
The May Day bank holiday is almost here and I know you’ll have lots of free time on your hands – a spare five minutes at least between going to the seaside, the pub, the supermarket, doing some spring cleaning and visiting the folks (or is that just me?!).
Getting to the point – what better way to spend those spare five minutes than entering a competition to win a spanking, brand new iPod.
All you have to do to enter the competition is leave a mobile phone review on MobileShop.com, you’ll automatically be entered into a prize draw after the weekend. And wonder of wonders, who knows maybe your name will be pulled out of our magic hat and the iconic music player will be yours!
It’s very easy to leave a review and out of sheer laziness I will again refer to our good man TechnoMarkus who explained the process perfectly and succinctly in a past post.
[Slander! That's a vile calumny! I've never done anything perfectly OR succintly in my entire life! - Technical Markus]
In a previous post TechnicalMarkus said: “First, go to any page on the main site, and look on the nav-strip-bar-thing on the left hand side of the page. See that bright green box? Click on that, and fill the form in, then your name goes in the hat. Alternatively, if you want a direct way to review a phone you’ve got (whether you’ve bought a Nokia 5800 or a Sony Ericsson Satio, or whatever), then go to that phone’s page, click on the review page and then (you guessed it), click on the honking great bright green box. Fill the form in (including your email although that is not published), submit your review, and your name’ll go in the hat, too. No purchase necessary.”
Now there are some rules with this competition – but don’t run off there’s not that many and they’re not that bad.
Rule number one: Please, please, please fill in the email box with a valid email address – otherwise how can we get in touch to let you know you’re a winner, nevermind get in touch to send the iPod to you.
Rule number two: Try to give us a little bit of information about why you gave the phone a set rating. We want the reviews to be useful to customers; it’s your chance to tell your fellow shopping human beings whether a phone is worth it or why it’s an absolute must-have. This doesn’t mean you have to write a War and Peace epic about your phone – a paragraph or two will do. For example, I could give my scratched Nokia 6500 seven out of ten. I could then say the reasons being it looks nice (or it did before I got my mucky, clumsy mits on it), has a more than adequate camera, is great for browsing the internet and Facebook-ing friends on the bus; but it has been fairly flaky and sometimes dies on me momentarily for no known reason.
Rule number three: Keep your comments clean and useful and make sure criticism is constructive, rather than just moaning “it’s rubbish”.
There, I told you that there weren’t that many rules and they weren’t that bad.
So, take a break from gallivanting, chores or daydreaming this weekend and LEAVE A REVIEW. I really, really, really want to keep giving these iPods away. We’ve had one winner and I want him to be the first of many.
I’m doing my bit. My fingers are crossed, I’ve touched wood, got a rabbit’s foot and four-leaf clover – that’s how much I want you to win.
Read the post I wrote last week announcing we had our first winner!
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