Amazon.com Marketing Scam

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:33 pm

So, Amazon just had a deal "1,000" Xbox 360 Core for 100 dollars for the first 1000 customers.

I was on the phone with a friend of mine who was all excited and actually thought he had a chance. Of course he didn't. No one really does. So I figured I'd fuck around with it and see what was going on. I KNEW there wasn't a chance in hell of getting one - but anyway. Sure enough right at 11am PST the Amazon site completely froze up.

Now my quesiton is... obviously it was just a marketing scam to get people to come to their site - hoping that dolts would just say "welllll I didn;t win an Xbox but let me spend some money while I'm here anyway!" Are people really THAT stupid to fall for it? I figure all Amazon did was piss off about 40,000 people who simultaneously clicked out of the site thinking "fuck you Amazon."

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:36 pm

You Deik, but the scam works even if they sell 1000 360s for a cheap price. 40 times the number of people who go a great deal are gonna buy some crap they don't need anyways. That's why I think it's probably not a scam, some marketing dude crunched some numbers and they knew exactly what they could afford to lose.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:36 pm

I know three people who have gotten one.

I tried but the site was down for me.

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:38 pm

Zanchief wrote:You Deik, but the scam works even if they sell 1000 360s for a cheap price. 40 times the number of people who go a great deal are gonna buy some crap they don't need anyways. That's why I think it's probably not a scam, some marketing dude crunched some numbers and they knew exactly what they could afford to lose.

Yeah, that's true...

Minrott · Post by **Minrott** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:35 pm

It's no different than Best Buy and tomorrow. My brother in law is camping out tonight to get one of the "18 at each store" toshiba lap tops for $250 bucks. Not a top of the line rig but they're definately losing money on it.

Gargamellow · Post by **Gargamellow** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:03 pm

I will keep my ps2 until something cooler gets cheap.

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:46 am

I got my 360 premium for about $70 through one of those "Get an XBox360, just click here!" banners.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:47 am

Link!

Gargamellow · Post by **Gargamellow** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:14 pm

ya really wtf toss..hook a jigguh up

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:07 pm

It was before xmas last year and I'm sure the qualifications have changed so it's probably not as good a deal these days.

http://www.premiumholidaygifts.com

I had to spend about $70 on useless crap and cancel a bunch of stuff I had to sign up for and then wait about 3 months but it was worth it, for sure.

It looks like they are doing laptops now but I know they have done Ipods, plasma screen TV's etc.