BlackBerry Bold 9700 giveaway winners!

By on Dec 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM
General December 6, 2009

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Alright, guys. We’ve plowed through almost 7,000 comments and randomly selected five winners! We’ve reached out to all five already, and here they are in no particular order:

Courtney A., Joseph C., Dexter M., Josh F., Sarah P.

Thanks so much to everyone who entered! We’ll be posting the Motorola DROID video winners real soon.

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  • Curtis Martin

    Thanks a lot Bgr that was a waste of my time :-(

    • Dax

      couldn’t agree more. I though boygenius was the best.

  • adacosta

    Well this is definitely a lesson learned – never to get your hopes up. I thought you folks wanted to know why individuals wanted it? Just a random picking is quite lame indeed. I was listening to Michael Jackson’s – Money, he said at the end of the song ‘You want something, you earn it with dignity’. On top of that, when you buy something with your hard earned cash, you value it more. What peeves me the most is that, so many persons who are already owners of luxury smart phones such as BB Bold 9000 and iPhone still participated in this contest – talk about greedy. You don’t even know if these winners already have one.

    I will say this, you could have at least say, lets give one out to different regions of the world: Caribbean, Asia, Europe, North America, and somewhere else would come across a little bit more fair and genuine.

    • George

      Of course most people will have high-end phones…Do you think anybody who follows the site carries around a LG Chocolate? And this is the internet, people can lie about what they do and don’t have.

      Come on man, different regions of the world? You are trying to make this into something it’s not. Bottom line is that the winners were supposed to be handpicked for their comment. Instead, the winners were randomly chosen, turning this “contest” into a giveaway.

  • jorGeorge

    It’s pretty obvious that BGR does not know how to run a contest/giveaway.

    Head over to CrackBerry where you’re pretty much guranteed to win something if you enter each giveaway (I’ve won four times). Did you see the I Love my CrackBerry contest? They gave away a macbook, tons of BlackBerries, and tons of apps and gift cards. That wasn’t done randomly either. They went through hours of video that people perpared for the contest. THEY know how to run a contest…

  • Jeff

    What was the point of this entire contest if in the end the requirements for entry didn’t matter and BGR was just going to randomly select the winners? Epic Fail BGR and I am very dissappointed.

  • Cristoval

    i can see where the majority are coming from…oh well, i mean the chances of winning weren’t very high, there were close to 7000 posts and they had to pick 5 out of that group of posts/people…but then again people took the time out to say why they thought they deserved the Blackberry Bold 9700 and thought it gave them a better shot than others who just made random posts of “Great Contest” or “I hope I win”…everyone’s going to feel different…

  • Dax

    Randomly picked????? Que basuuura! I though it was the better reason to win the device! Not fair! Please state the rules clear and stick to them next time. Congratulations to the winners anyway.

  • Chris

    Please make the Droid contest random too! That way I’ll actually have a chance to win. :D

  • Blackberry Bold

    Why people crying about free stuff? Crackberry is a crackberry and BGR is a BGR. If BGR is running a contest, then they will do it their own way. If you don’t like it, then don’t enter. All I see is bunch of whiners who are upset because they did not win their Blackberry Bold. Honestly, I doubt all of you have AT&T service. So, most of you would have just sold it on craiglist and EBay anyway.

  • Everyone STFU

    The chances of winning were small. Don’t become children about it. Its a phone, not a lung.

    …smh

  • George.

    Well I have to say “Thanks for the chance BGR!” and Well done to the lucky winners.

  • http://ashtontech.com Matt

    I had better see a Bold 9700 in Dexter Morgan’s hands next week…

  • Scott

    What about the people who probably submitted many comments using different email addresses from different computers? This random thing sure does help their odds. If you picked the most creative comments that would at least work against the people who try to cheat the system by entering comments more than once.

  • Everyone STFU

    scott- s t f u.

  • http://www.simplifiedgeek.com saltlakeman

    I’ll I can say to myself is, “better luck next year”, then I will beat myself up as I fall to the ground.

  • http://twitter.com/nevaehkisses sidekickaddict

    wow congrats to them ……

    i never win these things :(

  • Syed Masood Ibrahim

    I am shocked to see the random selection. Plus I do not see anyone picked from China/Pakistan/India etc… I mean my comment on Page 167 was not bad even lolz…

  • Josh F

    Did I win? I’m Josh F. but didn’t get an email. I just didn’t want you to think I didn’t reply if in fact, I won!

    Please let me know.

    Thanks,
    Josh

    • Previous Winner

      Dont hold your breath, BGR dont have a very good rep for sending there prize’s and for that matter even communicating with the winners full stop. I was a winner on the first BB Bold comp last year where peiople posted pics of BB’s being trashed and had no emails from BGR, I also spoke with 2 of the other winners who had the same. Appears to me to be a sham to increase the sites viewing figures.

  • rdawodu

    LOL, I’m just excited i got to play. Play long enough, eventually i have to win something right? LOL!

  • Lady Gaga

    Sung to the tune of “Speechless” by Lady Gaga

    I can’t belive that I didnt win,
    with my amazing paragraph,
    the way I looked at the screen baby
    to find out that I had lost!
    & I wont ever, get a bold!
    and does my curve suck? yes it does!
    ohh I’ll never text again,
    oh BGR you’ve left me speechless
    you’ve left me speechless so speechless!

  • http://twitter.com/rabby Rabby

    what if I just said I want to win and I got selected by Random? I joined this contest with a genuine comment but in the end it’s just again the luck of the draw… I hope the next time BGR has a contest there should be a clear and proof how are they gonna pick winners. is there a body that verifies that there was a “lotto” that took place?

    ay yay yay

  • Crumbs

    people… people… seriously is this what we have come down to??? feeling sour about a contest… its like feeling sour about not winning the lottery… no one was guaranteed a phone… lets be honest every contest is a game of chances.. just be happy that we get good reviews of upcoming products… maybe one day ull win a different give away.. until then go into ur pockets and pay for one.. thanxz Crumbs Staff

  • http://www.tagged.com/applevutha vutha

    can blackberry bold 9700 at&t run with other service provider or not?

  • Gurjit Singh Kang

    Oh thats the good time to ask one since my Bold 9000 was broke last weekend while i felt on the ice.. so i end up not having any phone till i can afford it but anyways! I just hope to have one :) Thanks to Boy Genius, we are always update to the latest :)

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