Amazon.com has been running a promotion all month long in which four items were listed in limited quantities at a steep discount, and customers were advised to vote on which of those four deals they would like a chance to buy. The winning item would be listed with the promotional discount intact and randomly offered to those that voted for it. The losing items would also be randomly offered to those that voted on it, though at a slightly less spectacular discount;
While the promotion itself is over, Amazon has decided to make one last "special edition" vote as a way of saying thanks to it's existing customers. While there are no discounts to the price involved this time around, they're putting both models of the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii up for voting. There's no winning or losing item this time around though - you just vote for the system you'd like a chance to buy, and wait until tuesday to find out if you were one of the people randomly selected to get the console. If selected, you'll probably have 24-48 hours to take advantage of the deal before it's rescinded. The voting ends at 11:59pm PST tonight, so be sure to get your vote in if you're still looking to buy one of those consoles immediately. (In other words, if you don't plan on buying one, don't muck up the works by voting as I doubt Amazon will re-list the unused inventory, and you could very well wind up declining a buy option that someone desperately searching for one of these consoles could have used.)
Click here to head over to the Amazon Customers Vote: Special Edition page to see all the rules and to place your vote.
