It's really lame of Mighty to do this whole thing. I just don't understand why he doesn't speak up. I mean maybe something happened and he had to spend the $1000.

I don't really think the contest was affiliated with StarTech.. If I went to a group of my friends and said "heres lotto tickets, in a month I'm going to pick the winner and either give you $100 or a Sony DVD player, you decide", the winner couldn't complain to Sony if I didn't ante up. Anyway thats all we have here, it was a casual contest and I don't think he's obligated to pay, as nobody put any money in for the contest.. It was basically some random person would be getting a free GIFT from an aquaintence. Mighty could choose to cancel the contest at any point and not pay.. Plus there was the whole "Who won the contest" thing for 2 weeks following the drawing, which was plenty of time for him to decide there would be no winner. You might not agree with that decision but since he ran the contest at no cost to anyone, I think he's free to set the rules he wants. I know you'd like the $1000, and you feel that your "owed" it, but simple fact of the matter is you probably have no legal right to that money if Mightyjlr doesn't wish to give it to you.

However I still wish he'd be a man and speak up.