Who are you?
I am ZDoctor. I created Lockerz-Scam. I have been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably ignorant. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant.
Is Lockerz a Scam?
Lockerz is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of GPT Sites. It is the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.
Lockerz Prize Goes On Back Order (Part 2)
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?
not only do you have get super lucky and be super fast….you have to hope that lockerz actually gets you your prize…its not because they are back ordered….if so then there is no possible way for lockerz to have ps3′s for the other restocks…and if they did they then have forgotten or purposely forgot his prize
Posted on March 6th, 2010 at 12:45 am
and also,5hadenygm4,you should not accept,anything from lockerz besides the ps3, dont submit to them by them offering you 50 dollars paypal or something, tell them u want the playstation3 and thats all you want
Posted on March 6th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Lockerz sucks cuz they never have prizes in stock. However I spent some time and found some better sites that are similar, and I actually got a 16gb ipod touch and an XBOX 360.
Posted on March 9th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
well… that’s so unfair… i watch the lockerz stupid videos to win some ptz…
if i ever get the ptz for what i want… u better send it to me…
Karma Police (8)
Posted on March 10th, 2010 at 1:47 am
Perryjoe79 said “and also,5hadenygm4,you should not accept,anything from lockerz besides the ps3, dont submit to them by them offering you 50 dollars paypal or something, tell them u want the playstation3 and thats all you want”
Not my case, i dont care about a psp that will never come, but since the only thing they have is paypal checks, i will try to get that paypal money…
Since i dont have a credit card and im a student, i cant buy games from online stores.
Also i know that PC, a Xbox and a PSP may have their differences (Overheating, Stationary/ Portable, Display size, Upgradeable or not, How easy is to repair them).
Also:
HOW DO THEY RAN OUT OF WALLPAPERS?
Posted on March 10th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
I rather like how everyone was defending Lockerz back in January when 5hadow was told he wouldn’t be receiving it till Feb. Well looky now. Can you guys still defend them now that we know that time has run out? They made a promise to him and they go back on it. This isn’t the first time and it definitely won’t be the last.
5hadow did everything legitimately and beat the odds during redemption. He was jipped of his prize. Doesn’t that mean that Lockerz doesn’t see you as valued members but as numbers? I bet you that to them, you are just an IP address. You are not Chris, or Dave, or Richard. You are your 4 number IP address and they feel as much love for you as they do about the million of bacteria crawling on your skin right now.
I know there are Lockerz defenders out there but don’t give me that BS about how you get prizes for no effort, how it’s not a scam cause they do give out prizes, or how they couldn’t possibly send prizes out to everyone. Everyone on Lockerz is there for the same reason. Lockerz alluded to easy redemptions and that you could actually redeem something within the span of a year. We were all led to believe that we would get something for “our opinions”. They deceived all of us. They shouldn’t have promoted themselves as a prize site when in reality, they are a lottery site. They should not have promoted you would get prizes for doing Lockerz stuff. They should have started with you could get prizes for doing boring, Lockerz shit.
Now this may be only beta but if they can’t even provide proper redemptions or give members their deserved prize, how do they plan on running a 24/7 redemption? It’s not possible for them because it goes against reason and the rules of the economy. Please tell me how advertisement could possibly pay for all their redemptions within the span of a year should even 2/3 of the current Lockerz population (right now its 6+mill so lets say 4 million) people were to redeem. They could not stay financially afloat. Take this into consideration before you come back about IT’S STILL IN BETA, THEY WILL GET BETTER!
We spent time on Lockerz and gave them big media numbers. Our collective effort of going on Lockerz religiously made it big in terms of media mass. They would not still be up had it not been for the free advertisement that their members did. What I’m saying is that through all our work in making Lockerz popular, you’d think they would be able to shape up. Well, just like their redemptions, they failed.
Lastly, don’t bring up any arguments about QUIT WHINING BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T GET A PRIZE! I can tell you right now that I would still be here. Just because I get something does not absolve them of the fact that a small percentage of what seems to be less than 5% of their population has not received anything. When you advertise as a prize site, you should be able to provide for 20% or even 50%. Name other prize site that gives you one chance to redeem prizes with earned currency. Tell me what other legitimate prize site has a redemption rate of less than 10%.
