Amazon Giveaway not Pentax, but Canon but $18K worth can buy lots of Pentax Gear

[brecklundin]

I don't visit much these days, but was doing some grocery shopping on Amazon and ran across some sorta sweepstakes giveaway thingy...week 6 caught my eye:

Amazon.com: Amazon.com Wish List 10th Anniversary Sweepstakes Week 6

Basically it's photo vacation to Yellowstone (or Jellystone if your name is Yogi or BooBoo... ) along with about $10k-$15k worth of Canon gear including a new 7D.

I know odds are nobody here will win, but, hey, if ya don't enter ya can't win...I have it on my calendar to enter most every week...not sure if you can win more than once, I know, fat freaking chance, but wanna be sure on the camera gear contest...here is the Grand prize List:

From Amazon:

Prize. We will award 1 Grand Prize consisting of a trip for 2 to Yellowstone National Park and a variety of photography equipment. The Grand Prize includes:

• Round trip coach class air transportation for 2 to Bozeman, MT departing from the major airport nearest to Grand Prize winner’s home
• 2 nights’ standard hotel accommodations (double occupancy) at the Old Faithful Lodge
• Rental car for 3 days
• The opportunity to have a private photography lesson with photographer Adam Jones (for 1 person only)
• A Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera (body only);
• A Canon 200DG Digital Camera Gadget Bag;
• A Canon Deluxe 200 Tripod;
• A Canon Speedlite 580EX II Flash;
• A Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM UD Wide Angle Zoom Lens;
• A Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM Lens;
• A Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens;
• A Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM 1-to-1 Macro Lens;
• A Canon EW-78E Lens Hood for a Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens;
• A Canon ET-73 Lens Hood for a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro Lens; and
• Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler’s Companion to the National Park, by Janet Chapple.

Keep the gear for the trip, probably only way to get it free, use it for the heck of it, then sell most of it when you get back and buy LOTS of Pentax gear...

They estimate the total value at about $18k...it does not suck...anyway, just figured I would pass it along...if ya win...have fun! I will hate you but like that matters!

[Nass]

fyi - US only

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by Nass

fyi - US only

good point....but well.... hehehehe....not like that matters to me so I kinda never thought about that fact.

Maybe they are running something similar on the Amazon UK site and any other Amazon sites servicing the globe.

[séamuis]

id love to win that. take the trip, and then sell all the gear. buy myself a new K-7 and a ridiculous amount of Takumar lenses. oh and the FA43 that I have been meaning to buy, but always get side tracked.

[Eruditass]

nice - how do we enter? add anything to a new wish list each day??

edit:doh nov 9, i just added a bunch of canon stuff to a wishlist, lol

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by séamuis

id love to win that. take the trip, and then sell all the gear. buy myself a new K-7 and a ridiculous amount of Takumar lenses. oh and the FA43 that I have been meaning to buy, but always get side tracked.

hehehe...GMTA!!

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by Eruditass

nice - how do we enter? add anything to a new wish list each day??

edit:doh nov 9, i just added a bunch of canon stuff to a wishlist, lol

I am glad you found some way, you know other than READING the details on the linked page, that helped you enter...cuz, if ya don't bet you can't win, right?

BTW, you dinaw wanna read my impulse answer...