As some of you may know, I am in the final round of a Ruff PC giveaway. I have stated that if I win the Ruff PC laptop, I would give it away to a lucky John Chow dot Com reader. To win the contest, I need to have the most votes by January 4, 2008.
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Is it just me, or have I seen this post before
It’s just you.
Actually, I did talked about this in my post announcing the winner of the Google gift.
John did talk about this, but he did not ask us to tell all of our friends to vote for him.
. So, if you do win, don’t forget to give the laptop to me. Just kidding! 
Sure, no problem. I will tell my friends to vote for John.
I have also put the poll widget in my blog and asked my readers to vote for John.
I will even use different computers to vote for John
Vote’s in =]
Hi John,
I have voted for you so count me in
You will sure win
See ya,
Roseate
I have added the poll on my blog
http://www.roseatemarketingtips.com/happy-new-year-2008
Good Luck…
http://digg.com/gadgets/Win_a_FREE_Ruff_PC_Notebook_By_Voting_for_John_Chow
I thought I saw this before too
No worries. At least you aren’t alone.
No offense to Tech Treak, but how in the world is that guy beating you?
I’m starting to wonder the same thing… Tech Treak came out of nowhere and blew past John in the last round too. I’m guessing some black hat voting techniques
Sounds to me like it’s black hat…
Hrm looks like you finally have some competition
You got my vote!
Time for John to pull out some Evil to win this one…
Time to pull out the big guns!
i would put in some bruce lee proverbs, be water my friend, be water!
haha, i knew a newsletter was going out!
I voted for you, I hope you win
I voted again for John Chow but it seem the TechTreak guy is far away…
I voted and voted and voted and yet Tech Treak is still ahead. Damn! Must be a way to use automate it using proxy bots….
but that will be cheating. 
Good luck John on winning and the others on getting a Ruff if John wins.
John Chow dot Com all the way! (yeah I’m a suck up
)
voted for TechTreak
I love the cakes!
Why would you do that?
Hey John,
I am voting away, good luck, hopefully I win the laptop LOL
it doesn´t look too good till now but i have voted fore you again good luck
Voted for you again John but I agree with Zac, it’s time to pull out some heavy artillery
Alan Johnson
PS: once again, I don’t need the laptop, feel free to donate it to an organization of choice should you pick this comment as the winner.
I see that you’ve placed an ad banner at the top of each post John, but is it too late? Techtreak is beating you by over double the votes.
I’m with Zac too, flex some muscle john.
There is still plenty of time (until January 4) for things to develop in John’s favor. About 24 hours ago, he had over 80% of the total votes. Since we are not talking about tens of thousands of votes here (there are less than 1k total votes at the moment of writing), just about anything can happen.
Alan Johnson
He still have the chance as long as there are readers who will vote for him.
I see that he has gained about 200 other votes since the last time I’ve visited and, since his blog has a lot more traffic than the main competitor (who also seems to have gained about 200 votes since yesterday), he should be able to win as long as the other person plays fair.
Alan Johnson
I voted for you. I suppose I could vote for you again, but it might cost you.
Just voted for you John, hope you win.
ps. My delivery address is …. <- Nah, you will get that if I win
I voted twice, do I get 2 chances to win the laptop?
DID I already vote for you to become president well I vote for you to get the laptop because you are one cool dude
Ps. I hop I win and If you guys want win the laptop and if you guys need help with something I will be willing to help alanj878@yahoo.com even though i am a Noob
You should put the stumbleupon and other links in a more noticeable place maybe with icons! It took me going to the “TechTreak” website and noticing his stumbleupon icon right on top before I came back to check and see if you had them! I neglected to scroll to the bottom of your post and missed them.
Just a thought…
just sent a vote your way. I hope you win!
I voted for ya in the final round….good luck!!
I’ve got my vote in… good luck John! I’ll be writing a blog post about it in the next day or two.
Vote you too John. But you’re behind techtreak who has only 192 readers by almost 250 votes. I hope you win too
Makes you wonder how he got all those votes, huh?
Proxy servers?!
Just kidding.
Proxy servers and some fans? Maybe…nah they wouldn’t vote multiple times, right?
I think he must be doing something evil.
