Fez Won Again!!!

[spainlinx0]

I went to visit the auction site since I'm listening to the show now. I look at recent winners and Fez won the fucking $100 Visa gift card too! What is going on? That's crazy. I'm really debating playing this damn thing now.

[PapaBear]

I'm two weeks behind on the show. Is this something to do with one of the sponsors or something?

[spainlinx0]

I'm two weeks behind on the show. Is this something to do with one of the sponsors or something?

Yup, 100dollardreams.com. It's an "auction" site which is more like a game of strategy/chance. He won a laptop his first auction, and he just won a gift card in another auction. This motherfucker is on fire.

[sailor]

stop disguising spam as messageboard content! :king:

[PapaBear]

stop disguising spam as messageboard content! :king:
Or, at the very least, post it in the form of a live read.

[Slumbag]

The guy can't stop winning

Congratulations to Fez, from the Ron and Fez Show, XM Radio, on winning a brand new HP Mini 210 for $15!

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I can't tell whether or not this is intentionally funny

[sailor]

I can't tell whether or not this is intentionally funny

lucky coincidence.

[spainlinx0]

stop disguising spam as messageboard content! :king:

Busted. :( My 8 year spam plan has been foiled.

[instrument]

Stop talking about it or you'll jinx him.

[sailor]

Stop talking about it or you'll jinx him.

everyone remember it was instrument who brought up the j-word. We have our escape goat.

[Tenbatsuzen]

I would love it if this turns into an addiction for Fez, that his house fills up with stuff, like an old lady watching QVC

[ozzie]

everyone remember it was instrument who brought up the j-word. We have our escape goat.

Escape goat?

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[Tenbatsuzen]

Congratulations to Fez, from the Ron and Fez Show, XM Radio, on winning a brand new HP Mini 210 for $15

If it is brand new and not refurbished, that's a savings of 285 dollars.

[sailor]

Escape goat?

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yeah, from Quincy, M.E.

[mikeyboy]

Fez is the new Mr. Perfect.

[Zorro]

Fez is the new Mr. Perfect.

fez has always been Mr. Perfect, sadly the only one that doesn't know it is fez

[Tenbatsuzen]

Fez is the new Mr. Perfect.

...dead from an enlarged heart brought on by self-abuse?

[Dude!]

...dead from an enlarged heart brought on by self-abuse?


look who's talking...
aren't you a
great big fat person?

[oPant]

Sirius/XM is full of scam sponsors.

[spainlinx0]

Sirius/XM is full of scam sponsors.

It got me to try it. It's gambling plain and simple, but I'm going to give it a shot. I was going to go in on the iPad, but when you click "Buy Seat" it sent me to Paypal, where I paid, but I thought it gave me the seat. No, it funds your account. You then have to go and buy the seat. I went in on the TV instead since by the time I realized this, the iPad auction was full.

The TV is 100 people at $20 a pop. The MSRP is $1699, but the Amazon price is $1,199 currently. The site grosses $2,000 for running the auction. So they are probably making double what the TV is worth. The rest will be eaten up by advertising, wages, hosting, blah blah blah. It seems like a low margin, depending upon how cash intensive this business is. However, I think they will increase the players per auction in the future when they realize they aren't making that much. That will lower everyone's odds.

Some other math. At 100 people and 20 bids a person, plus 20 seconds a bid, the contest has the potential to run for 11 hours. That's if everyone bids perfectly, at 1 second remaining. Hopefully doesn't last nearly that long.

The payout according to Amazon price is 60:1 while the odds of winning are 100:1. Better than a lottery, but worse than a casino obviously.

While that is shitty, I thought their other "auction" sponsor was way worse. That was the one where you could get the product for a low price, but you paid a few pennies per bid. That was much more deceptive in my opinion.

[spainlinx0]

Sirius/XM is full of scam sponsors.

Also, RADIO is full of scam sponsors. Dick pills, hair pills, and all that other stuff that is never proven to work.

[indymike]

Also, RADIO is full of scam sponsors. Dick pills, hair pills, and all that other stuff that is never proven to work.

