[i_rooster]

if you follow this:

http://kcp.codepoets.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6479

"Microsoft has a form on their website that you can fill out to get a copy of Windows XP SP2 on CD at no charge (with free shipping by Purolator).

I ordered one.

Then, at the Order Confirmation screen, I clicked Back, then Refresh, then Retry (since the form had to be posted again). I did this 149 times.

I got 150 order-confirmation emails.

At this point, I figured the monkey sticking the labels on the envelopes would get really familiar with my name and start asking questions, or that they would get wise and send me a box of 150 of them.

So you can imagine my surprise when I get a call from Purolator saying "we have two huge bags of envelopes here for you, please come pick them up at the depot on Grant Timmins Drive".

So I go pick them up this afternoon, and the poor counterperson has to scan every single one of them. After they were all opened and put into one bag, here's what it looked like:



They were even nice enough to thank me for my order over and over again! Which is amusing, since considering the cost of the CD ($1), envelope ($1), and shipping by Purolator ($5 with a huge volume agreement?), this cost Microsoft...

Drum roll, please...

$1,050.

While I'm at it, I might as well share the bounty. Do you want one of these? If so, drop into KCP and pick one up; I left 120 of them there with Thomas. Smile And buy something while you're there!

Does anyone dare me to put in 3,000 orders? Twisted Evil

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[i_rooster]

if you are inspired:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...s/default.mspx

[Xeo]

I was limited to 5. I don't need them. I just want Microsoft to pay to send them to me.

I have Windows users around me anyway. I'll give 'em out.

[edit] If you change your e-mail address, it lets you submit it 5 more times. Haha. And since my mail server supports suffixes, I just add a "-#" to the end of the e-mail and submit again. My college post office is gonna have a fun time when these arrive.

I'm gonna make some kind of art out of the CDs when they come.

[i_rooster]

Originally posted by Xeo:
I was limited to 5. I don't need them. I just want Microsoft to pay to send them to me.

I have Windows users around me anyway. I'll give 'em out.

yeah, they probably wisened up!

[mdc]

lol. $1050 heh heh heh

[MindFad]

That is awesome! Way to go. Though that is probably only the cost of one of Bill's rolls of toilet paper.

[storer]

i did this but i only got 1... im surprised microsoft didn't pick that up... i mean, they are supposed to be smart.

[davidflas]

I just ordered 5 of them, and I don't even have a pc!! I feels good sticking it to the man!

[Mithras]

Does anyone know someone in Afghanistan who needs their XP SP2 CDs? Or someone in American Somoa?

Let's see... the American Embassy probably needs some!

American Embassy
The Great Masoud Road,
Kabul, Afghanistan
TelÂ_ (00 93) (2)Â_ 230-0436

Or, uh, perhaps the Quality School International would appreciate some?

District 9, Shash Darak
Nashanas Street
(Ali Baba House)
Kabul, Afghanistan

[rozwado1]

Good post rooster. Welcome to NN.

[drive-thru]

"Microsoft limits the quantity of Windows XP Service Pack 2 CD-ROMs that may be ordered by a single customer to 5 CD-ROMs. Please note that 1 CD can be installed on several computers running Windows XP, and can be shared with others. Accordingly, you may not order more than the 5 CD-ROMs limit."

Should still get my 5 though

[DeathToWindows]

Ha! If I did that, my dorm mailroom would have my balls.

[amsalpemkcus]

Neat! Someone should write a script to automate the process and go through the yellow pages/phone book. After all 90% of the users need to patch!! Anyway, the next spammer with an addy in my email gets some.

[amsalpemkcus]

nm

[drive-thru]

i_rooster: you should have made sure you got all 150 and weren't short-changed.
Even if you did get all of them, you should call customer services anyway and say you only got 147.
Having said that you're probably on their blacklist already.

[MilkmanDan]

I should try and have them sent to Japan. That'll show them.

[MaxPower2k3]

if you own a domain that has a catch-all email account, then you can put in any email address at your domain and it will go to the catch-all, so you can do that as many times as you'd like.


cool idea, rooster.

[Xeo]

Originally posted by MaxPower2k3:
if you own a domain that has a catch-all email account, then you can put in any email address at your domain and it will go to the catch-all, so you can do that as many times as you'd like.


cool idea, rooster.

As I was saying, my e-mail account supports address delimiters (can't think of the actual name off the top of my head) so I just hit back and entered xeo-1, xeo-2, xeo-3, xeo-4, etc, etc, and actually got the confirmations from them all. Pretty cool.