Maybe he will do a guest post on here in a few weeks if he wins on how he managed to do it
Not to mention he has a terrible review with a lot of grammatical errors and most of it is just copy pasted descriptions of the different models. Seriously, Ruff PC needs to do some auditing on the poll.
Maybe he ask his friend to vote for him or he promote himself by advertising.
I smell something fishy with the competitor, he simply does not seem to have enough traffic to justify such a large number of votes.
Alan Johnson
I agree. Oddly enough, he seems to win A LOT of contests… check out his about me page where he lists the thousands of dollars worth of prizes he’s won.
Voted for john before. Voted for john now!
I voted for you John I want you to win!!!
voted, good luck John…you got some catching up to do
Voted for you and will tell you later how i will get you more votes
Damn man, the other guy is a couple hundred ahead!
You have my vote John, I hope you Win you only need 251 votes to win it right now
Voted for you John
yeah, voted!
let’s win that one, John!
voted for you.
Yup, like I mentioned in the last post, there’s no way Techtreak could have that many votes. The review isn’t that good, so I find it hard to believe people are just voting honestly for his review.
He hardly has a single comment on his entire blog, so he sure isn’t getting it from his readers. Either he set something up, has another website, or the contest is rigged so they don’t actually have to give away a computer , lol.
Btw, all three contest phases are being added together. So you need a couple hundred to catch up from the last two rounds, and another couple hundred for this round.
Voted again, good luck.
Voted.What happened to your hosting.The blog was not accessible for me for like 30 min ?
Logs show I was up. Could have been your ISP or an upstream ISP.
Voted for you.
Already voted in the other post. Go John … go go go
I voted for you again John.
I had voted for you before and good luck to you.
Just for the records I have already voted. And you need to pull some shoemoney mumbo jumbo to beat this guy.
I voted for you, John.
I just voted again
Voted, now you have 339, but still second. Also have write a post about it in my french blog and add the pool
So here is from me John – http://money.propeller.com/story/2007/12/31/win-a-ruff-pc-laptop-by-just-voting
Also will post in my blog now
Hope your review wins
Sorry for commenting again, but here is the post in my blog too
http://www.thewwwblog.com/win-a-laptop-by-voting-for-john-chow.html
I voted, but you got a long way to go to beat the current leader.
i have already given my votes, cheers!
Done
hey John , voted and good luck. ill re post this on my blog
我投了你一票. 祝福你新年快乐
Yet another vote for you, John Chow.
As always, your articles ARE extremely interesting and I sure hope you could win this competition. You should be “Blogger of the Year” – noone writes as much and as widely as yourself.
Happy New Year, and keep up the good work in 2008
PS: Postage will be expensive when you send it off to Denmark.
Hello john,i voted for u twice.I am syre you will win as all of us are with you.
Just voted for you, John.. but you’re still behind!
Good Look John.
Hopefully, will see you win this poll. I just voted for you!
Happy New Year BTW
Okay voted.
I bet the other guy is laughing his head off with all our comments about how he’s doing it
I got your back John, you’ve got to get ahead of TechTrek!
I got your back John, but you’ve got to get ahead of TechTrek!
haha! wow alot of John Chow supporters. I just did a post to urge my readers to vote for john too!
I even placed a posting on innit.nuffnang.com to generate more traffic to my blog so as to propagate this contest.
Gonna vote using as much PC as I can get my hands on.
ALL THE BEST EVERYONE!
http://www.polldaddy.com/pollVoteFlash.aspx?%3Canswer%20poll_id=%22185231%22%20pol_type=%220%22%20answer=%22888541%22%20other=%22%22%20poll_other=%220%22%20vote=%220%22%20/%3E is the direct URL which the Flash accesses to secure a vote for John Chow. If this was used in an HTML element’s ‘src ‘ attribute value, John would secure a vote from every visitor to his site.
Now that’s evil!
I voted! I rather you give the Laptop to somebody who needs it rather than the other guy keeping it for himself. Lets hope you win.
Vote for John #417 votes
TechTreak (681 votes) is leading now.
Go John Go!!
Great giveaway. I post at http://myblogcontest.com/vote-for-johnchow-and-win-ruff-pc/
Submit your blog contest and find blog contests at MyBLogContest.com
voted for ya,
Coop
Voted for you again, John.
