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are we being ripped off watching videos

• GARRYCARTER 1,533 Posts

  Tue, May 1 2012 3:24 PM

  Sal knows the truth & that's a FACT

  sallu4u:

  cycle1979:

  Is this "fair"?  I'm sorry but this is a dumb question and annoys me.... they are giving you FREE credits for clicking on a video whether your watch it or not.  You don't even have to keep the browser up and watch the video if you don't want to. 

  Suggestion to everyone.... if you don't like it or you don't feel it is "fair" don't do it or don't use their business.  That's how capitalism works.... the business makes business decisions and you as the consumer decide whether or not you want to use their product.

  Personally... I feel it is "fair" for them to give you FREE credits for clicking on a video... as "fair" as it gets really...

  Well i am not sure what u trying to prove here by screaming over every FREE word.Even WGT never claim they are giving us the videos for FREE.Last i checked the section was called "EARN free credits".

  What really dumb is thinking customers are dumb and dont know whats going on.Facebook has revenue of US$ 3.71 Billion in 2011,and a whopping 85% of it came from advertising. 96% of GOOGLE revenue came from advertising.What these companies are doing is cashing up their customer eyeball for money to the advertisers.Explains why facebook is free and always will be. 

  So i dont think WGT in partnership with LIVEGAMER are running some kind of charity here by showing us the video ads.They are earning money on our views too.

  Kind of thought to balance things up by giving US customer point of view against YOURS company point of view.

   

   

• srellim234 2,077 Posts

  Tue, May 1 2012 4:32 PM

  My thought is "supply & demand." If no one watches them because of the time vs. pay ratio, the choice becomes WGTs to either demand additional pay from the video suppliers or discontinue the service. After all, it's their business, not ours.

  For those who can't or won't invest cash into the game, the decision is easy. Do it on their terms or don't play.

  I wasn't aware that playing a game you can't afford on the internet is a right.

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Tue, May 1 2012 4:56 PM

  The videos work for me, it just takes several days to redeem any credits. The real bummer is, all the survey credits have been reduced considerably.

   

   

• CerinoDevoti 3,232 Posts

  Tue, May 1 2012 7:20 PM

  drakeshead:

  When watching videos for credits we get an average of 2 credits per video this works out at roughly 50 videos for 100 credits ,now each video is from 1.20 mins to 2 mins long per video so we have to watch for 1 hour to 1hour 40 mins  to earn 100 credits  ,does anyone else think this is unfair because to get enough creds for a box of nike balls @450 we would have to watch over 4 hours to 6 hours to get these.

  what do you think

  I think the Nike balls are a waste of credits.

• cycle1979 1,555 Posts

  Wed, May 2 2012 5:24 AM

  srellim234:

  My thought is "supply & demand." If no one watches them because of the time vs. pay ratio, the choice becomes WGTs to either demand additional pay from the video suppliers or discontinue the service. After all, it's their business, not ours.

  For those who can't or won't invest cash into the game, the decision is easy. Do it on their terms or don't play.

  I wasn't aware that playing a game you can't afford on the internet is a right.

   

  Atleast someone understands Capitalism.