Flip Frenzy

For at least the last 6 months now over 95% of blogging competitions from the make money online niche have included a Flip Camera amongst the prizes (No, I haven’t done a serious study of the comps, I’m just guessing!) Every time somebody puts one of these up for grabs the number of entries seems to go through the roof. I’d like to know what the big deal is about the Flip? Sure it looks very nice and EVERYBODY knows that video blogging is the new big thing but why do people get so excited about the prospect of winning a Flip camera?

From a personal point of view the only reason I ever enter these competitions is because I still haven’t found anybody who will deliver one to the UK, and they’re not available here yet. As soon as they are I’ll just go out and buy one, even at inflated UK prices it’s hardly going to break the bank is it? I can’t get my head around all you North American money makers who scramble with nasty odds of winning one when you can go and order a Flip from Amazon.com for less than $200 (Actually less than $180). What gives? They are by all accounts a great little tool, you want one that bad, you just buy one surely? As I’ve probably mentioned in the past I do all right out of this online money making thing, no I’m not rich but come on, spending a couple of hundred dollars wouldn’t even register with me. I see a number of people entering competition after competition to win one of these who are claiming to be earning much more than me online.

Or have I got it all wrong, are the only people entering these competitions people like me who don’t have the option of buying one? If so then there’s obviously a big international market for these things, some clever technology blogger out there might want to consider buying a shed load and exporting them!

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POSTED BY Paul B on Jul 23 under Personal Ramblings

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Beth July 23, 2008 6:40 pm

Yeah, what’s the BIG deal about this Flip camera? I see and read about it all over the place and they seem really cool, and yet I don’t know anyone who actually has one and can vouch for its coolness!