What would purchase with a $100 Amazon Gift Card?

Hey all!

Reminder that this Contest will be closed in about 6 hours!
Get your Amazon Links posted!

Thank you,
~Richard.

Hey there everyone!

Thank you to everyone who has posted their wish lists within the thread!

The thread is going to be closed! In the mean time I will be selecting the winner at random!
Once the winner has been chosen, I will send them a PM asking for their contact information!
I will then open the thread back up for discussion!

You will hear from me soon!
Thanks again and good luck!

~Richard.

Hello again everyone!

The winner has been selected! Be sure to check your private messages!
I will announce the winner once I hear back from them!
If we don't hear back from the winner by Tuesday, another winner will be selected!

Thank you to everyone who has entered in the contest!
~Richard.

My message isn't working. I know this because I haven't heard I won.

See, and here I thought MY messages weren't working.

is who won a secret?

Don L said:

is who won a secret?

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Don, did you read the rules???

On August 20th we will do a random drawing to select the winner. The winner will have a few days to message this account with their information (following the announcement) or another random winner will be selected.

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Nowhere does it say the winner will be notified.

It merely says the winner needs to claim their prize.

You should learn to read the fine print!

As it turns out, you won. But as you didn't claim your prize it was given to me. Your set of Adult Toys is coming in very handy!

can't delete this. I was going to post some snarky message then I thought better.

admin1 said:

I will announce the winner once I hear back from them!

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sure

If It's Wednesday, this must be Belgium

MarkofSeaLife said:

Don, did you read the rules???

As it turns out, you won. But as you didn't claim your prize it was given to me. Your set of Adult Toys is coming in very handy!

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I piss on your vegemite (I know it will be hard for you to tell, but I will know)

Question, where would you check your PMs?

Ironic that the software platform doesn't have private messages anymore. They are now called conversations. One would click on their Account Details at the top right, then Conversations, which would presumably show a tag with an unread message. This whole offer never made any sense. Now that it's radio silent, it's beginning to seem all that much more like a scam.

Thanks for that Minnewaska.
I don't think it's a scam, I'm not losing anything and it's a fun topic none the less. I hadn't thought about some of these things and they make good gift ideas as well as good upgrade ideas. I kinda like this. Even if I or anyone else doesn't win, I still come away with new thoughts and that's good in my book.

Thanks for the competition! Congratulations to the winner! Seven feet under the keel and a fair wind!

Minnewaska said:

Ironic that the software platform doesn't have private messages anymore. They are now called conversations. One would click on their Account Details at the top right, then Conversations, which would presumably show a tag with an unread message. This whole offer never made any sense. Now that it's radio silent, it's beginning to seem all that much more like a scam.

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This is something they do over on that other forum quite regularly. The idea is if they get enough buy-in that all the incoming links will affect the google algorithms enough to benefit the the award giver... not to mention the extra traffic...although in this case I don't see Amazon benefiting too much. I "won" a 25% off certificate from Mantus once which made a bit more sense.

MacBlaze said:

The idea is if they get enough buy-in that all the incoming links will affect the google algorithms enough to benefit the the award giver.

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I remain fascinated by these new online business models. So does SN get more eyes on it's site, by moving up the search engine pages and then getting more ad revenue, or do they hope to get a piece of the action, if others click on the links provided and make a purchase?

I don't begrudge marketing. The thing that's odd these days, is genuine online marketing and online scams can look awfully similar.

Minnewaska said:

I remain fascinated by these new online business models. So does SN get more eyes on it's site, by moving up the search engine pages and then getting more ad revenue, or do they hope to get a piece of the action, if others click on the links provided and make a purchase?

I don't begrudge marketing. The thing that's odd these days, is genuine online marketing and online scams can look awfully similar.

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Well sort of, but actually it's Amazon (in this case) that benefits the most. One very important indicator that search engines use is how many links to a given site exist. Amazon is a bad example, but let's say it was Mantus sponsoring the prize. If 1000 people here liked to Mantus' site that would actually affect the rating. The higher the rating the more they move up the listings and the more traffic they get. It's not about ad revenue or sales per se (but it all helps and sales is obviously the end goal) but more along the lines of traditional advertising: brand recognition and placement in marketplace. well worth the couple of hundred for a prize.

And frankly you (we ) are just old. The whole boxtop thing would probably look like a scam to the young folk.

admin1 said:

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Hello all! We are thrilled to announce a giveaway for a $100 Amazon gift card!

To enter, simply reply to this thread with your response to the following question:

How would you spend a $100 Amazon gift card?

To be entered in the drawing you need to include links to the actual products you would choose. Give us your shopping list!

On August 20th we will do a random drawing to select the winner. The winner will have a few days to message this account with their information (following the announcement) or another random winner will be selected.

Responses to this thread should be limited to entering the giveaway by responding to the posted question.

Let us know what you would purchase if given the $100 Amazon Gift Card! Head to Amazon.com to get started!

I will provide an example down below! We cannot wait to see your shopping list!

~Richard

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So? Winner? Yes? No?

MacBlaze said:

The idea is if they get enough buy-in that all the incoming links will affect the google algorithms enough to benefit the the award giver

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Starting to look like they kept the algorithm benefit and stiffed the participants on $100.