Thoughts on Sunshine Scratch Off?

[disneynut]

It would sadden me to see the scratch off only given to "active participants". I have been here quite a while myself and still consider myself an active member.
But I am afraid I would fall in the guidelines of a non participating member. I also do the scratch off every morning that I can. I don't think I should be punished for that. Is that not what it is there for? I get any click I can also. When I do the scratch off, I certainly do not think of myself as greedy or selfish and taking away from someone else. I have days myself when I don't get to get on in the morning, but just consider it my tough luck.
I have been a super member and a member for sometime. Due to going back to work for the first time in years and 2 kids in school with one in Junior High, I simply do not have the time on my hands to sit on the forums day and night like I used to. Work, homework, baths, cleaning and cooking dinner every night takes most of my time, but I still get my SR fix.
Although I do check SR almost everyday, it is my thing in the morning, grab a cup of coffee and check out SR before I jump in the shower to start my day. I do not post often anymore, time just does not allow. I gave up on surveys. I do offers when I can and get frustrated when they don't credit, but I also understand that is part of it. So it is nice to check daily and If I am lucky enough to correctly get the scratch off to see something credit.
Since I am no longer an "active" forum participant, I miss out a lot of contest and other stuff that is geared towards the forum already.
I also love to play games, have not played as much as I used to and yes some days, If I have nothing to add to the forums, I will post in one of the games thread. I don't like feeling like I am a bother to the forums or to SR.
I have read other boards when the forums started, how people stated they felt all promotions and contests were already geared to the forums and how they did not like that as they did not want to participate in any more forums. I would hate to see you take more away from non forum participants.
Just my opinion and not meant to offend anyone.
Thanks
There went the 10 minutes I had, off to cook dinner.

[Love2Shop]

Along with surveys being hard to get, I think the message that comes up when you don't qualify the first time is rather misleading. It tells the person to try again tomorrow ---- which isn't really the case. Sometimes I try right away again and end up getting and completing a survey. Other times I try back a little later and there are more options. I know that I believed that message in the beginning - I truly thought that if I didn't qualify the first time, that was my one and only chance for the day. Maybe it would help others if the message said try again instead of come back tomorrow.

Just another idea.

That's true, the page does say try back tomorrow. Also, I know that sometimes when I haven't been able to get an otx in the morning, I have tried back at night and gotten to complete one. Maybe a tutorial on surveys, for new members would help?

[sunshinecindy]

Guidence and education or tutorials on the site are a great idea, but only those who really want to earn will bother with them. I work in my families business and the truth is that the people who want to take advantage of any program you offer will and they will be the first ones to complain and also the most vocal. SR is a great site--I have switched to doing all my shopping and such through them because of the forum and the fact that you can ask a question or look for answers to your problems. The daily scratch off is a nice extra but it is not why I am a member. I'm sure my opinions will upset or offened some.

I have read all the posts and yours seems to really hit between the eyes. First off, SR is a business, and yes, while we give away "free money", we are in business to make money. Sort of like the casinos, do you really think they lose money just because people hit jackpots, heck no, or they'd have to close their doors. Believe it or not, we do have people who do nothing more then the freebies and scratch offs, period. I'm sure they go from site to site all day long doing this. We also hold contests in the forums for our loyal members, because they do deserve the extra benefits, they are what keeps our doors open and this is our way to tell them we appreciate them. While we are quite aware that people work and can't spend all their time on SR, we have other things they can participate in at their leisure like the trivia contests and scavenger hunts, these they can do when they just have a couple minutes. We will never appease everyone, thats just the nature of the beast. We constantly try to add new ideas, make things seem more fair and provide the best quality of service that we can. We know that the west coasters sometimes get slighted so we try to hold off on contests and games till a little later, but then we have east coasters complaining its past their bedtime, so, its a really hard line to walk, but we do try. We encourage all the newbies with emails and they even have a special place in the forum that you oldtimers can't access, its private just for them. We send out emails and constantly invite new and old members to join in the forum discussions, but you know, we can only do so much, and by your own admittance, the ones that really wanted to learn and participate and earn money have done so, and I love hearing that. I don't speak for Tricia, just for myself when I say all this, cause we all know that I'm the outspoken one here, but sometimes, it becomes overwhelming reading complaints, and seeing petty TT (though there aren't many of these anymore), because we try to be fair, honest and help everyone who joins make money and have fun, and promote friendships. We welcome suggestions, we really do, but please, remember, this is a business too and we can only do so much. I'm not admonishing anyone or trying to tick anyone off with my response, but after reading everyone elses three cents, I thought I'd throw in a few pennies of my own.

