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PanthersATL Grand Master

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Looking over the Carolina Panthers Rewards social media contesting thing (you know, where you connect your social media accounts up to your Panthers.com account, then earn points for pimping out the Panthers to all your Social Media buddies)?

 

Here's the "How to Earn Points" breakdown:

 

  • 500pts - Earn points for connecting your Twitter account
  • 500pts - Follow our official Instagram profile
  • 500pts - Earn points for connecting your Instagram account
  • 500pts - Earn points for connecting your Facebook account
  • 300pts (1 / day max) - Follow the Panthers on Foursquare
  • 70pts (4 / day max) - Post a tweet with an approved hashtag
  • 50pts (2 / day max) - Like a photo on our official Instagram page
  • 25pts (1 / day max) - Install the official mobile app
  • 25pts (5 / day ) - Repinned a pin from an official Pinterest board
  • 25pts (2 / day max) - Comment on a photo on one of our official Instagram pages
  • 20pts (7 / day max) - Retweet our official Twitter account
  • 20pts (5 / day max) - Like something from our official Facebook page
  • 10pts (5 / day max) - Liked a pin from an official Pinterest board
 

And once you earn points, you can cash them in, like for a Signed LUKE jersey for 125k points.

 

125,000 points?  That should be possible, right?

 

Not so much.

 

According to the chart, after earning the 2000 obligatory "connecting" points, you can only earn a maximum of 1,170 pts per day if you do everything else they have listed (and frankly, you shouldn't get daily points for installing the official mobile app or following on FourSquare - that's just bonkers.... and it's no longer called FourSquare, so that's bogus right there)

 

Anyway

 

So let's say you do everything, every day.

 

It will take you 100 days of farting around on social media in order to "earn" that LUKE jersey.

 

WTF?  Is that really worth the time and effort to piss off your friends and family like that?  You've got to be kidding me.

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Kuhndog94 Grand Master

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Looking over the Carolina Panthers Rewards social media contesting thing (you know, where you connect your social media accounts up to your Panthers.com account, then earn points for pimping out the Panthers to all your Social Media buddies)?

Here's the "How to Earn Points" breakdown:

  • 500pts - Earn points for connecting your Twitter account
  • 500pts - Follow our official Instagram profile
  • 500pts - Earn points for connecting your Instagram account
  • 500pts - Earn points for connecting your Facebook account
  • 300pts (1 / day max) - Follow the Panthers on Foursquare
  • 70pts (4 / day max) - Post a tweet with an approved hashtag
  • 50pts (2 / day max) - Like a photo on our official Instagram page
  • 25pts (1 / day max) - Install the official mobile app
  • 25pts (5 / day ) - Repinned a pin from an official Pinterest board
  • 25pts (2 / day max) - Comment on a photo on one of our official Instagram pages
  • 20pts (7 / day max) - Retweet our official Twitter account
  • 20pts (5 / day max) - Like something from our official Facebook page
  • 10pts (5 / day max) - Liked a pin from an official Pinterest board

And once you earn points, you can cash them in, like for a Signed LUKE jersey for 125k points.

125,000 points? That should be possible, right?

Not so much.

According to the chart, after earning the 2000 obligatory "connecting" points, you can only earn a maximum of 1,170 pts per day if you do everything else they have listed (and frankly, you shouldn't get daily points for installing the official mobile app or following on FourSquare - that's just bonkers.... and it's no longer called FourSquare, so that's bogus right there)

Anyway

So let's say you do everything, every day.

It will take you 100 days of farting around on social media in order to "earn" that LUKE jersey.

WTF? Is that really worth the time and effort to piss off your friends and family like that? You've got to be kidding me.

Are you paying for the Signed Luke Jersey?

No?

It's worth it.

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PanthersATL Grand Master

PanthersATL

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Are you paying for the Signed Luke Jersey?

No?

It's worth it.

 

Three+ months of going whole-hog Panther promotional to your network?  Compound that more than one person in your network is doing the exact same thing.  Conceptually, it's great - "hey, here's a way to get the fans to promote the team in social media".

