LOCKERZ is a SCAM

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.

Well reading over Lockerz Terms of Service I just happened to notice there last term. This term is in a set of several other terms that apply to redeeming PTZ. The very last term is in a Larger font then all the other terms in that set. It reads, “LOCKERZ SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES) TO A MEMBER OR ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING FOR PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH A MEMBER’S REDEMPTION OF PTZ FOR MERCHANDISE, EXPERIENCES OR OTHERWISE.” Now what this means is that if in any way you are harmed and/or killed due to the redemption that it is not Lockerz fault. Now yes they need to to have these terms to avoid getting sued, but this seems very specific to you getting killed over something like a redemption. If the most people got something in redemption then there would be no need for this term, but Lockerz knows just how hard it is to get a prize from redemption. This is why they added this term, because they make such a hype about restock and only put a few items in the restock. They know it is so hard that people might even be killing each other in order to redeem, or camping out for hours or even days, which people have done, and die of lack of sleep. Looking at other prize sites, none have a rule like this that is so specifically directed to getting a harmed and/or killed trying to redeem a prize.

On Saturday, January 30th, 2010, Lockerz had a redemption. The news of the redemption was broadcasted a week ago. With no date announced, everyone on Lockerz waited patiently for redemption time. With this new surprise redemption, no one knew when it would be. Before I go into the redemption, I must say this system just sucks. How can you expect us to be on 24/7. Then you make the rule on no refreshing? Well how in the world are we supposed to see if it’s opened. If I check and 2 minutes later, you run redemption, then I would have spent my day in front of the computer for nothing.

The redemption itself occurred at 4:05 PM EST and ended at 4:35 PM EST. However, the real redemption ended at 4:05:01 PM EST. Within 10 seconds of the redemption, all electronics were “Fresh out”. The only things that remained were Guarantee Your Prize For Excessive Amounts Of Points, Wallpapers, and a Paypal giftcard for $25.

The prizes for this redemption were significantly less than that of December’s. This redemption had a row or 2 of video games, a few DVDs, 3 apple products, and a couple game systems. What it had an excess of were the Wallpapers. Other things up for redemption were Lockerz brand items like notebooks and such as well as cash amounts but they were “Fresh out” in seconds as well.

If the poor listing for this redemption isn’t enough to make you scratch your head and ask why, let’s analyze what Lockerz has said. They said they stocked up thousands of each item yet in the first seconds they are gone? I was on at 4:05 sharp and when I entered PTZ Place, everything was “Fresh out”. As well, they promised they would have NDS XL. Well, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but they did not stock it. There were no NDS XL in PTZ Place. 2 lies Lockerz. How many more will you give us?

Lets analyze the Pyapal giftcard next. The giftcard is $25 for 300 ptz. 300 points for $25?! ARE YOU SERIOUS LOCKERZ?! That’s $0.083/point or 8.3 cents/point. An advertised game is $0.6-0.7/point or 60-70 cents/point. If you want to speculate, we can say this is a bait and switch. They make show you promises of games and what they only have is a much less grand $25.

Many people went into this redemption later than 4:05 and were shocked to see everything was gone. Congratulations on your failure Lockerz. We’re happy you got a server that works. Now how bout you show us a system for redemption that works too?

I find it a big joke that you can call 1 hour of angry users spamming your FB account into deletion a huge success. You angered more users than pleased and now you say you’ll do it again? Maybe this is the fate of Lockerz. Maybe they are destined to be in beta forever. If this is how a redemption is, they do not deserve to go out of beta. They deserve to have their server’s revoked and gone.
What you should not is that had a healthy supply of wallpaper. They could easily have had over thousands of stock… on wallpaper. They wouldn’t be lying then but still dishonest.

The Lockerz redemption is likely the reason we are all here. It’s hard and requires a lot of luck. For one lucky or should I say unlucky user, they had their prize his prize delayed.

On the December redemption, 5hadowenygm4 got into PTZ place and redeemed for a 120 GB PS3. A few days passed and he had his approval letter from Lockerz.

One week later, Lockerz contacted 5hadowenygm4 and gave him his notice of delay letter. Apparently, the PS3 120 GB was so popular that it was sold out. Instead of getting the PS3 in 3-4 weeks like Lockerz seems to promise, they delayed his PS3 to being shipped out during mid-late February. That’s adding on another 4 weeks to his order.

How can 5hadowenygm4 be sure he really gets his prize? What if this is a tactic by Lockerz by saying they are out of stock and shipment is always coming but never does. This doesn’t seem right that they allowed a product to be over-purchased.

How can they allow themselves to sell too much product? How can they force people to wait on back-order? If they can just as easily turn around and say “Hey, wait a few weeks, we’ll get you your prize”, why can they not do that for all of us? Instead of redemptions, why not do back-orders and see how many to order and ship? Would that not be a better system than lottery? There are over 2.5 million Lockerz users and they expect a luck handful to get prizes while saying, “Sorry, you are out of luck. Hey try again next time. maybe you will get lucky.” We do your work Lockerz. You get money from selling our opinions to 3rd party companies. How can you just say we are paying a select few of you?

Another critical question is how can we be sure e won’t be next on back-order? We waited to redemption and got lucky. You promised us our prize in 3-4 weeks and now its 7-8. If you lied to us about delivery and stock, how can we be sure you aren’t lying to us about everything else?

