LOCKERZ is a SCAM

Since this month’s redemption happened in 2 parts, I’ll write it in chronological order.
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First up, Spring Fling Redemption:

Day: April 15, 2010
Time: 6:52 PM EDT (GMT -5:00)

So here’s my personal experience. It started at 6:52 and got in at 6:54 PM. Well, we all know what can happen in 2 minutes at a Lockerz redemption. I go in and find no electronics left except wallpapers and earphone covers. I then head over to the Brands We Love page and find only Snowboards left. Wow. 2 minutes… In 2 whole minutes, almost everything was emptied out. Needless to say, I just closed the tab and went back to Youtube.

Some people had problems with this redemption. I heard from several people that during the first 30 seconds, there was a technical error. Their ability to log in sent them to an internet connection error page. They then had to return to the log in page and re-log in. Well, that seemed to take them a few costly seconds because when they got in, they saw pretty much the same thing I saw. Junk remaining.

My good friend Zgore did redeem a Lockerz thermos. Head there to see his take on it if you’re interested. There’s a special little video waiting for you at the end of his article.
Zgore redeemed + VID
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Restock just finished.

Date: April 29, 2010
Time: 6:37 PM EDT (GMT -5:00)
Duration: 32 or 33 minutes

It’s 8 minutes in and only thing remaining is the iMac, a Ruffian Scarf, $500 PayPal and a bunch of Lockerz brand crap. We know iMac and the PayPal aren’t going anywhere. No one has the amount of PTZ needed to get them. This redemption was over when it started. 2 minutes and the only thing that was left were Baggu bags, Lockerz exclusive items, DVD’s, Wallpapers and Earphone covers.

So there are several people I’ve talked to who said they were there for the first minute. No technical issues this time.
They do say that even in the first minute, the only thing that remained were SOME games, headphones, wallpaper, Lockerz Exclusives, and Brands We Love crap. Even people in the first minute did NOT see an iTouch or other high ticket items. Hmm, makes you think how much stock they really have on the iTouch (or if they even have any at all :O).
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So here are a few things I noticed. This time around, the selection of prizes weren’t exactly the same as the Spring Fling Redemption. This time, there were no snowboards and the Brands We Love weren’t the same as last time. There also seemed to be less movies this time around. If you guys took time to notice, the PTZ Place catalogue is much larger than the redemption store. I also noticed Guarantee Your Prize has been removed. I wonder why things are missing. Could it be because they don’t have stock on that stuff anymore? If that’s true, then maybe they don’t have stock on iTouches. Maybe they just leave the picture of iTouches up just to show that, “Hey you were too slow this time. Maybe try again next month.” Sounds like one of this rigged carnivals doesn’t it? Well, that’s just speculation.

This time around, I thought the timing was pretty good. Seems I was wrong. On the East Coast of North America means you are likely to be in the GMT -5:00 or -4:00 range. The redemption would have been 6:37 or 7:37 respectively. Sounds nice to us on the Eastern end. West end however, is 3 hours behind us. That means West Coast would have been 3:37. I forgot that many schools do not end at 3:00. It seems that there are quite a few people who missed it because they leave school at 3:30. 7 minutes after school ended, redemption started. Lockerz still has work to do on timing redemptions but accepting Canada and US as a pair was the right start. Now maybe if they can fix time issues and stock issues, Lockerz will be good to go.
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This is a new section I thought might be fun. I was in the chatroom and PerryJoe posted a funny Lockerz Facebook Quote. I lost it in the posting wave but it gave me the idea to make a story/quotes from users section. The following are quotes taken directly from Lockerz’s Facebook page right after redemption and a few from the users in the chatroom. There have been no altercations to the quotes (Which explains the lack of correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc.). You also probably won’t find these anymore on their Facebook wall. They are notorious for taking down comments that badmouth Lockerz in any way, even constructive criticism. So enjoy:
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“I spent all last night and all tonight on the computer and i get up for 2 mins to eat and i miss it… FML!”
“o man you serious why is it gone I LIVE IN CANADA when i go to ptz it say prize redemption soon !!!! BUT I LIVE IN CANADA MAN CANADA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! plz can anyone tell me what happend”
“I would advise everyone to wait for the shop instead of losing sleep over a redemption that lasts 10 seconds.”
“Lockerz, quit dicking around and launch the fucking site already so there’s 24/7 redeeming.”
“They need to make this redemption “LONGER” And have more “STOCK”"
“for the majority of the redemptions you’ve made it impossible for people attending school on the west coast to attend, it’s honestly really annoying.”
“I missed it WTF?! and im even more pissed off because i was w8ing from 5pm to 6:30pm when i signed off. Now i come on and see the message saying the redemption is over!”
“what if im at school that time?:S”
“i’m with you dude, i would gladly quit Lockerz if SHOP is a fail. Which means everything else is a fail too.”
“well i missed it when i took a shower”
“Same here. Lockerz is nothing but excuses. And lockerz deleting comments? WTF”
“I WATESED MY WHOLE TIME LOOKING FOR THE FLIP THAT THEY PROMISED ME WAS GONNA BE THERE CUZ IT WAS ” BACK BY POPUALR DEMAND”. FIRST I WENT TO ELECTORNICS LOOKED THERE, ITS WASNT THERE SO I WENT TO FAVORITE BANDS AND IT WASNT THREREE AND BY THE TIME I WAS DONE EVERYTHING WAS FRESH OUT.”
“WTF lockerz you said you would do it at a convienient time… did you forget about west coast???? omfg u started it at 3:30 thats when i get out of school. If you had done it an hour after even it would have fit everyone’s time. now i have to wait ANOTHER month.”
“ughh i tried logging in during the US redemption and it didnt let me log in i had the US as my country and everything UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
“wth i tried to freakin reedem a freakin game but lockerz didn’t let me nd ma friend filled up a form nd when he click “reedem” nothin happens.”
“yeah its pretty bad how either stuff goes fast in redemption or your not really stocking everything you claim to stock i was quite literally on lockerz 40 hours since monday and now this occurs i receivevd a phone call 60 seconds after redemption occured one min after you posted ur update to the lockerz page and i dont believe the prizes went the … See More fast your company is making plenty of money off of advertisements till a point where we want to puke but you cannot even reply to us on facebook to allieviate some rumors but instead you sit and dow hatever it is you do LOCKERZ is making it impossible for the average person who has a life to enjoy the fruits of watching videos which in fact pay for at least some of your bills its disapointing but im not going to get all wound up over prizes ill just get a job and buy it with my own real money”
Dsi2play: “I refreshed lockerz for two days and was lucky enough to get into the redeemption but after selecting my prize (mario olypics) i enter my info and clicked redeem and geuss what nothing my points didnt go down or anything i as booted back to the main menu”

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The International Redemption has been delayed to the 30th due to technical issues. They failed on the 29th so they did promise a rerun the next day. Since I can’t be there, I won’t be reporting it. If you have an experience in the international redemption, please feel free to write post your experience.