“I Never Thought I’d Win a Thousand Dollars”
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It was about 5:40 p.m. ET on Friday, June 12 and Daryl Stevens realized he hadn’t watched any commercials that week. So he watched his fave five, hit the submit button at 5:44, and decided to stick around to watch the drawing video.
At 6:00 p.m. the screen cleared and, shortly after members were invited to submit a number to compose the winning series, the magic numbers began to appear. 13, 16, 14, 4, 22, and the final AdJack bonus, 3.
“I glanced at it, I looked at it, I really didn’t believe it,” Daryl says. “I replayed the video, and there they were again, the winning numbers. My numbers. 4, 22, 13, 6, 16 and 3. I was marking them out, crossing them out, replaying the video. I couldn’t believe it. I was stunned for about five minutes. So then I said to myself, ‘Okay, if they send me something that says I won, then I’ll believe it.’ And even when I got David Boland’s email, I still really just couldn’t believe it.”
Who would? He’d only discovered AdJack in the last week of May, and this was his third week to play.
“I think I found AdJack by accident,” he says. “I might have been Googling something else. At first, I don’t think I knew there was a drawing. I was just looking at ads. I thought, this is a cool way of looking at commercials. There was a drawing involved, so I thought, why don’t I just sign up? I never thought I’d win a thousand dollars.”
Daryl is a full-time radiology student at West Central Technical College in Douglasville, GA. He enjoys great commercials, and he says AdJack has the greatest, easiest-to-find collection of them he’s found so far. What are his favorites? “I love the dancing in the iPod commercials,” he says. “But I love the E-Trade baby. The E-Trade babies are my favorites.”
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