I love Live Search Club as I’ve mentioned before, but recently I’ve been wondering about the state of LSC. The prizes have mostly disappeared, save for the sub-1000 ticket prizes (which are worthless unless you want to put on a twill hat and play a game of net ball with me), and with nothing great to focus on (like a Zune, Xbox 360 or other 20,000+ ticket items) I’m just playing silly word games that have too many repetitive answers… Really, how many different Flexicon questions can you have with an answer of “IDO”?
However over the weekend I signed up for the Live SearchPerks, which doesn’t offer a great number of tickets per day (25 – a single game of Flexicon), but can add up to enough tickets by the time the promotion ends on the 15th of April to get something semi-useful. What I noticed when I compared the list of prizes they’re offering with Perks versus Club is interesting, to say the least:
On the left we have Live Search Club and on the right we have Live SearchPerks. What’s important to note is that most (if not all) of the prizes in Perks were in Club before (e.g. Frequent Flyer Miles, Xbox 360 Games, cookbooks, etc.). But where the story really begins to get interesting is when you read the SearchPerks FAQ:
About three weeks after the SearchPerks! promotion ends on April 15, 2009, look for an e-mail from Microsoft, which will include ticket redemption instructions. The e-mail will direct you to the Live Search Club Web site [more specifically…]
From what I can gather after reading the entire FAQ, this means that if you’re using the same Live ID account for Perks and Club, you’ll see an increase of tickets in Club on that day (whenever it is). Since the SearchPerks is showcasing prizes that were formerly on Club, I can safely assume that those prizes will return to Club sometime around the 15th. Whether or not they’ll be visible only for those in the SearchPerks promotion is anybody’s guess.
If I could give a date to be afraid of Live Search Club ending, it would be October 15, 2009:
You must claim your tickets no later than October 15, 2009.
However, I don’t fear much about things falling apart since it is in their best interest to keep programs like SearchPerks and Club going to keep people interested about Live Search (in one way or another). Perhaps the prizes will be available only for the SearchPerks participants until the 15th of October, when they return to full Club availability…
Oh, and another interesting bit is the little ad seen on Club:
Update: What a difference a day makes, eh? They’ve returned the Frequent Flyer Miles and have added 2 new items… but still nothing great (unless you want a water bottle that is BPA-free).
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