Again, the word guaranteed and Lockerz should not be mentioned in the same sentance. How many effing times have they screwed around and upgraded their site only for it to buckle under the same pressure every time? By the time they launch and have these so called guarantees, the company will go under or the PS3s actual price would have dropped down to $50 by then.czartim said:
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bucknuticus
Member
I need 1 point for 100 points, thats one invite, someone help me out lol, send me a pm with your email address.
Metalic Sand
who is Emo-Beas?
Looks like redemption will be today.
PM E-mail if you want a invite! 15 to go!
PM E-mail if you want a invite! 15 to go!
DangerousMali
Member
what sort of time did the previous redemptions take place ?
watervengeance
Member
DangerousMali said:
Around 4-5pm EST (could be earlier, I don't remember)
Vipershark
Member
I just sent out an invite.
Anybody else need one? I've still got 'em. Send me a PM.
Anybody else need one? I've still got 'em. Send me a PM.
Metalic Sand said:
Not at all, they've been doing redemption updates for a couple of days now.
Not to mention, it's 1PM...redemptions usually happen at 4-7PM...you think they would only confirm a redemption to users a few hours before the redemption? That'd be ridiculous.
But, it could be today, Lockerz is that shitty of a site.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
I still got 18 invites to go, so if anyone needs an invite PM me
neptunes said:I don't think a redemption has ever happened on a weekend, (has it?) but if don't believe then you're more than welcome to wait until tomorrow
I just pulled an all-nighter and just got in from classes, I'm about to go to sleep, if I wake up and the redemption has happened, that would be inconvenient. If they can't tell their members 5 hours before a redemption is happening, Jesus Christ. :lol
Also:
Lockerz said:
Huh...millions of members...thousands of prizes. Yes, that seems like good odds. Your odds of getting something nice are probably about 5%...throw in their shitty servers, knock it down to 3% :lol
Koopakiller
Banned
Oh wow I had totally forgot about Lockerz. Good time to remember if redemption day is today 
What prize would be considered the best value for 400 ptz? Last I checked it was the PSP at 200 ptz but I'm not sure
What prize would be considered the best value for 400 ptz? Last I checked it was the PSP at 200 ptz but I'm not sure
Metalic Sand
who is Emo-Beas?
Koopakiller said:Oh wow I had totally forgot about Lockerz. Good time to remember if redemption day is today
What prize would be considered the best value for 400 ptz? Last I checked it was the PSP at 200 ptz but I'm not sure
The wii. obviously. Value wise.
Metalic Sand
who is Emo-Beas?
Donos said:i'm 20 PTZ short for a Amazon E-Gift Card
Where can you see the prizes and how much they are?
Has anyone figured out how exactly Lockerz makes money yet (haven't read this thread to the fullest)? Hard to believe that they're just going to throw away cash "just for us"
Also, this redemption hubbub is really annoying. What's the problem with just setting a time anyways?
Also, this redemption hubbub is really annoying. What's the problem with just setting a time anyways?
Koopakiller
Banned
I noticed that only half of the image shows up on ptz place website. WTF? Anyone else have this problem?
I thought about that but doesn't the PSP Ratchet bundle have a 1:1 points to dollar ratio? Does it come with the 2000 or 3000? Besides, it seems like everyone wants the Wii so I doubt I would get it if I tried.
OMG I'm refreshing the page every few seconds the wait is killing me!
Metalic Sand said:
I thought about that but doesn't the PSP Ratchet bundle have a 1:1 points to dollar ratio? Does it come with the 2000 or 3000? Besides, it seems like everyone wants the Wii so I doubt I would get it if I tried.
OMG I'm refreshing the page every few seconds the wait is killing me!
Koopakiller
Banned
I wouldn't have to if they would just give us a time!
Lone_Prodigy
Member
I heard they sell the poll results to some marketing companies. By having surprise redemption they spread out the traffic so their servers aren't overwhelmed.
The Gaming Gamer
Member
Why aren't we allowed to refresh, I missed every other redemption and now that I have 700 pts I want to cash in before the prices go up. I heard the last redemption lasted like 5 min so without a time its going to be impossible to actually get something. I have this chrome script that automatically refreshes a page I should be able to use it.
Swagbucks is a much better site, I signed up around the same time and already made $75 in amazon giftcards. I mean I could win a 32 GB IPod Touch on lockerz but I don't see that happening.
Swagbucks is a much better site, I signed up around the same time and already made $75 in amazon giftcards. I mean I could win a 32 GB IPod Touch on lockerz but I don't see that happening.
watervengeance
Member
Very poor cellphone camera quality for now. Might post a better picture tomorrow.
Subliminal
Member
Dante369 said:
They are heavily invested in by liberty media.
And they probably sell their awnsers
Shadowlink
Member
I'm hoping the restock is today! I'm not wasting my weekend refreshing the damn website.
I probably will.
