From company MTSyou can expect constantly different promotions and discount events. This is attracting more and more users to its side due to additional profitable services for the provision of communication services at an acceptable cost. As one of the promotions, it is worth telling about "Raffle smartphone" , which started on June 8, 2017, and will last exactly one year until June 7, 2018. You should consider all the basic conditions for taking part in such an interesting offer, as well as clarify information about the prizes provided for clients.
Terms of the offer
Take part in the action "Raffle of smartphones" absolutely anyone who has reached the age of majority can. Moreover, he must live in the territory of the Russian Federation and have a mandatory registration. Even if it is not a citizen of Russia, then he must live in the country and have his own TIN.
You can get a prize for free if you top up your balance for any amount. In this case, the user automatically becomes a participant in the drawing and gets the opportunity to win one of the presented prizes. But it is worth noting that only the first two replenishments made in the current month are taken into account. In this case, participation can be taken only once a day. The amount to be transferred to the balance will not play any role, even if it is only the minimum possible to replenish the account.
All information on the promotion, as well as refusal to hold the drawing, are provided completely free of charge. That is, you can take part in it and at the same time, financially without spending a single penny. As mentioned earlier, the only condition is to increase the balance for the subscriber number.
Who is not involved
It is worth noting that there are some exceptions for certain categories of persons who cannot participate in the mobile phone draw. These include, according to the rules of participation:
- Family members, other relatives of the game organizer, and company employees.
- The age of which does not meet the basic requirements, that is, up to 18 years.
- Third parties of the conducted action, as well as their relatives. This can be various technical assistance.
- Any categories of legal entities.
- Persons connected and served on tariff plans with the prefix "Corp", as well as "Alla" and "Klassny".
- Who has no registration in the country and does not have a TIN.
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Even if the user makes the transition to any other tariff plan, he still cannot immediately join the fight for the drawing of smartphones. Must pass a time period of 30 calendar days, which starts to expire from the moment of transition.
Prize categories
The list of prizes can be changed unilaterally directly by the cellular operator MTS, which is indicated in the rules, which can be found on the official resource of the provider. It is best to do this before the start of the drawing so that there are no extraneous questions in the process.
Every day there is a draw of a mobile phone Apple iPhone X with a memory capacity of 64 GB. It is provided as a prize to those users who have become winners starting from 03.11.2017. Only one device is raffled per day. Its total cost is 120,754 rubles, which also includes the monetary part of the prize, which is withheld by the organizer as tax.
Receiving a prize
When the user becomes the winner, he receives a message on his mobile phone in the form of a voucher from a short number 2017 ... This is an electronic code that can only be used once and to receive your desired prize. It should be noted that such vouchers cannot be received from any other phone numbers. If this happens, most likely the scammers want to get some amount of money from you or otherwise cheat.
In our culture, any offer to get a smartphone for free is considered to be, at best, unscrupulous advertising, at worst, just another scam. Moreover, this is not surprising given the deeply rooted formula that "free cheese is only in a mousetrap."
However, this is far from always the case, and we are ready to allay your concerns. The opportunity to get a smartphone is completely free. To be more precise - to become its owner without paying a penny. However, the option of purchasing a mobile phone for a symbolic cost can also be considered shareware.
Let's say right away: you still have to make some efforts. And luck in this endeavor often does not hurt either. The price category of smartphones delivered for free can be very different: it can be a budget "Chinese" for 50-70 dollars, and even an entire Apple iPhone or the flagship Samsung Galaxy of the latest generation.
So let's go!
Method number 1: smartphone for review
If you have a fairly popular blog, a group on a social network, a promoted channel on YouTube or Telegram, you can get a mobile phone for writing a review. Such promotions are often organized by young Chinese manufacturers who are just entering the world market.
For example, several times free smartphones (more precisely smartphones for the review) were offered by Vernee in this way, and it was about top-end models like Apollo Lite (by the standards of 2016, when it came out - then more than 100 devices of this model were distributed).
