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nope didn’t win . Someone who could afford it new probably won .
Guess chance of winning is more like 1/8000000?
I can't speak for the circumstances of any winners, but there have been some interesting karmic transfers in past contests. You'd be surprised how many potential winners ghost my initial email and I have to use the tool to pick another random winner from the DB. The initial email only picks the "potential" winner because I require a response from someone in the continental USA within 48-hours or I have to move on to closure. Once I had three ghosts in a row and had to pick a fourth who finally answered his email.
One person that came dangerously close to passing the 48 hour mark was a contest at the height of the COVID panic. He was a US Army nurse working a hospital at something close to a 48-hour shifts, I don't know what Army base but he seemed like a deserving winner. Very nice fellow.
Another guy, who won a serious pair of speakers as I recall, I think Martin-Logan, was highly appreciative and shared with me how badly his year has gone. It was near Christmas and he was tapped out getting gifts for his kids, I believe a job loss was recent. He explained how much winning the speakers meant to him and gave him hope for the future. I hope things have gone well for him and his family since.
Another winner I'll always remember was an old retired, wounded Vietnam veteran. He was a real character who shared funny stories in our emails arranging win/delivery etc. Fortunately he had people nearby who could carry the sub he had won into the house and help him setup, I gathered the war left him disabled.
I never ask about people's personal lives arranging the contests, in fact this is the first time sharing any of these people's background, I hope I'm not crossing a line here. I keep exchanges polite but specific to the business at hand. Most winners express appreciation but often communicate in point-form sentences, possibly English second language. But sometimes I get interesting stories arranging these contests. It gives me a good feeling knowing my email made someone's day or even year, no matter how much I may covet the prize for myself.
