There is one week left in the Laptops for Flat Tops contest being given by All American Direct. Wanted to give a heads up to those of you who have family members in the service stationed overseas….the contest gives away two laptops WITH webcams a month:
At All-American Direct, we are committed to providing quality products through an “All-American” sales organization to every home in America. One of the ways that we are embracing that commitment in 2009 is by running a national campaign to give 2 laptops with webcams away every 2 months to a deserving home that has an immediate family member serving in the armed forces overseas.
Times in America are tough, and they can be even tougher for families who have loved ones serving on the front lines to protect our freedom.
Would a brand new laptop and webcam help you keep in touch with your husband, wife, son or daughter, mom, dad, brother, or sister?
Would a brand new laptop help to improve your quality of life, especially since an important contributor to your home is now serving our country overseas?
Submit a 400 word essay below, telling us your story of need, and detail why your family should be picked out of thousands of Americans to win this month’s laptop.
The prize package includes a laptop with a built-in webcam, as well as an additional webcam that can be sent to your loved one who is serving overseas.
Go to their site and submit your essay.
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While on the surface this looks and sounds good, it enviably leaves me wanting… Maybe it’s my overly cynical side, but this costs this company more in advertising (for themselves), than it does in actual product reaching our troops. $500 or so bucks every two months from a large organization is breadcrumbs to them, and it’s written off quarterly. It benefits THEM more than it helps our guys and gals in harms way.
I bought every person who serves who serves with my son (those who don’t have a computer yet) an Acer Aspire-One mini laptop which has a camera built in, and they cost about $200 each. If and when he moves or is transferred, I will have him take another head-count with names so I can send them again (with no one in his squad knowing it was his “Daddy” sending them).
Not everyone can do this of course, but I know “All American Direct” has a lot more cash laying around than I do, and I don’t get to write it off, nor create new customers for my business by doing it.
Yeah I’m braggin a little 🙂 but being a secret “Santa” is one of lifes pleasures. I never spoiled him before, but I’m gonna spoil the s**t out of him and everyone he’s with, while he’s out bustin his ass for our collective asses.
If you are involved with any sort of group at work, play, or place of worship, it isn’t too hard to start up the same sort of thing, with any number of items you think our guys and gals may want or need.
I need to clarify something here.
I think Curt posting this is to be commended, and ANYTHING that can be placed into the “good for the troops” column is to be cheered and disseminated far wide wide, no matter if the folks doing it profit from it or not. After all, I am a firm believer in capitalism, and an even more ardent supporter of our troops.
Keep it up Curt, and when you come across anything else like this, please post it post-haste. I’m sorry if my previous post came off as dismissive (cuz it looked that way to me this morning), as I should have it made clear last night.