The Challenge of Legitimately Giving Away an iPod

So, I did a talk at a Flex event in Vancouver that Adobe put on a couple weeks ago, and Scott and I decided to do a survey to get information about how we should price our upcoming workshops.  Instead of asking people what they wanted to pay, we decided to do a contest asking people what they thought the average answer would be.  The winner would get a 16 GB iPod Touch.  If we got real data from a room full of our potential target audience, this would be the best $300 we could possibly spend..

So, we handed out surveys, I did my talk, and everything went really well.  Except, however, that I was left having to email someone to tell them that they had won an iPod Touch.  Can you say spam filter?  Oops.

Anyway, I wrote something that I was hopeful would not get spam-filtered.  No response.  So, I waited a few days and replied to it.  This made it through.

So, congratulations to Arnold Chang, who submitted the best guesses!

And if I’m going to give away an iPod, I at least need to do a cheesy marketing photo.  So, hooray for Photo Booth:

The workshop schedule and pricing will be announced soon, by the way.  Thanks to everyone who responded…