Everyone was saying they thought the cars were April Fools’ joke, but those were real.
It turns out that it was the CONTEST that was the April Fools’ joke!
I’m just kidding, but that would be pretty funny. I am sure they’ll eventually get around to giving some of them out.
I could see a few reasonable delay rationales, such as wanting to wait until the shipments come in first and see how many extras they really actually have. Maybe they can give away a few extra prizes. I wonder how many they need to save for warranty replacement issues or lost/undelivered packages issues too.
Consider this though. Wyze ran contests multiple places: Here, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Lots of those places aren’t associated with their Wyze accounts and Wyze has no idea who those people are or where they live. If I were Wyze, and I wanted to announce one of those accounts as a winner, I would DM them first and give them X number of days to respond. If they respond, then Wyze gets their name, address, etc and makes them an official winner. If they don’t respond, then Wyze moves on to the NEXT runner up and makes them the true winner instead. Once that is done they can officially declare the winners in each platform/contest. If they announce the winners, and those winners never respond, then they have to figure out what to do with that prize, and it could look weird giving it to someone else instead, and then that initial winner might come back and start complaining how they won but Wyze never gave it to them, and all sorts of stupid drama. If I were Wyze I’d confirm the winners’ names and addresses on each platform first, then announce the winners.
Yes, I know it has been long enough to do this already, maybe Wyze is just procrastinating to let some of the flames cool down a little first (or try to forget about it all themselves for a minute). There was a lot of anger, entitlement, and hurt feelings going on related to this product. Maybe they’re waiting until it gets closer to the time they ship them before stirring things back up again with people being entitled and angry that someone else’s “worse” or “lame” submission got chosen instead of their own “awesome” and “best” submission and anger about cheating, favoritism or whatever else is sure to be alleged no matter who wins some of the contests.
I suppose it’s reasonable enough [for me] to give Wyze until around the time these start shipping. Having said that, I am anxiously awaiting hearing the results myself. As I recall, the winners for this platform’s contest were supposed to be most liked submissions win, so this forum should be fairly straightforward who won with no significant surprises, but some of the other platforms never said they were for “Most liked” submissions and had different entry qualifications which Wyze would have to verify. I am hoping to win one of those. But I won’t be upset if I don’t win there either, it was just a fun contest/game to me.