Posted on March 10th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
[Quote]perryjoe79 Said,
and also,5hadenygm4,you should not accept,anything from lockerz besides the ps3, dont submit to them by them offering you 50 dollars paypal or something, tell them u want the playstation3 and thats all you want
Posted on March 6th, 2010 at 10:11 pm [/Quote]
Can’t… I tried and e-mailed them saying I DO NOT want the $50 amazon gift card. No responses ever except for my gift card code… I was never told I would get a prize… I was told 2 weeks after a successful redemption it was over redeemed and I wont be getting one and can keep my pointz and will receive a gift card to amazon instead. At least they honored the gift card.
Posted on March 11th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
I’m quite sure my e-mail will verify that I’m the real guy, and now it’s what, March 15? I have continued to send e-mails, even replied to the bulk e-mail sent regarding prizes, and still have no reply from LOCKERZ at all.
I’ll continue to contact them, just not spamming them with e-mails, and I will not accept anything less than my PS3 Slim 120GB Game Console. If they accidentally send me the 250GB, good for me, I just want my darn PS3, $50 is a joke, anything they offer to avoid sending me a PS3 is a joke.
Funny, I still get a smile to all those fanboys who defended them, it’s passed March and I’ve been contacting them for over 2 months, with no update on how my prize is actually doing, their first and only reply said something about “unforseen circumstances” that is delaying some prizes, but didn’t specifically say it was mine. Where’s your proof that LOCKERZ is real to me? If it isn’t a delivery boy dropping off a medium-sized box at my front-door, then forget you die-hard LOCKERZ kids.
But, if they ever send it, which I have a huge doubt they ever will, I can and will record me unboxing it, and upload it to Youtube like I swore the day I redeemed the PS3. I’m lucky everyone I know that I told about in real life forgot about it, because this is just sad. Not just for me, but for the LLC itself, LOCKERZ can’t deliver one more prize, and holds another redemption instead. What kind of bull is this? They need to finish their job before they start another one.
Until then, LOCKERZ is a waste of time. They lie, they are greedy, and they don’t live up to their words. To me and many others, they are not a true prize site, and a homosexual one at that.
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Ok, THIS IS BETA! And i believe that’s when people try out something before it’s OFFICIALLY released right? This is just a minor set-back and they will fix it, that’s what the y do in beta, fix minor bugs like back-ordering and having plenty of items in stock. I’m sure this won’t happen when it’s officially released.
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Oh and one more thing. You are getting pissed off because you didn’t get your ps3. First off, it’s not like you fucking paid the money for it, no reason to get outraged. And shit man, It’s 50 fucking free dollars! It’s not like you did anything that important.
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Wow, the “beta” comment. Dude the site was supposed to launch in Fall 2009, it’s spring 2010. They’re a bit late aren’t they? It’s all a safety net for Lockerz so they can have excuses.
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Hmmm check again, it’s early 2010
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Hmm check your calendar, it’s the middle of March.
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Something similar happened to me with an iPod Touch 64 GB model. I redeemed it, and everything (in January) and I haven’t received an iPod.
I will say this though, I HAVE RECEIVED STUFF FROM LOCKERZ.
The more people join and the longer they’ve been opened, the less and less support they give, the less they care about their customers.
My compensation for the iPod Touch 64 gb IS (saying that I’m still waiting on it) $50 and my points back.
How does that get me an iPod at all? IT DOESN’T.
Posted on March 17th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Wow it is March and they are still in Beta? I joined I think last March or sometime around there and have gotten nothing. Checked today Lockerz the first time in maybe 2 or 3 months to see if they were out of “beta”. Was hoping to finally redeem even for a crappy prize when they were suppose to go “Live” last fall but seems that will never happen lol.
Posted on March 17th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Lockerz started march 9th 2009….they did not pop out of nowhere one day, They had to plan things out and create something to start out with. They said it would launch fall 09…it’s now March 17th 2010 and added a little blog and play…they still need a store, games, a social system e.i. forum or chat, etc….they claim launch is going to be early 2010 but it is almost April and there is still no sign of a store or anything of the sort anytime soon….I have already seen LAB members saying lockerz is going to launch in mid 2010…soon it’s going to be fall 2010….at the rate they are doing things…it looks like a launch won’t happen for another 2-4 years…
Posted on March 17th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
anybody know any other sites like swagbucks????
