I am neither a titled player, nor slightly interested to invest a penny to the money hungry chess.com site. But, to my utter surprise, it has gifted me 12 days of diamond membership for free . I am equally excited and confused. Has anyone got the same ?
@kimkortobyobimurah said in #1:
> I am neither a titled player, nor slightly interested to invest a penny to the money hungry chess.com site. But, to my utter surprise, it has gifted me 12 days of diamond membership for free . I am equally excited and confused. Has anyone got the same ?
I got a month on my account I haven’t touched in a year
@kimkortobyobimurah said in #1:
> I am neither a titled player, nor slightly interested to invest a penny to the money hungry chess.com site. But, to my utter surprise, it has gifted me 12 days of diamond membership for free . I am equally excited and confused. Has anyone got the same ?
I didn't even get it although I earned it by qualifying for the Champions League as one of the first 200. F...k chess.com!
I used to have one. Meant a lot.
A limited free membership is like saying "free month of electricity/water/food/rent". After that month, then what?
Here's my conspiracy theory about sites that promote these types of memberships. They set it up to get you to pay instead of you getting something free. And here's how it is done.
They have leagues over at chess.com: wood, stone, bronze, silver, crystal
See a pattern? They don't have a diamond league!!! BINGO!!!
They give you trophies and people want to get them all. Same thinking strategy. Now you want to pay. They set up the bots like casino slot machines. When you go to these sites, you are gambling and the house always wins.
Another site says "40% off, just use this promotion code". However, you can always use a promotional code. It's very rare that you wouldn't be able to now with so many events going on.
I think what they should do instead is what the pizza shops do. You make so many purchases over a certain amount, you get points and points change to something you can use to purchase things like upgraded membership or chess resources (books, chess sets, coaching, etc...)
I have yet to see a chess site do this.
Don't accept it. Just decline it. When anybody offers me something for free, I always decline it. I am not talking about someone leaving free biscuits or books in the coffee room at work for anybody to help themselves. What I mean is someone making an 'offer' of something for free. Lichess is free, but they are not making an offer of X or Y for free. So just decline their offer without even thinking about it. :-)
@kajalmaya said in #6:
> Don't accept it. Just decline it. When anybody offers me something for free, I always decline it.
That goes with fast food too.
https://youtu.be/SX9tVVvLb2I
'Free membership'
Quite an antithesis!
muito bom esse tópico!! estou a disposição para uma partida tks
@Hung_The_Chessboy said in #2:
> I got a month on my account I haven’t touched in a year
Same
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