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Pizza Hut Tempts Gamers With a $10,000 Gaming Setup

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lead-me-not-into-temptation dept.

Now when you are trying to decide which late-night temple of crusty dough and burnt cheese gets your dinner vote, there may be an extra moment's pause for Pizza Hut. Along with a free 30-day GameFly membership, you also have the chance to win the gaming setup of a decade. Including a Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, and a 60-inch plasma TV, this package would be sure to make any gamer's heart skip a beat. Unfortunately, it also means you have to break that typical gamer diet of soy and bean curd, good luck.

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  1. Re:A fucking sweepstakes? by bdcrazy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Be the 50th caller to win a change to be in a raffle to compete to possibly win a game piece.

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  2. Re:Where the $10,000 goes. by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're assuming they bought it all at retail, and, in the case of the Wii, markup beyond retail. That's a fairly unlikely assumption.

    (And what's with your numbers for the consoles anyways? I can't find anything on the linked pages to support your prices at all, if we go by cheapest they're $285, $315, and $195 for the PS3, 360, and Wii respectively. If we go by actual retail the prices are $399, $350 or $450 (basic and elite), and $250 for the PS3, 360, and Wii respectively. All my data was taken off Amazon's prices, which mirror standard retail in 90% of cases, except the Wii which was simply priced according to my knowledge of the system's prices.)

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  3. Re:Enter without a pizza by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More like sell the Wii on ebay and buy a $10,000 gaming workstation :P.

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  4. Re:I usually don't complain... by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Personally I just wish with a lot of those contests, that they weren't restricted to the US, I'm just a poor silly dutch boy who would like to win some cool gaming gear :)

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  5. Personal computers by Mishra100 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Although I don't care about these contests, I wonder why the PC wasn't added.

    Is it because it's not popular anymore?

    Or is it because a 3000 dollar addition is a little too much?

  6. Hmm.... by sesshomaru · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Hmm, so basically, I have a choice of a real pizza or a Pizza Hut pizza with an incredibly small chance of winning an ultimate gaming set up.

    I'll take the real pizza, please.

    Incidentally, anyone remember Pizza the Hut from Spaceballs? He was cool. (I'm just trying to make this article somewhat relevant to this site.)

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