July contest results and more news
July 31st, 2008
Our July contest has just wrapped up and the winner is… we have a tie! TheBest and orangearrows each have 139 points and will receive $125 in cash as the monthly prize. This is the sum of our #1 and #2 prizes divided equally. Congratulations to the winners!
coree511 and niteprey2 were closely behind in the contest. Did we mention niteprey2? That is right. We have good news for niteprey2. Since the scores have been so close to each other we thought it would be fair to extend the third prize ($50) to #4, so this month coree511 and niteprey2 will each receive $50!
June was a great month (we hope you all read the guest blog post from our last month winner) and July was yet another fantastic month. We enter the month of August with our daily and monthly contests. Please go to the contest page for the current month to vote on the prizes.
The contest rules in August stay the same with just two changes:
- We will be reducing the daily prize for freebies from $10 to $5. Our long term goal with Buxr is to turn it into a shopping site for budget minded people and this is the direction we want our contests to go. Freebies will still receive +5 points towards the monthly prize, but as we stated earlier the daily prize for freebies is now $5. We consider anything that does not potentially involve an online product purchase a freebie. For example a free product sample is freebie but a printable coupon that comes with an online discount code is not. I am sure you will have more questions about this change. You are welcome to leave them in the comments and we will try to answer them the best way we can.
- We are reducing the penalty for the worst deal from -5 points to -1 point. You will still earn +1 point for a negative vote on the worst deal.
We have prepared one more exciting announcement for you. We will be launching one more contest this month where you are rewarded for inviting friends to Buxr. This contest is very important not only because it helps build the bargain hunting community at Buxr, but also because the more active members we have at Buxr - the greater variety of opinions we will have and the more meaningful deal votes will become in determining the hottest deals. We will have the announcement and more details about the contest shortly on this blog.
Again, thanks everyone for supporting our site, we look forward to another exciting month!
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6 Comments Add your own
1. orangearrows | July 31st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Was hoping that you would have 4 winners :)…nice of you to do that .
great job …congrats to Best , Coree & Niteprey
2. mike | July 31st, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Thank you Orangearrows and everyone in the Buxr community for another great month! You guys are really helping us build something special, and it’s exciting watching it take-off.
Again, congrats to all the winners! August should be a fun month
3. Thebest | July 31st, 2008 at 11:14 pm
You guys are really great.!!!!!! I got boosted by the results.Congrats to all the winners and special thanks to all.
Get ready for the August contest ………….Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooo…………………………..
4. Coree | August 1st, 2008 at 12:56 am
Wow! What a month!! It was such a close race most of the month. Congrats to Orange & Best for taking the top honors & Niteprey for making it such a narrow competition! I know I worked extra hard at the end of the month to stay up there with you!
Looking forward to our next month of fun! Thanks Buxr for the great contests and prizes!
5. Yan | August 1st, 2008 at 1:25 am
Hey guys! Thanks for the comments. We didn’t think too long before deciding on the 4th prize since you all have done such a terrific job bargain hunting.
Just want to point out a small technicality of this contest results. If you look at the monthly stats you will notice that Niteprey had the least best deals but compensated the lack with votes (she had the most votes of you 4). Votes alone gave Niteprey advantage of about 20-30 points at the end of the month.
I am mentioning this to stress out that voting up good deals is just as important as submitting them. Don’t forget to share votes when you share deals!
6. Niteprey2 | August 1st, 2008 at 6:04 am
Thanks Buxr for rewarding all of us…especially me at the end :). We have all worked extremely hard to find good deals for everyone on the site and I know that I will continue to do so. I agree that voting helps everyone out, that’s why I cast so many votes!!! Submitters should be rewarded by voters!!!
KCongrats to Orange, TheBest and Core511, you all put up a good fight, but remember…I’ll be back this month
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