Shadowlink
Member
No, they just said I "cheated" and that they removed the ptz I cheated with, even though I didn't notice any removal.czartim said:
B1gg_Randall
Member
damn I hope I get to redeem my points...I want a psp
Shadowlink
Member
I use ReloadEvery(Firefox Add-on) and have it refresh every minute.whitehawk said:
enzo_gt said:
I remember during the z-list redemption a long time ago, they were like "yo, were gonna email z-listers so only they know the redemption time. That way normal users wont clog up the servers"
But then their like "yo dawg, peeps keep posting the redemption time on the facebook wall, so we can't hide it. thats why we posted the times ourself on the facebook page."
And then I'm all like "You fucking fucktars, why didn't you just disable the fan wall on facebook for a few days? fuck you assholes".
god dammit
enzo_gt said:
Nah, mine went for $80something and I saw an account with less points than mine get bought for $300, so I'm looking for around that range, I refunded the guy recently.
I figure I'll put it up after this redemption if I don't get shit. But I'm not setting aside time. If I miss this redemption because of these cunty cocksuckers not revealing the redemption time until a few hours prior, I won't really care.
Shadowlink
Member
They also did say the restock will be this week and tomorrow is the last day of the week. It will probably be in the morning.
And I've been thinking about it, there's no fucking way that prizes will always be instock. Either ptz will be incredibly hard to get or higher value prizes will have insane ptz values... it'll probably be both. Let's do some simple logic and math that 95% of Lockerz members won't (can't?) do because they're idiots (but then again, most people are period)
In this example, we'll use a typical item like a ps3, which is 625 ptz, retails at $300.
If there are about 4 million members (This number reported in November or something, it's sure to be higher when they're out of beta -_-)...we can assume that by launch time, at least 200,000 members will have 1,000+ ptz (and that's me being conservative on both numbers). There were about 50k Z-Listers during the Z-Lister redemption, so my number has some ground.
1k+ points... that means that if half of those members are looking for something like a ps3, that means they are 1.5k ptz away from that number. If Lockerz launches in April, if there are more ways to get ptz, let's say that in 2 months' time, those 100,000 members will have enough ptz for a ps3. Do they really believe they'll have even HALF of THAT half in stock all the time? Jesus Christ, 50,000 PS3's would be 15 Mill, there's no fucking way.
So that is why I believe there is no way they will always have prizes in stock...with their members building up their ptz now, and not spending them because they haven't been able to redeem (If I would've gotten my iPod Touch,, I would be done with locker and have like 200 ptz, but because of their shitty redemption, I have 1400 ptz and got a $50 gift card, and if this redemption sucks I will have 2,000 by the time they launch)... even the substantial and random 4x number they give won't yield much challenge if there are fucking 16 ways to get ptz.
So there are one of three or all that will happen:
1) Prizes are going to raise way more than 4x...more like 10-15x...
2) These 16 ways to get ptz will be hard as fuck...as in playing and completing a game will get you 1 "pt" and you can only play one per day
3) They will have prizes in stock all the time and will be the best site ever
The way the current redemptions are going, we can pretty much cross out 3 with 90% assurance.
In this example, we'll use a typical item like a ps3, which is 625 ptz, retails at $300.
If there are about 4 million members (This number reported in November or something, it's sure to be higher when they're out of beta -_-)...we can assume that by launch time, at least 200,000 members will have 1,000+ ptz (and that's me being conservative on both numbers). There were about 50k Z-Listers during the Z-Lister redemption, so my number has some ground.
1k+ points... that means that if half of those members are looking for something like a ps3, that means they are 1.5k ptz away from that number. If Lockerz launches in April, if there are more ways to get ptz, let's say that in 2 months' time, those 100,000 members will have enough ptz for a ps3. Do they really believe they'll have even HALF of THAT half in stock all the time? Jesus Christ, 50,000 PS3's would be 15 Mill, there's no fucking way.
So that is why I believe there is no way they will always have prizes in stock...with their members building up their ptz now, and not spending them because they haven't been able to redeem (If I would've gotten my iPod Touch,, I would be done with locker and have like 200 ptz, but because of their shitty redemption, I have 1400 ptz and got a $50 gift card, and if this redemption sucks I will have 2,000 by the time they launch)... even the substantial and random 4x number they give won't yield much challenge if there are fucking 16 ways to get ptz.
So there are one of three or all that will happen:
1) Prizes are going to raise way more than 4x...more like 10-15x...
2) These 16 ways to get ptz will be hard as fuck...as in playing and completing a game will get you 1 "pt" and you can only play one per day
3) They will have prizes in stock all the time and will be the best site ever
The way the current redemptions are going, we can pretty much cross out 3 with 90% assurance.
Shadowlink
Member
I think they'll have a rule were you can't order a prize for 60 days after ordering a prize.
Shadowlink
Member
Which is why they'll send backorder emails and some people will have to waits months until they get their prizes.Black_Ice said:
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