Posted on March 18th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
hey listen GET ON THE LOCKERZ Z-LIST. I got an ipod off it and it cuts your competition by a couple million and doubles your points for videos.
Posted on March 18th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Obviously, because of many redeemers around the world, Lockerz might have forgotten about his prize. It’s not easy to manage these kinds of things, you know?
Posted on March 19th, 2010 at 9:02 am
“hey listen GET ON THE LOCKERZ Z-LIST. I got an ipod off it and it cuts your competition by a couple million and doubles your points for videos.”
No it does not cut competition, If it was a z-list only then maybe but the last z-list only was november and most people got a email saying they cheated and voided there prize…
“Obviously, because of many redeemers around the world, Lockerz might have forgotten about his prize. It’s not easy to manage these kinds of things, you know?”
But they only have a few prizes for the several million members….so a small percentage of membership is hard for them to remember…but they plan on a 24/7 redemption and a STORE…how would they handle a store let alone a 24/7 restock if they can’t handle what little they give out???…
Posted on March 19th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
It seems like lockerz is a new version of the sadly famous ponzi scheme. You invest some money of your own, and hook a bunch of enthusiastic fun that let you find sponsor and notoriety. Then you can recoup your costs by the advertising videos, in the meantime you stop to give prices away. You don’t give a damn about complaining users, you already have signed contract with sponsor for months. You don’t care if your site loses popularity. It’s a slowly sinking boat. You don’t care if no one come to rescue for it, because you already cashed your insurance. Lockerz site has visitors, sponsors just want visitors. When the visitors will get low and the sponsors won’t invest any more, you won’t even remember to have created the site. Imagine if you have any interest in save it. Are you kidding, a sinking boat for which you have cashed the insurance money? Let’s it go down with all stupid dumb enthusiastic fun of that golden frankengoose.
Posted on March 21st, 2010 at 4:25 am
PS. What is the average age of Internet users? Teenagers? Which teenager has good sense? It’s like stealing candy from a baby. Grow up !!!
Posted on March 21st, 2010 at 4:37 am
Lockerz is for poor people, go make money and buy the stuff you want. KILLAH!
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 at 5:26 pm
I saw on lockerz today that the prizes are more expensive than they were. The iPod touch for example went from 325 points up to 1300 points. What the hell is going on!!!!!
Posted on March 24th, 2010 at 2:56 am
I wouldn’t say its for poor people… more like people that have time to spend time on looking at crap and login and answer questions on Internet everyday…
Lockerz is for No-Life people, go and get some friends and have fun with them instead of being at your computer all day long.
Posted on March 24th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Lockerz is not for poor people….it’s for young people 13+ who think they will get amazing prizes for nothing!
Posted on March 24th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
What I don’t get, is where Lockerz gets all their money from for the “prizes”. Is it from the videos they’ve put up for you to watch? Because there certainly aren’t any advertisements on Lockerz.
Posted on March 28th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
@n3m3s1s
Lockerz gets money from their investor’s some of which pay to put the daily questions up. It essentially queries the masses. They get a better idea of how to market to the people they are selling to. As to the guy calling it a ponzi scheme, you are more or less correct however its more like the ponzi scheme mixed with a pyramid marketing scheme. You join and there are benefits to you joining, you then bring friends into the fray you get points for that, and then when you want to cash out they stall for months before you lose all hope and leave.
Posted on March 29th, 2010 at 1:20 am
“N3M3S1S” they have advertisements in the beginning of the videos but the money they get from all that would have to go to paying all the costs they have such as the hq, the warehouse, the electricity, wages/salaries, etc leaving a little bit left for a few prizes.
Posted on March 29th, 2010 at 11:43 am
The same thing happened to my friend. She ordered an iPod cover and it took them literally 6 months to send it to her. It’s so ridiclous because it wasn’t anything more than sticker like cover that they printed and made.
Posted on March 30th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
SAME THING happened here
redeemed PS3 on january, got it on april 1st
Posted on April 8th, 2010 at 12:29 am
hey i dont get why your complaining, you got your PS3 in the end and its not like its any trouble to get ptz, yeah maybe redeeming is near impossible but so what its just a website.
