poll closed. Thanks everyone!
UPDATE 2: Worst Company In America 2007: Bracket Seeds
By February 15, 2007
UPDATE: Changed brackets around to accurately reflect initial voting.
Cat On A Walmart Nazi T-Shirt: A Caption Contest
By January 30, 2007
Here at Consumerist we’ve worked really hard to try to motivate Walmart to follow through on their promise to pull the Nazi paraphernalia from their store shelves. So far, we’ve failed. In honor of our failure, we’d like to announce the “Cat On A Walmart Nazi T-Shirt Contest.”
Unboxed: Sony PSP Flog Lucky Golden Shit Awards
By January 19, 2007
The lucky golden shit awards for the best flog of 2006 have arrived!
‘All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP’ Wins Best Flog 2006
By January 2, 2007
Based on reader votes, we anoint Sony’s Alliwantforxmasisapsp as the best flog of 2006.
Vote For Best Flog 2006: Sony PSP vs. Walmart vs. McDonald’s
By December 28, 2006
UPDATE: Results are in!
Announcing The Floggies
By December 20, 2006
Since nobody should be allowed to move on from their mistakes, we’re holding a knife fight to see who had the “best” flog of 2006. We are pleased to announce… The Floggies.