[MilkmanDan]

Originally posted by Xeo:
As I was saying, my e-mail account supports address delimiters (can't think of the actual name off the top of my head) so I just hit back and entered xeo-1, xeo-2, xeo-3, xeo-4, etc, etc, and actually got the confirmations from them all. Pretty cool.

Wow, now the poor students working at the Gustavus Adolphus College post office can deal with your many Windows CDs.

Maybe you should drop them off at the IT department, and address them to 'Bruce.'

(For those of you who don't go there, he's the IT department head without a clue. IT policy was to never give him the root password to anything, because he may try and use it)

[Xeo]

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Wow, now the poor students working at the Gustavus Adolphus College post office can deal with your many Windows CDs.

Maybe you should drop them off at the IT department, and address them to 'Bruce.'

(For those of you who don't go there, he's the IT department head without a clue. IT policy was to never give him the root password to anything, because he may try and use it)

If I didn't already have a few dozen coming, I'd start addressing them from MS to Bruce here at the school. Imagine his surprise if one day the post office sent him e-mail saying he has 50 packages and they all end up to be SP2.

[MilkmanDan]

Originally posted by Xeo:
If I didn't already have a few dozen coming, I'd start addressing them from MS to Bruce here at the school. Imagine his surprise if one day the post office sent him e-mail saying he has 50 packages and they all end up to be SP2.

50 to Bruce, 50 to Joyce, and 50 to Tammi. That'd be totally funny. Seeing how we get a new virus warning every damn week. (I like how at the top they all say something to the effect "This e-mail does not concern Macintosh users')

[MilkmanDan]

I'm sending a few CDs to female techie I really dislike on campus. Maybe she'll get the hint. Too bad I'm not in the country to see her face when she gets 15.

[Luca Rescigno]

You should give one to a friend of mine who lives at GAC. Do you know an Indian guy named Kiran by any chance? He could probably stand to update his computer, because knowing him, he saw it in Windows Update and said "F this."

[MacMan4000]

Im sending 5 to my high school's director of students... AKA the guy you go to see when you get in trouble.

[tooki]

OK, those of you who are ordering multiple copies just to "stick it to the man" are ****ing stupid.

Do you think the IT directors will use those discs? No, they'll put them straight in the trash.

Is it costing MS much? No, they don't give a crap, they'll just write it off their taxes and save money in the end by claiming they're being charitable by giving away a CD worth $20 for free and write that much $ off the taxes.

Instead, who pays the bill? The environment. The plastic to make the CD. The packing material. The fuel burned in shipping of all the raw materials. The fuel burned in shipping the finished product to you.*

You should all be ashamed.

I ordered ONE disc because I use XP Pro in Virtual PC.

tooki

*Yes, I realize AOL is worse. AOL is horribly environmentally irresponsible.

[i_rooster]

Originally posted by tooki:
****ing stupid.

sheesh, nevermind!

[storer]

Originally posted by tooki:
OK, those of you who are ordering multiple copies just to "stick it to the man" are ****ing stupid.
Do you think the IT directors will use those discs? No, they'll put them straight in the trash.
Is it costing MS much? No, they don't give a crap, they'll just write it off their taxes and save money in the end by claiming they're being charitable by giving away a CD worth $20 for free and write that much $ off the taxes.
Instead, who pays the bill? The environment. The plastic to make the CD. The packing material. The fuel burned in shipping of all the raw materials. The fuel burned in shipping the finished product to you.*
tooki

to the tookimeister! thats true.

[MindFad]

Originally posted by i_rooster:
sheesh, nevermind!

Yeah, could you stop destroying the environment already? I think it was satire. Of all the things to whine about, all the millions of people buying or burning CD-Rs every day, the ordering of multiple Microsoft Service Packs on CD is obviously on top of the environment concerns list.

[Nodnarb]

Originally posted by tooki:
OK, those of you who are ordering multiple copies just to "stick it to the man" are ****ing stupid.

Do you think the IT directors will use those discs? No, they'll put them straight in the trash.

Is it costing MS much? No, they don't give a crap, they'll just write it off their taxes and save money in the end by claiming they're being charitable by giving away a CD worth $20 for free and write that much $ off the taxes.

Instead, who pays the bill? The environment. The plastic to make the CD. The packing material. The fuel burned in shipping of all the raw materials. The fuel burned in shipping the finished product to you.*

You should all be ashamed.

I ordered ONE disc because I use XP Pro in Virtual PC.

tooki

*Yes, I realize AOL is worse. AOL is horribly environmentally irresponsible.

