Thread: July 2010 Contest: Most referrals wins a $200 Amazon Gift Certificate!

Originally Posted by spongebue

IP addresses are what is used to determine uniqueness. Company networks have a better chance of not sharing an IP address if they're on different computers. What's My IP Address? Networking Tools & More can give you the number that we'd see. Keep in mind, your own IP address must be different than those that referred you, too

Kerry, please correct me if I'm wrong here, but I think this should be about right.

I do understand Coasterpan's concern here. Some companies/airline have a single proxy server so that all employees, when they are at work, come from the same ip address.

Update: I've found a way to make exceptions for situations like this. Already accounted for the Delta.com proxy, for example. Feel free to let me know if you think you are being unfairly dinged on your referral count.

Originally Posted by vulindlela

I have sent out probably 40 referrals but nobody seems to be signing up, Lol!

I have probably had a few sign up at work also since most of my referrals were to fellow employees.

I do understand the need to be fair though and am ok with it....

In your case you aren't losing any credit due to duplicate ip addresses. Just limited by getting people to sign up and/or find the confirmation email and click the link in it.

I've sent several invites as well and know more have signed up. But like some others, it's a bunch of folks from work where we do have the single proxy server.

I'm posting this post from that server now if you want to track ours. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Coasterpan

I've sent several invites as well and know more have signed up. But like some others, it's a bunch of folks from work where we do have the single proxy server.

I'm posting this post from that server now if you want to track ours. Thanks!

Okay. That's an AA proxy. Accounted for. That only gets you to three total though. You are more constrained by the folks who either didn't sign up, or didn't find the confirmation email and click the link.

Thanks, I'll follow up with folks to be sure they do that. :-)