"And the winner is..."

Like most, I've never won any sort of contest before. That changed when I was contacted by the guys at gamerdeals.net on March 2nd. I've been following them on Twitter for about 6 months now and been sharing their deals on Twitter and Facebook for around half that time. About a month ago, they posted that they would be holding a contest for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card. To enter, all that was needed was to follow them (which I already was doing) and retweet at least 2 of their tweets per day. I would only retweet deals that would interest me so although I didn't retweet everything they posted, there were days that I would retweet as many as 5 of their posts. That being the case, I never thought I would win. So when they contacted me via Twitter and then by email, I was skeptical at best. I just figured someone was having fun with me.

I was pleasantly surprised the next day to find a code in my email for $50 to the Amazon site. Pretty cool. I thanked them on Twitter and decided to go on their site to thank them again when I noticed that they had a podcast. They were only up to #3 at the time and at only around 20 minutes, I decided to give the latest one a listen which had been posted the previous night. To my surprise, they mention me by my online identity (EvilEmpire) around the 12 minute mark as having won their contest. That was pretty cool. To listen to the podcast, just click on the "podcasts" button on the top of their page and it'll take you to their podcasts page which currently has 4 as of the posting of this blog.

So I would like to thank the Gamerdeals.net team (Patrick, Carlos, Nick and Trevor) again for choosing me to win their contest and also for providing a cool site where us gamers can keep track of the best deals out there online and at B&M stores.