"I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
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"I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
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#2Incredibly grating story, I hope someone is made to apologize.
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#4How maddening. Don't create promotions like this if you're not going to pay out.
Re: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
#5After you say you won but were told you lost, 'I was then asked to snap a photo in front of a sign that read along the lines of “My Android was smoked by Windows Phone” before leaving the store.'
You should have declined.
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#6There needs to be a public apology over this. Maybe I am too naive, but it's disheartening that Microsoft would use such shady advertising tactics. I am sure that employees were not allowed to actually award participants any money. If this instruction did not come down from corporate, it probably originated from a manager with a desire to impress the higher-ups.
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#7After you say you won but were told you lost, 'I was then asked to snap a photo in front of a sign that read along the lines of “My Android was smoked by Windows Phone” before leaving the store.' You should have declined.
I didn't write this post. I added quotes around the title to try to distinguish this point.
That said, I agree. The OP commented on the reddit thread for this[1], which is where I found this before posting it to HN, and said that he took the picture because he had signed something agreeing to be used in advertising. Other commenters pointed out that Microsoft had broken the agreement already so he was under no obligation to comply.
Without having read the rules, which may list specific obligations, my reaction is that I would have told them that they were perfectly welcome to use whatever footage or photos they had taken during the event, but that there was no way I would pose for them after they refused to admit I'd won.
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rdgtz/i_won_the_...
Re: "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
#8How exactly does these work? Are the competitor only told the rules (what you should actually do) just at the time and not allowed to make any preparation. While the windows phone is prepared specifically for that task? (I'd imagine showing 2 separate weather apps in the homescreen isn't something the average windows phone will be prepared for. Or the ones I saw certainly didn't)
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#9Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616
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#10It sounds to me like all of the contests were set to be won by preconfiguration, not phone speed. Having two live-tiles already set up with the winning condition, known in advance only by the employee is hardly a contest.
They didn't just not want to pay out. They likely didn't even know how. It was never even considered a possibility.