Similar promotions are organized by the popular online store GearBest for members of the affiliate program in the "Product review" section. In this case, there are two options: apply for the goods for free, or purchase at a special promotional price. In the first case, you need to get approval, since the number of proposals is limited.
"A spoon of tar". As a rule, it is advisable to have previously approved orders in the GearBest affiliate program or at least a decent amount of traffic for approval. However, if your resource has a large audience, advertisers themselves will knock on you and offer hardware for publication.
By the way, there are places where smartphones and other gadgets are regularly distributed to create reviews. For example, a Chinese online store like Pandawill.com (owned by Merit Prospect Limited from Shanghai). On his website there is a special section "Applicataion for trial", where they offer not only applications for trial.
The principle of operation there differs from GearBest: you first have to register the device you are interested in as a regular purchase, pay for it and wait for receipt. As soon as the product is in your hands, you have 7 days in stock to write (the option is to remove) your review and post it on the Internet.
Next, you need to fill out a special form on the Pandawill website or simply by e-mail in a free form, indicating the link to the publication. Thereafter, if approved, you will be refunded the full price of the item excluding shipping. In fact, you get a smartphone for free (and you can also get a cashback from a bank).
However, if you believe the reviews on the network, not everyone approves of the return. It is possible that you will be asked to provide additional information, such as access to your blog's statistics panel. In this case, the owners of Pandawill can be understood - they also want to benefit from this.
Pros:
- Comparatively fair method
- The smartphone comes out really free
Minuses:
- You must have access to publication on a popular resource (according to the customer)
- Usually you need to get approval
- Sometimes you need to pay first the full cost of the goods and then wait for the return
- An expensive smartphone will be given away only if you are a super popular blogger of the level of Exler or Ilya Varlamov
How to find:
- Blog
- Read specialized publications on the network
Method number 2: win
Five or six years ago, drawing of various valuable prizes, including smartphones, was a fairly popular way to promote the same VKontakte groups. Usually the action went like this: everyone had to repost the corresponding record, and then report on their participation in the comments.
Alternative options: like, subscribe to the newsletter, invite friends, write a review, take a survey, etc. There are many options, but the essence boils down to this: you need to perform some simple useful action for the organizers of the action (the organizer's benefit is in the mass scale).
An example of a good promotion: guess the parameters of the new Oukitel K3 smartphone first and get it as a gift
Further, if the owners of the group acted honestly, the prize (or prizes) were drawn in the format of a free lottery. However, friends or relatives of the owners of the group often received a “free” mobile phone. In "neglected cases" a "photo session" was made with a figurehead and a smartphone, after which the "prize" was returned to the owners.
By the way, there is also an intermediate option between methods # 1 and # 2. That is, you still need to write an article, but not necessarily about a smartphone that you want to get for free. Often such offers are found at the portal "School of Life", which is popular in RuNet.
Pros:
- You don't have to strain at all (usually a repost or a small review of the product is enough)
- You don't need to be the owner of, say, a promoted blog or page
Minuses:
- This is a lottery, which means the odds of a free smartphone are inversely proportional to the number of participants
- A prize draw can be a draw in a bad sense of the word
How to find:
- Read specialized publications on the network and relevant publics on social networks
- Google help
- Make a list of manufacturers and stores that often arrange similar promotions
Method number 3: buy one and get the second for free
Alternatively, for a symbolic cost like 1 p. Similar promotions can be found both in domestic retail outlets and on large online trading platforms like AliExpress and Gearbest. On the one hand, for the first item, you need to make a purchase. On the other hand, for the second, you pay nothing or almost nothing.
Of course, the cost of the bonus smartphone cannot be less than the first one, which is bought at full price. In the end, the second device can be sold, left as a spare, or shared with a friend (in this case, it will not be free, but at half price, but still profitable).
An example of an offer of a free ASUS smartphone from Svyaznoy (the promotion is over)
Example of a promotion. In the period from February 12 to April 8, 2018 "Svyaznoy" in Russia gave every ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie Pro another smartphone for free - ASUS ZenFone 2 Go. The number of outlets participating in the action was limited.
