Kit Kash 2006

withywood

all gone now

Lara

All finishes 31st October

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I've got 2050 points. Only thing to use them on is magazines by the look of it .

nuvin

I need only 100 kitkash...please please please i beg of you.... i'll be enternally grateful. pm me any code...thanks.

gRIFF_3

surgeoner wrote:

Sorry, I can't tell you why (wish I knew lol).

BUT I can say that if you check the winners lists, it does seem pretty obvious the same names appear day after day (at a guess, about 15 different people), so either they are very good at bidding???, plus are humungus (the amount of points they have = chocolate they eat), or they all work for Nestle! hmmmmmmmm

If you look at the names - N V Wright, Grampian, James Wright, Grampian, Peter Woods, Adrian Bentley, A Milsom, Jean Gibbons (plus her daugther and son) etc etc, they have between them won the bulk of the prizes.

This is one sucker who won't be collecting kitkash points next year!

Hi folks, Please dont flame me for the following but I've been an avid reader of the MSE forums for quite a while and I've been following this particular one with interest.

James Wright is a friend of mine and I thought I'd share something with you all. Theres no mystery as to why he is a regular winner. He spends every spare minute at the PC bidding on these auctions and he has spent THOUSANDS of pounds on Chocolate. I guess he looks on it as an investment but for me, its a huge gamble I personally wouldnt take. Is he fat ? nope - he gives all the chocolate away - honestly ! I spent the other evening giving boxes of KitKats away to students at the local University.

You may think this is unfair, but its a huge risk and to be honest there are lots of other people out there doing the same thing, I guess that's why KitKat introduced the lowest unique auctions in order to level the playing field.

Good luck to you all.

Griff

sygonrima

gRIFF wrote:

Hi folks, Please dont flame me for the following but I've been an avid reader of the MSE forums for quite a while and I've been following this particular one with interest.

James Wright is a friend of mine and I thought I'd share something with you all. Theres no mystery as to why he is a regular winner. He spends every spare minute at the PC bidding on these auctions and he has spent THOUSANDS of pounds on Chocolate. I guess he looks on it as an investment but for me, its a huge gamble I personally wouldnt take. Is he fat ? nope - he gives all the chocolate away - honestly ! I spent the other evening giving boxes of KitKats away to students at the local University.

You may think this is unfair, but its a huge risk and to be honest there are lots of other people out there doing the same thing, I guess that's why KitKat introduced the lowest unique auctions in order to level the playing field.

Good luck to you all.

Griff

I hope James takes you for a ride in his new car. Send him my congratulations.

While what you say is true and there is no doubt that the big winners have had to spend thousands on chocolate to win their prizes. It is also true that because of the way the internet is connected somebody with a shorter connection (i.e. number of hops) to the endpoint will have a greater chance of winning a fastest to reply competition. This is (I would guess) why I have been beaten over and over again for the mid range prizes by the same people (usually the Lincolnshire posse). The more cynical might guess that some of the big winners are using software to speed up their bids, but as the rules of the competition forbid this I will not make this accusation.

Please don't take this as a flame as I have nothing against the people who happen to be on the closer connections and so have a higher chance of winning, Its not their fault, they are just very lucky in this instance. The problem lies with the whole design of the competition. If it is trying to be an auction then it should be just that (like the Coke auction was) and not a fastest reply competition.

gRIFF_3

sygonrima wrote:

I hope James takes you for a ride in his new car. Send him my congratulations.

While what you say is true and there is no doubt that the big winners have had to spend thousands on chocolate to win their prizes. It is also true that because of the way the internet is connected somebody with a shorter connection (i.e. number of hops) to the endpoint will have a greater chance of winning a fastest to reply competition. This is (I would guess) why I have been beaten over and over again for the mid range prizes by the same people (usually the Lincolnshire posse). The more cynical might guess that some of the big winners are using software to speed up their bids, but as the rules of the competition forbid this I will not make this accusation.

Please don't take this as a flame as I have nothing against the people who happen to be on the closer connections and so have a higher chance of winning, Its not their fault, they are just very lucky in this instance. The problem lies with the whole design of the competition. If it is trying to be an auction then it should be just that (like the Coke auction was) and not a fastest reply competition.

I think you have a good point. You wont get any disagrement from me on anything you said. I do know he took a huge gamble and worked really hard within the rules and I believe he was actually VERY lucky. You obviously understand the underlying network architecture, many of the other forum members wont however. For what its worth I also do and I did a 'tracert' out of curiosity to the site. From up here in Scotland and Via my BT BB connection it was 20 hops some taking as long as 35mS.

As I say its not for me, far too much of a risk for us exiles in the Frozen North. . . . In the words of the bard - He who dares wins, Rodders........

surgeoner

I agree with the previous reply. Problem isn't really with the winners, its with the way Nestle ran the competition and left it open to abuse.

I congratulate James Wright (indeed the entire Wright family!) and the others who managed to get the bulk of the prizes BUT I have to say, I would have preferred to see people winning who could not afford thousands of pounds on chocolate - ie the ordinary Joe Soap in the street. Maybe I'm being naive, but to me it just seemed extremely greedy (isn't one car enough for anyone?), I suppose other people would call it enterprising.

Personally I think Nestle probably realise themselves that there was a major problem this year - hopefully they'll solve it for next time (which I won't be collecting for LOL).

PS - I did manage to get a DECT phone, so wasn't a complete waste of time.

Good luck to EVERYONE who collects next year;) (not just those who can afford thousands on choc)

Lara

Can I order magazines for different friends as gifts, using the points, and if so do you incur any extra costs? Thanks

Revenge_of_the_Red_Devil

The magazines aren't free I don't think - you can buy a discount with KK points tho.

withywood

There will be 100 Alba CD/Radios for sale in the Lifestyle Room at some point this week.

Get in quick because at just 4500 KitKash points, these are really great value!