Today's stash has all been claimed but it runs until the end of the year.
Xbox secretly gave $500,000 worth of prizes to their top VIP rewarders!
There are loads of games available if you are lucky.
Top comments
steve23094
16 Dec 153#46
The whole Gimme 5 promo is rubbish. The MS Marketing Dept. should be fired.
1. Nothing has been communicated clearly to punters. What time was it due to start yesterday? What time is it due to start today? Can you enter more than once? Does anyone even know if it is running more than one day (this will be answered soon)?
2. It was late launching yesterday anyway, somebody forgot to flip the switch. By the time it did nobody knew what was going on and most missed out.
3. The whole concept of 'fastest finger first' is flawed. Everybody knows that this only serves to overload web pages and as a result frustrates users when they can't load. So what does everyone do? Press 'Refresh' repeatedly and cause even more congestion. There are many complaints over the net that people couldn't log on, when they did the decent items were already claimed, or they said they were available and then couldn't be claimed. It all just seems very unfair.
4. Most of the most decent stuff is probably getting claimed by bots.
5. MS has been promoting a hashtag #gimme5 to generate excitement and advertising. Bad move. All the Tweets are critical of the whole thing. [Face palm].
I'm not just going to whinge, I'm going to suggest how it could be run better. To me these improvements are so obvious I don't understand why someone at MS did not put their brain in gear.
1. Communicate clearly all the points I made in 1. above. This is incredibly easy to do.
2. Make the whole claim process fair. Instead of first one to get through, each person gets to 'open a present' once per day (you could even have a cute little animation). Opening your present gives you a random chance to win something, obviously the rare stuff has a much lower chance. This method is used by all sorts of sites all the time, easy to do.
As it stands I think the Gimme 5 promo sucks.
NGC danger to Greggs123
16 Dec 153#15
I have been with Rewards since the start and have received feck all as per usual, it does seem unfair that here in the UK we are left out of these big giveaways yet we seem to always pay a higher price generally for services and games.
chasolo
16 Dec 153#6
xbox demonstrating yet again it's better than Playstation.
All comments (63)
p4ulsmith
16 Dec 15#1
Do you know what time tomorrow's "stash" becomes available?
jai47 to p4ulsmith
16 Dec 15#2
I'm not too sure, it could be US time i.e. 6pm Today or UK time of Midnight.
I missed it yesterday thanks to my Ad Blocker!
(The site would not load in Chrome with Ad Block Plus enabled)
There are some decent looking prizes that have been claimed aside from games e.g. a signed Batman movie poster!
there were a few left showing under the vintage goodies section just now
chasolo
16 Dec 153#6
xbox demonstrating yet again it's better than Playstation.
subway to chasolo
16 Dec 151#51
Shame that 30 million people don't think so but hey, a bunch of free fluff will definitely convince them :stuck_out_tongue:
angry_wasp
16 Dec 15#7
Can you pick one or multiple things?
jboy123
16 Dec 15#8
i claimed an avatar costume by accident, now the website says i cant select another prize would this be the case just for today or for the length of the promotion?
jai47 to jboy123
16 Dec 15#10
I'd be surprised if it's for the whole time... I also claimed an avatar.
It should reset at 5pm so you can pick another.
steve23094 to jboy123
16 Dec 15#11
The way I interpret the Terms & Conditions you can only choose one for the whole promo, but I could easily be wrong. Try again tonight.
kim9973
16 Dec 15#9
Will try later great thanks
spinks
16 Dec 15#12
I would think it's one selection per gamertag for the promo otherwise it's fastest finger first every day and some of those top prizes are tasty
![Fresh Breakfast Meat Box (Using code) @ Campbells Meat [Haggis / Lorne Sausage / Bacon / Black Pudding & More]](/images/topics/208684_1.jpg)
![[Xbox One] Q. u. b. e: Director's Cut on Deals with Gold](/images/topics/208716_1.jpg)
Opening post
Go to: https://rewards.xbox.com/anniversary/
Claim Goodies from the selection.
Today's stash has all been claimed but it runs until the end of the year.
Xbox secretly gave $500,000 worth of prizes to their top VIP rewarders!
There are loads of games available if you are lucky.
Top comments
1. Nothing has been communicated clearly to punters. What time was it due to start yesterday? What time is it due to start today? Can you enter more than once? Does anyone even know if it is running more than one day (this will be answered soon)?
2. It was late launching yesterday anyway, somebody forgot to flip the switch. By the time it did nobody knew what was going on and most missed out.
3. The whole concept of 'fastest finger first' is flawed. Everybody knows that this only serves to overload web pages and as a result frustrates users when they can't load. So what does everyone do? Press 'Refresh' repeatedly and cause even more congestion. There are many complaints over the net that people couldn't log on, when they did the decent items were already claimed, or they said they were available and then couldn't be claimed. It all just seems very unfair.
4. Most of the most decent stuff is probably getting claimed by bots.
5. MS has been promoting a hashtag #gimme5 to generate excitement and advertising. Bad move. All the Tweets are critical of the whole thing. [Face palm].
I'm not just going to whinge, I'm going to suggest how it could be run better. To me these improvements are so obvious I don't understand why someone at MS did not put their brain in gear.
1. Communicate clearly all the points I made in 1. above. This is incredibly easy to do.
2. Make the whole claim process fair. Instead of first one to get through, each person gets to 'open a present' once per day (you could even have a cute little animation). Opening your present gives you a random chance to win something, obviously the rare stuff has a much lower chance. This method is used by all sorts of sites all the time, easy to do.
As it stands I think the Gimme 5 promo sucks.
All comments (63)
I missed it yesterday thanks to my Ad Blocker!
(The site would not load in Chrome with Ad Block Plus enabled)
There are some decent looking prizes that have been claimed aside from games e.g. a signed Batman movie poster!
https://rewards.xbox.com/anniversary/terms-and-conditions/
It should reset at 5pm so you can pick another.