@smash: A deal sounding too good to be true, doesn’t necessarily equate to some affiliate scam. you explicitly said this is a hoax to generate referral revenue. maybe you need to look up the word conspiracy.

I’m highly suspicious about this post as well. But I still signed up for the RSS feed for the Xbox 360 @ Amazon.

I doubt this is a amazon referral scheme. Amazon doesn’t pay for page views, it pays for sales. So the poster would only make money — as others have said — if people click thru on his referral (which I understand isn’t even there), add the xbox to their cart, and then buy it.

I think it is more likely — if the poster really is looking for ad revenue — that he is taking advantage of all the pageviews for his inline ads — some of which may pay a very small amount per page-view. But then again, if he is, so what. It’s his blog he has the headache to maintain, and presumably he pays the bandwidth bills — so why shouldn’t he post revenue. At least he labels it as a rumor — and if it turns out to be a hoax — well it wouldn’t be the first time it’s happened, has it?

– Mr. Shiney

http://mrshiney.froppy.com/blog/

@51. in no way hoax equals conspiracy. a conspiracy can and more often than not is a hoax but the other way around is alot more exlusive. feel free to investigate dictionary definitions for this…

my original post was a responce to michaels claim that there were no affiliate links in that post, which i desputed by poiniting out the exact part that was identifying the affiliate. anyone with ad funded blogging experience would recognize this.

and if you think that the refferer gets nothing if that xbox is not bought at the ful price (which its still at right now) you are wrong again. as i mentioned in my original post as well, the program still gives you a % of any other purchases the duped visitor makes on amazon withing a few days after clickign the refferal link. this is to give a benefit of a odubt tha tthe shopper was reffered to what ever eother purchase he/she made by following the original link. only difference is the percentage is alot less.

calculate the amount of exposure this claim made (i saw it reffered on at least 8 other blog sites, with the exact same referal link in it) and the potential of a good refferal bonus grows exponentially.

i have an abandoned site with an embedded link from 1998 which still makes me about 100$ a year from the scant few visitors it gets who dont even buy the things i have on it.

if you are going to despute something, atleast bring some insight to the table. dont waste your time with claims that have already been addressed before hand.

how do you sign up for the RSS feed for a product at amazon??

Here’s the link….

http://amazon.com/gp/holiday/cv/homepage

Check out the product page. It will be offered for $100 and there will be a quantity of 1000 on Thanksgiving day only, if it is the winning vote in their Customer Votes campaign.

Here’s the link to vote, in case any body is interested. It is winning so far with 70% of the votes.

stop posting about it people, the more people who find out about it, the less chance you have to get one

seriously, does anyone actually believe that they’ll be able to get one? This deal is everywhere on the web right now. I suspect that tens of thousands of people are going to be hitting the site at the designated time - thereby making it damn near impossible to actually load the page (let alone actually getting one of the cheap systems).

I absolutely hate that Amazon is pulling this. If they want to really give their customers a deal they should do a one customer/one unit kind of thing. That way anyone who really wanted one would actually have a chance of getting one.

cry me a river ethan

Smash… Search anything in amazon.. and hover over the links one by one.. you will see that “pd_bbs_sr_3″ will show up in the link for the 3rd link… in the 2nd link it will be “pd_bbs_sr_2″.. and the 1st “pd_bbs_sr_1″ and so forth..

You did not point out the exact part that identifies the affliate link as you said.

There’s the insite you wanted to be brought to the table.

ps This doesn’t mean it isn’t an affliate link. All I’m pointing out is that what you’re using as evidence is wrong. Who knows, it might be an affiate link(I could certainly see him doing that) but “pd_bbs_sr_3″ surely doesn’t prove that.

smash you sure you are not working for Sony and not Amazon?

Amazon is doing it guys. 1000 pieces.
Actually that’s a sustem of vote but so far 88% for a xbox360 at 100$ !!!
Only sign customer can vote!
Here is how it’s work (from amazon website)
How This Works

* Only the deal elected by customers will be offered. Every customer may vote once per week.
* Only the quantities listed will be available at the winning price.
* All products are brand new.
* Voting closes Tuesday at 9 p.m. Pacific Time, and the winner will be announced Wednesday at 11 a.m. Pacific Time.
* The winner will go on sale Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. Be here!
* Increase your odds of scoring the deal by reading our buying tips.

I’m so buying it next thursday!

Cheers!

