What better way to start 2011 than with a fun contest for a $5.00 gift card? There will be 30 winners of a $5 Starbucks gift card! That is a lot! I want to get a lot of people participating in this, and I am hoping that my readers will share this blog post either on Facebook, twitter, StumbleUpon, or on whatever your favorite social media is.
It seems like everyone has a favorite Starbucks coffee mug and often there is a good story behind it too. The idea behind this blog post is to collect those pictures of mugs and their corresponding stories. Here are the rules of the contest. Please read them carefully:
- Send Melody an image of your favorite Starbucks coffee mug. This mug must be a Starbucks-branded mug. This image must be attached to an email, and cannot be sent as a flickr upload or other hosted upload. My email address is Melody@StarbucksMelody.com.
- The size of the image cannot be smaller than 400 x 400 and must be in a jpg file format.
- Here is the hard part. Each email must include a minimum of two sentences, but not more than five sentences, explaining why this is your favorite Starbucks coffee mug.
- Please include the date that you purchased the mug, or generally the date the mug was produced, if possible. For example, if the bottom of the mug includes a year, PLEASE include that in your entry so that we can see how the styles of mugs have changed over the years. If you only remember that, ‘I think I bought this mug in about 1994 or 1995’ then please include that information.
- I reserve the right to not use an entry for any reason. For example, if twenty people send me a photo of a Sumatra mug, and all say “this is my favorite coffee,” or one person says, “I got this mug after taking a trip to Sumatra to learn about coffee and I really appreciate this unique coffee. It’s amazing the work and labor in producing Sumatra coffee” then I’ll probably use the best of the twenty Sumatra mugs.
- It can be any two sentences. You might, for example, send a city mug and say, “I got this on my vacation to Las Vegas. I had the time of my life despite having lost tons of money gambling!”
- All entrants and winners must have a postal address within the United Stated, Canada, or the U.K.
- Please include in the email the address where you want your gift card mailed to.
- All emails must be received before January 28, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time).
- All entrants, winners, participants allow Melody to use their mug photo here on StarbucksMelody.com with the short two to five sentence explanation of why it is a favorite mug.
- All entries must include a name and location for use in the post. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a “John Q. Smith”. For example, “Amy in Boston” works just fine. You just have to have a distinctive name. For example. you can’t be just “Michael” or “Steve” because there are too many of those first names. You certainly could be “Clark K. in Washington” or “LatteRose in Washington.”
- If you have a twitter profile, please include your twitter name in the email. This is not absolutely required.
- Both partners and customers are welcome to participate.
- Please include “My Favorite Starbucks Mug Contest” in the subject line of the email.
- Only one entry per person. This means that you may submit ONE mug entry. One email, one coffee mug, one story of two to five sentences.
- First 30 entrants who fully follow the above rules will receive a $5 Starbucks Gift Card.
Assuming that I get some good participation here, this could be a lot of fun. We will have a future blog post with at least 30 Starbucks coffee mugs images and a couple of sentences to go with each one. Hopefully it will be 30 different mugs and a fun series of pictures with short stories. I can imagine we could even have a picture of a mug, and a partner say, “I love this mug. I bought it the first day I was hired!”
Please follow all of the bullet point rules above.
Since we are on the subject of coffee mugs, here are some previous blog post featuring images of Starbucks coffee mugs:
Collecting City Mugs – Episode #1
Four 1995 coffee stamp inspired mugs (Sulawesi, House Blend, Costa Rica, Guatemala)
What Christmas merchandise do you want to see this year? (Blog post features a number of images of old holiday mugs)
Collecting Starbucks Mugs From Around the World – Episode #2
Summer essentials: Gazebo Blend by Starbucks (A blog post on Gazebo Blend coffee but featuring a Gazebo Blend coffee mug image.)
One last thing, the coffee mug for the anchor image in this blog article is from Japan. It was a wonderful gift to me from @Nobrice, and was part of the Via collection of merchandise in Japan in April 2010.
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Steve, thanks. It wasn’t that I actually got banished, but that I felt like that was their goal for some reason, even though I’ve always done my best to try to help the moderators, even though I was once a dignitary in the community there, it was beginnig to feel like they were waiting to pounce, hoping I would slip up and violate the terms of use so that they could be rid of me, so I took myself out of the situation while I still had pride to my name.
As Melody just said, she doesn’t want to open up a can of worms here, and I’m sorry for distracting the conversation from the topic of the blog post, but since you asked I wanted to clarify- The following link is what we were referring to the moderators having shut down- http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/ideaview?id=08750000000HBsrAAG on the selfsame day of its creation, while at the same time, ideas like this- http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/ideaview?id=08750000000H6TcAAK are left open for members to levy insults back and forth at each other.
@Tobias @Steve @Denise @purple1 et al … The demise of MSI is an interesting conversation.I am just wondering if there is any way to shift this conversation over to the “open thread” – I want to keep the enthusiasm up for people to send me mug pictures, and I don’t want THIS thread, in particular, to turn into an MSI conversation. 🙁
Again, I apologise. That was my fault for bringing my issues with that site onto your mug contest discussion.
Sorry Melody re MSI conversation on this thread you are so correct.
Steve, your comment has been deleted. This thread is NOT open to MSI conversation. I’m sorry you didn’t realize that means you must go reply in the open thread. Any future MSI comments in this thread will be deleted.
Sorry about that Melody. I was just agreeing with you in the second paragraph and wounder how we can get to your open thread.
Steve, let me give you some instructions. Go to the French Roast thread labeled “Open Thread”. Click on the comments. Write in the little box at the end of the thread. Steve, ANY future comments that you post in this thread, that don’t have to do with a Starbucks coffee mug will be deleted.
So back on topic, what are your thoughts on if you don’t recieve even 30 qualified entries by the end of January- extend the window of entry, reduce your ammounts, reduce the number of cards while increasing the amounts on each to keep the same ratio, void the competition, et cetera?
I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. 🙂 Since I already have 20-something emails of pics, I’m actually not worried about not getting enough. 🙂
Oh okay, when I had read “It might have been a little foolish of me to think that it will take one month to get 30 emails,” I had mistook that for meaning you were on the other end of the spectrum, but I see now that you wrote that on the same day you posted the contest, having already recieved nine.
I am really looking forward to the variety of mugs & the stories that go with them! I love peoples stories…
This is a great idea Melody! And thank you for your generosity.
Sorry for the off topic coments Melody! Honestly, I think (I really THINK) that I carelessly was thinking this was the ‘open-thread’ thread.
too reckless! 🙁
Submitted an entry as this is a mug I truly adore. I have four after giving one to my father in law(3 different colors). I look forward to seeing everyone’s favorites and their reasoning behind why they adore them.
I can’t wait to see all the mugs… I saw a new one I’ve decided I want. Then again, I sort of need a program for dish/glassware addicts…
I love the mug contest idea! Unfortunately I won’t be able to submit my favorite mug from Starbucks as it doesn’t say Starbucks on it, but I’m eagerly waiting to see the entries.