Book Give aways and new posters .. Thinks

mandi

SailorSam wrote: »

Well i'm glad it's not just me thinking this.
When i noticed earlier today how many had signed up i thought, .... I hadn't realised we had that many members.
It will be interesting to watch the post count of some of Newies after the draw is made. If they're all going to stay and join in our day-to-day banter i'd like to be first to welcome them.

In fairness to MSE as posted earlier, a link to the thread was posted in this weeks e mail and MSE Debs did state the following,

"We'll pick who gets the book at random. To do this you need to be registered for the Forum (if you're not, when you click reply you'll be taken through the process. It's free, of course). "

So maybe that will explain the massive amount of new users to the site Sam .

However I still think that any freebies should go to posters who visit the site regularly and not to someone who has joined purely for the giveaway including the weekly e mail subscribers

The thread is now 258 pages long with a phenomenal amount of new users. Oh well .

meher

mandi wrote: »

My question is .. surely freebies should be given to regular posters and not newbies or alts ?

Everyone is new once isn't it. In any case, if it is ok to ask - what is so special about regular posters? Would you also say that new posters shouldn't contribute and enrich the forum or is it just one sided? This forum shouldn't discriminate anyone, imo. It is open for everyone, so should offers be open to everyone.

The idea behind is not just to give away something for free, it is also to invite people into the forum and go global very clever business idea.

mandi

meher wrote: »

Everyone is new once isn't it. In any case, if it is ok to ask - what is so special about regular posters?

The idea behind is not just to give away something for free, it is also to invite people into the forum and go global very clever business idea.

Of Course it is meher and very astute by both MSE & Mr Oliver ..If not transparently obvious .

In answer to your question regarding regular posters I have nothing to add .

meher

it is only a cookery book (presumably, not known jamie oliver to be associated with anything else) not as if it is something on business, literature or art and design

i'm sure it can be downloaded for free on the internet and kindle and most certainly they will be available on amazon for 1p + p&p and definitely bound to seen in charity shops

mandi

meher wrote: »

it is only a cookery book .

i'm sure it can be downloaded for free on the internet and kindle and most certainly they will be available on amazon for 1p + p&p and definitely bound to seen in charity shops

Brilliant meher . Do You have a link

meher

mandi wrote: »

Brilliant meher . Do You have a link

naturally ...

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after what he said about british workers in order to publicise his new book i wouldnt use it as toilet paper

Wywth

Sparhawke wrote: »

No Cbrown, what we are saying is that it is statistically improbable for hundreds of long-disappeared posters to suddenly appear out of the blue along with hundreds of posting newbies to sign up this week specifically to post on that thread.

You would think they would find something more interesting to win than a cookbook from someone who is only famous because of an accident.

I cannot be bothered going through the entire topic collating and crunching the numbers but I am guessing that 98% of those that have entered either stopped posting years ago or signed up in the last week.

That just does not happen anywhere in the real world.

Yeah, I mentioned about the quantity of long disappeared users suddenly returning in a thread about 6 weeks ago
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4715003

I did report many of them, individually as requested, but nothing came of it (other than a lot of personal grief). I've given up as a result.

I think that free book thread, which now has over 5000 requests for just 200 books, goes to show there are a heck of a lot of AE accounts and new ones were apparently being produced by the hour (until the thread was locked earlier today).

But nothing will come of it, I'm sure.

Call me a cynic, but it probably all helps to secure the remaining £30million still to be paid since the sale of this site. :cool:

meher

Wywth wrote: »

it probably all helps to secure the remaining £30million still to be paid since the sale of this site. :cool:

some of you perhaps analyse far too much - i can't see anything but a nicely working clever business model of building a bigger community site

These blagging things for the site and offering it to the site visitors, users and email readers have been going on for a long time, long before the sale of the site - each emails sent out inspire people to join, either to post for a book or for responding to the polls or money saving dilemma etc. This has been the pattern for several years now. If people don't join and participate in these kind of threads, then their business model would be an epic fail. It works and it shouldn't be used to judge those who want to join in. If they start treating everyone with the hostility you want them to, then no one with a shred of integrity would want to know about this site. I think the team is right, as in most cases, in ignoring such malicious reports about newbies without any evidence in hand to offer, based on some far fetched speculations and pettiness. I am sorry I have an issue with this because far too many newbies are being subject to hostility for no reason. And indulging in all this for what - for some freebies!

redux

I was amused to see a thread about the latest giveaway of voucher codes for that rail site.

I hadn't even read the MSE email yet, but apparently all 10,000 had gone in an hour or so one morning.

Why the amusement? A few months ago a family member mentioned a code for the same website. It was by then almost 3 months old, and also for 10,000 uses, so I said it was bound to have been used up. But I tried anyway, without guilt as it would be for that person's benefit,and was surprised when it still worked. Yet there are threads here when newspapers have those referral codes, and those are used up in a day or so. A supermarket rewards version was pulled as it was too popular, oversubscribed in a very short time after being mentioned here.

How many members has the organisation whose members were taking 3 months to use up their allocation? Somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000

However big this place is, it still feels cosy to its long-term members. But don't forget it has been described as one of the biggest affiliate referral sites since well before its change of ownership.

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