http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/13607
Want to know who won Adorama's contests and promotions? Here's the list of recent and current contests that Adorama has run or co-sponsored and winners, if they've been chosen. This will be updated as new winners are selected.
Giants Superbowl In-Store Contest
Prize: Samsung 60-inch HD Flatscreen TV plus Adorama will host and cater A party for 20
Ended: 1/26/12
Winner: Steven Kessler
My Four Hens Photography (Facebook Contest)
Prize: Canon 5D Mark ii ($2500 value)
Ended 1/17/12
Winner: To Be Announced by My Four Hens
PDN Top Knot Photography Blog
Prize: 8 $100 and 1 $500 gift cards ($1300 value)
Ended: 1/15/12
Winner: To Be Announced by PDN
Adorama Giants Twitter Contest
Prize: Canon t3i ($650 value)
Ended: 11/1/11
Winner: To Be Annouced
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Why can't you tell me how many customers ahead of me for a back-ordered item?
I’d like throw something out there in relation to the b/order lists and customer expectation........With new releases and hard-to-obtain units, many customers place multiple orders across several retailers - often 7, 8 or more. I actually heard today of someone with 20 back-orders in for the new Canon MKIII!!!
So if you imagine, the first retailer to unpack their delivery fulfils say 100 back-orders. Customers receiving shipping notices cancel their orders at all other retailers so everyone else on every retailer’s pre-order list moves up 100 places immediately.
If this pattern is repeated across 6 retailers on the same day, the person who was number 650 at the retailer who unpacks their delivery last will receive his unit the same day, even if he ordered from a retailer who only received a consignment of 50 units - and even if he placed his order 3 weeks after everybody else!
It sounds a bit simplistic, I know, but it is pretty much how it works.
In addition, retailers will almost never have any idea whether we will receive 20 units, 200 or 2000 until the trailers are unloaded and the units are logged into our stock-keeping system. because manufacturers keep both the ETA and the quantity they are shipping close to their chests.
This is why most reputable retailers simply don’t give out waiting list info. The ones who do, will be at best making an educated guess, and then ‘losing’ a percentage of them to encourage customers to place an order.
So if you imagine, the first retailer to unpack their delivery fulfils say 100 back-orders. Customers receiving shipping notices cancel their orders at all other retailers so everyone else on every retailer’s pre-order list moves up 100 places immediately.
If this pattern is repeated across 6 retailers on the same day, the person who was number 650 at the retailer who unpacks their delivery last will receive his unit the same day, even if he ordered from a retailer who only received a consignment of 50 units - and even if he placed his order 3 weeks after everybody else!
It sounds a bit simplistic, I know, but it is pretty much how it works.
In addition, retailers will almost never have any idea whether we will receive 20 units, 200 or 2000 until the trailers are unloaded and the units are logged into our stock-keeping system. because manufacturers keep both the ETA and the quantity they are shipping close to their chests.
This is why most reputable retailers simply don’t give out waiting list info. The ones who do, will be at best making an educated guess, and then ‘losing’ a percentage of them to encourage customers to place an order.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Want to win a Canon 7D OR a Nikon 300s from Adorama?
Your Best Shot 2011 Contest
Contest Details – Please Read Carefully!
How to enter:
1. You must be a facebook fan of Adoramapix.com and post your one image onto our wall.
2. You must then submit same image – high resolution to : events@adoramapix.com
3. You Must do Both to be entered to win!
4. Image must have been captured in the year 2011.
The Prizes:
1. Grand Prize (1 winner): Estimated Value: $1700.00
- Your Choice either a Canon 7D OR a Nikon 300s
2. Top 12 Runner Ups: Estimated Value: $25.00
- Each top 12 Runner Up will win an 8x8” -14 page Adoramapix photo book with the winning entries displayed
Dates to Know:
The Deadline: February 29, 2012
A team of Adoramapix Judges will then choose the top 25 images based on technical and artistic ability.
The Vote: March 5-March 12th, 2012
The top 25 images will be posted on the Adoramapix Blog. Adoramapix members will then pick their favorites from the 25 images posted. The top 12 images that receive the most votes will be awarded the Best of 2011 8x8” -14 page Adoramapix Photo Book.
The Winner Announced: March 15
A team of Adoramapix Judges will choose the Grand Prize Winner out of the top 12 Best of 2011 winners.
