why is digitalocean's referral award so hard to earn?

feelapi

I have pending referral for years. During the same days, I got 100 usd from vultr. Wow.

myhken

I have over $2000 in pending referrals at DO, but if no one of the accounts use money, you do not get anything. Still I have got over $770 out of DO the last years.
At VULTR I have got $900 paid out, but also there really many of the referrals have not used real money on their accounts. Thats life.

Amitz

Send Poptarts, Red Bull & Everclear to @jarland. Speeds things up in general.

feelapi

@myhken said:
I have over $2000 in pending referrals at DO, but if no one of the accounts use money, you do not get anything. Still I have got over $770 out of DO the last years.
At VULTR I have got $900 paid out, but also there really many of the referrals have not used real money on their accounts. Thats life.

Thanks for sharing. Now I know what happened.

jar

If you want some insight into your referrals I'm always happy to help. I can't tell you anything about who they are, but I can tell you things like "You have 5 referrals here that I can guarantee will never pay us $25" or "You have 3 referrals who are spending with us regularly and will likely hit $25 soon."

doghouch

@Amitz said:
Send Poptarts, Red Bull & Everclear to @jarland. Speeds things up in general.

Everclear? I don't think that we'll be seeing @jarland tomorrow

jar

@doghouch said:

@Amitz said:
Send Poptarts, Red Bull & Everclear to @jarland. Speeds things up in general.

Everclear? I don't think that we'll be seeing @jarland tomorrow

I ain't drunk you the drunk one. You can't just decide that I'm drunk. That decision is mine and God's. We didn't make that decision. That was not a decision that was made.

doghouch

@jarland said:

@doghouch said:

@Amitz said:
Send Poptarts, Red Bull & Everclear to @jarland. Speeds things up in general.

Everclear? I don't think that we'll be seeing @jarland tomorrow

I ain't drunk you the drunk one. You can't just decide that I'm drunk. That decision is mine and God's. We didn't make that decision. That was not a decision that was made.

Wow. You've touched my heart

Amitz

Prost!

doghouch

@Amitz said:
Prost!

Good luck. Enjoy the uber bitter concoction that is Everclear

Amitz

That Prost was directed in @jarland's direction. I stopped drinking some months ago.

willie

Vultr seems to have a special right now if anyone cares:

https://my.vultr.com/affiliate/special/

" Every user referred with this link will get $20 to use the Vultr platform and you will receive $30! Referred users must be active for 30+ days and use at least $10 in payments to be counted as verified sales."

They seem to have taken off the $30 in black friday credits from 2015...

teamacc

@jarland said:
If you want some insight into your referrals I'm always happy to help. I can't tell you anything about who they are, but I can tell you things like "You have 5 referrals here that I can guarantee will never pay us $25" or "You have 3 referrals who are spending with us regularly and will likely hit $25 soon."

Do referrals get fullfilled when a user adds $25 to his wallet, or when he uses $25 in server costs? Or when he uses $25 of his own money (non-promotional) in server credit?

myhken

@teamacc when he uses $25 of his own money.

teamacc

@myhken said:
@teamacc when he uses $25 of his own money.

I think vultr credits referrals when they add $x to their wallet. No need to actually use it.

willie

I have a vultr account with no linked CC. Should I abandon it and sign up again with someone's referral code?

myhken

You can use mine: http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6923683-3B

willie

@myhken said:
You can use mine: http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6923683-3B

Is that the "special" link that adds $20 credit?

https://my.vultr.com/affiliate/special/

myhken

Yep @willie

Droid

myhken said: You can use mine: http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6923683-3B

Used your referral, thanks :-)

jar

teamacc said: Do referrals get fullfilled when a user adds $25 to his wallet, or when he uses $25 in server costs? Or when he uses $25 of his own money (non-promotional) in server credit?

As long as their total amount spent with us hits $25, so they could immediately deposit $25 and you'd get $25 credit on the next run through the system.

willie

Topic drift: are there any good coupons these days?

Edit: I mean DO or Vultr coupons, or similar like Atlantic or MNX I guess. Not Harbor Fright batteries .

WSS

@willie said:
Topic drift: are there any good coupons these days?

Harbor Freight has a free pack of AA/AAAs without purchase..