SparkFun Free Day!

When/where: 9:00 am MST Sparkfun.com

What: Win $100 of a total $200,000 giveaway

"Well the time is near - tomorrow at 9 AM Mountain Time, SparkFun is hosting the third edition of Free Day. This year we are giving away $200,000 worth of $100 credits to the SparkFun website. Show up here at 9 AM Mountain Time on January 11th, 2012 to try your hand at winning! Want to know more? Watch the video below:

Here's a little more information:

The Rules: The give away starts at 9AM MST and is limited to $100 per person. Each winner will get a gift code that can be used at SparkFun within 60 days.

Stipulations: In order to participate, you must register an account on sparkfun.com, and use a modern browser with JavaScript and cookies enabled. (Sorry, Lynx!)

The System: We're doing away with the quiz system of 2011 and trying to return to a give-away system that is as simple as possible, but can handle the load of the Free Day crowd. The system will randomly give away the 2,000 gift codes (2000 * $100 = $200,000) throughout the day. For example, if we set up a 7 hour giveaway window, we should see a gift given away about every 12 seconds. We will allow people to try for the prize as many times as they'd like, but we will have a basic system to prove you're not a script.

Free Day is always an intense and interesting time! We wish all of you the best of luck in getting your share of the prize! See you tomorrow!"


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  • Captchas must be nearly unreadable, otherwise a machine is going to do a better job than a human.

    Anyway, I was waiting for an install to finish (you know, too short to do something productive but too long not to do something unproductive) and had to try only ~20 before a win came up. Sheer luck. :) 

    Of course I'm biased now, but I think the idea of trading time for more chances isn't half bad.

  • For sure, it`s still a cool thing to do, it`s just this captcha thing was no fun and the work hours thing does not help. I hope the format will be different next year. No matter, SF still rocks.

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    I spent 45 minutes getting frustrated at "Captcha"...probably have to see the eye doctor because of the strain!

    Still, it was fun. (didn't get anything, but I tried)

    Maybe next year I'll get my six yr old daughter to help me with the "Captcha" part.

     

  • The amount given away rose by $8000 in the 20 minutes I played.  The best captcha readers probably don't speak english.

  • can't complain too much, after all it is free money. though I did not like the luck aspect, last year I could at least get something. This year it was a few too many frustrating hours for nothing. Still a cool thing for a company to do.

  • It was pretty lame, and it`s during work hours so I could only try during lunch. No much spark, not much fun!

     

  • Yeah... the current "Captcha" system many people use is so frustratingly unreadable.  Most of the time, if a site uses that Captcha system, I take the exit and won't even register.

  • I didn't try this out, but I feel your pain.  I'm getting tired with some of these tests that I can barely make out.  The ones on Filesonic are terrible!

  • Unfortunately I had to give up, I couldn't stand typeing things I cold barely read. I'll try next year.

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