Official Rules: All general Adoramapix Contest Rules Apply
If you are not a fan of these contests, please don’t participate. We’ll continue to try to find new contests and new prizes that will make it fun and interesting to be a part of the Adoramapix community. Thank you for your support.
Contest Details – Please Read Carefully!
How to enter:
1. You must be a facebook fan of Adoramapix.com and post your one image onto our wall.
2. You must then submit same image – high resolution to : events@adoramapix.com
3. You Must do Both to be entered to win!
4. Image must have been captured in the year 2011.
The Prizes:
1. Grand Prize (1 winner): Estimated Value: $1700.00
- Your Choice either a Canon 7D OR a Nikon 300s
2. Top 12 Runner Ups: Estimated Value: $25.00
- Each top 12 Runner Up will win an 8x8” -14 page Adoramapix photo book with the winning entries displayed
Dates to Know:
The Deadline: February 29, 2012
A team of Adoramapix Judges will then choose the top 25 images based on technical and artistic ability.
The Vote: March 5-March 12th, 2012
The top 25 images will be posted on the Adoramapix Blog. Adoramapix members will then pick their favorites from the 25 images posted. The top 12 images that receive the most votes will be awarded the Best of 2011 8x8” -14 page Adoramapix Photo Book.
The Winner Announced: March 15
A team of Adoramapix Judges will choose the Grand Prize Winner out of the top 12 Best of 2011 winners.
Official Rules: All general Adoramapix Contest Rules Apply
If you are not a fan of these contests, please don’t participate. We’ll continue to try to find new contests and new prizes that will make it fun and interesting to be a part of the Adoramapix community. Thank you for your support.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Seeing is Believing! Amazing Photo Book offer from AdoramaPix
Seeing is Believing! 14-page 8x8 photo books are now only $11.95. Code: BELIEVE Expires 01.31.2012 [Prepaids and Leather-Lux Albums not included]. http://blog.adoramapix.com/2012/01/13/seeing-is-believing/
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Win a Canon 7d or a Nikon 300s camera body!!
Want to win a Canon 7d or a Nikon 300s camera body? Better keep an eye on my Tweets!
Details to be announced, shortly............
http://twitter.com/HelenOster
@HelenOster
Helen@adorama.com
Helen Oster
Adorama Camera Customer Service Ambassador
Details to be announced, shortly............
http://twitter.com/HelenOster
@HelenOster
Helen@adorama.com
Helen Oster
Adorama Camera Customer Service Ambassador
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Adorama Camera, Olympus & WFAN Radio contest
Win one of 20 Olympus Pen E-PM1 Camera Kits with Adorama Camera, Olympus & WFAN Radio!
Adorama Camera is giving away a Olympus Pen E-PM1 Camera Kit every weekday for the next 3 weeks to a total of 20 people!
(http://www.adorama.com/IOMEPM1WHS.html)
We’ll have cool and simple contests going out over Adorama's Twitter and Facebook channels - and you can enter every day.
Share the info with your fans and followers, and give more people the opportunity to join - and hopefully you'll be an Adorama winner,
Keep an eye on the Adorama Camera Facebook and Twitter feed for the daily announcement of each day's contest and the previous day's winner!
http://twitter.com/#!/adorama
https://www.facebook.com/Adorama
Good Luck!
Adorama Camera is giving away a Olympus Pen E-PM1 Camera Kit every weekday for the next 3 weeks to a total of 20 people!
(http://www.adorama.com/IOMEPM1WHS.html)
We’ll have cool and simple contests going out over Adorama's Twitter and Facebook channels - and you can enter every day.
Share the info with your fans and followers, and give more people the opportunity to join - and hopefully you'll be an Adorama winner,
Keep an eye on the Adorama Camera Facebook and Twitter feed for the daily announcement of each day's contest and the previous day's winner!
http://twitter.com/#!/adorama
https://www.facebook.com/Adorama
Good Luck!
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The kindest people I've Never met
The title of this blog may be confusing, but no, it isn't a typo!
I want to tell you a story about a very special couple that neither I nor the little boy at the center of the story have ever met, and yet I want their spontaneous act of kindness to be recognized. It is a reminder that in this cynical world there are kindnesses that can never be repaid, because they touch our hearts. And you simply can't buy that!
