Today, I once again paid for Yandex.Money hosting, and after completing the payment, I saw the following picture:
Yes, Yandex offered me to participate in the auction
gagen.ru . When I got to the
main page of this auction, the prices didn’t hit me, I’ve gotten out of them: a flash drive for 22 rubles, an LCD TV for 578 rubles, etc.
By my nature, I immediately and unambiguously perceive a similar freebie, but if this is something interesting, I can get to the truth. This auction interested me ... and it began :)
It began that I looked
here a list of the last lots won. One of the last positions is
Apple iPhone 3G 16Gb Smartphone for
7,891.00 rub . Here someone lucky :)
Then I looked at a
brief description of the system :
- The starting price of any item is 1 ruble.
- With each bet, the price rises by only 25 kopecks.
- Each bid increases the duration of the auction by a fixed time specified on the page of a particular auction.
- For the opportunity to make a bid a symbolic amount is charged, this is what makes the Scandinavian auction so exciting and to sell new products at prices ten times lower than the market ones.
I think that further there is no point in figuring out anything, you can get the calculator from the start and count it - nothing complicated
- The phone cost the winner 7,891.00 rub (excluding money spent on bets)
- Rates start at 1 ruble, i.e. before the sum of 7,891 rubles was reached, 31,560 bets were received, worth from 6 rubles each.
- Multiply the number of bets on their cost: 31.560 * 6 = 189.360 ruble . This is the minimum amount that the auction has earned from the sale of one phone worth 7,891 rubles !!!
I hope that my calculations are correct and I did not lose sight of anything.
As you can see, the system works honestly and steadily, while still being a scam. The most annoying thing is that Yandex brought me to this site, I kind of trusted him. I have seen such auctions before, but for more than 10 seconds I didn’t linger on them, all for the same reason - I am mistrustful of freebies. And then opa - My favorite service says - go, take part ...
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Finally, here is an excerpt from the forum of this auction (uncensored):
I agree that this is a real scam! My friend fell for the hope of buying an Apple iPhone, and as a result, he spent almost 6,500 rubles on betting and spent almost 12 hours without buying anything. After he abandoned the idea with the mats, something here to buy this lot was still 8-10 hours spinning ... I think at least about 40 offices the office raises (considering the high cost of the rates). Do not get fooled by this bullshit !.
PS: Someone apparently has already cut through the chip, a new project has just appeared on freelance:
A successful team of programmers is required to create
site - Scandinavian auction.
Our design is now in development, from you turnkey software part
plus contact with payment systems.
In the future we will need operational those. support.
To better understand what is being said and evaluate your strength
look in runet gagen.ru
Write a rough budget, and also indicate your work projects.
send answers to ...
Good luck to you, scammers!