Fresh Balls and the Happy Junk Package?

[SinA]

It's the fucking Quiz Show scandal all over again.

[Devo37]

Also, RADIO is full of scam sponsors. Dick pills, hair pills, and all that other stuff that is never proven to work.

chada bugre.

[Tenbatsuzen]

Also, RADIO is full of scam sponsors. Dick pills, hair pills, and all that other stuff that is never proven to work.

Stacker 2 worked, just people were idiots who abused it.

[Dudeman]

Also, RADIO is full of scam sponsors. Dick pills, hair pills, and all that other stuff that is never proven to work.

shut up... you're going to hurt little Carby's feelings

[spainlinx0]

Stacker 2 worked, just people were idiots who abused it.

True, I forgot the other radio sponsor, diet pills.

[SatCam]

Wow! If Fez could win, why can't I? I just emptied my 401k that honda civic is mine

[Mitch&Murray]

Wow! If Fez could win, why can't I? I just emptied my 401k that honda civic is mine

You'd just get a speeding ticket anyway so dont bother

[Dan G]

Wow! If Fez could win, why can't I? I just emptied my 401k that honda civic is mine

So all you had in your 401k was a $100?

[SatCam]

So all you had in your 401k was a $100?

No im not stupid I bought mutiple bids to increase my chances

[Dan 'Hampton]

Horny Goatweed.

[STC-Dub]

If Fez invest the $100 from the gift card on wall street using the recommendations of Penny Stock Chaser.com he will be worth Billions, billions I tell you!

[mylthazz]

what a crappy site. during the auction I kept getting errors like:


2 Error
Error, please contact site administrator.

select * from BPPENNYAUTOBID_settings
No database selected

Please report the above error message to: support@100dollardreams.com

2 Error
Error, please contact site administrator.

select * from BPPENNYAUTOBID_settings
Too many connections

Please report the above error message to: support@100dollardreams.com


At the end I clicked bid with 2 seconds and instead got that screen, anyone else have the same thing?

[Dan G]

The streak is over. Fez didn't win the iPad.

[tanless1]

...I'm still amazed he did it with dial up.

[torker]

...I'm still amazed he did it with dial up.

http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4bfaad2a7f8b9aab028b0100/aol-disk.jpg

[zildjian361]

Fezzie always Wins:smile::laugh::tongue:

[knockknock]

The 100dreams.com scam may be Fez's downfall. Who would imagine Fez would end up doing the perp walk over a radio bit? Fez may finally have real problems--prison time.

One could speculate Fez is being set up as a winner "Quiz Show" style. This is a game of timing and quick reaction, yet, Fez uses a slow dial-up modem on an old, spy-ware laden PC, and calls in through AOL. How could he conceivably win twice in a row?

The website just started in July (this month!), is hosted by GoDaddy.com, and all the text on the site is converted to fuzzy images. All suspicious signs of a fly-by-night operation.

The terms and conditions reserve the right to make you do a press release and commercials on TV and radio. Could Fez be stuck in an eternal loop where they fake his wins and keep forcing him to do live read ads?

[JustJon]

So who won the iPad tonight?

[PapaBear]

Fez uses a slow dial-up modem on an old, spy-ware laden PC, and calls in through AOL. How could he conceivably win twice in a row?
That's a bit. He may have had dial up in the past, but they are just rolling with that as a bit, now. He has often talked of watching videos online at home. He wouldn't be doing that, if he still had dial up. Not to mention... A while back he had the problem of his cable being out when his family was visiting. He said he had now cable or Internet because of it.

[torker]

Busted. :( My 8 year spam plan has been foiled.

:laugh:

[oPant]

If they are a sponsor, Fez should stay away. They may have coded his account for him to win and he may not even know about it. It's bad news.:annoyed:

[Fillmore Slim]

If they are a sponsor, Fez should stay away. They may have coded his account for him to win and he may not even know about it. It's bad news.:annoyed:

It's not a big deal. If you look at the bid history there aren't that many people actually "bidding". Fez only had to beat out 2 other people for the mini laptop.

