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does this line of reasoning only apply to gifts? would you keep a $1000 my little pony if you won it?

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Haha, "my little pony", excellent reference, and yea I'd probably give it away to my little cousin or donate it to a kid's toy drive before selling it. Though one wonders why I would enter such a contest in the first place.
And to be clear, the Xbox will not be collecting dust, far from it. I probably wouldn't have bought one (unless they started realeasing the Final Fantasy games exclusively on there), but I'll still get plenty of use out of the thing.

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another forum wanted to see pics, so I figured id x-post.

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Yo, he's obviously a nice guy who is slightly sentimental instead of being uber rational all the time. Is there a reason you want to fight against that? Just let him be a slightly hypocritical nice guy. What's the harm in that?

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if I saw everyone who won it selling there's I would probably be doubly so.

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Ouch!

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Seriously get Perfect Dark Zero that game looks sick.

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that is an incredibly stupid reason.

maybe you shouldn't spend money anymore because other people would buy grain or drinking water with it.

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I don't think so. If I was a hardcore gamer who tried for five weeks to win one and didn't get lucky, I might be annoyed, if I saw everyone who won it selling there's I would probably be doubly so. I know there are some people who really wanted the system to play who entered the contest like 2000 times and didn't win, and some parents who tried to win every hour because they don't have much money and wanted to give their kid a really cool Christmas present. We can agree to disagree, but IMO selling it would be kind of a d*ck move.

Last year I won three ipods (pepsi is good to me), again I could have easily sold them, you might remember the ipod craze was in full effect last holiday season, but I kept one and gave the other two to friends.

I dunno, maybe I'm a sucker.

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You're right, you are a sucker. That doesn't mean you're not a nice guy or there's anything inherently all that bad about being a sucker. But you are one.

Nice move thinking about your brother when it came to the system, though.

But still, I think your reasoning on making the very least of your luck is pretty shaky. You really don't owe strangers a thing, virtually none of whom would have any way of knowing what you did with anything you won anyway.

Heck, if you want to do good, drop a couple bucks on a charity from the profits selling the X-box. People entering competitions for free stuff are just really not the right people to feel sorry for at all.

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Heck, if you want to do good, drop a couple bucks on a charity from the profits selling the X-box

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and this suggestion will tangibly benefit people.

i'm not 'against people being nice'. this is literally like he was handed a check for $800 and he wouldn't cash it because it had a picture of spongebob squarepants.

he could even sell it on ebay and buy another one after it's released.

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hahahahahaahahahahahahaha

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i'm not 'against people being nice'. this is literally like he was handed a check for $800 and he wouldn't cash it because it had a picture of spongebob squarepants.

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crap. my analogy was very much along this line... i will move along now.

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you HAVE to get this face plate....

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