Desperate times call for cheap publicity stunts: A free Dingoo from Dingoo-Scene – if you are Mr Stephen Fry

In July - too long ago - I wrote this chest thumping call to arms for Dingoo lovers everywhere. 

In it, I declared that:

1. unless we all made an effort to lift the Dingoo’s profile, it would die the Slow Tortured Death of GTZ (Gizmondo Tapwave Zodiac); and
2. as no one on this planet is more than 6 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, it was inevitable that surely one of us must be linked to someone famous, who can be convinced to spruik the Dingoo, thus saving all our lazy bottoms.

Sadly, the urgency which imbued my post is today, not less diminished. Here we are, 6 months on, and absolutely no one of any celebrity, minor, scandalous, self promoting, or otherwise, has emerged to promote the cause of this little machine that could.

It is clear that more drastic action is required.

Like bribery.

I’ve made an executive decision that the subject of our bribery will be Mr Stephen Fry, actor, man-about town, raconteur and tech lover.

Why you Mr Fry? Well, your blog indicates you know your tech, and I suspect you might be just the sort of guy who would appreciate something like the Dingoo.

This is the deal: if you will post something on your blog to the effect that you know what a Dingoo is, are intrigued by it, and would like one, Dingoo-Scene will personally send you an A320, via DealExtreme.

Apart from the blog post, we ask beg, Mr Fry, for only one other thing: when you receive it, please take a picture of yourself holding your Dingoo with a goofy caption and sign it, for us to publish here.

As for the rest of you indolent unconnected recalcitrants dear readers, free Dingoos are worth exactly $82.80, so I’m handing the hat around.  Would be contributors to this noble cause don’t actually have to send me any money – yet. Just comment below (not anonymously, please) or email me, with a pledge if you would be prepared to contribute to making Mr Fry’s Christmas that much merrier. If Mr Fry never replies, you’ll never have to cough up! In fact, even if he does, it won’t matter, because Stephen – can I call you Stephen? - whether I actually get 1c or $82.80, the offer’s good, for however long you might choose to take before accepting (which might, I appreciate, take twice as long as however long you might take to actually hear about this in the first place), if you feel so inclined.