Competitive Cyclist will pay you to ride your bike

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mdeth1313
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by mdeth1313

Guarantee they cut back on how much you can earn. When I read the original email I figured there was no way they'd be able to sustain it.
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droid1973
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by droid1973

Will the program come back on line?

uraqt
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by uraqt

No date for back, but May 19th for ""update on details of this revised program on May 19th."

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FIJIGabe
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by FIJIGabe

I'm at $11.50. I guess I'll be buying some Skratch Labs at a discounted price ;)

mike
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by mike

this was short lived, just like competitive cyclist lifetime returns guarantee. I really don't trust what competitivecyclist says anymore, as they change their policies whenever they want and the customer is out of luck.

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spookyload
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by spookyload

ITTY wrote:I only got $21. But hey it's $21 I didn't have before.

I'm guessing they grossly underestimated how many miles/dollars people log on Strava.


That is giving them too much benefit of the doubt. Strava could easily supply a direct number to the average hours people ride. They match that up with the deal they offered, and the output should be a pretty simple margin hit. I think it was just a stupid stunt to get people to their site and share more personal information. They thought people would use the discounts for large items, but everyone I know used it to get small stuff for free. Not their intent. I would imagine the discount will have to apply to qualifying purchase.

ALS
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by ALS

New program announced not quite as interesting as previous one

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/arti ... hip-44418/

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HammerTime2
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by HammerTime2

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/competitive-cyclist-revises-strava-partnership-44418/ wrote:Hours on the bike no longer equal store credit, but rather, factor into users' credibility scores
Well, I have factored Competitive Cyclist's abrupt termination of the original program and replacement with this credibility score nonsense into its credibility score.

uraqt
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by uraqt

NICE HammerTime!!!

I was thinking about this as I was kind stoked to get payed to ride.

The USA government should pay US citizens to ride, I want a tax break. Everyone else gets a gov kickback why not bike riders?

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russianbear
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by russianbear

This all sort of sounds like it was planned from the start for CC to get more people "signed up" for an account with their website and a small sales bump. Now the credibility thing is for you to add more content (reviews, pictures) to their site. I don't mind particularly, will still deal with them, have always been great.

uraqt
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by uraqt

They have always been great, for sure.. and reasonable pricing on sales items!!!

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