Tech Treak has been leading for 2 days now. I wonder where he gets his voters. He isn’t offering the laptop as a prize if he’d win it. But he has that thing on his blog “help me get a laptop” or something. Anyways if all RSS subscribers would vote for John here…
I’m not suggesting cheating or anything but John your total vote count on that widget is raising steadily but the tech site votes are jumping 40-50 at a time.
I was playing with the widget code to see if it’s compatible with another application and so I was seeing fresh results for a few hours last night. Anyone else notice the same? He sure is giving you a run on this one.
Looks to me like some John Chow haters are keeping you down.
Oh well, I did my part and I’m rooting for you.
It was John 417 votes & TechTreak 681 votes
Now John 442 votes & TechTreak 694 votes
So speed of gaining votes is good for John..
with 14k plus readers John should be blowing this guy out of the water.
you can vote on
my 2 blog – too
(still!!)
http://ppp-payperplay.blogspot.com/
and
Afloco Fan Club
John , Tech Trake is a litle better?!
I wish you HAPPY NEW YEAR
Sorry,
Agloco and not 
Afloco
voted for ya!
And John Chow pulls into the lead!
Evilness sure does pay off!
Big guns have been fired!
Dude, you are like way in the lead now. Congrats, I hope I win!
Now that’s better John (68% definitely seems fair considering the difference in traffic between this blog and the other competitors), let’s see him top that
Alan Johnson
Thats’ sudden hit up of votes..
Major changes in just 3 hours.. Go on John
Hope my support and help through blogs and propeller helps
It looks like Shoemoney pulled out a big gun for ya John, he put the widget up on his site and asked his readers to vote for you… an instant 300 votes always helps, you’re in the lead now
It pays to have a good network of friends.
I voted for us… I hope WE win!!!
Take care and Happy New Year
Pedro Yaselli
http://www.pedroyaselli.com
I will honestly vote for you… As i did now
& will recommend all to you… as the info here is very effective and works rightly as said and no bluffs 
Lol, nice job, after being 2nd at over 200 votes John Chow has now a 800+ votes over TechTreak.
I guess everyone was expecting that!:D
Heh…it’s still early, but the lead is looking good now.
You’ve got my vote…keep the 133t hax0rs ready just in case. (And may god strike me down for actually having typed “133t speak”)
I just voted and John is now starting to kick ass.
John Chow – 1711 votes
Tech Treak – 700 votes
Good luck John, hope
Iyou win.I voted from all my ip’s. 1700 isn’t much yet for so may feeds. Lot of people taking a vacation from blogging this week? I sure could use the PC though.
hey john don’t forget me, I have casted my vote for you.
I have a good news, within first three months my blog alexa rating is raised from 61,00,000 to 4,05,023.
Thanks to all my readers
-abs (http://www.snackaday.com)
So much for this being a competition
… unless TT gets linked by problogger or something! haha 
Voted for John Chow. You rule the Web!
I’ve already voted, and the code is going up NOW!
Not only because I need the labtop, but you deserve it!!!!!!!! 
And here I thought the other guy had the Rory Fitzpatrick mojo working for him.
I voted for you. It seems like your winning the poll now.
i voted, took two seconds.
John Chow seems to have garnered quite a lead … and I could use a new computer!
I voted for you and I am a new subscriber. Pick me – share some wealth bro’
Jay
Haha nice John. Looks like the newsletter, the banner, and the widgets really helped. You blew past TechTreak.
I voted !! you gonna win
I voted for you, you are WAY ahead! Happy New Year, John.
You are on the number one seat comfortably.
I voted for you? Posted your link on my blog, where is my laptop?:)
Sure I am. In this New year. You will win and You have to.
Voted for you again. Again for my own reasons and not just to win the PC although that would be nice.
Voted for da Bad Dude.
Luking foward to Win the Ruff PC..
BYee
You got my vote. Gotta support my fellow Canucks
I voted!
I hope I win I could really use the laptop for school, and blogging of course!
You got my vote.
Happy New Year.
Hi, i have voted for you.. looks like you are way ahead of all the competitors.
congratulations. 
you got my vote as well
happy new year !!
WOAH OVERNIGHT LEAP!!
HAHA! Congrats John!!
Just voted for you right now….John u r one major league hustler..
U will win
Happy New Year
already voted
Well you on the lead. hope it would stay. i vote for you.