 

In execution, it's stupid to the participants -- way way way too much annoyance and work for too long a period of time.  Meh.

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Looking over the Carolina Panthers Rewards social media contesting thing (you know, where you connect your social media accounts up to your Panthers.com account, then earn points for pimping out the Panthers to all your Social Media buddies)?

 

Here's the "How to Earn Points" breakdown:

 

  • 500pts - Earn points for connecting your Twitter account
  • 500pts - Follow our official Instagram profile
  • 500pts - Earn points for connecting your Instagram account
  • 500pts - Earn points for connecting your Facebook account
  • 300pts (1 / day max) - Follow the Panthers on Foursquare
  • 70pts (4 / day max) - Post a tweet with an approved hashtag
  • 50pts (2 / day max) - Like a photo on our official Instagram page
  • 25pts (1 / day max) - Install the official mobile app
  • 25pts (5 / day ) - Repinned a pin from an official Pinterest board
  • 25pts (2 / day max) - Comment on a photo on one of our official Instagram pages
  • 20pts (7 / day max) - Retweet our official Twitter account
  • 20pts (5 / day max) - Like something from our official Facebook page
  • 10pts (5 / day max) - Liked a pin from an official Pinterest board
 

And once you earn points, you can cash them in, like for a Signed LUKE jersey for 125k points.

 

125,000 points?  That should be possible, right?

 

Not so much.

 

According to the chart, after earning the 2000 obligatory "connecting" points, you can only earn a maximum of 1,170 pts per day if you do everything else they have listed (and frankly, you shouldn't get daily points for installing the official mobile app or following on FourSquare - that's just bonkers.... and it's no longer called FourSquare, so that's bogus right there)

 

Anyway

 

So let's say you do everything, every day.

 

It will take you 100 days of farting around on social media in order to "earn" that LUKE jersey.

 

WTF?  Is that really worth the time and effort to piss off your friends and family like that?  You've got to be kidding me.

 

So you're pissed you can't get a signed Luke jersey with 24 hrs of work? Silly boy. Do you even know what social media is all about? They're going to make you share your ass off to get it. 

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PanthersATL

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So you're pissed you can't get a signed Luke jersey with 24 hrs of work? Silly boy. Do you even know what social media is all about? They're going to make you share your ass off to get it. 

 

Just saying their point earning/redemption price ratio needs a bit of tweaking

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Whoever would spend 100 days straight on soci media just for a signed jersey needs help. Just buy the fuging thin and move on.

 

This.  Signed Kuechly jerseys BIN are running about $150-$200 on feebay.  Opportunity costs, lost utility, whatever you want to call it, it literally seems like a waste of time.  Unless you really want to promote the Panthers, to people who already probably know about the panthers I might add, then go for it.  Seems like something fun for a kid or young teen to do.  But anybody over 14 or 15 should not be doing this.

 

That being said I bet the first person to accomplish this will be a Huddler over the age of 40.

 

I will add that if a Kuechly alarm system were available for 125K points, now that might be worth it.

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Just saying their point earning/redemption price ratio needs a bit of tweaking

 

all of the "reward systems" or whatever you want to call them are set up like this.  they're all designed to squeeze as much of whatever the people running the program want (money, time, canvassing, whatever) out of you with minimal cost to themselves.

 

remember how lowes foods used to run that "s&h greenpoints" scheme?  i think they changed the name a few years back.  either way i used to work there in high school and one day we calculated what you'd have to spend to win the top rewards and the kind of numbers we ended up with make this promotion from the panthers look like a bargain.

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The supermarket by my house is doing a promotion for free cookware. Pots and pans and double boilers and poo like that. For every $10 you spend, you get a sticker. For 70 stickers, you can get a saucepan. The decent stuff is like 120 stickers. That means for $700 I can have a saucepan, or for $1200 I can get a few quart stainless stockpot. A really, really nice complete set of these would cost me around $500.

So yeah, I'd say in the grand scheme of promotions, spending <5 minutes each morning doing social media crap for 100 days is definitely worth a signed Luke jersey.

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