Giveaway: $200,000 in free gear!

You’ll never have to choose between gear and groceries again.” Those are words every gear junkie loves to hear. And those are words to live by with Backcountry.com’s new Department of Goods Web site, which this winter is giving away a purported $200,000 worth in free gear! (Details below.)

The new site — which launched in beta version for “VIP’s” this week — won’t be fully open until January. You’ll find much of the same gear as you see now on BackcountryOutlet because, well, it’s nearly the same site. Just better.

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The new site features an incredible gear stash that’s at a hefty discount. It also has a couple things BackcountryOutlet was missing: A plethora of bike and action-sports gear.

If you’re lucky, you’ll get a VIP code to get inside the virtual door before its grand opening. For those elite gear whores, the Department of Goods, as noted above, is giving away a purported $200,000 worth in gear!.

The swag ranges from socks to multi-tools to bikes. Those entered for a chance at the free stuff must order more than $50 worth of gear from the site. (The exact company verbiage is: “A set number of first comers who place orders over $50 will be matched with a surprise prize from a bona fide grab bag of swag.”)

Bonus: One in every 10 purchases on the site will be comped randomly. That means free. www.departmentofgoods.com

—Ryan Dionne

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Commenting on post : Giveaway: $200,000 in free gear!
Posted by J-Dizzy - 11/12/2009 01:49 PM

Ooh! Me, me, me!!

Posted by Tapeman - 11/12/2009 06:07 PM

Ah, so it’s an illegal lottery. Hmmmm.

Posted by Daniel Luscomb - 11/13/2009 12:11 PM

Great sweepstakes.

Posted by mylie m - 11/13/2009 12:19 PM

Free gifts, gotta love it. I’ll them all if I could.

Posted by Mary - 11/13/2009 10:03 PM

O! an illegal sweepstakes where you have to buy something to win a prize???????????????????

Posted by Norm Levy - 11/14/2009 01:11 AM

Where are the rules? There must be a way to enter with out a purchase.

Posted by Dotty - 11/14/2009 01:44 AM

You gotta Buy something to Win something ????
FISHY !! NO THANKS !!!!

Posted by Val - 11/14/2009 10:02 AM

Sweet shiny schwag…..aaaaaaaawwuugggggggghhhhgggg……..

Posted by Stephanie Kinchen - 11/14/2009 12:43 PM

What a great giveaway. Love this site!

Posted by marybeth knox - 11/14/2009 03:17 PM

my lucky day!

Posted by edvinc roman - 11/14/2009 07:03 PM

very good

Posted by John Schmieder - 11/18/2009 11:30 AM

I NEVER buy anything from anybody who runs an illegal sweepstakes with NO posted rules. I begin NOW spreading the word about this RIP OFF !! It’s also against FEDERAL LAW !!

Posted by Craig - 11/19/2009 08:21 PM

now I see what they mean by mob rule. Sheesh, you guys are idiots. Nowhere did it say you had to buy something to enter a “sweepstakes”. There’s no damn sweepstakes. It’s just potentially getting your purchase comp’d randomly from the looks of it. Also, it’s in “preview” mode from what the articles states, so I’m betting none of you know what the hell is going on with it. Seriously, some of people are idiots. I’m betting that a company with yearly revenue of $200 Million+ has anything vetted by their lawyers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backcountry.com

Posted by Andrew - 12/04/2009 10:44 AM

Has this been turned over to the Attorney General. This is an illegal lottery.

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