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Free $5 When you Subscribe to eBay "The Big Deal"

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Pleeroys_dad on 07/08/2009 - 10:18 tools.ebay.com.au (1657 clicks)
Last edited 07/08/2009 - 10:47

Be in the first 10,000 to subscribe to The Big Deal email alerts between 7 - 11 August and you'll receive a FREE $5 PayPal voucher*.

You can use it from 1 - 14 September when you make a purchase on eBay.com.au using PayPal.

What is The Big Deal?
The Big Deal features two hot items from eBay.com.au with great discounts and FREE postage. It's updated daily so there's always something new. And quantities are limited, so they go fast.

To be amongst the first to know about them subscribe to The Big Deal daily email alerts!

“To find out if you’ve won a $5 PayPal voucher check your Big Deal Alert emails on 15 August.”

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  • Zero Sydney on 07/08/2009 - 10:24
    +1

    "To find out if you've won a $5 PayPal voucher check
    your Big Deal Alert emails on 15 August."

  • myeewyee on 07/08/2009 - 10:36

    pity they are only valid for 2 weeks, still, nice freebie

    • voter1 on 07/08/2009 - 11:54

      yeah - not sure how that works - say you have $50 in your paypal account already - is $5 just going to dissapear? Damn paypal and their lame rules.

      • leeroys_dad on 07/08/2009 - 13:10

        I would assume so

      • manbearpig on 07/08/2009 - 16:31

        No, you'd most likely just get a $5 discount voucher code to apply during checkout when paying with paypal….so I imagine the code would just expire after 2 weeks.

  • FatGPT on 07/08/2009 - 11:02

    Signed up, fingers crossed! :D Nice work Gotbean!

  • prankster on 07/08/2009 - 12:17
    +2

    $5 for daily spam yeah? lol

    • JayJay04 on 07/08/2009 - 13:39

      Just unsubscribe after you've used the voucher if you don't like it. =P

  • darkmattersunB6c0MV on 07/08/2009 - 13:50

    Guys, it says -"To find out if you've won a $5 PayPal voucher check
    your Big Deal Alert emails on 15 August."
    So please, it is NOT necessary that even if you do subscribe you are going to win!

    • leeroys_dad on 07/08/2009 - 13:52

      "not necessary"? That doesn't make sense. It's given to the first 10,000, so we all have a decent chance of receiving the $5.

  • jondave on 07/08/2009 - 13:58
    -1

    It doesn't say you're guaranteed to win $5, it's just a ploy to get you to sign up for spam. Dubious marketing trick, got me fooled, so it's a - for me.

    • leeroys_dad on 07/08/2009 - 14:04

      ? it does if you're one of the first 10,000… you can unsubscribe afterwards… plus, you're never "guaranteed" anything - things may not come in the post or woolies may run out of bertolli sauce.

      sounds like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed

      • dansor on 07/08/2009 - 14:20
        +1

        u can always get a raincheck from woolies if they run out of an advertised special…:)

    • zhenjie on 07/08/2009 - 14:49

      What's there to lose?

  • pearldrops on 07/08/2009 - 14:07
    +1

    $5 can go towards a necklace for me :) fingers crossed!!!

  • georgedn on 07/08/2009 - 15:36
    +1

    no guarantee of getting the money - its a competition from the sounds of things.

    • leeroys_dad on 07/08/2009 - 15:41

      different to a competition - guaranteed to get $5 if you're one of the first 10,000. a competition is drawn at random.

      unhappy that you may have missed out?

      also, it's the same as stock levels… a company might have 100 wii's to sell for cheap - this is the same concept, you just don't see the stock levels

    • competitions on 07/08/2009 - 23:32

      You are correct, it's a competition. It has terms and conditions of a competition and had been registered with the appropriate state governments for a 'trade promotion' - also known as a competition.

      Lastly, the terms and conditions clearly show the permits:

      Authorised under NSW PERMIT No. LTPS/09/06736 and ACT PERMIT No. TP09/02951, Victorian Permit No. 09/2407 & SA Licence No. T09/1774.

      • amkssg on 08/08/2009 - 02:18
        -1

        Yes, it's a competition as there are prizes involved. Therefore, it explains the need for permits.

        The difference is that, they are not RANDOMLY giving out prizes, instead, prizes are on a first-come-first-serve basis (ie. first 10000 subscribers).

        On a sidenote, it also states that:
        "Already a Big Deal Subscriber?
        Thanks for your support! You can't enter, but don't worry, you'll be receiving a $5 credit straight into your PayPal account shortly."

        So essentially, they are giving $5 to more than 10000 people.

    • tim_geo on 09/08/2009 - 02:48

      I believe eBay is saying that it is not drawn at random but rather sequentially selected retrospectively.
      They need a competition permit because from your perspective you don't know if you win or not until the results are published, so it involves uncertainty (i.e. luck) for you.

      If would be difficult for eBay to justify to ACCC why they are still promising $5 vouchers for sign ups when a few days later (or even now) there clearly aren't anymore vouchers to be given out.
      So as an advertisement it should be pulled (or else they could contravene TPA for baiting), but it's okay as a competition as the consumer knows that there is an element of luck involved.
      (Arguably in my perspective the 'luck' nature is not sufficiently disclosed. But will see.. they seemed to have thought about this legally already)

  • alo1234 on 07/08/2009 - 15:39
    +2

    Was it too hard for them to tell if we are the 10,000th LUCKY person or not…

    • rodh on 07/08/2009 - 19:59

      it was clever of them not to do that actually, we'd have a big 'EXPIPRED' thing on this and no one would be giving them their email ;)

  • applebyte on 07/08/2009 - 16:03

    cool, $5 for me to click a few times to subscribe and unsubscribe?

