[quote name='Vulgarism']Man, I've only acquired about 17,000 tickets in a span of about three months. I don't understand how people have multiple 30,000+ accounts, because, although the items are nice and, most importantly free, it's just too much for me. I wish I had the focus to keep going, but I never would be able to get even 25,000 tickets at one point. They should have a game that is hard as shit, but rewards you with 100 tickets
I'm just not good at grinding away and getting 20 tickets for each game of Chicktionary, Word Slugger, or Spelling Bee...[/QUOTE]
I find myself torn between doing this or just saving the money for it.
get paid >$20 an hour at work, and I value my time even more at home, maybe >$30 @ home.
The most expensive item is the Mixer, which my wife already has a pretty green one... but at 51k tickets, that's 51 days, minus any doublin' days. so we'll sum it up to 48 days total.
To me, that's 48 x $20 at minium, or 48 x $30 = 960 or 1440 depending on how I want to weigh it.
I think it only costs like $260, and that's not a deal price either. That equates to 13 days in Bing per my time value ratio.
Just not worth it.
I DO however enjoy some of the smaller items and sucks that prices are raised on almost everything now.
I picked up a 360 for windows controller that I didn't want to pay $60 for, and just managed to watch some shows on TV that I had a backlog of, and typed away. I spent 3 hours, with one doublin' and it was about 5k in tickets, waited 30 days and happy me
I still have TV shows to watch, so I'm sure I'll be typing away, but if one can't multitask while doing it, and that if fits in their time value, then to me it's not extremely worth it, and I'd rather save up and pay with cash.
Now this is only my opinion and I really can't speak for anyone else.
Those that do flip for cash might be their choice for cash flow and could get well more than they make normally, and I have no problem with that, more power to the small business entrepreneurs.
