At 7/1/04 03:14 PM, XIII wrote:
Excuse me for saying, but I personally think that prize pack sucks, especially for how many users we have on NG. How about something worth it? Get a tad bit more creative.
You could increase the number of orders simply by throwing in a 20 dollar cd player, maybe containing a cd with a collection of old NG music (maybe a short voice recording of Tom congradulating the winner) or something and have Tom autograph that mother effer.
Yeah, I know it's lame, but it's a bunch of stuff we got from companies that we were supposed to give out in give aways. So I figured I'd put something together. Don't worry, in the future we plan to give away bigger prizes, like XBOX's, etc, and it won't require ordering stickers. I know the prize pack isn't that great, but it's just for ordering stickers. We'll have grander prizes soon, we just have to do some upgrades to the hardware because when we bring out the big prizes we expect traffic to the site to explode.
My idea was everytime a user deposits their experience points they get entered in a monthly drawing. This would be done randomly by our system. So basically if there are 30 days in the month, you would have 30 chances to enter. This would create a big surge in new user sign ups, so we need to get our validation emails going out to 100% of the people who request them, and right now a lot of ISP are blocking our validation emails.
So don't worry, better contests are on the way, this is just a little something to do in the mean time. I'm probably going to sweeten the deal with an old school NG shirt. Black with the old blue logo. I'll see what sizes I have available and then make another front page post to remind people about the contest that may have missed my first post.