Xpango Rocks! Paying for Stuff Sucks!
Hi,
I received my 'free' PSP Slim and Lite last week. :)
When I say free I mean it cost me £10 plus a Egg Card, AA Car Insurance
and a Party Poker Account. Still, its not bad.
So how does Xpango work?? Well I came across it back in August 07 and
was quite skeptical about how and if it would work, it's basically a company
who sell advertising on their site. Companies pay for a place on their site
and I'm guessing the more they pay the more credits are on offer.
Credits are what make Xpango go around, users sign up and choose a free gift,
they then complete offers from different companies to obtain credits towards
the gift. In my example I completed the Egg Card offer (3 credits), the AA Car
Insurance offer (3 credits), the Party Poker offer (3 credits) and the Mecca Bingo
offer (3 credits). I also received 1 credit because I referred a friend and he
completed an offer. These offers in total only cost me £10, the Egg Card was free
the car insurance I needed anyway and the Party Poker I withdrew the deposit after
I got my credits. I lost £10 on Mecca! :(
This gave me 13 credits which was enough for a free PSP Slim and Lite. Which after
completing my final offer, arrived 7 days later. Over the course of doing the offers
I had to contact Xpango a few times to receive credits for offers I'd completed,
however each time they responded within 24 hours and added my credits without fuss.
If you can wait for your free gift (in my case it took me 5 months to complete
the offers) then Xpango is brilliant. I'm currently on my way to 19 credits
for a Nintendo Wii (so I can sell it as I already have one). If you had any doubts then
I can assure you its not a scam, and if your thinking of signing up click the banner
on the main page or click here
so I get a refferal credit.
Matt | Posted February 04
Hello World
Hi,
My website is finished, I have one game in the bag, its about time I got myself a blog!
Here on my blog I'll post updates on game developments together with stuff from everyday life.
But what about me? Well back in the day my first computer was a Commodore 64 which I loved to bits. I remember copying programs out
of books that made hot air ballons fly across the screen to a rainbow of colours in the background, or a dice program where you had
to press the spacebar to simulate the rolling. I then made my family use the dice program when we played board games! But alas my dad sold the Commodore
to a nasty man from the Loot, and since then I've had an array of consoles. My next computer was a Master System 2 with built in Alex Kid and
an original Gameboy. Since then I've had a SNES,Gamegear (which I blew up),Gameboy Color,N64,Dreamcast,PS2,Gamecube and now currently own a DS,Wii,360 and PS3.
Fast forward and I'm now working as a Software Developer in Manchester, I enjoy making flash games as
a hobby and hopefully through this site I can share them with you.
I'll post links to flash games that I enjoy playing aswel,
typically these are simple games that you can just play for a few minutes at a time rather than these epic flash games out there
that I bearly get pass the long and boring intros.
Now the website is setup I'd like to
say thank you to Dave and Liam for their input and testing of my first game, Fisball. And
although they wanted to call it Penisball (Which if you jump to level 4, you will see exactly how childish Dave really is), I think
it turned out to be a great first effort!
I'd also like to say a big thank you to my girlfriend for her support and putting up with
me and my laptop!
Watch this space...
Matt | Posted January 12