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Nick Bentley   

Wishnut is on vacation/hiatus at the moment (but it's a working vacation...see my news entry), so all contests are currently on hold for a while.  Please check back often.  Thank you for your patience, and we hope to see you soon.

These rules are likely to change weekly, especially while Wishnut is young.  Past winners therefore do not serve as a reliable guide to what's allowed and what isn't. Check back here regularly.

  1. Any registered user may enter a contest.  You can do so by clicking on "Post a New Gift Idea" in the navigation bar.
  2. Any registered user may vote, but only the votes from users with confirmed email addresses will count.  You can vote for a gift idea by clicking on the green thumb that appears next to each gift idea.
  3. You may vote for as many entries as you wish, but you are allowed only one vote per entry.
  4. If you invite *all* of your Facebook friends to Wishnut through the blue "Facebook Connect" button in the upper right of any Wishnut page (if you can't see the button, try logging out), the votes for each gift idea that you post will be counted triple, giving you a big advantage in the contest. 
  5. Each contest starts Monday 00:00 Eastern U.S. Time, and ends one week later at the same time.
  6. Gift ideas that don't win will be automatically entered in the following week's contest.  This ensures that every gift idea will get to be in at least one contest from the very beginning.
  7. We'll announce the winners some time each Monday, not necessarily early in the day.  
  8. Each week, the entry that receives the highest number of votes that week wins.  Wishnut will purchase and send the gift from the winning entry to its intended recipient (we'll contact the original posters by email to figure out where to send the gifts).  In the event of a tie, we, the admins of Wishnut, will break the tie according whatever arbitrary procedure our whimsies fancy. 
  9. If we don't hear from the winners within a week of alerting them that they've won, we will not make any further efforts to contact them, and will not send the gifts if we hear from them after that period.
  10. We will interview the winning users each week, and post the interviews sometime during the following week on the Wishnut blog.  
  11. We reserve the right to disqualify any gift idea from the contest, for any reason, without explaining why.  When we do so, it's usually because somebody tries to cast a bunch of "fake" votes for his/her gift idea.
  12. IMPORTANT: In order to be eligible to win the contest, entries must conform to the following restrictions:
    • The entry must provide a link to an online merchant where the gift can be easily purchased.
    • The gift must be intended for a living person.
    • The gift must cost less than $50 to purchase and ship.
    • The recipient of the gift must have an address in the continental U.S.  If the recipient turns out not to live in the continental U.S., the gift will not be awarded, even if the winners have already been declared.   

  • Rules Comments
    Posted 2009-08-11 10:39:51
    I feel somewhat responsible for the continental US rule...silly elitest Americans!!



    Posted 2009-08-17 09:06:29
    It's really the fault of restrictive shipping rules on behalf of various companies.  As soon as matter transporters come out, we'll forgo all the red tape and just materialize the gifts in the winners' living rooms.  



    Posted 2009-11-08 11:01:10
    That would be awesome, seriously.



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    Please tell us about your gift choice and about the person who should get it. Write as much or as little as you like. But remember: the better the story, the better your chances of getting the most votes!  Also, if you connect your Facebook account to Wishnut and invite all of your friends, any gift you create automatically gets 3 votes for every 1!

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