Mintshot

I’ve been watching mintshot.co.nz this morning, interesting idea. I have watched a lot of adds, and have ~3,000 mint dollars. Most thing seem to be selling for m$12,000, so I’m guessing I need to watch for a few weeks to get a little action. Only on the Internet can you be paid to watch adds.

There are a few guessing games, that look game-able, so I’ll have to read the code a little more to see… hmm cheating my way to prizes….

Comments:

jess 2007-11-23 22:44:19

Yes i also have been having problems with the site. How is it possible for someone to have $70000+ mintshot dollars??? I have $18000 which i am proud of in saving up the whole month. But i do not stand a chance to win anything as people have been cheating and have ridiculous amounts of ms. They need to sort it out so we have a chance!!


Simeon 2007-11-24 08:48:17

Jess, I know it seams a lot of money, but I won m$6000 yesterday playing “Play the people” on the earn it screen. I guessed posh wore the pants, and guessed the correct percentage of 87%. I only think I bet m$300 on that. So if someone bet m$500 and got it right a seven times, they could have m$70K. I’m just grumpy I didn’t start playing “Play the people” sooner


Simeon 2007-11-20 08:57:04

It was in part seeing GetANewWebCoder!’s 100 points on a game that seams random that gave me the clue, there was something wrong.

Shrug, not sure of the long term feasibility of the site really.


Michael 2007-11-20 08:49:05

Users have reported several problems with the site, including password failures and the site also went down several times yesterday.

Members of Mintshot bid for items with their “mintshot dollars”, earned by watching advertisements on the site and answering questions about them.

There have also been allegations of cheating. The problem seems lie with the ‘Minttick’ game. The aim of the noughts and crosses style game is to collect as many ticks as possible. If you reveal a cross, the game is over. For each Minttick game that is played, $20 Mintshot dollars are deducted from player’s account balance.

Game scores have been noticed to be unattainably high. On average a high score for the challenge could be expected to be around 20-22 points, but there have been examples of over 100 for $2000 worth of Bonus Bonds, 65points for $2250 worth of car audio and 70 points for a $2300 Denon Hi-Fi.

The website is maintained by 20 staff working in India and is understood that the cheating is happening because the website code is easily visible. A leading bidder makes light of this point through their username is ‘GetANewWebCoder!’


Granny 2007-12-11 07:11:05

The Charlie Soda Add has been removed from Mintshot and so has the Soda Auctions…What does that mean for Mintshot I wonder.


Simeon 2007-12-11 08:15:50

That’s quite funny. I expect it actually means that Charlies doesn’t have a very large budget, compared to some of the other brands, so can’t afford to sustain the costs.


Alex 2008-02-04 09:19:09

Hi Simeon,

The point being ‘growing pains’, Kiwiclip is live and has been as of the 1st of Jan 2008. The site has not even had official kick off as yet. Every website that targets the main stream user face many of the same decisions and challanges.

As with most web developers, we look after many websites. Getting back to Mintshot it’s a great idea my experience with the website has been positive. :)


Alex 2008-01-21 09:27:32

Every new online venture goes through growing pains. My thoughts be that they probably launched the site too quickly in hope to generate early advertising revenue.

We’ve had the same growing ‘pains’ at one of my ventures kiwiclip.com, you cannot avoid them you must learn to deal quickly and have a plan.

Thanks for your spam Alex, interesting to see that your not even gone public yet, and that your blog is only been running 10 days. So I expect that you guys are fully experienced in growth pains. - Simeon


Simeon 2008-02-04 14:31:59

Alex, I agree that they may have started too soon. But they launched with a Bang!, yet may not have had there house in order, or they thought they did, but didn’t know what they didn’t know.

I just thought it was funny that after saying something along those lines, you put yourself in the same boat (opening months of pain), yet when I visited you boat, it was freshly minted. It seamed funny that you where talking with a reflective hindsight manor.

I shouldn’t throw stone though, my spelling and grammar is the worst on the Internet.