How I Won 2 Xbox 360s in Less Than 24 Hours
It was quite a simple process, actually – thanks to TextPayMe. First, you sign up for an account (free). Then, you send your friends a co-branded link which designates you as the referral. Next, you wait for 36 of 'em to sign up. Finally, you wait for another 36 of them to sign up. With the current TextPayMe promotion, that equals two Xbox 360 units:
“Anybody who has at least 360 TextPayMe points will win an Xbox 360. There are no limits on the number of Xbox 360s we are giving away and you can win more than once if you get the points. The contest ends on 3/18/2006. You are guaranteed to win an Xbox 360 if you have 360 TextPayMe points at 12:00PM on that day. Signup now to start earning TextPayMe points.”
They'll be delivering 'em in person, I've been told – since I live in Seattle (and they, in Redmond). I'm going to coordinate something so that we can get 'em to come on the show when they give me the goodies. If you work in an office with people who go out to lunch together frequently, this should be a cinch for you, too. Hell, there's no cost to it – and they even give you $5 to boot (when you sign up). Compared to all the free iPod traps, this is so much smarter. Sign up, before someone else encourages you to sign up and you miss out on another referral. ;) We give away prizes all the time for random reasons… but this is working towards a new service I actually plan on using.
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8 Comments
Anonymous
February 24th, 2006
at 8:11am
damn… you won two of them… and I can't even find one to buy…
oh well… sucks to be me I guess!
Ianiv Schweber
February 24th, 2006
at 11:11am
Too bad this is US only.
Chris, get more people to sign up and send some of those XBoxes up north :)
Anonymous
February 24th, 2006
at 11:40am
Please keep us posted on how many referrals you earn off of this post :)!
Anonymous
February 24th, 2006
at 4:20pm
Dang – it's called the world wide web – not the United States web. No Canada allowed. :(
iChris.
http://www.mennoboy.com/chris
Anonymous
March 2nd, 2006
at 5:03pm
Forgetting the 360's, this is a pretty cool concept. Are you still using it?
Anonymous
May 3rd, 2006
at 8:57pm
Dang – it's called the world wide web – not the United States web. No Canada allowed. :(
Anonymous
May 3rd, 2006
at 9:05pm
Once again, Brian turned me on to a hot new service. TextPayMe is a payment service similar to PayPal, but it's unique in that it works through text messages you send via your cell phone. Between now an March 18th
ritesh
March 4th, 2007
at 8:59am
i realy love it but i can’t get ittt
i wanna it from the core of my heart