Would it be within the rules to give away gift cards to community members who create social media posts that gain significant views? I’ve been brainstorming ways to promote my designs to a broader audience and social media is just too large to ignore the only problem is I don’t really use it and I’m terrible at making short form content
The basic idea would be to encourage users to make interesting videos sharing their prints on social media and include a link to my model in the description. The first three users to share a short video on select platforms and gain over X views would receive a Bambu Labs gift card for their region. I don’t mind investing points into promotion but wanted to run it by the community to make sure I wasn’t overstepping any rules.
You would really consider that Bambu Lab doesn’t really “earn” that much from someone posting a model on social media and gaining too little in order to give me a $40 gift card.
It would be a bad business model. The social interaction is mainly on Bambu Lab. When it happens on other social media and doesn’t have a redirct to bambu and doesn’t increase their sales in a obvious way, it would ruin the gift cards system and abuse the whole “design something that may be likable to someone and post it” to “let’s mass post and just get free money”.
Just my opinion. I believe the “Forum” and “Community” are basically mixed up. Some people asking on community and some are abusing forum.
The community doesn’t really act like community, instead it just acts like a dumpster of terrible spammed posts without any proper audience. There’s no similar algorithm like twitter, which enables you to get attraction from unfollowed people.
If that gets done, you wouldn’t need the $40 gift card idea on Twitter and other media
I would be purchasing the gift cards and giving them to users who make popular short videos about models that I designed, essentially rewarding users who print and promote my models using my own personal point rewards.
As an example I want to revisit my Vortex Blaster design and update the model pictures, print profiles and promote it some more and I thought the community might have fun making videos featuring the design and earning some gift cards.
You need to consider that BambuLab doesn’t have a way to verify that you actually give it away for free. You may be selling it.
You would be actually selling a store gift card (let’s say $40) for a service (promoting your content) and using their website as a middleman.
You may get away with it at first, but then they might ban you for sure because other people would follow along.
I advise you to pay from your own money. You could be getting a printer and selling it and putting that money for the service. In that way, BambuLab isn’t a middle man and isn’t getting “abused” indirectly.
I’ve checked your profile. With $2900 boosts and at least $5000 of exclusive & normal points, I can assure you that you could buy many printers off sale and resell them for a proper price and just pay the people for advertisments.
You could also hire people from Freelancer website for 10-15 bucks to make mass content for your models and you could basically post them or collab with social media figures.
