BRUCE GRAY CUSTOM GSR 1911 .45 Giveaway!

[CDR]

8,000 contestants!!!!!  There's only 581 members here. What happened to this being a contest for DRTV members?  Seems like this was opened up to the world at the NRA meeting and became a Sigarms promotional event and not a DRTV one.   Sigarms now has 8,000 people to target for their marketing literature. That's pretty disappointing as we were led to believe that this was for the DRTV community.  I wonder if the winner was even a DRTV member prior to the contest drawing?

[bdog488]

8,000 contestants!!!!!  There's only 581 members here. What happened to this being a contest for DRTV members?  Seems like this was opened up to the world at the NRA meeting and became a Sigarms promotional event and not a DRTV one.   Sigarms now has 8,000 people to target for their marketing literature. That's pretty disappointing as we were led to believe that this was for the DRTV community.  I wonder if the winner was even a DRTV member prior to the contest drawing?

Sounds like sour grapes to me. I don't recall anything being said about having to be a member . Hell 1 in 8000 sounds like pretty good odds for any giveaway of value.

[CDR]

Actually, if you go back and watch the video where Michael introduced the contest, it is very clearly a contest for Down Range Television members.  Nothing was ever said that it would be a contest opened up to thousands of people attending a convention.  I just don't like the way it was portrayed as it essentially became a Sigarms target marketing effort to collect as many names as possible for future mailings.....and that's fine if that's what it is, just call it that from the beginning as opposed to a special contest for DRTV members.

[Tim Burke]

I went back and watched the video. It says nothing about this being for DRTV members. However, due to the misunderstanding, I bet you could get your entry fee back, if you asked nicely.

[CDR]

I went back and watched the video. It says nothing about this being for DRTV members. However, due to the misunderstanding, I bet you could get your entry fee back, if you asked nicely.

Wrong...I would watch the video again if I were you.  There is no doubt that this was a DRTV contest.   The opening slide says "A DRTV Giveaway" and Michael even says at the end of the video that in order to be eligible go to the Down Range Television site and sign up.  Seems like everyone on this site should have enjoyed odds closer to 1 : 500.......not 1 : 8,000.  The contest was clearly never meant to have such a limited scope as Sigarms wanted a large target marketing list for future mailings.  They were able to gather the big contestant numbers at the NRA meeting.  Again, it's not important, I just don't like the way it was portrayed....it's only ever about the sales.

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[Ted]

Congratulations to Jim from Baton Rouge ! May he shoot & enjoy it !

[bdog488]

Wrong...I would watch the video again if I were you.  There is no doubt that this was a DRTV contest.   The opening slide says "A DRTV Giveaway" and Michael even says at the end of the video that in order to be eligible go to the Down Range Television site and sign up.  Seems like everyone on this site should have enjoyed odds closer to 1 : 500.......not 1 : 8,000.  The contest was clearly never meant to have such a limited scope as Sigarms wanted a large target marketing list for future mailings.  They were able to gather the big contestant numbers at the NRA meeting.  Again, it's not important, I just don't like the way it was portrayed....it's only ever about the sales.

Just because DRTV  gave the gun gun away doesn't mean only DRTV members could win. I first heard about the giveaway on sigforum from Michael (sorry about the anti-beavaeartale crap Michael).

[WymoreWrangler]

Congratulations to Jim, his name was the third one drawn   But I agree, this drawing was announced to be for DRTV members only....

[CDR]

Just because DRTV  gave the gun gun away doesn't mean only DRTV members could win. I first heard about the giveaway on sigforum from Michael (sorry about the anti-beavaeartale crap Michael).

And I would wager that you were invited from the sigforum to come over to DRTV and enroll for the contest as a DRTV member.

[bdog488]

And I would wager that you were invited from the sigforum to come over to DRTV and enroll for the contest as a DRTV member.

No I was not. I f heard of  the giveaway from MB's blog . I first heard of DRTV from a post of Michaels on sigforum.So i did a search for Downrange tv and found this site : when the contaest opened I entered . But I was not invited.