October Contest Results + Site Updates

November 1st, 2009

Greetings everyone, hope you had a great October and we are back with our monthly wrap-up. It’s been a fun month, so sit back and relax, I’m going to fill you in on all the juicy details.

Here is a jam packed wrap-up:

• Monthly Contest Results
• Buxr is in the news
• Twittter + Buxr = Happy together
• It’s a virtual swap meet
• Guess who’s tracking what you buy… It’s not Santa!
• Yes, we’ve banned some users
• November is here!

Monthly Contest Results:

1st place: HouTex 2399 Points — $100 2nd place: Solstice 2147 Points — $75 3rd place: midget 2080 Points — $50 4th place: redsoxrokk 2044 Points — $25 5th place: siggy38 2026 Points — $25 + mug 6th place: steve_05 1752 Points — $25 7th place: arzkar Points 1669 — $25

8th place: pablos17 1631 Points — $25 9th place: jack69darin 1551 Points — $25 10th place: kldpm 1520 Points — $25 11th place: emma123 1477 Points — $10 12th place: MrCheap 1467 Points — $10 13th place: WhattaDealBlog 627 Points — $10 + mug

Some of the remaining winners may receive Buxr Swag:

14th place: JackBauer 567 Points 15th place: vinhdanh 517 Points 16th place: acidreign 411 Points 17th place: busant20 402 Points — mug

18th place: khalidalraies 330 Points — mug 19th place: onkarkulkarni 254 Points 20th place: phunkeey 248 Points

Thanks again to all of our contributing members!

Refer a Friend Contest results:

No winners, and few participants in this month’s refer a friend contest. This is one contest that has failed to take off for Buxr. Do you guys have any ideas what we could do to get your participation? Remember, if you have no friends, we can’t help you.

Buxr is in the news!

A small but nice Buxr media blitz this month we made Time.com and The San Francisco Chronicle blogs!

We loved SF Gate’s summary of Buxr so much, we had to quote it here:

Buxr — Deal aggregation, crowdsourcing-style. Buxr members post the deals they find, which are then voted up or down based on their “hotness.” The members’ incentives for not submitting crap? Since member deals are voted on, there are daily and monthly awards for the best and worst deals, determined by a point system, and there’s money involved for the people who win best-deal prizes. It’s fascinating if you’re into online communities, doubly so if you’re into bargains too.

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! Thanks everyone!

Love Twitter… Why not follow us too?

If you love Twitter, you should definitely follow us. You’ll never miss another deal, because every single deal is automatically tweeted. If you have a Twitter app for your phone, you can check out our deal tweets right from it! If you need more info, read this blog post.

Swap clothes not germs!

Want to free up your closet and get some great gear for this winter? Check out this blog post about some cool new internet swapping sites. Trade everything from clothes to DVDs and save some money too!

Your buying habits are being watched!

Did you know credit companies are not only watching how much you spend, but also what you are buying? Check out this informative blog post on how your buying habits could affect your credit!

Yes, we’ve banned some users

As you know the daily and monthly contests are a big part of Buxr, and we are delighted that we’ve received such great participation. Unfortunately there are some people out there who want too much of a good thing. So in order to maintain the integrity of the contest we had to ban a few users this month. As always we do our best to police the site and keep things fair. If you have any comments or suggestions, please drop us a note.

It’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday in November!

Thanks again for all of your support, it’s going to be an exciting month with tons of blow-out Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Make sure you stop by and check us out!

Have a great month,

The Buxr Team!

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