Posted on June 4th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
max Said,
“Ok, THIS IS BETA! And i believe that’s when people try out something before it’s OFFICIALLY released right? This is just a minor set-back and they will fix it, that’s what the y do in beta, fix minor bugs like back-ordering and having plenty of items in stock. I’m sure this won’t happen when it’s officially released.”
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
IT’S NOT IN BETA ANYMORE, AND THEY ARE STILL FEEDING US SHIT! What do you suppose now? They will fix it, it is only beta, some minor bug fixes and it will be fine soon when they officially launch.. bullshit. We are tired of waiting and tired of the lies they have made us believe just to make profit and give us nothing.
Posted on June 5th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Ok firstly, it wasn’t me who got a PS3. Secondly it’s not just a website. We spend our time on it and the age old saying of “Time is Money” applies here perfectly. When we give them our time to do dailies, watch videos, they earn money. In essence, we give them our time which they convert into money for themselves. They profit off of us completely and only 1% of the Lockerz userbase (probably less) ever see anything back. They earn thousands or millions of dollars and we get nothing back? Why should we all not get paid back?
Posted on June 5th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
well, I’m wondering why didn’t you delete this post if the person got the prize? I mean, you say lockerz doesn’t give prizes only wallpapers and their shit, but the person got it’s ps3, what if it comes later, better now than never, plus, you don’t pay for the shipping, so what’s the problem? Pay 100000 points for shipping and i’m sure you’ll be getting it in 1 week
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Some info is old and we have receded on the argument that you don’t get prizes. However, we do now say that they will give prizes but to a lucky few. Never a large percentage of the Lockerz user base. I keep this article up to show how Lockerz can give you the run around. How difficult it really is to get a prize.
Pay the PTZ and get it in a week? Lockerz doesn’t care for its own currency. No self respecting company does. They care about pure legal tender. You could give them all your PTZ and they can just say you cheated, never give you a prize or an explanation. Now if you gave them cash money on the other hand, they’d care because that is something they can put in the bank. Something that can be put on a sales chart.
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Albert, I’ll be checking this post again for your further response. Can you tell me why the website is still called Lockerz-scam? Then, it’s not about lucky few. Let me try to explain a few things, because I know the situation, even if I don’t work and I can’t be associated with Lockerz.
Anyways, first let’s take this part of your post :
“Pay the PTZ and get it in a week? Lockerz doesn’t care for its own currency. No self respecting company does. They care about pure legal tender. You could give them all your PTZ and they can just say you cheated, never give you a prize or an explanation. Now if you gave them cash money on the other hand, they’d care because that is something they can put in the bank. Something that can be put on a sales chart.”
Okay, it was demonstrated that people can be cheating to make ptz ( youtube ). Then, if you have got to many ptz in a really short time they can check that too and reject people, that’s why you probably believed it’s a scan, you used a ptz hack program and never got your prize. Anyways, of course they would send you the prize if you order it with money, I mean, you can have fake PTZ, but how can you make fake money in a bank, if you know how, please tell us, I’m sure over 6 billion people are interested in becoming a billionaire.
Know, let me explain Lockerz to you. Lockerz makes money through your clicks, I mean, every single person that clicks. And because they are paid 1 click per IP on day, that’s how you got daily video 1 click, daily question, 1 click, and the date 1 click. So they make 3 clicks of you a day if you go on daily, right? Hope we clarified that, if we don’t, well, search for Google AdSense, cause I’m getting bored of explaining people how to make money of websites.
Next problem, the stock, of course they have a stock, I mean, there are 600 000 people a day on lockerz, If you could redeem how much you want the website would fall down. That’s why they try to reduce the number of persons that can redeem.
Now, let’s clear the Website Crashes when Redeeming Is On. Well, because I know someone who is an IT, and because I’m interested in computers, I can tell you that websites like Facebook, Hi5, Youtube, Lockerz, run on servers. Well, youtube probably haz the biggest number of servers. Anyways, the purpose of a server is to maintain a website usually, It’s a server, it has many other functionalities. Well, I guess that Lockerz is running only 1 server, ( while facebook has hundreds of servers ) and when the redeem is on people start to be online in a large number. Well, then, LAG is being created, and if you are at a far distance from the SERVER, your contact with it is slow, and of course, because of the large number of IP’s the server has to satisfy, it’s working like crap.