[spainlinx0]

The 100dreams.com scam may be Fez's downfall. Who would imagine Fez would end up doing the perp walk over a radio bit? Fez may finally have real problems--prison time.

One could speculate Fez is being set up as a winner "Quiz Show" style. This is a game of timing and quick reaction, yet, Fez uses a slow dial-up modem on an old, spy-ware laden PC, and calls in through AOL. How could he conceivably win twice in a row?

The website just started in July (this month!), is hosted by GoDaddy.com, and all the text on the site is converted to fuzzy images. All suspicious signs of a fly-by-night operation.

The terms and conditions reserve the right to make you do a press release and commercials on TV and radio. Could Fez be stuck in an eternal loop where they fake his wins and keep forcing him to do live read ads?

Actually it's not really about timing and quick reaction if I understand it correctly. This isn't like Ebay where you're trying to "snipe" bids at the last possible second. It's mostly luck. You just hope other people waste their bids before you, and when you waste a bid, you hope everyone waits for someone else to place their bid to knock you off, and then no one does, so that you win.

It's not a big deal. If you look at the bid history there aren't that many people actually "bidding". Fez only had to beat out 2 other people for the mini laptop.

I think it only shows the last 10 bids. I believe it was mentioned on the show the day after he won the laptop.

[spainlinx0]

what a crappy site. during the auction I kept getting errors like:


2 Error
Error, please contact site administrator.

select * from BPPENNYAUTOBID_settings
No database selected

Please report the above error message to: support@100dollardreams.com

2 Error
Error, please contact site administrator.

select * from BPPENNYAUTOBID_settings
Too many connections

Please report the above error message to: support@100dollardreams.com


At the end I clicked bid with 2 seconds and instead got that screen, anyone else have the same thing?

Check your email. I just got this email from them this morning:



100DollarDreams Players,

Tonights Auction

We observed the problems with the site tonight and first want to apologize.
We have 2 programmers working on it now to resolve the issue, we will find out shortly what went wrong.
We have recieved your emails and will respond to each one individually.

Everyone in tonights auction will be credited for a new auction or refunded if that is their request.

The 2 players who won, we will honor that part of the auction and email you seperatly to distribute your prices. (misspelling is theirs)

As you can imagine we are working very hard to locate the problem and will resolve it with each player.

Thats a promise
As soon as we find out the issue, I will contact you again with the resolution.

We thank you in advance for your patience.
Thanks,
100DollarDreams Team
100DollarDreams.com



Go claim your refund.

[Tall_James]

Check your email. I just got this email from them this morning:



Go claim your refund.

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[Brad_Rush]

I hadn't checked out the website before... looks pretty ghetto. Is there a company behind this, or just some kid with a few extra bucks lying around and a business idea? I counted 4 grammatical errors on the site and it looks like something a college student working on a Computer Science degree could put together. Makes me wonder if they actually have a lawyer on staff to make sure this kind of 'auction' site is legal and doesn't count as online gambling.

Sorry for running down a sponsor, but I expected better if they are advertising this thing on XM/Sirius...

[sailor]

I expected better if they are advertising this thing on XM/Sirius...

why?

[PapaBear]

Sorry for running down a sponsor, but I expected better if they are advertising this thing on XM/Sirius...

why?
EXACTLY!

If Proctor & Gamble can constantly run ads with bad grammar on network TV, why can't a website have errors?

<object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1K-yjsRFW9Y"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1K-yjsRFW9Y" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object>

You don't know how very basic essentials are, until you have none.

[Brad_Rush]

why?

If their goal is to get people to believe this is a safe place to spend their money they should present an air of professionalism.

[sailor]

If their goal is to get people to believe this is a safe place to spend their money they should present an air of professionalism.

i get that, i meant why would you expect better from any 202 advertisers? it's well been documented the average advertiser on there is your friendly snake-oil salesman, at best.

[Dan G]

There will be a free auction this Friday for an iPad. Only 50 spots open.

To enter, just Tweet or post a Facebook message or I suppose a message board post about 100dollardreams and then e-mail them a link to what you did.

I'm in!