HP launches TouchPad LaunchLine contest on Facebook 82
For those who may not already be planning on waiting on the physical line for the TouchPad's launch on Friday, HP has a new Facebook contest for you: TouchPad LaunchLine. To get points, participants answer trivia questions about HP as quickly as possible; total points get multiplied by the number of friends participants recruit to "join the line."
The top 100 scorers on July 15th get TouchPads, with the highest among them also getting HP hardware or gift cards. The top 10 overall, though, will additionally each get one of HP's "VIP Experiences," including trips to various places around the U.S. and beyond for "Like Nothing Else" experiences: diving with tiger sharks in the Bahamas, cooking in Italy, flying in zero-gravity over Florida, playing tennis with Serena Williams in New York, driving with Mario Andretti in California, etc.
Check out the source link for the full details and to play along. Good luck!
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Ill eat some spam for a touchpad
Do you got something against Spam?
I would be a walking billboard and deck my car out in HP advertisment just to get a TouchPad, even just the 16 GB!
I would name my first born son TouchPad for a TouchPad!
@Ron Proctor, they had better give you more than just a 16 gb wifi only version for that!
I would have 16 sons with the first woman I met, and I would name each 'TouchPad 1', 'TouchPad 2', ... 'TouchPad 16'
Uh...think about the nicknames man! "Hey, TP! Clean up on aisle..."
You DON'T want to do that to your son! ;)
Last name TouchPad First name Ivanna (if a girl)
And her sister: Anita TouchPad!
I hear they are twins... I'll take 2....
I've been thinking that HP needs to have a big event where the first 500 people to send them a competitor's tablet get a free TouchPad, then HP uses a steamroller to publicly crush the 500 tablets.
I would be a walking billboard and deck my car out in HP advertisement just to get a new paint job, even if it was an HP advertisement... Also, I would take a touchpad...you know...if they were giving them away.
I work in advertising and this is a great move by HP! What an awesome way to get buzz and WOM advertising! This is more like it!
They should ask the question (as we have been doing above): What would you do for a TouchPad? For me, the question is what wouldn't I do?
I'm too embarassed to admit to all that I'd do for a TouchPad...
This is a great campaign with some serious prizes.
Pretty cool. The Top 10 awards are great.
Link isn't quite working yet. Either that or to many people jumped on at once. Hopefully they fix this glitch asap. But great marketing move!
Worked for me in IE and Chrome, but not Firefox if that helps.
Best promotional idea for this new wave of devices yet. BY FAR.
Does this mean that you approve of the use of celebrities in this promotion?
Sure. "Endorsements" are pointless in selling smartphones, but selling "A Day With..."-type experiences as auxiliary prizes in a smartphone-related contest seems fine.
I know what I am doing for the next couple of weeks!
I miss when contests were random drawings and didn't require us to do their shilling for them.
**** it, i'm happy to do their dirty work. increasing awareness will only benefits us, anyway.
Can't get it to work. It gives me an error. :-(
Same here. Keep refreshing. It said I already answered all the questions but I didn't even see any. :(
Where are meescha and GlenBeck with their negative comments? C'mon guys, wake up!! Show us all how wise you are and what fools we all are...
I mean this well, they're probably busy struggling to get the link to work. Come on HP!!
He's busy changing his name to Bachmann Palin Overdrive or BPO for short ;-)
Before anyone thinks I'm a lefty nutcase. I'm not. Just never been a big Glenn Beck fan. I'm partial to Jeff Beck.
Jeff Beck is the most overrated guitar player ever. Ronnie Wood was the best member of the Jeff Beck group.
I don't think its accidental that you need Flash to run the contest. It's clear that HP isn't trying to go for people who have already committed to Apple. That group will never convert.
Totally awesome! I'm #40 in line. Cool
Cool. I was 146th, but I've been bumped to 159th so these must change quick the more people that enter.
Either way, I know very little about Tennis and Italian cooking so...explains most of my score. Sorli...
So, we trade friendships for a chance to win a piece of hardware?
Have fun in the US :)
Bah, stupid US only contests
This is actually a pretty cool contest. I like the Trivia questions. Hopefully I end up in the top 100 by the time July 15th rolls a round.
This is such a great idea by HP... I hope I can outlast people and stay in the top 100.
Be careful of HP promises, sure they say they will give you a free touchpad or a trip, on the other hand, HP says a lot.
Sorry, I don't trust pathological liars.
Be careful of what GlennBeck says, sure he says he hates HP and hates the Veer, on the other hand, GlennBeck says a lot.
