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![]() Thanks to my anti-DRM Spore review on Amazon.com (which got like 8000 positive votes) I am now a Top 500 amazon reviewer. Even though I only have like 22 reviews total. ![]() Anyway, Amazon invited me a few days ago to the Amazon Vine program which is accessible to "top reviewers only". While in the program Amazon sends you pre-release books, movies, and other items for free, and you are supposed to review them. Then the items are yours to keep. Sounds pretty awesome except that the list of items they have this month was pretty lame (mostly books from unknown authors). ![]() ![]() So anyone else here a member of this program?
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![]() Don't even know what it is but I am one of the last of the Luddites.
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![]() ![]() I see that Amazon has sent Vine members expensive electronics as well in the past. ![]() ![]() For example look at this MS webcam. Under the reviewers name (all of them!) it mentions Amazon Vine (which basically means that the item was given to the reviewer for free): http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-RLA-...pr_product_top Damn, I hope they have something good next month. ![]()
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![]() I hate you. I want in for free junk. |
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![]() so let me get this straight, you are going to get something for free because you prevented people from buying a game with DRM from amazon and because you prevented amazon from making money in the process? congratulations on your help to the economy? ![]()
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![]() But seriously, Amazon will be losing much more money in the future (than these individual lost sales), if this DRM trend continues. Amazon makes a lot of money (though fees) from the third party second hand market, and DRM effectively kills that market. So, from a business perspective the anti-DRM reviews are a good thing for Amazon.
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![]() people that I believe messed up the economy: 1-Bush 2-People that voted for Bush not once but twice. 3-Republicans 4-Genci88 ![]() ![]()
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![]() Lmao nomore, anyway never heard of this. It sounds pretty neat and I should review my items better next time ![]() Anyway congrats man, sounds like your in a sweet deal.
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![]() I think you work for Amazon. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am also getting a brand new Creative Live! Cam Pro webcam. Everything totally free. Not a bad grab considering this is my first monthly offer. ![]()
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that Corel program looks very expensive, so if you don't use it you can probably sell it and make some money.
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![]() Hmm, I just installed Painter 11, and wasn't required to activate (I disabled my NIC to make sure). Interesting. I could swear that Corel's latest stuff came with DRM. Guess I was wrong. However, there was a "Dear Reviewer..." letter from Corel in the package, so maybe they sent me a DRM-free special copy? Oh well. At least now I won't be removing any points due to DRM. ![]()
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![]() According to users on Vine's official forum, all other reviewers got special DRM-free copies too. ![]() As for selling, I don't think I wanna take any chances. I am greedy, but not THAT greedy. ![]()
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![]() Lucky. I only got 23 upvotes on my anti-DRM review for the Riddick PC game and I was one of the first people that posted a review for that game. It's very easy to get upvotes when your reviews are anti-DRM. Gotta work on my anger better for my next anti-DRM review to get more upvotes. Last edited by neight : Apr 27, 2009 at 09:49 PM. |
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My Spore review became that popular, simply because it was featured on major tech publications for some reason ( ![]() ![]()
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