The story of OMINS and the golden kiwi…
March 23, 2009 – 10:46 amFor the past two weeks, Trade Me has been running a 10th Birthday celebration – a treasure hunt of sorts. The goal was to find the golden kiwi when you placed a bid or listed an auction.
The promotion seems to have been a great success for Trade Me. We’ve heard of many people who have finally gotten around to listing their products; or who have been placing more bids in the hopes of snagging the coveted golden kiwi.
Enter OMINS…
We first heard about the competition on the afternoon of Thursday the 12th. We looked at how it worked and realised that, if nothing was done, OMINS users would miss out. Since they let their software do all the listing for them, they wouldn’t be there to spot the golden kiwi and claim their prize!
So, that evening, we added full support for the competition into OMINS and waited for it to start…
What we did
The competition was simple – when placing a bid or listing a new auction, the standard Trade Me logo could change into a special golden kiwi logo instead. If this happened, you simply needed to click it to claim your prize.
This made it very easy to support. Whenever OMINS performed a list, it simply needed to check the page to see if it contained the special logo. If it was there, the prize was collected. Easy as that!
What we won
We were pleasantly surprised at the results! OMINS users won more prizes than anyone else, and by a large margin. OMINS found 175 golden kiwi’s in total, and of those…
- 43 were Trade Me t-shirts
- 122 were $20 Trade Me account credits
- 5 were $1,000 Trade Me shopping sprees!
We’re very happy about these results (and so are our users)! It seems OMINS is a virtual four-leaf clover. 
Conclusion
There appeared to be a common misconception that using automated software put you at a great disadvantage in this competition. However, users of OMINS experienced quite the opposite…
When there’s a change on Trade Me – whatever it may be – we react immediately to support it. Snipesoft works hard every day to give you the best possible advantages – whether it be day-to-day tasks like listing your auctions, or one-off specials like this competition.
If you’re interested in expanding your business, cutting your workflow or putting yourself at an advantage over your competition, take a look at what OMINS has to offer or contact us for more information. We’d love to hear from you!
For your viewing pleasure…
Claiming the Trade Me t-shirt…
Claiming the Trade Me credit…
Claiming the shopping spree…
2 Responses to “The story of OMINS and the golden kiwi…”
Well I can only say WOW as my business won a T-Shirt, TWO $20 credits AND a $1000!
THANK YOU OMINS!
I spent my $1000 on a space age looking product that really SUCKS! Yes I bought a Dyson Vacumn cleaner.
Omins is the gift that keeps on giving in so many ways. Thank you for the constant inovation.
You guys ROCK
By Juana Atkins on Apr 8, 2009
Hey, great to know this guys. I was puzzled to learn that I had won not ONE but TWO t-shirts during that promotion! Now I see that it was due to Omins that we actually were able to claim the prize!
Great to see you guys going further to make your already awesome service to us even better.
A huge thumbs up guys.
Hopefully sometime soon we will have a cool OMINS t-shirt to show off with. aye, aye?
By Vishaal on Apr 30, 2009