That is one of the stupidist things I've heard in a while. People here are just having fun screwing microsoft but they should all be "ashamed". How come moderators can say ****ing, and call people ****ing stupid, while everyone else cannot? That's ****ing stupid. And I think tooki's ****ing stupid for doing that. And I can't get banned for this, because if I do so should tooki.
Oh and **** the environment.

[tooki]

But you're not screwing MS. As I said, they're probably making a profit on this.

You gain nothing, MS wins, the taxpayer loses, and the environment loses.

I stand by every word I said.

tooki

P.S. Mods and admins are still entitled to opinions.
P.P.S. The censorship filter applies to me, too. I just happen to know how to evade it (no special privileges needed).

[amsalpemkcus]

Originally posted by brandon420506:
That is one of the stupidist things I've heard in a while. People here are just having fun screwing microsoft but they should all be "ashamed". How come moderators can say ****ing, and call people ****ing stupid, while everyone else cannot? That's ****ing stupid. And I think tooki's ****ing stupid for doing that. And I can't get banned for this, because if I do so should tooki.
Oh and ****ing the environment.

fixed!

PS: IBL or IBB of course!

[MindFad]

Originally posted by tooki:
But you're not screwing MS. As I said, they're probably making a profit on this.

How would they be gaining from shipping out more than needed CDs and paying the shipping?

You gain nothing, MS wins, the taxpayer loses, and the environment loses.

You gain nothing but a laugh on a message board, MS spends more on shipping, and the environment probably doesn't care about the infinitesimal effects of a CD-R.

I stand by every word I said.

Well, more power to ya, even if it doesn't make much sense in the grand scheme of environmental issues to throw a fit about it. And use a nasty curse word, of all things!

This is like having a fit over eyedropper's drip worth of too much water in an olympic-sized pool.

tooki

P.S. Mods and admins are still entitled to opinions.
P.P.S. The censorship filter applies to me, too. I just happen to know how to evade it (no special privileges needed).

They're also entitled to blatantly break the rules and be hypocrites about it, too? I mean, you bitch people out or ban them when they do such things. Aren't we not supposed to evade the ****ing rules?

[Gankdawg]

Originally posted by MindFad:
and the environment probably doesn't care about the infinitesimal effects of a CD-R.

How nice that you used the word probably.

This nonsense of ordering CDs that aren't needed will affect the environment -- they will take up space in land fills.

[amsalpemkcus]

Originally posted by tooki:
But you're not screwing MS. As I said, they're probably making a profit on this.

You gain nothing, MS wins, the taxpayer loses, and the environment loses.

I stand by every word I said.

tooki

P.S. Mods and admins are still entitled to opinions.
P.P.S. The censorship filter applies to me, too. I just happen to know how to evade it (no special privileges needed).

sounds like a severe case of PMS to me, but of course it could also be viagra overdose

[MindFad]

Originally posted by Gankdawg:
How nice that you used the word probably.

This nonsense of ordering CDs that aren't needed will affect the environment -- they will take up space in land fills.

As will everything else. You could give them away, no? Why doesn't everyone **** their pants when someone gets a new Mac or lists the last 45 Mac they've owned?

"OMG, another dual G5? THAT **** IS GOING TO BE IN A LANDFILL SOMEWHERE, YOU KNOW!!11"

I don't mind whining. Just not stupid whining.

[Nodnarb]

Originally posted by MindFad:
How would they be gaining from shipping out more than needed CDs and paying the shipping?



You gain nothing but a laugh on a message board, MS spends more on shipping, and the environment probably doesn't care about the infinitesimal effects of a CD-R.

[/b]

Well, more power to ya, even if it doesn't make much sense in the grand scheme of environmental issues to throw a fit about it. And use a nasty curse word, of all things!

This is like having a fit over eyedropper's drip worth of too much water in an olympic-sized pool.



They're also entitled to blatantly break the rules and be hypocrites about it, too? I mean, you bitch people out or ban them when they do such things. Aren't we not supposed to evade the ****ing rules? [/B]

And after quoting that message, I now see how to evade the ***'s so to quote the great words of eric cartman:
"**** ****ity **** **** ****"

[TheBadgerHunter]

Baa

[Nodnarb]

Originally posted by MindFad:
As will everything else. You could give them away, no? Why doesn't everyone **** their pants when someone gets a new Mac or lists the last 45 Mac they've owned?

"OMG, another dual G5? THAT **** IS GOING TO BE IN A LANDFILL SOMEWHERE, YOU KNOW!!11"

I don't mind whining. Just not stupid whining.

