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davecov · Posted: Tue 29 May 2007 09:10 am Post subject:

Just a reminder that this is the last day to get your postal entries sent off for the May charity fundraiser competition. For those wishing to enter online, you have until midnight (BST) on Thursday 31st May.

Dave
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davecov · Posted: Wed 30 May 2007 19:29 pm Post subject:

Just about 27.5 hours left for you to get your entries in for the ATF May Fundraiser Competition which closes midnight (BST) tomorrow, Thursday 31st May. I can only accept entries via PayPal now and any entries that arrive by post tomorrow.

We have had 15 people take part in the competition now. This has raised £206.02 net so far. Along with donations of £28.43, the total raised for our chosen charities now stands at £234.45

Dave
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davecov · Posted: Thu 31 May 2007 07:44 am Post subject:

THIS IS IT!!! LAST DAY TO ENTER THE COMPETITION!!!

15 people have taken the trouble to enter so far but there is still plenty of time for the rest of you to get your entries in today, especially those who voted for or nominated charities but haven't yet entered.

A reminder of the prizes:

First Prize - £100 worth of goods from ModelsForSale.com
Second Prize - £50 worth of goods from ModelsForSale.com
Third Prize - £25 worth of goods from ModelsForSale.com

All of the goods can be chosen by the winners so you will not be lumbered with anything you don't want. As well as the great prizes that you can win by paying £5 entry fee per answer, you will, more importantly, be contributing towards the ATF fundraising which is raising monies for our four chosen charities:

An International Charity (WWF)
A UK children's charity (Great Ormond Street Hospital)
A UK non-children's charity (Cancer Research UK)
Any Non-UK charity (Médecins Sans Frontières)

Entries for the competition cannot be taken after midnight BST today, Thursday 31st May.

Dave
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davecov · Posted: Thu 31 May 2007 11:28 am Post subject:

The postman has just been and no postal entries for the competition were delivered. So, if you sent a postal entry and haven't received an email acknowledging receipt of it, then you are too late I'm afraid. Sorry.

Dave
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davecov · Posted: Thu 31 May 2007 23:06 pm Post subject:

The competition has now closed and I would like to thank to the 15 other people besides myself who took part. Between us we raised an amazing £235.48 for our chosen charities!

The entries will be forwarded to Vince of ModelsForSale.com for him to declare the winner and two runners-up. They will be announced on this forum within the next few days.

Dave
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Ratch · Posted: Fri 01 Jun 2007 08:46 am Post subject:

Well done Dave, a tidy sum

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davecov · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 11:04 am Post subject:

Right, it is now time to reveal the winner and runners-up of the ATF May Charity Fundraiser Competition. You will remember that the question was set by Vince of ModelsForSale.com and he wanted to know:

How many second-hand kits have ModelsForSale.com sold over the past four years?

and the answer is: 32438

The winner was Spudgun with the nearest answer of 32503

Second place was Stuzzar with the second nearest answer of 32000

Third place was Puttyfinger with the third nearest answer of 31622

Congratulations to you all. Your prizes, donated by ModelsForSale.com, were:

First Prize - £100 worth of goods from ModelsForSale.com
Second Prize - £50 worth of goods from ModelsForSale.com
Third Prize - £25 worth of goods from ModelsForSale.com.

I will forward your names and email addresses to Vince.

BTW, Puttyfinger's answer was from his single postal entry and not one of the ATF Quiz prizes.

A big thank you to all of you who entered the competition and helped raise money for charity (£235.48). For those of you who did not win this time round, watch out for the next fundraiser that will be announced at the end of July or early August.

Dave
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Spudgun · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 11:13 am Post subject:

Oh lordy. I'll be back in a bit when I've composed myself.
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puttyfinger · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 11:30 am Post subject:

I still haven't recovered from winning two of Spudgun's entries. Lucky I'm no good at emoticons or this reply would be full of them!!!!!!

For anyone who's interested (or maybe just to rub it in????), there's a piece of mathematics behind my successful answer - it's the geometric mean of the given upper and lower limits: multiply the two of them together and take the square root. Isn't maths wonderful? (Sniffle, best Gwyneth Paltrow impression....)
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stuzzar · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 11:47 am Post subject:

Spudgun · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 12:40 pm Post subject:

Well, I've had a bit of time to compose myself and suffice to say, I'm like a dog with two tails! All of those kits at MFS and I haven't a clue what to get. I think I'll wait a while.

A big thanks to all involved in this competition. That includes the organisers and entrants. It's a bit of a pity that one of the ATF Quiz prize numbers didn't get a prize, but at least one of the joint winners got something.

As for the selection of the numbers that I had (this includes the numbers that were the prizes for the May ATF Quiz), I simply used a random number generator (my maths is hopeless).

Congrats to Stuzzar and Puttyfinger. It looks like our respective stashes are about to get a bit bigger!
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Radio Gnome · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 12:49 pm Post subject:

Well done you three, time for a shopping spree

Can't remember my numbers but I think I had one in the 30,000's somewhere so at least I was close!

Nice job by Dave as ever organising it and a BIG thanks to Vince for donating such a generous prize.

Maybe I'll be luckier for the rest of the fundraisers!

davecov · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 13:04 pm Post subject:

Hi Paul,

There were a few in the 30,000s. Your number was 36250, Ratch had 34669, I had 37239, Adrian had 37813 and Brian had 33400.

Dave
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feanor · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 13:09 pm Post subject:

Ayup All...

To the victors the spoils, congratulations..

What we didn't know was that OWEN bought: 32436 of them! my two were a Lifeboat and Tornado, and i only JUST pipped him to those !!

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Owen · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 15:08 pm Post subject:

Well Done Lads! Enjoy!

And a pat on the back to everyone else who took part, £235 is a lot from 15 people!

BTW, how far away was I with my two entries? I can't remember what I said!
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puttyfinger · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 15:11 pm Post subject:

Like Spudgun I've only just recovered from the shock! Congrats to him (and for his excellent SF comp) and Stuzzar, thanks to Dave, and Vince at ModelsFor Sale.

Spudgun used a random number? I was wrong, maths really IS bunk!

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Ratch · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 16:19 pm Post subject:

Well done chaps

and thanks Vince for sponsoring the prizes

My first guess was the nearest, after that they just got worse

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farmroad38 · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 17:06 pm Post subject:

Well done chaps - good job I didn't win, otherwise my other half would have thrown me out!

I have to say my guesses were exactly that - finger in the air jobs! Maybe I should have been more scientific

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davecov · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 18:13 pm Post subject:

grahameo · Posted: Sat 02 Jun 2007 20:38 pm Post subject:

Well Done Everyone.

I,ve forgotten what my answer was,but who cares it was for a good cause.

Grahameo
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