Agilent scope giveaway @ FB - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Short Circuit
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2012, 10:39:10 pm
content: http://www.facebook.com/agilent.scopesQuote

author: elliot42
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2012, 11:21:59 pm
content: Doesn't look like it's available to AustraliansQuote

author: elCap
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 02:45:47 am
content: At the moment there are 1191 "Likes". The page have been around since 2009 so not very likely it will more than double in a month. Anyway, I like it and hope to win!

author: Astroplio
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 02:54:23 am
content: Yeah I was that 1191rst person to like the page. Greece is excluded also.So if anybody from this forum wins the price, remember to thank all those unsung heroes who helped reach the goal ;pGeorge

author: Jimmy the Squid
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 03:28:21 am
content: And I'm 1192. After being posted here, I bet it fills up to 2500 fast.

author: Christe4nM
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 09:54:03 am
content: I like the joke within the rules: " if the selected entrant is a Canadian resident, that entrant will be required to answer a mathematical skill-testing question, without assistance of any kind (whether mechanical or otherwise), within the timeframe provided above"

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 10:17:32 am
content: It may not be a joke, some countries have rules regarding free giveaways. If you add some sort of question to the giveaway it chances under the law from a lottery to a competition and different rules apply.You see it quite often on mail-in competitions where they make you fill in the missing word in a sentence.

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 11:14:48 am
content: It's the same here in the UK - a "test of skill" comes under different rules to a purely random lottery.There's no rule about how difficult the "test" has to be, though, so they're invariably trivial. It's just a stupid pantomime, needed only because the law is ridiculous.

author: Baliszoft
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 03:47:27 pm
content: No hungary!BTW a year ago i won a probe from Tektronix. It was a test of some questions (regarting to their history and some basic things) for a TDS series scope. A free probe alwasy comes handy.

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2012, 07:27:14 pm
content: the last 3 scopes for 1 dollar was a great thing but i missed one by 2 secs lazy net connection... and now its not available for hungary, i wont have a scope for a while i guess

author: perfect_disturbance
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2012, 07:44:14 pm
content: If anyone on here wins this they should post and let us all know.

author: bingo600
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 25, 2012, 03:25:14 pm
content: It's a pity that they combine the contest with FBI and (many engineers i know) would never come on FB , not even for a nice scope.I guess i'll stick with my trusty TDS-320 & my DS1102E , and maybe hope that Hameg doesn't make the same mistake.Ohh: The extra question added for the contest , would be required here also (else it would be an illegal random lottery), Question could be : "What color does a banana have"./Bingo

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 25, 2012, 04:38:55 pm
content: depends on the banana eh ... there's all shades from green to deep yellow ... and some can even be black or brown ... and we haven;t touched the spotted ones.

author: ablacon64
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 26, 2012, 12:12:30 pm
content: No Brazil also.... sniff....

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 26, 2012, 12:35:57 pm
content: Quote from: bingo600 on September 25, 2012, 03:25:14 pmSomeone in marketing has to meet their PKI's for increasing their social media numbers. Their bonus, promotion, or continued employment probably depends on it.It doesn't matter if none of their customers actually use it, that's entirely not the point(and yes, I'm being serious, that's probably what it is!)Dave.

author: Gersonfb
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: October 19, 2012, 02:03:23 am
content: United States (excluding New York, Florida, and Rhode Island).Why the states are out?

author: poodyp
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 19, 2012, 02:10:20 am
content: Probably something to do with laws about free giveaways in those states. They might require extra fees or have rules on fairness or some PC BS like that.

author: HVAC Guy
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 22, 2012, 06:55:01 pm
content: No New Yorkers? What's up with that? Guess that means I can't buy any of their products either. Fagetaboudit!

author: DavidDLC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2012, 11:24:06 pm
content: We didn't reach our goal of 2,500 Facebook fans, so we aren't giving away the oscilloscope. Sorry, guys! But don’t feel too disheartened; we’ll try to find a way to make the oscilloscope part of a future promotion. Thanks for being such loyal fans!

author: HVAC Guy
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2012, 11:44:17 pm
content: Pretty sad, maybe you should'nt have put so many stipulations on it.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 25, 2012, 12:00:13 am
content: We so should have slashdot'ed it.I posted the url to a few other electronics forums and irc channels in the past week but we still didnt get enough

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 25, 2012, 12:56:58 am
content: Quote from: DavidDLC on October 24, 2012, 11:24:06 pmBad in that someone doesn't get a scope, but good in that the marketing droids at Agilent don't get their stupid Facebook quota. Engineers don't use facebook anyway, but they don't care, they want to meet their social media KPI so they can get their bonus at their next performance review. They'll just spend ten times the money on some other way to get the numbers.Dave.

author: rolycat
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 25, 2012, 01:13:03 am
content: So it would be a good plan for everyone who 'liked' the Agilent page to 'unlike' it again - then there's more incentive for them to launch another marketing giveaway...

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 25, 2012, 01:14:15 am
content: Quote from: rolycat on October 25, 2012, 01:13:03 amAbsolutely!Dave.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 25, 2012, 01:44:24 am
content: Time to make an EngineerBook....

author: fenclu
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 25, 2012, 11:26:39 am
content: That goal was just ridiculous. They knew that well and just wanted to bump up the FB fan count. Pathetic...

author: xygor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2012, 11:31:53 pm
content: I think I heard of this facebook thing some years ago. Is it still around?Seriously, I'll look there if it's the only place to get a special offer, but if I need a fb account to do it, I won't, no matter how good the offer.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2012, 10:38:26 am
content: Actually if I thought there was a 1 in 1000 chance of winning a nice modern scope just by liking HP on Facebook, despite that I don't have a facebook account and never intend to, I'd have made a throwaway account just for that.Yes, FB is stupid, wouldn't be caught dead, etc. But I think I could probably overcome the shame for that scope.It's nice to see that Dave does have _some_ cynicism.

author: SLJ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2012, 08:35:01 pm
content: Only quite kittens and funny dogs get that many likes on facebook. What were they thinking? I can understand using social media to help in marketing now but to base it only on liking a page with that high a quota was doomed to fail.