Sorry, I don't listen to pathetic trolls.
I'm not the only person who does not like the Veer. People who buy cell phones don't like the veer, It's ranked #45 in popularity on Amazon's mobile site.
Again, I deal in reality. Fanboys don't and can't handle when people are truthful on this site. But you are a good poster and I like reading your stuff!
Less touchpad for you then, and more for us... i'll take my chances
bah not open to canada! BLAST!
Mine's broken...what's the deal.
You've answered all of todays questions.
Bull****
I got over 900 points and then it died :(
wont even let me look at it right now... boo so far.
I got in line, and then it crashed. Seriously HP...is this what we have to look forward to from you?
i have 1600 points, but im 50th in line... i have the 19th most amount of points.. what gives?!
What is your bonus multiplier? The more friends you get into line with you (via your invite) the more your points are worth in the overall total.
Currently ranked 42nd in line with 1275 points! I think there's a calculation glitch because I was just ranked 54th.
I can't get this to load. :(
when are they going to fix the mobile site so that i can post from my pre- running 1.4.5???????????????????????????????????
They have all moved on. No one cares about us anymore. We are like dinosaurs, some day they will dig us up and put us in a museum.
Get Pre 3, it should be out in the next year or two!
i'd think the better anology is they would use you for fuel to power their new technology.
Typical response. Negative, sad and lonely. Go out on a date with someone cute, get a life.
Already busted/down. :(
now thats a great idea
only for people in the U.S. - great!
Says i've missed 7 questions... haven't even answered 7 yet. the site has been down! WTF HP!?
man im 300th in line and now its down. i guess too many people or getting in on it and its overloaded.......
anybody want to add me as a friend on facebook?
Says I am not eligible??
I am in the US... stupid HP.
I hope HP brings something like this to the UK!
Shall we now friend each other on FB to get really high multipliers and us superfans get all the great prizes?
Am I reading this right? The points I get are based on the number of Facebook "friends" I have??
I'm not a friend-hoarder, and do not add every request I get to my friends list. If I don't really know you IRL, you are not a friend!
I've seen people with hundreds and even thousands of so-called "friends" with whom you know they've never even met or spoken to face to face.
I call BS!
what the **** I want to fly in zero-gravity over Florida! haha that's an insane incentive.
I am currently #10! Thanks to all my WebOS loving friends! Gotta hold on for 17 more days!
Anybody else getting errors again?
Currently fluctuating between 40-50. I just hope to stay in the Top 100! I too am getting errors, especially when inviting more friends to join.
Hey I'm looking to build up a large group of people and see if we can get a few of us that don't have the funds to buy one, to hopefully win one. If you're interested in boosting the multiplier, maybe we can pull together a bunch of people on facebook and make it happen.
It sounds like a good idea, but it might be something that can get you disqualified because the official rules states:
'You must have a personal relationship with the person that you have referred. The email address entered by the friend when completing their Registration must match the email address to which the referral email was sent.'
I don't get this. You don't submit email addresses of your friends to refer them, you select them from a facebook rendered dialog box. I wonder if they changed the referral mechanism and forgot to update the official rules.
Grr... Few hours ago I was in the top 100, now I'm in the low 200's! Ah!!!
Is it just me, or do the top 3 people have suspiciously low scores?
yeah, looks like they've got a bug in the leaderboard.
Figured it out. The leaderboard only currently shows 4 digits. Add a zero for the real score.
Anybody figured out how many questions we get and when/if they rollover?
15 per day.
I am #3 at the moment. Hope I can stay up there.
its a new day and they said I've answered the questions for the day and i haven't... anyone else having a similar problem
i think it may work like you get new questions 24 hours after the other ones you answered. i may be wrong but this is what i'm thinking.
Am I the only one who thinks the way they set up this game is really messed up?
All the people who joined because of an invite from me have more points than me and the later the invited person joins the more points.
it is likely all the top people that are going to win were 10, 20 or 30th person in line to join from someones invite and the person who invited those 30 people will never catch the 30th person.
While the promo may be a good idea, it is important to know that you MUST be registered on Facebook to register for the giveaway. Personally, that is a turnoff, because I have elected to avoid FB and Twitter and most other such sites until I am convinced that they are both secure and that they are not prying into my personal info more than is obvious. There is already enough exposure on the Web; don't need more...
I'd really like to have the TouchPad, but potential unseen cost is a deterrent.
As it has been said: "Just because you are paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you."