But everyone should keep in mind this is not some official state lottery. This is a nice little perk Andy provides. Let's not ruin it lol
This exactly!
As stated this wasn't some official state lottery, nor was it an official give-away with a bunch of legal disclaimers that we see on official give-aways when companies like Coca-Cola do give-aways.
Andy was under no obligation to give away $5,000 worth of cameras as a fun little promotion and give-away, and we should all hope the comments don't deter him from doing it again in the future.
Technical glitches happen and this wasn't some ill-intended deliberate election rigging scheme LOL.
I was fortunate enough to be a wheel-spinner and I assure you a mistake can happen very easily, not only when passing it off to another person, but even within your own spins. One thing I saw after spinning a number and one was selected is that it gave you the option button to remove that number for future spins. When you selected the remove option, up at the top of the screen that the other spinners may not have seen was a small sliding countdown to remove the number. If you started the spin for the next number before that slider was stopped, the number wasn't removed and that is probably how the same number was pulled more than once. Or you could manually remove the number.
Having different people pick brings excitement to the game and should help ensure that deliberate funny business isn't happening. It kept us all glued to the forum for two hours and constantly hitting refresh and
@Arjun getting more offers for Russian mail order brides LOL. I am sure the ad revenue alone for that two hours helps provide funds to allow this forum to continue!
Unfortunately it brought about a technical glitch and Andy did his best to try to resolve it, but I am sure there will still be some that are upset.
We should be thankful he is giving away so many cameras. He could have just as easily not done a promotion, or he could have just randomly threw a camera in your box when you ordered as a bonus, or gave them away as first come-first serve to drive people to buy immediately, or another other way.
Heck I didn't win in the original spins or the 4th place re-spins and I am not upset about the technical glitch that didn't have my numbers in it. Sure I am bummed I didn't win, but stuff happens and if I won it was a nice little bonus.