[bbangel]

I had a crazy thought on the bus ride home tonight.
Would it be possible to hide the scratch off page like you do the scavanger hunt stuff? If so you could have a link to the page buried in an offer or survey page so people would need to look for it (and see what you need/want them to see on their search).
Not sure how much more work that would take to move it around but thought it might help people learn the site with a bit of an incentive to encourage them

[SunshineGirl]

I had a crazy thought on the bus ride home tonight.
Would it be possible to hide the scratch off page like you do the scavanger hunt stuff? If so you could have a link to the page buried in an offer or survey page so people would need to look for it (and see what you need/want them to see on their search).
Not sure how much more work that would take to move it around but thought it might help people learn the site with a bit of an incentive to encourage them

I don't know if I am scared or flattered that you think about SR on the bus ride. LOL! Megan is a Canadian superstar!!

[eaglesdare]

i for one would hate the daily scratch off removed from all. i have had no luck getting credit for offers for so long i stopped even trying. plus all the spam i got and thru my own fault, having additional charges added to my phone bill.

so i try to do the scratch off every morning. i pretty much do all my shopping thru sr, so i know i am not getting rich off of the daily scratch off, but if i even get the one cent one i am happy. (i mostly get nothing though).

but anyway, i would hate to see it go away for all of us.

[mollyeilis]

We used to have $10 cash out options. Now the people who only do paid clicks are complaining that we don't have the $10 cash out options anymore because they think it will take too long to get to $20.

I've been thinking about this all day, and I'm still mystified how these people have cashed out even once, even at the $10 level.

I was talking to hubby about it, and he's mystified too. He wondered if it's really that many people doing it and complaining (and ruining it for others! LOL). Nosey fellow, that Robert.



I realized that the sad part of randomizing scratch off is the loss of the one tradition DS and I have during the day, since he's generally the one who chooses for me. Sniffle sniffle.

[mmm611]

Tricia, I know this was asked once before, but I don't know if it was ever answered. Since SMs don't get locked out of scratch off, if they do it before the first 600 spots are used, does that impact others ability to scratch off later? I usually try to scratch off after I'm fairly sure those first 600 are gone so I don't take someone else's chance, but I was hoping for clarification.

Thanks.

[mia214jia]

I was just looking through the Sunshine Scratch Off stats and noticed that there are people playing every day who do NOTHING else on Sunshine Rewards. For years they have essentially come in every day to play the scratch off and then cashed out when they hit $20. To me, I think that is unfair to those of you who do surveys, offers, shopping, etc. and then get locked out.

I don't want to make it a Super Member only perk, but I wanted to throw it out there to see what the rest of you think. Is there a better way to do it so that people who are truly loyal to SR get to play the free games for money?

The only reason why I havent been doing surveys or offers lately are for personnel reasons. I am trying to keep my account active at least and pop in to read the forum when I get a chance.
Please dont take away from us who need to step back for awhile only to get back in to a routine.

[JohnZ47]

I'd also be sad to see the scratch-off become more exclusive. For me, the scratch-off and clicks were my SR "training wheels". That's what kept me coming back and exploring other areas. That led to my trying out the shopping rebates, then surveys. Recently I started to try out the offers.

Now I'm finally posting the the Forum!