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Thursday, August 06, 2015

Check Out This Business That Does Nothing But Give Away Free Stuff

And drives around New York City in a pink truck to do it.

When a friend told Anna Monzon about a pink van in New York City where she could win valuable free prizes, she was intrigued. “I love free stuff,” says Monzon, a 25-year-old commercial real estate agent who lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

So Monzon began entering the contests, run by Claim it!, a New York City startup. First she’d enter a random drawing using the Claim it! app from her mobile phone. Then she’d hope for a text message on her mobile phone on a Sunday evening telling her if she won the drawing.

She got lucky and snagged several prizes. “The first thing I won were Beats headphones,” she says. “One time I won Air Jordan sneakers. I don’t wear them, so I ended up selling them on Craigslist.”

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Business like this make me wonder what is really going on. You cant just give 400 cameras away in exchange for people watching a 10sec video. That is not how economics works. I dont buy that this is a legit business that actually makes money.