Points for friends who become members

Would be nice if we were rewarded for promoting Sierrasnowboards to our friends. I have been telling all my friends about this site and a lot of them now shop with Sierra!!

i thought people would start making fake accounts to join for points

Sierra use to give points when you refer a friend and they created an account.  I think they did away with it about a year ago or so.

^^That's what it was.  I couldn't remember exactly.  My bad.

Yeah, referrals would have to be based off something like purchases. Say, get XX points for referring a member and they spend more than $200 or something.

not a bad idea but sierra is pretty fair on points. sierra is such a great site i tell my friends anyways!

The points aren't there so that you get free stuff...the points are there to encourage people to actively participate in the online community. Don't forget you also get points with your purchases, so the more you spend, the faster you can acquire said free stuff!
There is a lot of good knowledge to be shared here (not to mention the ridiculously discounted gear), but if you only want free stuff consider that with the time invested in logins/forum posts/etc you could just get a job and buy some goggles and a shirt. Would take you far less time!

This fixation on points is getting annoying.  Just stick around and sooner rather than later you'll have accumulated whatever your goal was. 

Referral points can easily lead to abuse (fake accounts, etc.) unless a system is implemented (get point when the new referral reaches a quota).  If it works out, it'll be a great way to get new members and reward current members for their referral.

Originally posted by kimmidolz` Points are hard to accumulate unless u are buying a lot of things. Even after spending $600 you still only get $60 points. Referral points would be nice, i would suggest only getting points if the person you referred actually makes purchases from sierra, not just if they join. Oh wells, guess i'll just have to keep on logging on each day. Lol

I think it's pretty easy to spend $600 here!
It may only net you 60 points but that's 2 months of daily logins so I'd say it's a timesaver if that's your goal.

that system would start going downhill quickly . i bet the number of members would skyrocket, and most of them wouldnt even be active.

When I saw the Title I thought, maybe there is something to this, then after reading what people are saying, I think the only one that makes sense is that if your referral actually spent money. Maybe like 1 point for every $50 they buy. In any case, this is the last time I am clicking on a thread that has POINTS in the title. 

Originally posted by andrethegiant Originally posted by xxa1z4n3xx i thought people would start making fake accounts to join for points Your exactly right as soon as i read thread that came to mine... It could work if you only got like 10 points once your friend earned 200 so it wouldnt be worth it to spammers

Potentially that could work as it's be a waste of time people trying to abuse the system, but with everything related to points there's a big percentage of pople constantly trying to abuse the system, 2 points (pun intended )

1. Listen to DC Domain (well this time anyway) you'll get a lot more out of Sierra by becoming an active, honest participating member than by being a points wh0re

2.What kind of person are you if you weren't going to tell your 'friends' about Sierra anyway?
"Hey I found this awesome site but I'm not gonna share it with my buddies"

I think the best compromise would be to tie referral points to a minimum purchase amount. 

1: Refer a friend.
2: Once your friend's purchases total over $100 (through either single or multiple purchases) you get 10 points.

It would be a one-time allotment of 10 points.  That would remove the incentive to create shill accounts, while still encouraging the recruitment of quality users.

Forgive me if I repeat anything..I didnt read the whole thread.  I dont think they need to give points for friend referrals.  The only thing I could think of that would be close is if friends buy items, then we could get points.  Honestly at this point..(no pun intended), the points system has been driven into the ground.  We dont need another way to get more points, to those that have been here for a long time, the points have become a PITA.  It would be nice to see this community loosen up some where people could post at free will w/o being called point whores..and where the point whores could be weeded out.  I agree, useless posts to gain points is annoying, but at the same time, threads and topics is what keeps forums going.  Damn I went off topic .  Ahem..no points for friends joining...its overkill...lol

PLUS FOR ME TOO!

Originally posted by BlackPanda yeah...refer and friend for 100 points or something man.

That's a TERRIBLE idea.

id say broys is right his idea is good

lol. The Sierra pyramid scheme.

since i've referred many folks over the yrs, i think it's a good idea

this same thing happens on youtube and other sites. people make new accounts so that they can say "i love your video!" to their own video. Surriously?

i think everyone needs to stop begging...

this site gives 40, 50, 70% sales on the regular!!! FREE GIVEAWAY mon-fri!!! i mean damn, just the fact that there is a point system is ICING ON THE CAKE.

i wish people would just stfu with the "gimme more points" bs

haha, i mean wouldn't we all want more points?  but i think in this case the potential cons of a referral system outweigh the potential good.  plus the coding and working of the system to prevent people from taking advantage of it isn't worth it.  let's just take what we got and go with it.

Just save your pennies and for every 10 bucks they give you a point. Really, its not a bad setup. Just use your friends gear and write alot of review about how you demoed the gear and your reviews on it :) And 10% off in addition to the sales price AND free snowboard give aways, arent really a bad combination at all for a website.

sorry