Exactly. If you are that concerned about environmental issues, go protest styrofoam cups or target oil companys. I hardly think a few cd's, or even a few thousand will make any damn difference at all. This is not even close to an environmental issue which is why I was saying it is retarted to say the people should be "ashamed" becuase they are dooming our planet by filling up our landiflls with CD's. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

[Nodnarb]

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
Baa

Ha, nice edit. In case you didn't figure it out already (which you probably have), you use [] instead of <>

[Gankdawg]

Originally posted by MindFad:
As will everything else. You could give them away, no? Why doesn't everyone **** their pants when someone gets a new Mac or lists the last 45 Mac they've owned?

I agree with "as will everything else". Why doesn't everyone **** their pants? Ask everyone else. I can't stand AOL et al sending out millions of discs that just end up going straight into the trash. Same goes for junk mail.

I don't mind whining. Just not stupid whining.

STFU and quit your whining. About everything. It's getting really old.

[MindFad]

Well, fine!

[Xeo]

Originally posted by tooki:
Is it costing MS much? No, they don't give a crap, they'll just write it off their taxes and save money in the end by claiming they're being charitable by giving away a CD worth $20 for free and write that much $ off the taxes.

I don't buy it. How can this be counted as charity? They are offering to send out CDs so that when some virus comes out that could have been stopped by SP2, MS can avoid responsibility by saying, "we offered the update to everyone, even those without broadband." I highly doubt this could count as a tax writeoff.

Lighten up.

[fireside]

you get mail, more like you get male.

[MindFad]

Originally posted by fireside:
you get mail, more like you get male.

This post was gay.

[amsalpemkcus]

Originally posted by MindFad:
This post was gay.

there is more, i mean i've seen more

[tooki]

Originally posted by Xeo:
I don't buy it. How can this be counted as charity? They are offering to send out CDs so that when some virus comes out that could have been stopped by SP2, MS can avoid responsibility by saying, "we offered the update to everyone, even those without broadband." I highly doubt this could count as a tax writeoff.

Lighten up.

Charitable does not primarily mean "promoting a charity". It means benevolent or generous.

They could say that they are giving away discs worth $20 (they can invent whatever resale value they want) and say they're an expense, and thus subtract them from revenue, thus reducing tax liability. Believe me, they've got accountants who figure out how to turn everything into a loss, as far as tax liability is concerned.

I still believe it's reckless, irresponsible, and incredibly juvenile to think you are doing anything positive, from any point of view, by ordering more CDs than you need.

tooki

[MilkmanDan]

Originally posted by tooki:
Charitable does not primarily mean "promoting a charity". It means benevolent or generous.

They could say that they are giving away discs worth $20 (they can invent whatever resale value they want) and say they're an expense, and thus subtract them from revenue, thus reducing tax liability. Believe me, they've got accountants who figure out how to turn everything into a loss, as far as tax liability is concerned.

I still believe it's reckless, irresponsible, and incredibly juvenile to think you are doing anything positive, from any point of view, by ordering more CDs than you need.

tooki

Actually, MS and most major companies keep spend a lot of money avoiding taxes in general, and the whole deal with CD worth $20 is a drop in the bucket. Honestly, do you think MS is really concerned about taxes? Most major companies claim their company headquarters in a state that has friendly tax laws, thus avoiding a lot of taxes. Apple does this, IBM does this, MS does this. Honestly, do you think anyone pays taxes in those big companies?

Oh, sending lots of CDs to my college IT department or a dumb techie on campus isn't 'sticking it to the man' (the man always wins), its a joke to our dumb college IT department. If you lived through network shutdowns and tons of 'update your windows install' e-mail every week, you'd want to send them a joke package also.

Chill dude, chilllllll......

[brapper]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by tooki:
OK, those of you who are ordering multiple copies just to "stick it to the man" are ****ing stupid.



I ordered ONE disc because I use XP Pro in Virtual PC.

When didn't you just download it?
....not that I don't agree with you in principle.

[brapper]

Originally posted by tooki:
Charitable does not primarily mean "promoting a charity". It means benevolent or generous.

They could say that they are giving away discs worth $20 (they can invent whatever resale value they want) and say they're an expense, and thus subtract them from revenue, thus reducing tax liability. Believe me, they've got accountants who figure out how to turn everything into a loss, as far as tax liability is concerned.

I still believe it's reckless, irresponsible, and incredibly juvenile to think you are doing anything positive, from any point of view, by ordering more CDs than you need.

tooki

Who had more forum power, an Admin or a Moderator?
just wondering....

[tooki]

Admins have more power, but what difference does it make? I could have (and likely would have) said every word I said even if I were a normal member. Nothing I said was with the admin hat on.

tooki