Ask HN: I am trying to give away free $130 products, need marketing advice

Re:Ask HN: I am trying to give away free $130 products, need... by pki on Thursday August 06, 2015 @06:19AM (#10015549)

You say "giving away", I see "being forced to buy, then later apply for some form of or equivalent of rebate, which I've had really shitty past experiences with by virtually every single company ever offering a rebate in any way"

That's the biggest stopper for me.

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On top of that, think of it this way: if someone writes a negative review, wouldn't they innately feel that you wouldn't reimburse them? So you are basically "paying for positive reviews" psychologically, rather than the more fair reviews if they were compensated in the first place IMHO

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Re:Ask HN: I am trying to give away free $130 products, need... by mtmail on Thursday August 06, 2015 @01:06PM (#10017835)

Not just positive, the reviews have to be "top-notch" so you never know if your review good enough.

Same experience here. Did one mail-in rebate in my life and of course that failed with no chance of follow up (they kept all the original receipts, no phone number etc). Never again.

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