This is soooooo much fun!!!! a few points for clarity: 1) You may use the Silk Road platform to pay people directly. You may not accept direct payment as a vendor. vmm lost his vendor account, so no rule breaking there. 2) Put the gift code in the gift code field on the shopping cart page and hit the submit button next to it. The rest should be clear. 3) I have no problem with what lothaun10 is doing, great idea! 4) I've said it before, but buying lots of little items doesn't improve your chances. In fact there is no timing or distribution strategy like that that will help you. Just spend your money as usual and trust me that the contest is fair. In general, the more you spend, the more chances you have on all the prizes, but as you can see all kinds of folks are winning. Oh yea, and have FUN!!! Happy 420