Blogging Tip: Cheap, but great, prizes for contests
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 by MattIt’s not too unusual for bloggers to run contests in attempt to raise their PageRank/Technorati Authority. You may have considered this briefly, but dismissed the idea when you couldn’t think of anything good to offer as a prize. Here’s a possible solution: Refurbished iPods. Apple will sell you iPods that have been returned (and fixed) for about $50 less than the list price. There’s nothing wrong with them, so they’re a great deal.
A refurbished iPod Shuffle costs $50, and a 2GB iPod Nano $100.
A lot of people don’t know about the refurbs, because Apple buries the link on their website.
5:34 pm on August 8th, 2007
Hmmm– screw the whole host-a-contest thing, I wanna buy one of those for myself!
6:37 pm on August 8th, 2007
Gotta buy myself one from there too… thanks for the tip!
10:41 am on August 9th, 2007
I have a functional Sandisk Sansa m240 MP3 player currently ($45 new at Circuit City). It’s got a couple minor annoyances (mainly a bug in the menu structure), but nothing bad enough to get an iPod yet (despite wishing I had a 4GB Nano). My next MP3 player will probably be an iPod after a)My current one fails b)I totally run out of space. I’d probably grab a refurb 4GB Nano.
11:54 pm on May 23rd, 2008
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