    Yes please.

  • con4n007 on 07/08/2009 - 16:33

    I wonder if I can transfer the $5 to my bank instead.
    lol

    • manbearpig on 07/08/2009 - 16:39

      It's a voucher for $5 off. This deal isn't for paypal credit.

  • manbearpig on 07/08/2009 - 16:37

    How generous of eBay….a $5 discount wow. They're not losing anything.

    There's nothing big about this deal considering the amount they take off you when you accept paypal payments.

    This deal is more like the 'Get your $5 back deal'.

    • voter1 on 07/08/2009 - 17:30
      -1

      ?? 10k x $5 = $50k they're giving away
      "They're not losing anything" ???

      I think you dont understand the concept of capitalism or buy/sell.

      No one is FORCING you to sell stuff and take paypal fees - and no one is FORCING them to give the $50k away.
      Whats the problem exactly?

  • aggregate on 07/08/2009 - 18:01

    Sign up for free spam daily…

  • Orgazmo on 07/08/2009 - 22:01

    wont work for me, I sign in and then it thinks about it and then brings me back to sign in again. Cleared the cookies and all

    • tim_geo on 09/08/2009 - 02:41

      Turn off your Flash blocker.
      Took me a while to figure out.

      • Orgazmo on 15/08/2009 - 18:58

        flash blocker?

  • Josh81 on 08/08/2009 - 00:01

    Signed up at 1pm today, hope i'm in the first 10,000.

    Anyone too lazy to click on a couple links, and then cancel the spam a week later, is obviously too rich for free ebay voucher.
    Every little bit counts in this recession.

    • myeewyee on 08/08/2009 - 10:52

      Or too poor to be buying anything on ebay worth more than $5 ..

  • JayJay04 on 15/08/2009 - 11:43

    “To find out if you’ve won a $5 PayPal voucher check your Big Deal Alert emails on 15 August.”

    Got todays email, but theres no mention of being successful/unsuccessful getting the voucher, maybe theyll send another one, but thought it'd be in the same email.

  • johniez on 15/08/2009 - 23:05

    Dear ,
    You've won a $5 PayPal voucher to use on eBay.com.au between 1 - 14 September 2009 because you were in the first 10,000 eBay members to subscribe to The Big Deal email alerts as part of our recent promotion.

    To take advantage of this offer, simply enter the PayPal voucher code, that we send you on 1 September, into the voucher code field at checkout to receive $5 off the final item price, including shipping. Remember that you can only use your voucher once.

  • Jabba the Hutt on 16/08/2009 - 10:11

    No voucher for me. My browser history shows I signed up about 3:15PM EST on the 7th.

  • gringo on 16/08/2009 - 13:15

    No voucher here either..

  • hellrazorone on 16/08/2009 - 14:39
    +2

    Worst promotion by eBay … Nothing here also
    Was waiting for the 15th to unsubscribe from the daily spam of bad offers
    Still no $5 voucher, I guess I'll just unsubscribe

    • WaywardOne on 16/08/2009 - 15:32

      Yeh no voucher for me either! Damn feebay!

  • JayJay04 on 16/08/2009 - 16:43
    +3

    Unsubscribe time :)

  • tim_geo on 16/08/2009 - 22:37

    bah, these Paypal vouchers (10%, $5) shall remain mystical to me…

  • myeewyee on 17/08/2009 - 09:36

    What .. I subscribed as soon as I got the promo email (just before this was posted), didn't receive any voucher. Poor form

  • anthony on 19/08/2009 - 11:46

    I signed up before the deal was posted here and no $5 for me.

  • Vajax on 20/08/2009 - 15:55

    Yes, eBay's promotion is clearly rigged. I subscribed to the Big Deal during this promotion several hours before my friend subscribed to the Big Deal. He ended up getting a voucher, and I didn't. That should be impossible if it's truly the first 10,000 people to subscribe who get a voucher. I contacted eBay about it several times and they weren't able to provide me with an explanation. In the end, they just blamed it on their 'system'.

  • nickj on 21/08/2009 - 10:15

    No voucher, unsubscribed, and voting negative to eBay because receiving their spam for 2 weeks in exchange for nothing is not a bargain, at least for me.

  • sonowwhat on 28/08/2009 - 09:53

    no voucher :'(

  • ash2000 on 29/08/2009 - 19:49

    Ditto….nothing for me either. Unsubscribed.

  • Jesmond on 02/09/2009 - 08:51

    No $5, have been receiving spam from them for three weeks. Screw eBay and us thinking they would actually pull through on this deal.

  • Josh81 on 07/09/2009 - 17:20

    No voucher for me. Like i needed another reason to hate ebay and paypal. >:(

  • pearldrops on 08/09/2009 - 11:55

    I just unsuscribed grrrrr junk

  • themonty on 13/09/2009 - 12:35

    damn, too bad for y'all. i got my voucher ages ago, and i successfully used it on friday.

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