Pros:
- The most reliable option
- No need to be super lucky or meet the requirements of the promoter
Minuses:
- You still need to pay, albeit for the first unit of goods
- Such promotions, as a rule, are arranged for stale or unpopular goods (which are often the same thing)
How to find:
- Like in the last case
Method number 4: become a beta tester
Yes, there is such a possibility (but rare). To do this, you need to have access to the developer of smartphones, and sometimes accessories or software for them. However, it happens that testing is organized, albeit conditionally closed, but with the involvement of participants from outside. Usually such information is published on official forums or specialized resources.
However, even if you have successfully passed the selection of candidates and received the coveted pipe for beta testing, do not rush to rejoice. You will have to experience all the glitches of it yourself. Moreover, it is not a fact that only the firmware will be raw, which can be updated after the release: the hardware of the test prototype can also be buggy.
In addition, you will have to write reports, install buggy patches and updates, which also need to be tested, and perform specified actions. In general, this is far from a freebie, but a real job. For which specialists, by the way, are paid a lot of money.
From examples of testing by a wide range of users, we can cite the Meizu promotion in early February 2018, when the company announced a competition during which 10 lucky people received a free Meizu E3 smartphone for testing and could then keep it for themselves.
Pros:
- This is how you can find a permanent job as an outsourced beta tester
Minuses:
- You will experience all the glitches of the piece of iron on yourself, and absolutely free!
- Difficulty reaching the organizer
- It's not a fact that at the end of testing you will receive a working device with normal hardware and software
How to find:
- Read specialized publications, official websites and company forums
Method number 5: offline promotions
From time to time, companies can arrange various promotions with the drawing of free smartphones and other valuable prizes “in real life”. In some cases it will be just a bright lottery, in others it will be necessary to perform some action, show talent or take part in a quiz / quest.
In especially "extreme" cases it is required, for example, to get yourself a tattoo with the brand logo. A similar action, for example, was held in 2017 by the popular Ukrainian network of cellular salons "Hello", when in Dnipro alone 8 pieces of Samsung Galaxy S8 were drawn.
Pros:
- Even if you do not receive a prize, you will get a thrill from the action itself.
- The tattoo is quite possible to reduce, and it will cost less in any case than the same brand new Galaxy S8 from the example
Minuses:
- You may need to do various nonsense
- A way for socially active people who are not afraid of public speaking
How to find:
- Watching ads
- We read the relevant publications
Yes, yes - the famous "squeeze the mobile" from the "sucker" in the gateway. The method is associated with crime, for this reason we strongly advise against using it. To get acquainted with the possible consequences, read the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Article No. 162 (Robbery) and related. Give up to 8 years, by the way. Isn't the risk too big for a "free" smartphone?
Pros:
- Drive and adventure to the "fifth point"
Minuses:
- Real terms shine
- You can shoot back stars
How to find:
- In a dark alley
Method number 7: with a contract with a mobile operator
A variant that is exotic in the post-Soviet space, but in the USA and many countries of Western Europe (and even in Turkey) it is the most common thing. At its core, a mobile operator gives you a conditionally free smartphone in exchange for concluding a contract for communication services for a period of 12/18/24/36 months (usually depends on the tariff).
Can you tell me how much the iPhone 6 costs now? How many?! And we say: 100 rubles! Don't believe me? Then go to the page of the lottery "All for one hundred" on the Stoloto website and win the phone of your dreams.
In less than a year, the unique online clothing lottery "All in One Hundred" was held 150 prizes! The most popular of these are, of course, the stylish and trendy iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
The "apple" smartphone attracts both fans of technical innovations and lovers of lotteries. The first are attracted by the laconic design of Apple's creation, its large display, powerful processor, and high-resolution camera. The latter choose this lottery for the ease of participation. You just go to the site, in the section "All for a hundred", choose the prize you like and buy a ticket for the drawing. The cost of one ticket is 100 rubles. You can buy any number of tickets for each draw. This will greatly increase your chances of winning. The draw will take place after all tickets have been distributed.