Now, I’ve seen that you were kind of disturbed by the fact that lockerz sent that user his prize after a big period of time. I have a question, did that user had to pay anything?(It’s a trap question, he didn’t pay anything I know already) All he did was to WATCH videos, and give 1 minute a day to give some clicks instead of playing Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 online with other noobs on PS3. Well, let me make it clear, even if shipped in US or Internationally, lockerz sends the item, but if they have to restock, you have to wait for it to restock man, I mean it’s free, give some patience to it. And it is shipped through FedEX, so it still arrives sometime. Anyways, I’m looking forward for your response at my questions, and I hope that I didn’t offended you through any words that I used.
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 at 3:14 am
Well, well, well. Looks like someone hasn’t read the Is Lockerz A Scam article. There I clearly state out how Lockerz can gain profits. I also point out that there are not 600,000 active users anymore. It is a little more than half that number as displayed by the polls. To continue on, they don’t use AdSense as you indicate. They first advertised themselves as no blatant advertising or pop-ups in which AdSense would probably qualify in that category. Instead they sell your opinions to marketing companies on what “Generation Z” is thinking or liking. Continue on to their videos. Prior to a video, they show an advertisement. For every thousand or ten thousand, they get paid a sum.
You talk about the PTZ and fake PTZ. I think you missed my point. You said “Pay 100000 points for shipping and i’m sure you’ll be getting it in 1 week” and I rebuttal that by saying they wouldn’t care how many PTZ you spend. My point in that statement is that unless you are paying them with something bankable, they won’t care how many PTZ you spend. Unless you give them money, they can take their sweet time in sending you your prize. I don’t understand how you interpreted my response to your PTZ comment so I won’t continue any further about that. I will make this last statement though. I lost all my PTZ last week for getting 7k in PTZ from videos. I got a You Cheated e-mail for watching videos and earning PTZ the legitimate way.
Website crashes… It doesn’t take an IT professional to realize that hammering a server with a load of people would crash or lag the server. A 12 year old who played Counter-strike would know a mass amount of connections to a single server would die by lag. That being said, they fixed that issue. I don’t see where you are pulling this from… Back in December, they’re ported their system to run on an Amazon mirrored server. Now that you know that they run on an Amazon server, you should also realize that the server Amazon uses can handle MANY connections at once. Far more than the amount of users Lockerz has. Could you imagine if Amazon couldn’t handle 300k people at a time? Needless to say, most issues revolving around redemptions are no longer connection issues but stocking/prize amount issues.
Ok so now lets go onto the back-order part. This article was mainly to chronicle his issues. To see how much of a runaround Lockerz would give him. To make sure a friend didn’t get screwed. Could you imagine what would happen in Lockerz backed out of awarding the prize? If Lockerz had backed out, then it would have been simply his word vs. Lockerz. With this article around, he now had a voice and if Lockerz didn’t, we could spread around his story. Let’s move on to the timing issue. He was given an e-mail saying that he was good enough to redeem but he couldn’t be instantly awarded. Alright, we give Lockerz that one. He was given a new window on when to expect the package to arrive. Lockerz gives out a CONFIRMATION notice 2 weeks AFTER the window they told him he would receive the prize. If we win the lottery, are we told, “Sorry we don’t have your million dollars. We’ll send you a check in the mail 4 weeks later.” Lockerz gave him their word as a company he would get his prize in this time frame. Regardless of whether it is a free item or not, the point is they missed the window and did not have any courtesy to follow up during that window to explain again. Customer relations make up a huge part of a company and if a customer can trust in the company, the customer will have great things to say. Lockerz did give him the prize but the way they handled it was far from professional.
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 at 3:44 am
Well we go back to Youtube, they pay a certain user so they can put certain adds on a video, right. Well, those adds appear after a click, and a person can watch a video 1 billion times a day, because only 1 click per IP adress is being counted. You really don’t know much about the way the internet system works. For them selling our opinions to marketing companies is very smart, I agree with that, they can make some cheap money out of that. ( Btw I just wanted to clarify that AdSense uses adds on videos and pays the user that has good views, for those of you who don’t know what youtube is, youtube.com )
For your account I have only one thing to say. “Lockerz shall have the right to terminate your use of the Website and/or your Membership privileges any time for any reason.”, you agreed with that when you signed up, no? It’s not like they cheated or something, they told you.
