What is a normal amount of time to wait for a prize from Apple?

idunnoidunno
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
A month and a half ago I won a competition in Australian Macworld, the prize consisted of:

Panther

iLife 04

Jampack for garageband

a .Mac account

and an M-Audio keystation 49e keyboard.



I am still waiting.



I e-mailed the editor of macworld about 3 weeks ago asking, politely, how long should I expect to wait as i was really looking forward to the prizes. He apologised and said he would get straight on it.



I am still waiting.



I have e-mailed him every week since, as they are yet to turn up, and now he isn't even replying to the e-mails.



So is this long a wait normal Apple procedure, or have they forgotten about me?



paranoidly yours,



iDunno

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 9
    mr. hmr. h Posts: 4,870member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by iDunno

    A month and a half ago I won a competition in Australian Macworld



    paranoidly yours,



    iDunno



    Am I missing something? It seems to me that your problem is with Macworld Australia, not Apple
  • Reply 2 of 9
    idunnoidunno Posts: 645member
    He said he would get in contact with Apple as they are the ones who send the prizes. And I know of another website that is sponsored by Apple, if you give away Apple prizes you just pass the address onto Apple and they send them out.



    I just wondered if anyone else had ever had to wait for Apple to send out prizes?
  • Reply 3 of 9
    airslufairsluf Posts: 1,861member
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  • Reply 4 of 9
    idunnoidunno Posts: 645member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by tonton

    What was the competition and how did you win? Did MacWorld publish your name as the winner?



    Yes, it was a Digital Lifestyle competition, I sent in a 3D animation I did of an iMac and an iPod fighting eachother. I won and they put my name in the magazine as having won.
  • Reply 5 of 9
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by iDunno

    He said he would get in contact with Apple as they are the ones who send the prizes. And I know of another website that is sponsored by Apple, if you give away Apple prizes you just pass the address onto Apple and they send them out.



    I just wondered if anyone else had ever had to wait for Apple to send out prizes?



    I think it's more like "Macworld hasn't even ordered them yet" than "Apple is slow".
  • Reply 6 of 9
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    Post your creation here. If it's really good, I'll send you a prize.
  • Reply 7 of 9
    idunnoidunno Posts: 645member
    Well once I have the .Mac account I won, I will happily put it up and supply a link for all to see.



    iDunno
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