At the moment, almost 100 smartphones have already found their successful owners. On average, it turns out that we are giving away two iPhones a week.
Rinat Sultanov *, a resident of Yekaterinburg, became one of the first winners of the new lottery "All in One Hundred". Luck smiled at him in the 23rd draw. Rinat came to Moscow for the iPhone 6 Plus at the end of 2014: "I want to surprise my wife, this will make a great New Year present!"
Rinat is a loyal lottery fan. He has something to brag about. Over the 5-year history of participation, he has won large prizes more than once: 52,000 rubles, 86,000 rubles, and now a fashionable gadget. The Yekaterinburg resident entered the fight for him, armed with ten lottery tickets to increase the likelihood of winning.
The winner of the 55th draw "All in One Hundred" won the iPhone 6, using the same formula of luck: a resident of Nizhny Novgorod, Ivan Popov, bought 10 tickets for the drawing at once: “I have always dreamed of an iPhone. Therefore, I bought ten tickets for the drawing at once. It seemed to me that ten tickets are a guarantee of winning. My instinct did not disappoint, and one of them won. "
Real miracles often happen on New Year's Eve! Olga Voronkova, a resident of the Moscow Region Queen Olga Voronkova * dreamed of an iPhone 6 and won a smartphone in the 54th draw of the "One hundred" lottery! The girl bought two tickets for the drawing and that same evening received the coveted SMS about the win.
Another lucky guy, Dmitry Lugovoi from the Moscow region, won the iPhone 6 Plus in the 77th edition of "All in One Hundred" for his 8-year-old son, who wanted to get a modern phone as a gift. One of the three tickets bought by Dmitry really brought good luck and the coveted prize!
Alexey Golovchan from Moscow became the next owner of the iPhone 6. The man was lucky with the 224th draw of the lottery "All in one hundred": “That day I bought five tickets. I decided to compete for a car, motorcycle and phone. To be honest, what I wanted most was to win a motorcycle - an unusual prize. I really have no rights. But is this really a problem? " The winner admitted that he himself would not have dared to buy such an expensive smartphone, but winning it in the lottery with a ticket for 100 rubles is another matter! Who knows, maybe luck will smile at Alexei again?
Instructions
If you are registered in social networks, you have probably noticed at least once that there are quite often mobile phone raffles held there. The purpose of such free distribution of phones is to promote this or that group, to recruit more participants into it. In order to participate in the drawing, you must join the group and comply with the conditions of the competition - usually you need to place your photo in a specially designated album or write a rhyme or slogan for the group. The mobile phone that gets the most pluses from visitors wins.
Manufacturers of goods such as chips, crackers and soda are constantly running pranks on cell phones. The conditions of the promotion are usually extremely simple: you save and send several labels / caps from lemonade / packages and for this you get the opportunity to participate in a win-win lottery, because if you do not get a phone, you will definitely receive some kind of consolation prize - a mug, a backpack, etc. .d.
Intellectuals will love the opportunity to win a phone in an internet or TV quiz. By providing the correct answers to all questions and registering as a member, you can win a phone. The probability of getting a prize is quite high, because few people have sufficient knowledge to answer correctly and not be mistaken in any question.
Nobody gives away mobile phones for free. Often this is all part of the marketing ploy to attract customers, which implies the purchase of a phone on credit without a down payment, participation in any sweepstakes and similar events, and so on.
Instructions
Find out about ongoing sweepstakes and lotteries, visit the openings of various stores, shopping and entertainment centers, participate in surveys and register on thematic resources in order to receive timely information about such events in your city. This is a rather dubious method, but in some cases it is effective.
When participating in raffles, always provide real data and be extremely careful with services that require a message or confirmation by sending a code to activate a user's account. It is possible that this is just another trick of the scammers.
Attend manufacturer seminars for users of specific manufacturer's equipment. It is quite possible that they will distribute mobile phones for the most active participants. Also find out about promotions held by manufacturers in which it will be possible to get a phone.
