It looks like I accrued one point for watching one ad. Cool.<p>Now I try to reduce the price of an item:
(First number is the points I need to reduce by that amount)<p>50 ($0.01)<p>100 ($0.02)<p>500 ($0.10)<p>1000 ($0.20)<p>2500 ($0.50)<p>5000 ($1.00)<p>Do I need to watch fifty ads to reduce the price of an item by one cent?
Cynically brilliant. If this works, you've built a platform for the consumption of product ads, in which you consume ads before buying into the original ad.<p>It just might work. I hope it doesn't, for moral reasons.
This is an interesting variation on the penny auction sites that were en vogue about 2-3 years ago, but you're "bidding" with your time rather than your money.<p>Nevertheless, people quickly realized that penny auctions are a sucker's game -- see
<a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2011-05-13-komando-penny-auctions_n.htm" rel="nofollow">http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/201...</a> -- and I don't see why it's any different with VidFall.<p>But points for originality.
Seems like a variant of swagbucks (<a href="http://www.swagbucks.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.swagbucks.com/</a>) except the discounts you earn toward giftcards from watching videos gets pooled toward the one person who decides to buy first.
The fact that another user can take advantage of the low price before you really kinda sucks. I don't think I'd ever use this.<p>EDIT 1 - Additionally, you can open multiple tabs with multiple videos muted and to make the price drop faster.<p>EDIT 2 - These items can run out, which can really stink if you're waiting around for the price to drop to the one you're looking for.
Interesting that you can drag the progress bar in the ad to the end, effectively skipping it.<p>The pricing is WAY off here.<p>As @voltagex_ noted, you must watch 50 ads to save $0.01, which is a CPM of $0.2, whereas many video CPMs are in the $20 range. A markup of 10000% seems a little extreme.