Hello, fans of flashlights. Thank you for the support of folks here. Hope you enjoy the four giveaways that I organized in the last four weeks. Congrats to the winners and I also wish you can share your experience and feelings of these gifts to others.
I should also say thank you to my boss in Olight who has given me enough delegation to give these giveaways ;p
i3e still has very few video reviews, also i3e silver is coming out soon. So I have this idea. People can review i3e flashlights with videos to show i3e’s real performance.
To Enter:
Make a video review of Olight products, and upload to YouTube. (English or English subtitle is needed)
Post the Video link here.
It could be a video you made either before or after this giveaway post.
Rules are as follows:
Contest to run until Feb 14, with the winners to be chosen on Feb 15.
Anybody can join and even members from “other forums” are encouraged to join us.
No requirement or limit on the length of the video.
No requirement on the form of the video. Product comparisons, real life use. It can be everything.
4 Winners will be chosen randomly through random.org. Prizes are given based on the sequence of selection.
Prizes to be provided are:
1. Olight S30R Javelot
2. Olight S2 Baton
3. Olight i3e x 2. One i3e Silver for each winner.
Please Note:
The winner is chosen strictly based on Random.org selection. So don’t worry that the content of the video may have impact on the final result.
I can’t believe that sellers come here and make these demands, and people do it, go to YouTube and post videos for them, join Facebook for them, it’s like this is the place to come to fetch little unpaid hirelings.
I’m all for GAWS, contests, and such but it seems that stuff like this is is asking for free advertising and the shills, er people, who do this will not be inclined to give a bad review for fear of losing the chance to get a free light. Nor would I trust whoever is asking to make a random pick as they have a clear conflict of interest happening.
My ‘scruples meter’ is reading full-scale on the negative side, even with Olight’s great reputation. My spam detector is wailing too but no clicks from me as I’m unsure how SB and the rest of you feel.
Perhaps it’s time to contemplate some new restrictions on GAW threads which require you to do anything more than put your name in the hat?
What does everyone else think and does SB have an opinion here?
I borrowed my giveaway idea from this thread in the same category “Giveaway and Contests” - BLF A6 Video Review Contest. No one voiced any complaint about how the giveaway rules are set. :~ Maybe the only difference is - I said I am an employee of Olight.
Objectivity of this GAW - I will pick out winners of this giveaway purely based on randomness. Random.org will do the job for me. I will NOT pick out winners purely based on how they portray the flashlight. So just be true about the products, and never worry about losing your chance.
I also do not agree with the notion of free advertising. People share about their feelings of new products every day either online or offline, and they don’t always get rewarded for doing that. If some people do not like to do it on Facebook or YouTube, they can avoid it. Then the rest of people who would like to do that will have higher chances of winning.
YouTube video may be a bit more working there. It is fair though. The harder the rules, the more chances for those who enter. Putting a name in the hat will encourage times more people to participate, but also less chance of winning.
I can’t believe that sellers come here and make these demands, and people do it, go to YouTube and post videos for them, join Facebook for them, it’s like this is the place to come to fetch little unpaid hirelings, and then seem so annoyed at us responding negatively to their exploitative business marketing.
I agree, i don’t like advertising requests like these, but many BLFers have accepted models for review, the only difference here is that they are not purposely picking a member to receive a free sample for review, they are making it a contest. Perhaps the better solution is not to make it a contest, but a review sample available based on other criteria as is done elsewhere on BLF.
I do think contests can have creative rules, but shilling should not be one of them.
No kidding, and we are being hit with Olight trolls currently, a rash of them, evidently your company is in a very aggressive marketing mode, one with atitude.
