Something for Nothing ???

Quote from: WEB slicer on July 08, 2015, 11:37:55 AM

i will provide more details as my business plan develops. by the time i am ready to ship you will know what i am doing.

this will not be a one time thing. i do plan to give away a variety of products.

i will ship internationally.

i'm not sure what else i can say at this point. it's not all figured out yet. as of right now it's just an idea. but i can say that i will be operating as a registered business and i do plan to make a profit.

Give away a DJI Phantom 3 and you have me on board. Cheesy

I'm going to assume that you're going to give away stuff that is priced similarity to the Xbox or lower. However, I still can't comprehend how you plan on making a return and profit by giving away stuff to strangers.
Also, there shouldn't be restrictions for this giveaway since you've stated that it comes with no strings attached. Although some people might try increasing their chances with shills (which are a problem of this forum).

You might as well keep a list in the original OP of members who are signed up. It might be beneficial to make a moderated thread, as there are going to be a lot of pages of posts (mostly unneeded ones, asking repetitive questions).

i will be giving away all kinds of products. gaming consoles. computer equipment. iphones. since drones are hot right now i will probably do those too.

as of right now, the value of the products i give away will be around the value of the xbox. if business is good i would love to be able to give away much more exquisite products such as 4K tv's and custom built computers.

as of right now, i don't see there being any restrictions at all. my request to help promote on social media will probably only be a request, not a requirement.

my current method of deciding who will get the goods has no way of increasing your odds of winning. as of right now the winner will be decided by who is able to respond first.

there is no signing up for anything.

redundant questions will simply be ignored. i will probably start another thread when things are closer to being official. for now this thread is just to establish interest and communication.

hmm is it really for free? lol

Very cool of you man. I would love an Xbox one!

Quote from: WEB slicer on July 08, 2015, 12:00:29 PM

People always love freebies. The giveaway business will surely be good

I really hope that the business that produces money for the freebies will also do good.
Good luck!

Quote from: WEB slicer on July 08, 2015, 12:00:29 PM

as of right now, i don't see there being any restrictions at all. my request to help promote on social media will probably only be a request, not a requirement.

The social media is easy to achieve, but if the list of friends use to talk .. something different than English, it may not be much of help...

Quote from: WEB slicer on July 08, 2015, 12:00:29 PM

my current method of deciding who will get the goods has no way of increasing your odds of winning. as of right now the winner will be decided by who is able to respond first.

Uhh... I would advise you to think twice on this. I've seen threads giving out things to "the first one" (usually hashing power on cloud mining) and the result was that a few smarter ones made bots to do the job and normal users never got anything. Of course, it's your business/giveaway, your rules...

Quote from: NeuroticFish on July 08, 2015, 01:35:14 PM

hmm, you bring up an excellent concern. i will look in to if it's possible to bot a reply within the environment i plan to conduct business.

i would love to hear some ideas how the prize winner can be chosen.

Okay I'm just going to answer everything in a single point. NeuroticFish made a good point when he brought up the issue of bots. When it comes to making giveaways on the internet, and especially on this forum you can never be sure. A 'first come, first served' method isn't really the right way.

Quote from: WEB slicer on July 08, 2015, 02:03:04 PM

i would love to hear some ideas how the prize winner can be chosen.

I guess everyone should be assigned a ticket with a number and that number should be chosen by a random number generator. However, I'm not sure what restrictions you have to put in order to avoid bots and most shills without harming the chance of other users. It would be unfair if you limit it only to trusted accounts or something, since you're trying to make a giveaway.
I'm not sure what you could do, maybe someone else might have a proposal?

i already thought about the random number generator. the problem with that is assigning numbers to the masses. i want people to be able to hear about it and participate without me having to make contact with every person.

I am interested to get free Giveaway.
One question i want to ask IS winner need to pay the shipping charges?
IF your answer is no , then you are wrong

Ask for shipping charges for winner.

and where you ship ?
Worldwide or only specific country ?.

Quote from: WEB slicer on July 08, 2015, 02:13:31 PM

Well you could just assign number 1 to the first person that signs up and so on. That would be more fair than people picking their own numbers and whatnot. It is also going to be easier to generate a winner since you can just specify the range from 1 to [max number] (of the last participant).

Quote from: oni.saori on July 08, 2015, 05:36:10 PM

I am interested to get free Giveaway.
One question i want to ask IS winner need to pay the shipping charges?
IF your answer is no , then you are wrong

Ask for shipping charges for winner.
-snip-

Read before posting. He has stated that he will ship anywhere and might even consider paying the shipping. However, I don't think that it he should do that.
As far as I know the Xbox One is about 7 pounds heavy. Shipping that from the US to Europe or Asia is going to cost a lot (more than $100 for sure), unless the delivery takes more than a month.

Something else that just came into my mind is newbies - a lot of people just makes plenty of new accounts for giveaways. Most are made just while the giveaway is going. Maybe you need to think about this too.
A Jr. Member+ which can prove his account (signed message) could do, but maybe it's overkill...

Back to "how to chose the winner".

Random generator is the easiest way, however not the best, because on a site like random.org you can just press generate until you get the number you want - which was assigned to another account of yours or to a friend. So it's abusable by the op.

I've seen at some point right here - quite long time ago and I don't have a great memory for details - some lottery where the winner was picked based on the hash of the first block found after some date/time.
For a hash like 00000000000000000cfaec129ec542a790b38efaf279a86e4c0f2f51542ecb37 the lucky numbers were something like 12, 29, 54, 42, ... (based on the 2 digit numbers and the letters were separators?). Maybe somebody remembers that or has a good way to find it.

Of course, this can become over complicate too and since you don't seem to ask for anything "in return", simple random.org may be just fine and people will just have to trust you.

I'd love this Xbox!

Thanks!

Quote from: LaudaM on July 08, 2015, 06:44:49 PM

there is nothing to sign up for. it's strictly a word of mouth thing and anybody who hears about it can participate without any kind of registration. i don't want to be involved in having to keep track of people and assign tickets, numbers, ID's, or anything of that nature. i don't plan to keep this business in the bitcoin forum. my intention is to make it go viral and it will be impossible to establish contact with every person who want's to participate.

i will not consider paying for shipping. i will pay for shipping. i am aware of the expense. but i am hoping my revenue will far outweigh my expenses. since i will be operating as a registered business i will just write off the shipping as a business expense along with the cost of the item.

Quote from: TheButterZone on July 08, 2015, 11:11:15 PM

Me.

hello yoda. you are more than welcome to participate. when we are not sparring in the politics forum me and you are cool.

I would love too as long as Member rank can join this giveaway...

Hello, I am interested in the giveaway will watching this thread closely

Its good to see a good giveaway once in awhile

Quote from: waterpile on July 08, 2015, 11:18:49 PM

I am interested in the giveaway will watching this thread closely

this is exactly what i want to hear. thank you for participating.