If you enter a contest check your spam messages! (my tale of misery)

[CM]

So in August of 2014, 1 Shot Gear had a drawing on Facebook for a Kifaru pack system. I entered and didn't think much of it (the odds on these kinds of drawings have to be horrible). Well, Friday afternoon I was messing around on Facebook and happened to open my filtered messages (ie "Spam" folder). To my horror I found this message from August 20, 2014 from a Kifaru employee (I removed his name)

"Cameron - This is (employee name) from Kifaru. You won the 1 SHOT GEAR giveaway. Please contact Grant at 1 Shot to give if your sizing info so we can make your bag for you. Congratulations on winning."

I quickly became nauseated. I went to 1Shot's Facebook page and scrolled to August 20, 2014 and sure enough I found this post:



Now I was really sick, I couldn't decide whether to throw up or cry. I usually see 1 Shot's posts but this was posted in the middle of the Utah archery hunt so I was on the mountain without service and didn't see it. Facebook didn't tag me in the post or anything so I didn't receive any other notifications, other than the filtered message from the Kifaru employee.

I sent them a message and am waiting for a reply. I have no idea what their statute of limitations will be, but it doesn't appear that they drew another winner so I am holding onto a slim sliver hope that I didn't totally miss out. If the statute of limitations has passed, maybe the karma gods will shine on me in some upcoming tag draws.

The moral of the story is to routinely check your spam messages!

 

[elkguide]

Spam is all that I get!!!!!


That's a real bummer. Good luck. Hope that it works out well for you.

 

[Cledus]

Yikes. Good luck, hopefully they honor it for you!

 

[couesbitten]

Wow, that stinks! I can't believe that a friend didn't see the post and say something to you. When I won the Exo pack contest on Rokslide, I had buddies sending me messages telling me they wanted to try my new pack before I even knew I had won. I had honestly forgotten that I had even entered the contest until I saw the PM from Robby.

 

[CM]

Wow, that stinks! I can't believe that a friend didn't see the post and say something to you. When I won the Exo pack contest on Rokslide, I had buddies sending me messages telling me they wanted to try my new pack before I even knew I had won. I had honestly forgotten that I had even entered the contest until I saw the PM from Robby.

No kidding, I need some new friends. I actually only have a few real close hardcore hunting buddies and they were probably hunting when it was posted too.

 

[Schaaf]

Damn. I don't even want to look at my spam folder now.

 

[5MilesBack]

I only get about 1/2 dozen spam emails a week, so it's real easy for me to look at what's in there.

 

[weaver]

Same thing happened to me, only it was worse.
Missed out on millions of dollars from a Nigerian prince:-(

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[realunlucky]

Same thing happened to me, only it was worse.
Missed out on millions of dollars from a Nigerian prince:-(

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Weaver thanks I was next in line just waiting for the check to come been held up in customs for a couple months now

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[couesbitten]

Hey CM, make sure you let us know what the outcome is.

 

[CM]

I will. I haven't heard from them yet; I will call them in a day or two if I don't get a reply.

It still makes me sick whenever I think about it.

 

[CM]

I gave them a call, they said they gave the pack away but offered me 15% off, better than nothing. I will kick myself for a long time over this one.

 

[Poser]

I didn't even know that filtered message FB messenger folder existed until 3 or 4 days ago. I had unread messages going back to 2007.

 

[CM]

I didn't even know that filtered message FB messenger folder existed until 3 or 4 days ago. I had unread messages going back to 2007.

Me neither! It's not very obvious.

 

[KurtR]

Where do you look to see that

 

[Poser]

Where do you look to see that

Go to your phone messenger app (I'm not sure on a computer), go to "settings", then "people" and the "message requests"

Apparently, only a tiny% of people knew about this filter until very recently. FB was filtering messages from people you aren't friends with. There was a lot of spam in there, but also random messages from people I know.