Guess what? If it looks, smells and sounds like a scam, then it is indeed a scam. I'm sorry but this looks, smells and sounds like a scam.

Pay you 20 mill to enter? WTF? New players don't even have 1 mill isk in their wallets, let alone 20 mill isk? Contest should be free for everyone to enter, especially if this is a brand-new competition.

Contest is judged only by you? Nope, it needs to have neutral judges picked at random, at least 3 of them.

Who is holding the prizes? If it's not a well know neutral secure 3rd party, there's no guarantee of prizes actually being available or being sent to winners.

I don't even want to talk about Rules #3 and #5. Those alone prove this is all about making the sponsor easy isk.

I've been very active in Eve for over 3 yrs now and I've never heard of you. Personally I totally dislike threads like this. Anybody advertizing a contest like this knows for a fact that the only real winner is the person sponsoring it.

Guess what? If it looks, smells and sounds like a scam, then it is indeed a scam. I'm sorry but this looks, smells and sounds like a scam.

Pay you 20 mill to enter? WTF? New players don't even have 1 mill isk in their wallets, let alone 20 mill isk? Contest should be free for everyone to enter, especially if this is a brand-new competition.

Contest is judged only by you? Nope, it needs to have neutral judges picked at random, at least 3 of them.

Who is holding the prizes? If it's not a well know neutral secure 3rd party, there's no guarantee of prizes actually being available or being sent to winners.

I don't even want to talk about Rules #3 and #5. Those alone prove this is all about making the sponsor easy isk.

I've been very active in Eve for over 3 yrs now and I've never heard of you. Personally I totally dislike threads like this. Anybody advertizing a contest like this knows for a fact that the only real winner is the person sponsoring it.

Entering a contest is taking a chance, and no risk should be without a little sacrifice. Also, the website domain cost me 10 bucks, not to mention all of my time and effort organizing and advertising, and everyone knows that time is money. It's also possible I could actually lose isk hosting this contest. Since this is an initial experiment for me to gauge the amount of interest, it's conceivable that future contests may have a lower entry fee.

Lastly, having some alts claim that this is all on the up and up doesn't mean anything, just like my statements don't mean anything to you.

Well, I'm not going to spend time researching another players history just like you obviously didn't bother to research mine.

I've been extremely active in Eve and in the Forums for 3 1/2 years and I personally know some of the well-known players in the game. Just because you make statements as fact and have a character that's 7 years old doesn't prove you correct, trustworthy or make the contest Legit.

All of my questions and viewpoints are valid and justified.

If your commodity businesses are so very successful, then there is no need to charge an entry fee, plain and simple. As I stated in my earlier post, new players don't have that type of isk available. As for running a scam contest and having your business reputation being at stake, I highly doubt that would happen since the commodity businesses are a separate entity.

Doesn't matter if you bought the items or prizes and can show proof in a contract. The only acceptable proof is having the prizes secured and held in escrow by a neutral well known secure 3rd party.

Since this is supposedly the first of many contests being planned for the future, it makes sense to have the initial contest free for everyone to enter. That would create a lot of excellent publicity which is always good for future business.



Your quoted statement is not relevant to the validity of this contest. That is all overhead costs due to you deciding to invest your time and real life money to create this contest with the intention to make a lot of easy in-game isk for you. I don't see how you could lose any isk hosting this contest. Especially since you're the one who is sponsoring the contest, collecting up the entry fee's, judging the contest and also holding the prizes (which can be changed by you at anytime due to amount of entries you receive).

As for getting a few neutral judges, they only need to be picked randomly from the general Eve population and don't necessarily need to have a history or background in Art. They could be offered some sort of reimbursement for their time, such as a Faction module, etc. Hell, I myself have been artistically inclined all my life. I studied Commercial Art for over 6 years and have extensive experience in all art mediums.

Lastly, having some alts claim that this is all on the up and up doesn't mean anything, just like my statements don't mean anything to you.

I still stand by my original reply to this thread.

The Eve Portraits contest is a brand-new competition to see who can create the most outstanding Eve Online character portrait.

The reason why I decided to create this contest, is because I thought this would be a really easy way to make ISK

^^Fixed by your friendly edit Faerie :)

Now if you really wanna call his bluff don't enter and leave it at such a low amount of contestants he doesn't make any ISK.....

... yeah I am in a bad mood.

I support REALITY X and his efforts, and I'm also withdrawing my entry in the contest to show that I'm not just saying this to have a bigger chance of winning, you can keep the entry fee to help cover the expenses.

Good luck to all !

All of my questions and viewpoints are valid and justified.

Not really, but sometimes you'll just need a little a faith. Since 20m is nothing really, i dont see the point crying about it. We'll see how it turns out soon.

When is the draw btw?