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Not a good PR move? Is this because you think it is a bad idea for:

  * quicken to get a ton of free mentions in the press with one month before
  income taxes are due?

  * this otherwise unknown gentleman from the midwest to announce to the world
  that he has a lot of money?

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I agree with you, but he is hardly unknown. (Not sure if that was sarcastic?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett

It was sarcasm. I had hoped that including the bit about omaha would make it obvious. To be honest the motivator of the second option was:

"I have enough money that I can risk giving up a billion"

I had assumed everybody knew that Buffet had so much money. I did not understand how the commenter thought that this contest was going to be the way the world found out that Buffet was loaded.

he may be referring to dan gilbert...

it's quicken loans, not quicken, which aren't related except for the name. but the mindshare spillover quicken is getting from people like yourself certainly doesn't hurt (and didn't cost them anything!).

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