I voted for you!
With my vote you are 62,099% (1841 votes).
Thanks!
Hey, you’ve got my vote for this one
You got my vote
Happy new year
you got it man
i just made a big announcement about this on my blog:
http://myconsolingasylum.blogspot.com/2008/01/win-ruff-pc-by-helping-john-chow-win-it.html
Voted for you! Good luck! Lee
New year with New winner!
That is John!
voted!
this laptop sure is HOT!!!
i have voted for you
good luck
voted for you again john
You got this in the bag
I vote for you ans stumbled…
haha. It seems that you blew the competition: hope I can get that Laptop
I see that, while his competitor is obtaining votes as well, John has managed to keep his 68% advantage. But be careful, as you never know what last minute tricks he may have up his sleeve
Alan Johnson
Wow, it looks like TechTreak must be doing something evil, they’re getting lots of votes, but still way behind JC.
While the large number of votes can be backed up by traffic in John’s case, the same thing can’t be said as far as his main competitor is concerned
Alan Johnson
I know, I was checking out the links coming in the other day and there’s about 1/20th of what John has. Kind of makes you wonder how he’s getting so many votes.
Indeed, I am actually surprised that the ones organizing the competition haven’t looked into this issue.
Alan Johnson
you got a vote from me who is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Happy new year:D
Just came by to see the results for the Laptop:D
and… you are winning
Yay, thumbs up for John Chow
I voted for you.
I voted for you 2
You got my vote
.
I voted for you, John. Wow, you’ve got 77.45% of the votes!
John Chow dot Com has my vote for sure!
And John wins…
Let TechTreak eat the dust!
Great work johm.
Wish 2008 will be even better
Good luck
happy new year to all
Happy new year john chow.
Ok vote done ..wow at last I can use a laptop in the swimming pool.
Mission accomplished (:
You have got my vote John
You have got my vote John..Happy new year
You have got my vote John
Wow… When I voted for you a few days ago you were actually trailing! Nice come back!
Voted for you John. Great contest!
YES !! I voted and I put your code in my blog
good luck to you and to me!!
Et “attention à la Terre”
I just forgot to say that you were the first this time : 71,72% when I clicked!! congratulation !
et “attention à la Terre”
I voted for you John Chow dot com. I hope we both WIN!!!
I hope we win!
Guess it’s really clear who’s winning!:)
Well looks like you’re in the lead by far! Good luck and maybe I’ll win? Who knows haha.
Only 2 days left to win the laptop and it looks like John is in the lead by a mile.
What on Earth is happening here? It seems that the other guy now has the lead with almost 58% and 24k votes. Something definitely doesn’t seem right with this entire situation.
Alan Johnson
Time to teach TechTreak the true meaning of being evil!
What is going on with the numbers for the contest? This is turning into a big mess for TheThinkingBlog. But then again, any publicity is good publicity.
Over 110k votes, now that’s better John
Be sure to keep an eye on the stats though, you never know what last-minute trick your competitor may have up his sleeve (it seems that he has gained about 20k votes as well).
Alan Johnson
ok now that guy is definitely doing something shady.
Waouw it time to “se rassembler” you need votes, I make a mail to all my contacts, and I vote on my blog every hour
et “Attention à la Terre”
Good day, no stress
hey John, I have a feeling that you are going to win. And I hope you win. Man, you are the most popular contestant. I’ve never even heard of that other dude who is trying to compete with you. Man, he got no chance on winning this. Trust m. you are gonna win it bro. Everybody is praying for you. And I will vote as many times as possible for you. Hell, I will not even go to sleep until I make sure you win the damn Laptop.
. And it’s not even about the laptop anymore. It’s about popularity. And we all know that you are the most popular guy on the net these days. You are like the GOD of the internet. This dude ain’t gonna win nothing. 
Well, it looks like currently you have the lead. Good job man. I told you you are gonna win this.
67,029% I just still vote, but not sure to understand all of the principe of the votes!! probably because it is not my langage
that’s the winner : the earth !!
But the most important is “Attention à la Terre” isnt’it?
WOW! It seems the poll closed and You won!
Good Luck John Chow. You deserve this.
You showed your e’vil very early this year . Hope you be all the year
congrats!
Here is the “EVILNESS” at work!