With all the fails that Lockerz has produced, I’m sure many Lockerz users are losing their trust in the legitimacy of this so called rewards site. Who knows, maybe they sold that PS3 off to someone who guaranteed that PS3. Considering how Lockerz has yet to show proof of rewarding someone other than the $5 T-shirts, I would not put it past them to do this sort of thing. Who knows? Maybe they won’t even ship it to him at all and hope he forgets with time.

Tell us your Lockerz story, post here, and we might feature it on the main site!

We’re gonna keep you guys posted, but it seems like this redemption is a failure just like all the rest. People are flooding this site, facebook, and twitter about problems with the restock, just like all the previous ones. Waiting hours for it, no updates, etc.

Here are a few reactions

Greentires4me:  they said they had thousands and thousands of prizes…and everything was gone before the link they gave actually worked

Anon8300: this sucks i was glued on the computer for nothing

More can be found in the comments below.

UPDATE: Lockerz has just stopped discussion and commenting on their Facebook Pages. They don’t want word to get out about their bad business model.
UPDATE: Lockerz has oh so generously given out free WALLPAPERS on their Facebook page. Amazing! Wow!
UPDATE: THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF LOCKERZ HAS BEEN DELETED, IT IS NOT ACCESSIBLE!
UPDATE: The Facebook page is back up, but they have cleared all Fan Posts, and have disabled any type of discussion on their page.

Do you think Lockerz is legit? Do you want to prove me wrong and show that Lockerz gives more than 5% of membership a prize? Then post your proof following the rules given and we will see just how many prizes are given out each month. Also make sure you let other Lockerz members know so they can try and prove me wrong as well.

Rules:

1: These proofs are for prizes from January redemption only!!!
2: Only one proof pic/vid post per user
3: The proof must be of your prize only that you received from the January restock
4: The image must must be posted here with either the img tags or a link that leads to a legit hosting service such as imageshack, photobucket, etc. (links to other forums or non-image hosting sites will be removed as spam)
5: If a user posts more than one proof pic and video all but the first will be deleted
6: If it is found that that a user is using more than one account to post proofs then all of their proofs except the first will be removed.
7: If a double post is found or the same box is used for more than one prize all but the first will be deleted
8: You must leave Lockerz return address visible and not blacked out.
9: You can black out information such as your address, your name, your email.
1o: You must legibly write “January” under the shipping label with a black marker or something highly visible (no pencils)
11: You must legibly write the name of your item underneath the “January” you just wrote with same marker as used above
(e.g.  January)
(e.g.    Wii    )
12: The prize, Lockerz redemption card, the box with Lockerz tape and the above written information(must be legible) must all be visible in the one photo(no more than 1 image and 1 video allowed)
13: If your prize comes in a envelope (which does not have tape) then you must make sure that the return address is highly visible along with the color Lockerz part at the top
14: If you got a PayPal then need to show a full screen shot (not just a portion but the entire screen) of your PayPal account showing that Lockerz has transferred the money into it and not anyone else along with a screen shot of the emails gotten by Lockerz concerning your PayPal prize
15: If you mess up with spelling or anything DO NOT mark over it or cross it out simply write it again next to the mistake
16: Friday March 5th will be the last day to post a proof as it will me more than enough time to receive your prize and will prevent people from posting from February redemption
17: Any image or video post that does not follow these rules will be removed as fake proof
18: These rules are subject to change without notice if something I missed happens to arise so please recheck rules before making proof pic or video

I personally want to see if Lockerz can come up with a least 150,000 proofs which is roughly 5% of membership.

Wow. If this isn’t proof enough of a scam, I’m not sure what is. It shows a comment about a viral marketing firm called Fanscape, which we have covered more intensively in another post. It’s some pretty interesting and revealing stuff, and shows Lockerz’ true side and their business practice. Keep reading, subscribing, and checking for more proof and news.

The November Lockerz Restock was a failure. Millions tried to access the Lockerz site for over 2 hours and failed miserably. It’s been proven that the Lockerz Restock, and the Lockerz site is a scam.

We are now an NPO (Non-Profit Organization). We are going to dethrone Lockerz, and to reveal their intent, and wrongdoing to the world.

First of all, teenagers are skipping homework and studying in an attempt to redeem the coveted prizes, and the site goes down for hours, and they come back empty-handed. People in other countries are staying up in the middle of the night trying to redeem during the Lockerz Restock but, again, come back empty-handed.

Thousands of people that DID redeem were denied, and marked as cheaters and had their PTZ zeroed.

It’s time to stop going to the Lockerz Restocks, and make a movement. We have to get rid of this scam, because Lockerz sucks.

Video Created by: acidburn134

Well it turns out that today Lockerz has admitted that TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE who redeemed prizes legit in the last redemption will NOT GET THEIR PRIZES. Why? Because Lockerz “ran out” of prizes, even though they are all things that they could easily get at Wal-Mart or Target or anywhere else. They are also banning HUNDREDS of people from commenting on the Lockerz Facebook page if they say anything negative or critical about Lockerz.

So is Lockerz fake?
Yes, of course, even if you get an order through they will just cancel it!