Pierre

my bad I didn’t see the other comments, so that’s not much a surprise then…

My guess is that they are all going to be sold by 11:01 on Thanksgiving. I’ve been practicing my clicking skills. Watch out.

Well on Ebay people are claiming and selling links to this deal. They say you will need to get this special link to get the 100$ deal. Anyway if you want to accually have a chance log on to amazon now and wait because if you wait you will never even be able to log in. There will be atleast a million people tryin to log in that day and time. It’s a great scam for amazon they will release only a few at the 100$ special and I’m sure they will have other so called specials available if you miss out.

Can you do the single click to buy or do you have to fill out all the information again

nevermind i found it on the website

Funny how everyone was so convinced this was fake earlier.

Well, it’s 11:00 and the site crashed. Looks like nobody’s getting one.

Their servers are so bogged down I can’t even connect

It is 11:08 and the deal went live at 11:00. I still haven’t been able to get the page or any other part of the site to load … in otherwords, Amazon has created a DOS attack on themselves.

Can anyone get on? This is bullshit.

Stupid stuff sold out before my page even finished loading. F you amazon for making me get up @ 11 am on a holiday!!! I wonder if the site will crash next week when people rush into buy earrings or a power drill!!!

It is sold out. =p

As soon as I got through (11:10am) I got the message that it’s Sold Out. How could anyone possibly log in?

How much money do you think Amazon has lost on this?

I was logged in and waiting at the page for 30min.

But when the time came, nothing happend.

Hit refresh and nothing, just spinning wheels, that was 12min ago…

Well, that was useless… the site was completely unreachable, and now that it is, the deal is gone…

Its all bullshit, appeared to be sold out at 11:00:12 (according to my clock).

1000 units my ass.

BASTARDS! I was waiting since 10:45…reloading, and the site never let me in past 10:57. Sold out. How could that be !?

Because its a scam.

Such bullshit.

What a joke, Amazon should have been prepared.

Well, who knows if Amazon even has to prove they sold any.

With only 1000 available and millions trying, who can prove if they really had 1000 available.

Amazon didnt even sell the units, i bet it was a trick.

I’d like to know what made those 1000 people so special.

i hate amazon. i wasted thanksgiving for this. its 2:16 here.

How did anyone even process a transaction to even buy one???? The site was down for 15 minutes basically.

the website went black at 1:58 Est, then 2:06 sold out, theres something really shady.

even the runner-ups were dead

If they had 1000 units, it’s likely that they were never sold since NOONE could get through. I made it to Amazon, but the links are “dead/not refreshing”
We will see….

LETS ALL START A RIOT AND STEAL XBOX 360’s !!!!!!!

haha

I came in right at 11:00:15 and it was availble. Once we inputted the answer it asked (maybe 20 seconds), amazon said that they were out of codes.

I think that it is cheap.

Seriously, who could login (I was already login) in 35 seconds and get one that fast. Apparently 1000 people.

It’s not very fair, but I guess that’s life.

Seriously, I was logged in and waiting on that site hitting refresh every few mins half an hour in advance.

Right around 10:56pst I hit refresh and the thing bogged down. Never got a new screen until just now 11:18.

How anyone could have made it through is beyond me given how early the bogging started.

My guess is that either they didn’t really have 1000 available, or hell, they set them up for friends and family and just claim they were there for us to try to get.

There were tons of hits ansd some made it through. Sucks for us.

There should be a fraud investigation into this. Send the AMAZON BASTARDS to JAIL !!!!!!!

SCREW YOU AMAZON BASTARDS - SCREW YOUS ALL

Althougth I didn’t actually get the XBOX, I was actually able to get to the deal. I clicked on “get this deal”, and was then asked to answer a simple math question (12+18). This was almost exACTly at 2pm EST, and as soon as I answered the question, agreed to the terms, anc clicked ‘Continue’, I was told they were sold out. Very frustrating. If anyone actually got the XBOX, let us know so we know if it was a scam or not.

Yeah, that’s pretty ridiculous, so far it seems that no one got in at all since the site was basically unloadable.

What I wonder is, did the promotion come out helping them or hurting them more in the end?

Does Amazon get brownie points for trying to offer “Exciting deals” or get hammered for pissing off alot of people with a situation that made them all feel unfairly treated?

I didn’t really expect to win one, assuming they were available the odds were small, but like they didn’t know the kind of traffic to expect?