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Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Puncher — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:29:57 GMT

9 LEE:

Actually, its less than that. It's about 45, as some people join as Gold but don't activate their email link to register for the forums - which then doesn't register them when you search for Founder Members. On my admin panel i have the true numbers!
Lee

I'm astonished there are still Founder memberships available at all. I know I was out of town when the new site was launched and was absolutely horrified in case I didn't get one!!

On the other hand there are still 45 opportunities for late comers to bag a real bargain

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

9 LEE — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:19:33 GMT

deaddruid:

But presumably you could still win a prize each month, which means that you could win all first prizes during a membership year.
Of course, someone might suspect foul play...

Mark

It's a completely random thing, so i guess theoretically someone could win top prize every month! However, if they did, i would suspect they actually owned the website "random.org"

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Kevin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:32:44 GMT

No wildfoul on the forum please!

Seriously though we might just be looking at hitting two milestones at once only 28 memberships before we hit the 2000 mark!

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

deaddruid — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:12:02 GMT

But presumably you could still win a prize each month, which means that you could win all first prizes during a membership year.

Of course, someone might suspect foul play...

Mark

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

9 LEE — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:09:09 GMT

Actually, its less than that. It's about 45, as some people join as Gold but don't activate their email link to register for the forums - which then doesn't register them when you search for Founder Members. On my admin panel i have the true numbers!

Lee

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Keith Saunders — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:48:00 GMT

Now, Just 65 "Founder" member status opportunities left and only a couple of days to the second prize draw.

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Alex — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:07:59 GMT

They're going quicker than I thought they would to be honest! At first I thought they may all get snapped up within the first week or so, but obviously they didn't. However, I would have thought they would slow down considerably, but the number of new Gold memberships seems to be sustained.

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Keith Saunders — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:02:19 GMT

Congratulations to all upgraders who signed up this week, only 71 founder member opportunities left

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Keith Saunders — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:48:04 GMT

You're right... How did I miss that....

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Medogsfat — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:48:15 GMT

Keith Saunders:

So, if there are 500 people in the draw and the 10th prize winner is drawn, then the odds were 500 to 1
Subsequently, when the 9th prize is drawn the odds will be 499 to 1 because the 10th winner has been removed from the pot.

OK - as we're talking maths here.

My ex-bookmaker father assured me (before he shuffled off this mortal coil) that it works like this - with 500 people in the draw you actually have a 499 to 1 chance as you need to take yourself out of the original 500. The odds then go as said by you Keith.

What? me? pedantic?

Chris.

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

joeyboygolf — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:11:05 GMT

Henry:

Alex:
muntbeoman:
The chance of winning all 10 prizes would actually be around 1 in 9,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Actually it's more like 1 to infinity, because once you've won one prize, you can't win another
Alex, you're on a role now!

Shouldn't that be roll?

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

9 LEE — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:04:40 GMT

tom:
Graeme:

...@Lee has anyone mentioned/thought of beoworld selling some of the branded goodies on ebay, with a link to the home page etc, may help to raise profile? worth a try I think.
I think this has been mentioned many times before, but I doubt if it has been done

It will be done, i promise. It's simply a time issue for me. I took almost 6 months off LifeStyle AV to do BeoWorld, and put a huge amount of time into it. This led to me taking my eye of the ball with the business, and things sort of stagnated there. We have just had a shop refit there, and i'm making some improvements, and once that is done i can turn some serious attention back to BeoWorld! Like all of us, i have a mortgage and bills to pay, and LifeStyle AV is the only one of the two that's likely to help me do this!

I won't bore you all with how much there is behind the scenes to do at BeoWorld, but i can assure you that if i put 40 hours a week into it, it still wouldn't be enough.. However, i'm doing my best, and little by little i'm getting things done. If anyone wants to check out inside the back cover (1 page in) of What Hi-Fi Ultimate Guides this month (with the BeoLab 9 on the front cover) you will see i have advertised BeoWorld in there. They originally wanted £800 + VAT for that spot, and i got it for £70 !! I really am trying guys, but i can't do it all at once.

Lee

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Stars — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:42:16 GMT

Alex:
muntbeoman:
The chance of winning all 10 prizes would actually be around 1 in 9,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Actually it's more like 1 to infinity, because once you've won one prize, you can't win another

Alex, you're on a role now!

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Carl Sheerman — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:40:48 GMT

I would like to win at least one before there is a flood of people joining. Selfish i know but a little sniff at a prize would make me mega happy. This site is the best as replys are prompt, not like B & O who seem to take an age to reply ot the simplest of requests.

Oh and never give me the odds as my maths is pretty poor, how do you think i am able to buy B & O equipment he he. Good luck on the next draw guys especially me.

B & O Nutter

Re: Not many "Founder" member opportunities left

Alex — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:44:21 GMT

muntbeoman:
The chance of winning all 10 prizes would actually be around 1 in 9,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Actually it's more like 1 to infinity, because once you've won one prize, you can't win another