First let us thank all of you for your patience through this process (and hilarious comments while you waited). We're pleased to announce that after randomly selecting from the thousands of eligible applicants we have a winner! Her name is Meegan and as you can see, she has three adorable little kids that she'll be carting around in her new MADSEN. As you might imagine, she squealed with delight when we informed her that she had won. She plans to use the MADSEN to cart her kids all over town, and with a park nearby can't wait to pile them in and take them for a ride.
Our warmest congratulations to Meegan and her family, you're going to love your new MADSEN.
Now, to the rest of you: what we didn't anticipate when running this contest was how hard it would be turn down the rest of you who wanted the bike! Thank you all so much for your support, your publicity and your interest. We're sincerely grateful. The positive and helpful feedback we've received about the MADSEN has been humbling and exciting, and we can't wait to share more exciting things with you as we travel on this journey together.
A couple consolation prizes:
First - we'll be holding another (tiny) drawing next month and
giving away a MADSEN t-shirt (and some more swag, we're not sure
what just yet, but some good stuff). Actually we'll be giving away five to the following groups:
- 1 to one of our Twitter followers
- 1 to one of of our email subscribers
- 2 to one of you who have linked into us from your site
- 1 to one of you randomly selected commenter on an upcoming post (stay tuned for more info on that)
So if you follow us on Twitter, sign up to our email newsletter, link to us from your site, and watch for the upcoming post to comment on, you'll have four entries in the drawing.
Second - for one week (deal ends on July 24th!) we're deeply discounting our cream-colored bikes to just $999 (that's $300 off). If you've been anxious to get a bike, but it has been just out of reach financially, we hope this will help. We won't be able to offer them at this price again, so please take advantage now. (Note: these can't be combined with any other offers.)
Thanks again everyone, your support is what keeps us going.
Way to go! Thanks, Madsen.
Posted by: Sam Haraldson | July 17, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Congrats Meegan! Off to convince hubby.... unless you have plans to add a lovely soft spring green color?
Posted by: Michelle | July 17, 2009 at 03:07 PM
Congratulations Meegan! You have a beautiful family. Enjoy your Madsen!!! Blessings
Posted by: Stefanie Hartman | July 17, 2009 at 03:26 PM
Congrats to the winners. Guess we'll just have to hold out for a red one. ;)
Posted by: Little Red Bike Cafe | July 17, 2009 at 03:36 PM
Congrats to Meegan!!! I second adding a green color bike, that would be sweet!!!
Posted by: Heather | July 17, 2009 at 03:44 PM
Congrats to Meegan AND Stephanie! xoxoxo
Posted by: Crissie | July 17, 2009 at 03:54 PM
Welcome to the MADSEN family, folks!
Posted by: Matt in Tacoma | July 17, 2009 at 04:18 PM
Lucky girl! Wish it had been me though! :-)
Posted by: Katrina | July 17, 2009 at 06:20 PM
Congrats! I hope they get a lot of use out of their fantastic bike!
Posted by: Katie | July 17, 2009 at 07:26 PM
Congratulations Meegan! What fun you shall have!
Thanks MADSEN, what a very generous giveaway and what a fun way to introduce others to the joy of a MADSEN.
Posted by: mannequin | July 18, 2009 at 03:25 AM
well congrats to meegan and thanks for your generosity! does that mean i am still hanging in there? hoping and waiting? hurrah!
Posted by: bonbon oiseau | July 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM
congratulations!!! what an awesome thing to win :O)
Posted by: robin | July 20, 2009 at 03:48 PM
Lucky Meegan! What a fun (and yet useful) prize!
Another vote for green - or orange.
Posted by: holly | July 21, 2009 at 05:11 PM
Congratulations Megan! I'm jealous and I know you will LOVE your new bike!
Posted by: Ashley | July 21, 2009 at 08:54 PM
I'd love to send you some traffic & enter the giveaways listed above. Are these giveaways still current? If so, what is the deadline?
Posted by: Heather Bailey | July 21, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Thanks for the great bike prize - I can't wait to get it. I'm so excited! And thanks everyone for the well wishes - we will definitely enjoy and get great use out of our new bike!
Posted by: Meegan | July 26, 2009 at 09:59 PM
Ok, I just saw you guys on the Nie Nie Blog, and I LOVE THIS BIKE!!!!!! What a GREAT idea!!!!! I wish I could buy one for the fam, but our $$ tree died, and I'm waiting to plant a new one ;) I'll keep checking back for your next give a way. BUt Congrats to you guys for such a cool idea!
Posted by: Jen Rodgers | August 02, 2009 at 05:18 PM
Hey Madsens just found you through the Nie Nie Blog. When I saw the name "Madsen" I wondered to myself could this be the same Madsens we know! And sure enough! How cool! Way to go guys. I'm impressed. Now we'll have to save our money. We've got four kiddos we could cart around!
the Westons! (Judi and Ben)
Posted by: Judi Weston | August 03, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Just missed the sale too. Darnit!
Posted by: Sarah @ Different Dog | August 03, 2009 at 10:48 PM
very informational... educative as well, i read and felt like reading over and over again....good job!
Posted by: Acai Optimum | March 25, 2010 at 06:51 PM