LOCKERZ is a SCAM

For those who read back in January, our friend 5hadowenygm4 redeemed a PS3 but it went on back order. If you want to read the previous article, the link is http://lockerz-scam.com/2010/01/31/lockerz-prize-goes-on-back-order/. I’m not going to go through the details but here are the basics of what happened previously.

1. 5hadowenygm4 successfully beat the crowd of Lockerz members during the December restock and redeemed a PS3.

2. He gets a confirmation e-mail in January congratulating him on redeeming the PS3.

3. He gets another e-mail from Lockerz in January saying that he has been back ordered because of the excessive amount of orders on the PS3. He was to get it in 3-4 more weeks.

4. We all wait with him for 3-4 weeks and now time is up. We have not heard back from Lockerz regarding his redemption. Apparently, he got no response from Kathy when he emailed her about it.

So Lockerz, where’s the PS3? Is this how you treat members? You use them and then forget about them once they want something they rightfully gotten? Let it be written that I will do everything in my ability to get 5hadowenygm4 his PS3. (Any suggestions would be nice)(No suggestions of Terrorism or DDoS attacks)

So here’s an update. As of the second or third week of March, he finally got a shipping notice and his PS3 arrived in tact the next week. Congrats to 5hadow for being the one in a million and congrats on finally getting your prize. It was about time too eh?

Well it’s been a long time since the restock so my memory wasn’t as sharp… Sorry if the times aren’t exact.

OK so lets get started shall we? The February restock consisted of 4 waves. 3 out of the 4 were pay to enter. For 1 wave, you pay 100 PTZ. For 2 waves, 250 PTZ and for 3 waves, 350 PTZ. The last wave was a free wave for everyone. The dates scheduled for the 3 pay waves were February 25 and 26th for the free wave. Let’s analyze each wave separately so here we go.

Wave 1 (6:00 – 7:00 PM EST)

This was probably the biggest failure Lockerz had throughout the 4 waves. First off, during the time leading up to 6:00, the website was hammered and crashed. right before 6:00, all everyone saw was the screen with Odyss licking glass and the purple error. This continues on throughout half of the wave. Seriously, everyone saw the error image up until 6:30-6:35ish. at 6:40ish, the doors opened and redemption was over in a snap. WOO Congrats Lockerz, can’t handle the bandwidth even after the apparent switch of servers in December or January.

Wave 2 (8:00-9:00 PM EST)

Nothing special in this. Same, typical, lightning fast restock. Wave was over in 2 minutes or so. Somehow, they sold out of Paypal cards O.O How can you sell out of cash? No more budget for the cards?

Wave 3 (10:00-11:00 PM EST)

Same as 2. Ended before anyone even realized it.
Wave 4 (5:37 PM EST)

I don’t know about you guys but I couldn’t get in before everything was gone. Might be my luck, might be my internet connection not being the best in the world. I don’t know but at this point, I’m not very upset.

Afterthoughts:

Typical Lockerz restocks. The first wave was reminiscent of the Z-Lister only redemption back in November or September. The rest were similar to the January restock except this time Paypal cards went Out Of Stock as well. Still don’t know how you run out of E-gifts… especially the wallpaper…. HOW DO YOU RUN OUT OF WALLPAPER?!! Seriously, it’s not tangible and it only takes up bandwidth. How can you possibly run out of that?

Something you guys should all note is the Lockerz Facebook wall. You should have seen how angry people were on Facebook. There was literally over 1000 posts on their wall about FAIL and WTF LOCKERZ!!!! Was very fun to read. It’s also great to see the maturity of many of the Lockerz fanbase. After walls of WTF and FAIL comments came the racists. Several, not one or two but several posts said international members were to blame. Some members seemed to think that the failure of Lockerz was due to its non-American members.

Lets not forget that after the restocks, Lockerz Facebook was taken down again. Can’t handle all the negativity? Well too bad. You deserve it. You can’t call these redemptions. These are lotteries.

Theories behind this restock:

Well let’s now look at the hidden details in this restock. First, they said it was 4 waves. Sounds great right? Well, it would except for one thing, they never mentioned an increase of stock. That means that even though there were 4 waves, that never meant that the stock of items would increase. Let’s say they had 100,000 prizes last redemption. Now, they could have had 100,000 for this redemption too since they never said they would increase the stock they had. That means they could have had 25,000 prizes in each wave. This redemption could feels like it’s giving you more chances at even smaller odds.

One more thing to note is this could have been a business scheme in Lockerz favour. How come this is the first time they want us to pay points to try and redeem? Maybe it’s because Lockerz fears that if they open the full site, they would get bombarded by redemptions at their 24/7 shop. Think about it. Not a lot of people have redeemed so it’s completely feasible that the amount of points of many members is over 800. 800 under the terms of Lockerz’s 24/7 shop would be enough for 2 games. That would bankrupt Lockerz really quickly if they allowed everyone in the world to order up a game. So this pay to redeem might have been a way to reduce point totals while making it seem like they are being really generous.