contest Give Me A Refund!

[Person_Random 4,991]

You've just bought something stupid with your crystals. Now what?

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Well, it's time to beg Customer Service to bring it back! Just take a look at the task below.

 

 Task:

You've just earned a good pile of crystals. But while you're browsing the garage, your mouse seems to have a mind of its own; you click on something useless (*cough* Mammoth Mk3, Mines, Batteries, Miner Drone), and instead of cancelling the selection, you *accidentally* buy it! Now what? You need to petition the Tanki Customer Service to give you back your crystals. How? By writing the most believable and humourous story ever. Of course, this is a joke, if you do accidentally buy something, you cannot do something like this. You just live with it.

If you're unsure what to write, check out this example: (sorry this one isn't the greatest, I wrote it in five minutes)

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Hello Tanki Online,

The other day, I lost my crystals because I accidentally bought the Miner Drone. You see, I wanted to save up for the big sales for Christmas and New Year (just six months away) and at the moment, I had just reached a huge milestone of 100,000 crystals. I remembered how I really wanted to treat myself, and so I went to buy myself the Saboteur Drone. Thankfully, I could afford it. What I didn't notice was that I was actually on the Miner Drone, and so I bought it. The next battle, I tried it out. Instead of a lot of extra mines, I just laid ONE mine!! I couldn't believe it; I nearly broke my laptop after that (you could pay for the broken mouse, perhaps)! Saboteur actually cost more than 100,000 crystals and I had bought the wrong drone, which put such a huge dent in my savings for Saboteur. I had promised my clan's Supreme Commander that I would have Saboteur before I ranked up to Legend 13 and I'm almost there. I might get kicked from my clan. Please help, Tanki Online. I really need my crystals back (and my mouse too, but first give my crystals).

 

 Rules:

1. Enter with ONE account only.

2. No plagiarism. If you need to quote something, please put in quotes.

3. Keep your responses nice and short - 500 words maximum, please.

4. Enter your responses in this Google Form. Entries posted elsewhere will not be considered.

Players found breaking these rules will be warned accordingly, and in severe cases, banned from future newspaper contests.

 

 Prizes:

Entries will be judged on humor, grammar & spelling, and cohesiveness of the entry.

First Place - 50 000 crystals + 10 Containers

Second Place - 40 000 crystals + 7 Containers

Third Place - 35 000 crystals + 5 Containers

A consolation prize of 15 000 crystals will be given to any other deserving entries.

Remember to turn in your entries before 12th February to be eligible to win these crystals.

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Best of luck! Enjoy writing; I hope to see your stunningly convincing entries soon!

[Person_Random 4,991]

We have a new writing contest just for you: Give Me a Refund. Write your stunningly convincing reason for getting your crystals returned for prizes right here!

[Tokamak 1,021]

nice idea 

And about the refund

[BlueDragon_tamki 15]

that will be hard

[superior1KING 68]

[Initiate 1,306]

Guess who's back!

 

Okay, not for good, but those 22 10 containers are looking awfully tantalizing...

[Blutaar 1,904]

On 7/19/2020 at 9:38 PM, Person_Random said:

you click on something useless (*cough* Mammoth Mk3, ...)

=(

[CyborgPenguin 282]

me just wondering how it took @Person_Random 6 months to release the contest

 

[Person_Random 4,991]

6 minutes ago, CyborgPenguin said:

 

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This took forever to write, I was never satisified with my humor 

Edited January 31, 2021 by Person_Random
And ended up paying donuts to get it done xD

[niko_konac 119]

I just got some inspiration, but it's about an item purchasable with tankoins, does it count as well? or does it have to be crystals-related?

[Person_Random 4,991]

24 minutes ago, niko_konac said:

 

Any purchasable Tanki item would be fine as long as it makes sense

[Envy 59]

pls refund

[Initiate 1,306]

14 minutes ago, FTL said:

pls refund

Eloquently put.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Does it have to be about "accidentally buying something", or can it also be about "buying something but then realizing you didn't need it"?

[Venerable 2,967]

5 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

Does it have to be about "accidentally buying something", or can it also be about "buying something but then realizing you didn't need it"?

Whatever it is, ultimately you don't want it and you regret your action. You simply have to ask for a refund, and the story has to be "believable and humorous". How will you attempt to convince Customer Service?

I personally think that one cannot convince Customer Service by saying, "I intentionally bought this item and now I don't need it". 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

2 hours ago, Venerable said:

I personally think that one cannot convince Customer Service by saying, "I intentionally bought this item and now I don't need it". 

Lol, I was thinking of something like:

"I bought the Lifeguard Drone, but now I just learned it requires Repair Kits to work, and I only have 15 repair kits left."

[Person_Random 4,991]

2 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

 

Personally, I like this idea a lot. Interested to see how this turns out

[Lose 881]

"You see, sir, I only bought the drone to help with this one parkour stunt. But now that I've done the parkour stunt, I do not need the drone."

[Spy 14,687]

I really like the idea of this contest, good luck to all participants! 

[Squeak 15]

I'm not sure if my story was 100% believable but it is definitely very humorous :)

PS. I can't wait for the contest results

[Person_Random 4,991]

1 hour ago, Squeak said:

I'm not sure if my story was 100% believable but it is definitely very humorous :)

PS. I can't wait for the contest results

Best of luck! I can't wait to - oh shoot, the results are this Friday! Yikes, I had better get judging.

[Devoid 2,601]

I remember trying to retract a purchase on my older @Mrs.Nibbles account back in the day, this contest sounds like a fun way to work on my persuasion skills related to that (for when I create a time machine, and can use those skills at that point) 

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cough this topic has been around for a long while... 

[Tempy 0]

 

Great idea!

Edited February 12, 2021 by Venerable
Removed the empty quote-box

[Person_Random 4,991]

For any contest aficionados, the results are out! Who made the most convincing messages to support? Find out here!