I agree with the lowest line of comment. Threats, coercion and sulking will not make me buy a single stamp from this seller. Whether I want a stamp, how much it costs and ease of dealing MIGHT but my budget is small.
With regard to the Hip Postcard wanna-wins, are we supposed to enter our choices every day like for the Penny Black, with some hope of winning our chosen postcard? Or are we just informing HipPostcard of our favourites?
I must say, Mark is admirably honest about awarding the prize to whomever's name he first draws. The process is apparently done privately, and he could easily just keep drawing names until an active member is declared the winner.
But to give it to a zero feedbacker who only entered once . . . . .
In full disclosure I have to add that I know the system DOES work. On the old website I won not once but twice - Not a Penny Black but from the dealer's private giveaway offerings (hopefully to return to HS someday also). It was over the course of many years and with the built in habit of entering daily, but hey, it did actually produce!
I'm in the same boat as many others here ... waiting for a win! I try to enter every day and so see some lucky person with only one try get it, man, I hope he also played the Lottery! Maybe someday, I'll keep trying.
That makes two months in a row that the Penny Black Giveaway winner has had ZERO feedback!
The winner is neither a buyer or seller on this site! It must really annoy Mark to award these interlopers! (yet it obviously shows how random and impartial the process is that selects the winner!)
I have had winners (stampwants days) send me questions after winning and it is very clear that they don't know anything about stamps at all. They were generally trying to figure out how much $$$ worth the item they won actually had (I'm presuming so they knew what to charge for it when they tried to sell it).
When I had a real job, there were fellows that spent their entire lunch hours entering any free contests online that they could find anywhere! They did pretty good at it, although I'm not sure what good winning some stamps if you aren't a stamp collector will do you...
I will say that I have had intermittent success with the giveaways here on Hipstamp.
I say intermittent because I really only know of one or two good new customers that I was able to tell came from the giveaway because they told me, and there isn't a way to know (that I know of) aside from asking the customers. I did have a period of sales dryness so to speak so I lapsed on the giveaways until today actually, I put one up this morning to see what happens....
I do think that a "rule" that the person has to have purchased at least one item (even ever) on Hipstamp would be a good rule, it would get rid of the lunchtime contest kinda guys I mentioned above.....
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I saw that this morning but really didn't want go there!!! At least the first couple of winners had feedback.
Ross
https://www.hipstamp.com/store/ross-stamps
Even after years of giveaways on the previous site, that theory did not hold.
just a thought that i am sure has been suggested before. Of course the purpose is to get buyers
In the previous 2 contests my daily entries gave me about a 1 in 100 chance of winning.
Now, entering each day, I am barely at a 1 in 200 chance of winning with all the added interest in the game.
The word is getting out!
I've made two purchases on HipStamp thus far but have not received feedback.
I hadn't actually thought of that!
I don't know how HipPostcard works - you could maybe ask your question in their forum.
I must say, Mark is admirably honest about awarding the prize to whomever's name he first draws. The process is apparently done privately, and he could easily just keep drawing names until an active member is declared the winner.
But to give it to a zero feedbacker who only entered once . . . . .
Gaaaahh!
Probably on the last day, too.
Ted
That makes two months in a row that the Penny Black Giveaway winner has had ZERO feedback!
The winner is neither a buyer or seller on this site! It must really annoy Mark to award these interlopers! (yet it obviously shows how random and impartial the process is that selects the winner!)
When I had a real job, there were fellows that spent their entire lunch hours entering any free contests online that they could find anywhere! They did pretty good at it, although I'm not sure what good winning some stamps if you aren't a stamp collector will do you...
I say intermittent because I really only know of one or two good new customers that I was able to tell came from the giveaway because they told me, and there isn't a way to know (that I know of) aside from asking the customers. I did have a period of sales dryness so to speak so I lapsed on the giveaways until today actually, I put one up this morning to see what happens....
I do think that a "rule" that the person has to have purchased at least one item (even ever) on Hipstamp would be a good rule, it would get rid of the lunchtime contest kinda guys I mentioned above.....
What about raffles, you say? Only allowed by non-profits.