Heads up: The Billion Mile Giveaway starts August 1
Aug 8, 2016, 7:50 am
#63
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Well color me surprised! Since all of the marketing materials I received came from Chase (Not United), I made the natuaral assumption that it was a Chase promotion.
Interesting that United would use the Chase card usage as entries. I guess they must bring in a fair amount of revenue from the partnership.
Interesting that United would use the Chase card usage as entries. I guess they must bring in a fair amount of revenue from the partnership.
Aug 8, 2016, 10:58 am
#64
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Approx Retail value: $27500 for 1,000,000RDM?? Should it be more like $20000 or $15000?
I wonder how the odds of winning the grand price compare to something like odds of a Silver getting CPUed on a hub-hub Tcon on a A319 on a Friday
I wonder how the odds of winning the grand price compare to something like odds of a Silver getting CPUed on a hub-hub Tcon on a A319 on a Friday
Aug 8, 2016, 12:03 pm
#65
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Aug 16, 2016, 3:02 am
#67
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: if it's Thursday, this must be Belgium
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Enter as often as you wish is probably required by the fact that an MPE card user can enter as often as they wish by making many purchases. The very next sentence discourages making too many entries ("each entry must be manually key stroked"). Given the volume of entries, I highly doubt that entering the sweepstakes non-stop is profitable on an EV per hour basis.
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Well, I did some estimating:
If you were able to enter continuously for the 2 months the contest is going, and you can achieve a rate of 2 entries per minute (based on my tries), that would get you approx. 172,800 entries, working around the clock.
I suppose maybe something like that would cost you ~$100-500 to pay a click farm to do, for that amount of time? Probably costs a bit more than just clicks since there's real info that has to be entered.
And your chances of winning something would be significant?
Last edited by TA; Aug 16, 2016 at 3:30 am
Aug 16, 2016, 7:06 am
#68
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I wonder how many entries could be made by a click farm team overseas submitting entries for you day and night, and how much that would cost...
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Well, I did some estimating:
If you were able to enter continuously for the 2 months the contest is going, and you can achieve a rate of 2 entries per minute (based on my tries), that would get you approx. 172,800 entries, working around the clock.
I suppose maybe something like that would cost you ~$100-500 to pay a click farm to do, for that amount of time? Probably costs a bit more than just clicks since there's real info that has to be entered.
And your chances of winning something would be significant?
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Well, I did some estimating:
If you were able to enter continuously for the 2 months the contest is going, and you can achieve a rate of 2 entries per minute (based on my tries), that would get you approx. 172,800 entries, working around the clock.
I suppose maybe something like that would cost you ~$100-500 to pay a click farm to do, for that amount of time? Probably costs a bit more than just clicks since there's real info that has to be entered.
And your chances of winning something would be significant?
Aug 16, 2016, 7:33 am
#69
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I wonder how many entries could be made by a click farm team overseas submitting entries for you day and night, and how much that would cost...
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Well, I did some estimating:
If you were able to enter continuously for the 2 months the contest is going, and you can achieve a rate of 2 entries per minute (based on my tries), that would get you approx. 172,800 entries, working around the clock.
I suppose maybe something like that would cost you ~$100-500 to pay a click farm to do, for that amount of time? Probably costs a bit more than just clicks since there's real info that has to be entered.
And your chances of winning something would be significant?
[edit]
Well, I did some estimating:
If you were able to enter continuously for the 2 months the contest is going, and you can achieve a rate of 2 entries per minute (based on my tries), that would get you approx. 172,800 entries, working around the clock.
I suppose maybe something like that would cost you ~$100-500 to pay a click farm to do, for that amount of time? Probably costs a bit more than just clicks since there's real info that has to be entered.
And your chances of winning something would be significant?
Aug 16, 2016, 10:53 am
#70
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: if it's Thursday, this must be Belgium
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Posts: 6,484
I would guess you could have them take a screen capture movie to show that they're doing something the whole time....
Sep 5, 2016, 9:28 pm
#71
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I just spent 3 hours and a growler of a pumpkin imperial stout repeatedly entering this contest...
Drunk me is getting really good at Captchas.
Drunk me is getting really good at Captchas.
Last edited by Wooglin; Sep 5, 2016 at 10:21 pm
Sep 6, 2016, 4:11 pm
#72
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 74
I wonder how many entries could be made by a click farm team overseas submitting entries for you day and night, and how much that would cost...
[edit]
Well, I did some estimating:
If you were able to enter continuously for the 2 months the contest is going, and you can achieve a rate of 2 entries per minute (based on my tries), that would get you approx. 172,800 entries, working around the clock.
I suppose maybe something like that would cost you ~$100-500 to pay a click farm to do, for that amount of time? Probably costs a bit more than just clicks since there's real info that has to be entered.
And your chances of winning something would be significant?
[edit]
Well, I did some estimating:
If you were able to enter continuously for the 2 months the contest is going, and you can achieve a rate of 2 entries per minute (based on my tries), that would get you approx. 172,800 entries, working around the clock.
I suppose maybe something like that would cost you ~$100-500 to pay a click farm to do, for that amount of time? Probably costs a bit more than just clicks since there's real info that has to be entered.
And your chances of winning something would be significant?
there's nothing on that page that can distinguish whether you typed it "manually" or not
Sep 6, 2016, 4:29 pm
#73
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Location: if it's Thursday, this must be Belgium
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the only thing at needs manual intervention is the captcha, the form values can be easily automated, or even scripted where all you have to do is update the capcha token each time, you can get a lot more than 30s
there's nothing on that page that can distinguish whether you typed it "manually" or not
there's nothing on that page that can distinguish whether you typed it "manually" or not
Sep 6, 2016, 4:51 pm
#74
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So I guess there's a bunch of people out there gaming the system by submitting tens or hundreds of thousands of entries via automated scripts and the like.
Cheaters.
Cheaters.
Sep 6, 2016, 5:34 pm
#75
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 74
extract the captcha token, replace its value and replay the same request up, it's pretty trivial for a developer or, I'd imagine, anyone who would think of cheating the system anyway
whether it's suspicious that a MP account has thousands and thousands of entries compared to everyone else is up to you to decide