Dear John Chow,
I challenge you to a battle at the Marketleverage cashinator in Las Vegas.
Here is my challenge. We both take turns in the cashinator and get as much money as we can. The person who gets the least money has to forfeit their earnings to the winner plus 100$ of their own money to the winner to give away on the winners blog!
So for instance if I get 70$ and you only get 30$ then you give me your 30 plus 100 of your own to give away to a ShoeMoney reader.
Do you accept this challenge Mr Chow?
Btw for those who have not seen the Marketleverage cashinator here is John Chow doing it:
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Awesome challenge! This will be very interesting. I hope we get to see video of this challenge.
BTW, I don’t see the link to see John Chow doing it.
Did you forget to add the link?
Here’s the link: John Chow
John Chow’s blog looks so bad in IE7
I hope you got more than JC’s first attempt on that Cashinator
I’m surprised that John Chow hasn’t responded yet. Not even on his blog.
Either he’s not checked his feed, he’s afraid of loosing or their building up hype
Just got a twitter from John Chow with his Shoemoney answer. He rejected Shoe. http://12seconds.tv/channel/JohnChow/26409
Sounds like a good challenge. Gotta love internet marketing and cross promotion.
Yup, mutually beneficial promotion, good call..
Yeah well, when you find someone with a large blog as yours – you might as well boost your readership and do cross promotions
Is there something missing from this post? I don’t see him doing anything.
i think chow has done it last month if im not mistaken.. any link?
what kind of link are we really looking for?
ahhhhhhhhh i love a good challege!
May the best man win!
This will be a great challenge! Can’t wait to see the action! Don’t forget to video it!
looks cool jeremy… readers can cash out!
Great contest!
However, I may be mistaken, but doesn’t the blog post say “The person who gets the most money has to forfeit their earnings to the winner..” If you get the most money are you the actual winner? But in your example you had Chow as the lower with $30 and he thus had to give you $130 total to give away.
You could also just give the “prize money” away to the winner’s fav. charity too. I’m not complaining; just trying to clarify things for me.
I think he meant to say least amount of money. Good catch.
Yeah I was confused about that too.. im thinking typo’s
The epic webmaster blogging FACE OFF!
Wow, that sounds like a great competition, c’mon John Chow accept
hahaha, it looks fun!!
You get to go in there for free and get free money?
It pays to be famous
It’s on!
Way to throw down, Shoe, but maybe Market Leverage should step up and put some bigger bills in the Cashinator. They could get some good attention by promoting this showdown over the next month.
Yes, there is an excellent idea. -)))
Get yourself a real big t-shirt..
Those machines are awesome
The county fair always had one when I was growing up.
Hopefully he accepts your challenge – I’m sure the ensuing video footage would be hilarious!
I hope so too, it’ll definitely be an epic competition. A challenge to end all challenges.
this would be awesome because all of your readers would be willing to receive some free cash for being a reader.
Which is part of the reason that contests are held
Looks like it should be an easy win. You already know his strategy!
If nothing else, haul out a few plush pandas while John’s in the booth – his focus would change from money to panda-hatred and it would be easy pickings from there!
Hahaha! Now that’s a good one
This is such a great idea! You must take a video with your Flip Mino. I’m sure it will be an awesome challenge, and I can’t wait to find out the results!
At every corner there must be a Cashinator machine:) And we are from your side shoe.
This sounds like a good idea. Hopefully Chow accepts this so we all can see the end result.
I bet you can take him no problem.
How will you reward your reader ?
Awesome idea, let’s see if John is up for it…
Good idea to stir up more competition. This should be a fun contest to watch once the video is done.
The idea of allowing earn more money. This is the rule.
Sounds like a throw down. Bring it on!
this is the coolest challenge I’ve seen in the last weeks. Shoemoney vs JohnChow in the Cashinator
That looks really fun! My money’s on you Jeremy
Remember to lick your arms as the bills will stick to them…:)
I dominated the cashinator at affiliate summit in vegas. $76 !!!!!!
Psssst! the secret is to grab all the cash off the ceiling and shove it down your pants. seriously.
You can hear the Market Leverage lady explain in the video that you can pick up money off the floor and you can’t pull it down from off the ceiling.
Apparently you were the catalyst for them changing their rules
They couldn’t afford to have you come back!
you can’t do that buddy…
Well it’s not a secret anymore… Lol!
A nice idea! Looks fun Shoe.
I think you can open up the bottom of you shirt a bit so all the cash flows in there and when the money is falling at the end, hold onto what’s inside and make another “spoon” with your shirt to grab t he rest. Oh yeah, if you use this trick and manage to get nearly all of them, don’t forget to mention who you heard the tip from. 
ha! Awesome, I think Mr. Chow will accept this challenge. I must attend a conference soon!
Ha ha, it is SO on
I wonder how long it will take to get John Chows reply.
Actually maybe he will post it later on after hes told us what he had for lunch today…lol
ha, the stakes for the Cashinator are probably less than what John Chow spends on lunch
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Hey Shoe…If JC doesnt accept…I’ll take you on for the same stakes buddy.
I think I can take ya!
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Looks like I need to update what conferences I go to. SES doesn’t have a cashinator.
The CASHINATOR is soo cool
No reply from John Chow yet?
Did you miss a zero? Didn’t you mean $1,000?
Actually this looks like fun. be sure to let us know what time so we can witness the event. My videocam will be ready!
amusing
I think this would draw huge crowds. I’m in.
It will be great to see the outcome of this challenge. Hmmm… I thought John Chow would have responded by now.<> Where are you???
Unfortunately he said no.
I’ve never tried the Cashinator before so if you can’t pick it up off the floor or ceiling, I think the best bet would be when it’s over and the money falls down, to lift your shirt up like a blanket and wait for the money to drop. Did you see how much it fell down?
Am I allowed to say this?….I think JC is going to win.
Another interesting challenge. Like the concept too.
Can anyone say bloodbath? lol ..
Lovely, Thats an interesting challenge. I love it.
John Chow said no!
http://www.johnchow.com/answering-the-shoemoney-challenge/
Disappointing!
Jeremy you ROCK with your fun loving attitude… wth if JC not replying to this ??
Too bad John said no….
party pooper
John has turned downed the challenge.
not really sure why he turned it down though.
I wonder how much money ML gave away in that cashinator thing. Seems like a lot.
I bet you a $100 you lose so now you can’t, no need to thank me!
lol, i want to try it, looks like fun
Does anyone else find the laughing annoying in the background in the video?
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DO IT!
shoe man Must emerge as the winner but it will not be easy for him-John Chow is boasting to take it seriously in his blog.
The idea is pretty old nothing new
Ho, great champion, let’s see who will win!
I just stumbled into this post. Interested to see if he accepted the challenge and the results.
I am amazed with it. It is a good thing for my research. Thanks