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Re: Fusion Holiday Developer/Designer Bundle by paolomaffei on Thursday December 16, 2010 @08:05AM (#2011864)
I didn't think people that read HN are influenced by prizes and similar cheap marketing tricks

Let's do some math:

Let's say that only 4000 people buy the bundle (highly unlikely, probably much more), the cost of the macbook and ipad is $2000 Your expected value from the prizes is $2000 / 4000 = $0.5.

$0.5 / $79 total cost = 0,6% wow. great.

Re: Fusion Holiday Developer/Designer Bundle by jeffclark on Thursday December 16, 2010 @10:27AM (#2012304)
Close. But you're forgetting to add the value of having 4,000 email addresses to notify when the next deal drops.