Exceedingly Mundane

Yippee! I won an auction on another points-type reward site. I have been playing the TV/movie games at this site for a while (over a year) and had accumulated a bunch of “points”. I tried cashing the points in for gift cards (similar to MyPoints.com), but you had to be one of the first 15 or 25 people to cash in points for a gift card. Needless to say, with the thousands of people (probably) trying to cash in gift cards, I could never seem to snag one. So, finally, I thought I would try their auction site. I bid on a gift card and didn’t win, and then bid on a DVD and didn’t win. I have never done eBay or any other auction site, so I didn’t quite understand about bidding. At least at this particular site, I finally learned — bid HIGH. So I bid a lot more points than the last person who bid, and put in an even higher maximum bid, and I won!

The site is RewardTV.com and I’ve been playing the games there for a long time. I answer questions about the TV shows we watch at night and occasionally about movies we see at the theater. I had only ever won a $5 Hollywood Video rental card before, so it’s nice to finally get something else from this particular site. The DVD I won is “The Wedding Date”, which we rented a few months ago and I thought was a cute movie. It cost me most of my points that I had in my account, so it will be awhile before I can bid on anything else. Especially with the summer coming up, we watch less TV in the summer, since all of our “shows” are on hiatus. Anyway, it’s nice to get something else for nothing!

P.S. If you’re interested in joining either the RewardTV or MyPoints website and giving them a try, please let me know and use me as a reference before you go and sign up. I’ll get points, so it would help me out a lot if you “used me”.