For the past 18 months, Alex has been running a pet care business in his small town in Israel. He gets up an hour early to walk dogs and feed cats for people who are away from home, and still get to school on time. He charges $1 an hour and has a client list that many would be amazed at – but he is only just 12-years old. (There’s a Richard Branson / Warren Buffet in the making!)
He wanted to buy a camera (which is where I come in) and having read great reviews about Adorama Camera he decided to buy a Canon refurb point-and-shoot. So far so good. But the shipping costs meant that he’d have to put off his purchase while he continued to save so he came up with a plan.
Friends of Alex’s parents were going to be visiting the US so he arranged with them that the camera would be shipped to their hotel, the Platinum Pebble Boutique Inn a "Cape Cod bed and breakfast" in Massachusetts (http://www.platinumpebble.com/)
Unfortunately, the camera arrived at the hotel a day after the friends had checked out and were already on their way back to Israel.
Asking around her friends Alex’s Mum found someone who would be travelling to the US within 6 weeks, but sadly not close enough to the Platinum Pebble Inn to be able to collect it. She sent an email to the hotel owners, Simon and Annabelle Hunton to explain the situation, and naturally, Alex’s Mum asked them to bill her credit card for the shipping costs and their time.
3 days later she received the following email:
Hi
The package has been sent today to your friend. I would guess it'll be with them on Wed/Thur of this week.
Don't worry about the costs!
Kind regards
Simon
So, a little boy in Israel is finally going to get his camera from Adorama. If I were going to be travelling to the Cape Cod area there is no doubt that I’d make the Platinum Pebble my first stop! But I’m not. I'll have to content myself with reading their blog: http://www.capecodinns.com/blog/
So all I can do is thank Simon & Annabelle, on Alex’s behalf, for their generosity. I guess it's unusual to find that there really are still people who consider kindness and compassion to others to be more important than commercial opportunity.
I hope this story inspires you as it did me, and wish you a life filled with blessings, kind deeds and acts of loving kindness.
I want to tell you a story about a very special couple that neither I nor the little boy at the center of the story have ever met, and yet I want their spontaneous act of kindness to be recognized. It is a reminder that in this cynical world there are kindnesses that can never be repaid, because they touch our hearts. And you simply can't buy that!
For the past 18 months, Alex has been running a pet care business in his small town in Israel. He gets up an hour early to walk dogs and feed cats for people who are away from home, and still get to school on time. He charges $1 an hour and has a client list that many would be amazed at – but he is only just 12-years old. (There’s a Richard Branson / Warren Buffet in the making!)
He wanted to buy a camera (which is where I come in) and having read great reviews about Adorama Camera he decided to buy a Canon refurb point-and-shoot. So far so good. But the shipping costs meant that he’d have to put off his purchase while he continued to save so he came up with a plan.
Friends of Alex’s parents were going to be visiting the US so he arranged with them that the camera would be shipped to their hotel, the Platinum Pebble Boutique Inn a "Cape Cod bed and breakfast" in Massachusetts (http://www.platinumpebble.com/)
Unfortunately, the camera arrived at the hotel a day after the friends had checked out and were already on their way back to Israel.
Asking around her friends Alex’s Mum found someone who would be travelling to the US within 6 weeks, but sadly not close enough to the Platinum Pebble Inn to be able to collect it. She sent an email to the hotel owners, Simon and Annabelle Hunton to explain the situation, and naturally, Alex’s Mum asked them to bill her credit card for the shipping costs and their time.
3 days later she received the following email:
Hi
The package has been sent today to your friend. I would guess it'll be with them on Wed/Thur of this week.
Don't worry about the costs!
Kind regards
Simon
So, a little boy in Israel is finally going to get his camera from Adorama. If I were going to be travelling to the Cape Cod area there is no doubt that I’d make the Platinum Pebble my first stop! But I’m not. I'll have to content myself with reading their blog: http://www.capecodinns.com/blog/
So all I can do is thank Simon & Annabelle, on Alex’s behalf, for their generosity. I guess it's unusual to find that there really are still people who consider kindness and compassion to others to be more important than commercial opportunity.
I hope this story inspires you as it did me, and wish you a life filled with blessings, kind deeds and acts of loving kindness.
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