“Back in December, they’re ported their system to run on an Amazon mirrored server. Now that you know that they run on an Amazon server, you should also realize that the server Amazon uses can handle MANY connections at once. Far more than the amount of users Lockerz has. ” Well, let me clarify that for you. A website like amazon probably has around 100 servers man. And because it is a mirrored server the speed is slower, and also works for two servers, Amazon and Lockerz. Now, if Amazon is such a wanted website so it would be so full of people, ofcourse that one server has to work for both, and when many people are on Lockerz and Amazon at the same time, the server has some problems. I have no idea what else you tried to tell with that statement of yours.
About the PS3 your friend redeemed, I can only say that, Lockerz has the right to “play” with users, they tell you they’ll try to give you the best service, they don’t tell you what kind of service they’ll give.I mean, who cares if the service was unprofessional, I don’t care, it was free, gimme that PS3 if you think it was that unprofessional and go to Wallmart and buy one, you’ll take it home with you when you leave, hope that’s good service for you.
Question : Why are people acting stupid even when it’s free, every time, there must be one person, who is against, because they wanted everything to serve them first and perfect? People like you will f*** up the society, just sayin`.
Next question: Why is this website still existing? Why is it still named lockerz-scam? I mean, isn’t it fake what are you affirming? You proved that it is legit, don’t you think so?
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 at 5:19 pm
I have no idea where you are taking this argument to. Lockerz does not run their videos on Youtube so why bring it up? The ads on Lockerz are not AdSense. They belong to a different company altogether.
To get a video placed on Lockerz like The-All-For-Nots ‘s massive amount of videos, their record label or company pays Lockerz money for them to place it up on the site. It’s product placement or advertising their band. While those videos are watched on Lockerz, Lockerz double dips by adding in an ad in-front. 2 sources of money, 1 made by number of unique views and another made by continued subscription on the Lockerz hosting server.
Ok, so we give them omnipotent power to do anything they want. I knew that already but do you not find that any bit shady or dishonest? At any point in time, they can wipe everyones’ hard work for no reason whatsoever. I don’t know what kind of person you are but if you condone those actions, then I’m glad I will never meet you.
Again you bring up the point about servers. I don’t see why you keep bringing up a dead argument. No one has argued they lagged since December. I haven’t had any connection problems since they ported their server meaning they can handle the traffic. The only issue was a scripting problem in the Feb. redemption where they couldn’t script the redeem page and the redemption site was down.
Again you say Lockerz an “play” its users. I’ll say while it is within their rights to do so as we agreed to those terms, it is immoral and poor business sense. Why mess with users who are earning you a profit? Why not just act honestly and justly? Do they find amusement in making us wait? In making horrible redemptions and resetting peoples’ hard work back to 0? Whether they are allowed to or not is not an issue to me. It’s the fact that they act on their right to “toy” and harass users that is completely BS.
You say the items we get are free. Have you not heard the old adage “Time is money”? We give up our time to Lockerz in which they turn it into profits. By us forfeiting our time to Lockerz, they are making money. In essence we are workers, and when you work for something, is it still free? They just cut out the money part of the equation. Instead, it would be like we work for them but see no money. In the place of money are prizes like an iPod. You think it’s free because no money has ever been presented into the equation. The fact is, if we take the views and dailies we did and were able to see the cash value of them, we’d be looking at money that we earned.
This is nothing like wanting things served to us. We just want what we deserve. If you make money from us, we should see some form of reward. The only case where profiting from free labour is allowed would be volunteer work, intern work, and co-op work. We work for them, allowing them to profit off of us, and see nothing in return. How is that right? At least on other GPT sites, we are able to get what we earned. On Lockerz we are “privileged” to see the fruits of our labour.
Why is it called Lockerz-Scam? Lockerz uses deceitful tactics and lies to gain users. When users are gained, they are profited from via dailies, ad views and vid counts. In return, they find out that Lockerz is not the site as they advertised themselves as and also find out that they would be lucky to see a prize. When you profit off of deception or lies, you are a scamming operation. People have perverted the meaning of Scam into directly losing money but that is not the case. As long as someone profits from lying to you, you are scamming the person.
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 at 6:30 pm
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