Cee Jay:
This is the Chic Magazine Snap-A-Taxi contest where some of us staked out to capture pics of cabs while others chased and snapped them when we chanced upon the cabs.
We have submitted about 150 entries and there are about 100+ more to go. Because the contest is ending on the 15th July 2010, it's time to finish sending all the entries over.
But while Dallas tried to do so for the past week, he is unable to. Dallas emailed Chic Magazine on the 3rd July (Saturday) and there was no reply. He chased again on the 7th July (Wednesday) before he finally received a reply and it is without a sign off. Here's the reply.
"Hi Dallas,
Just FYI. Not supposed to tell you this but maybe you'd like to consider not sending in those entries to save money as just found out there's a female contestant with all 300 taxis verified already weeks ago."
Please click on
this link to read the full communications.
We lost, it seems.
Do you believe?
I'm just wondering. When the contests first started, Chic Magazine put out a lot of feeds to encourage people to join. They even give tips on how to win. There were also updates on who were leading and with how many photos snapped. So why were there no updates subsequently? It's not like as if there were no competition. There's that lady with 300 entries right? (Though I seriously thought nobody could be bothered to join except us). So if there are other people participating, why didn't they update? I sense dishonesty here but I have no proof.
I wonder who is this female contestant who submitted 300 taxis? A Singaporean? A Philippine national? A Malaysian?
Will they reveal the name of the winner, show us photos of her receiving the $10k prize at Chic Magazine's party and upload the 300 pics on their Facebook page to prove that it's all transparent? I'll be waiting to see...
The female contestant has apparently submitted 300 photos. We have gathered a total of 260.
Like hiccup, I do find it impossible that anybody can snap 300 pics if they didn't start snapping when the contests first started. His comments can be found
here at the comments section.
But for a company that,
1. wanted to give away a car in one of their first few contests but it didn't happen
2. set a closing date but due to "overwhelming" feedback" decided to extend for another 4 months to give everyone more time to win (Again, where are the overwhelming entries? How come no updates? Shouldn't they be finding every opportunity to put out feeds to show off how popular the contest is?)
3. is aware of unqualified contestants sending unpleasant notes, contestants resorting to cheating, to those turning up in their office to make a scene but still continues to hold
voting contests
4. deletes undesirable comments on their FB page
5. has a track record of starting a magazine call
Smitten but folded in 2 years.
6. seems fixated only in quantity rather than quality of fan base and just keep pushing for highernumber of fans (Voting contests are best for this and here's a feed they put out earlier today)
Chic Magazine: Help make our 1st birthday wish come true! You were there when we became the #1 publication (newspapers, magazines, etc) on Facebook, now help us become the TOP media page in Singapore before our birthday on 17 Jul! We need as many people as possible to like our fb page so please tell all your friends about us! :)
Honestly, would you be surprise that we didn't win?
If you are joining any more contests from Chic Magazine or dealing with them in any other matters, just beware, be careful and take precautions if you want to deal with this kind of company.
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Dallas:
Well, clearly they aren't going to give us the prize. It's not that we didn't win this contest that I'm angry and upset about. It is all the time and effort wasted, trying to make this a success. Other than apologies, I don't know what I can offer.
On my side, I've spent many weekends to sort, edit and send the photos. Time and money wasted. I don't mind the money, it's not a big sum anyway, but it's the time lost that cannot be recovered.
I hope our readers can take a stand and do something about Chic. For me, they will simply delete my wall post and ignore my emails. We need evidence. 300 photos right on their facebook page, and NONE of it should be our photos.
(If you're trying to view the full list of taxis, please refer to my link
here. I'm not going to waste any more time editing a list that doesn't do anything.)
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