The HP Magic Giveaway kicks off today, and the first sites to go live are Bleeping Computer, WindowsConnected and Gear Live. Bear in mind that each site will have their own requirements for the giveaway, and they may also have their own rules which will not necessarily apply on other sites.

Here’s a quick synopsis of today’s giveaway sites’ details…


Bleeping Computer:

The rules are fairly simple, and we have gone into more details below. In summary, our winner will be chosen at random and announced on December 4th 2008. That winner must share the prize with at least one other recipient. They must then post to this thread the story of how they shared their prize. Hopefully this will continue to inspire the magic of sharing.

Terms and Conditions and Rules:

1. The sole winner of the Prize package will be awarded at random.
2. The purpose of this contest is to spread a little magic into people’s lives during the holidays. With that said, the prize package must be shared with at least one worthy recipient or cause. It is up to you how much of the package you wish to share, and we hope you share more than one item, but at least one computer must be given to another person or organization.
3. After receiving the award, the winner must send the story describing how they shared the gift. Photos are not required, but will enhance your story, so feel free to send them. With the story, you give us your express permission to post the story and any accompanying material. If you would not like us to post your real names, please let us know, or do not include them in the story.
4. The recipient of the prize, and the people you intend to share the magic with, must provide a complete name, shipping address, and phone number that can be used to ship the award. We will ship the prize package to yourself and to the other recipients. PO Boxes will not be permitted.
5. Do not enter the contest with multiple accounts. Anyone who is caught doing so will have all of their entries removed.
6. If you won a prize package from one of the other sites involved in this promotion, you will become ineligible.
7. *Depending on the value of the prize, you may be required to fill out a W-9 form. This form will be sent directly to the sponsor of the contest.
8. Staff are ineligible for this contest.


WindowsConnected:

How to enter:

To enter you must submit a written entry of less than 150 words to hpmagic@windowsconnected.com with details on how you will put all this wonderful hardware to good use. We won’t be awarding this to anyone who we think we just turn around an sell it. We want it to go to a place where it can do the most good, so impacting a number of peoples lives with the hardware will get you the best chance to win. Winner will be selected by the bloggers from the site and an announcement will be made on Dec. 4th of the winner.

Rules:

* WindowsConnected’s active bloggers and family are not eligible
* If you have won one of the other HP Magic contest you are ineligible
* Winners of the 31 Days of the Dragon contest are ineligible
* Winner agrees to not sell the hardware, yes Zane we are looking at you..how’s that tattoo?
* Winner will have 48 hours from time of selection to claim prize or we will move to the 2nd place finisher
* Winner agrees to send us a follow up to post on how the hardware has been used within 30 days of receiving it.
* We are the sole judge and all decision are final


Gear Live:

1. If you don’t have one already, sign up for a Gear Live account
2. If you don’t have one already, sign up for a Twitter account
3. On Twitter, post a tweet about our contest and link to this page. In the tweet, include the phrase “#glmagic”.
4. Once that is done, leave a comment here in this post with a direct link back to your Tweet. Be sure you are signed in to your Gear Live account before you leave the comment.

Here’s an example of an appropriate Twitter entry:
“Entering to win a ton of HP gear! http://jk9.qlnk.net/ #glmagic”

BONUS ENTRIES: Want more chances to win? Share the link to our contests on the following sites, and leave us a comment linking to those as well:

* Facebook: Shared Link
* Del.icio.us bookmark
* FriendFeed: Use Post a Link
* Your blog: Have a site? Link to our contest on it!

Remember: The bonus entries are just that – bonus. In order to be eligible to win, you must complete the core Twitter requirements.

Now, as to the actual contest dates. The contest starts today, November 28th. You have until 11:59 PM PST on December 4 to enter your comments here on this post. We will then announce our winner on December 5th. We are also going to encourage (but not require) you to think about donating a portion of the prize package to someone else. It can be a charity, a relative, friend, a fellow contest entrant – anyone. We can even handle the shipping to that third party for you. It’s all in the spirit of giving, and we will let you play Secret Santa, if you so choose.

The contest is open to anyone in the world, which is a rarity. If you are in the US, you’ll even have your tax burden taken care of. What more could you ask for? Now, good luck to all – comments are open!

As always, if you enter on another site we would appreciate you letting them know that we sent you. We would also love to hear back if you are the winner; we love “happy ending” stories! :-D



*HP will be sending a check to the winner to cover all taxes;

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