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FAQ
1. How does this website work?
Every time you visit the website you can be the lucky one winning a prize, in the middle area of the home page you can see which price is rewarded to wich visitor. If you're a winner, a form to fill in your contact details will appear. After this we will send the prize you have won directly to your home address.
2. What happens when the visitor count hits one billion?
If you are the lucky one, you're redirected and need to fill in your email-address and contact details. After this, don't come to us, we will come to you to hand over the $100.000 (provided for that you live in a funky place to visit). If you are visitor #1.000.000.001, you are shit out of luck.
3. Who are you and why do you do this?
We are just two fine young Dutch gentleman who ran into each other in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We decided to cycle back to Bangkok (800km) on small pink Hello Kitty bikes (pictures available on request). Ever since few more crazy ideas came up. This one actually started as a bet: Gijs didn't believe Mark would be able to make a website attracting one billion visitors, if he makes it Gijs needs to buy him a bottle of scotch. (a damn good one!)
4. $100.000, sounds like a lot of money, how can you guarantee this?
Everyone can do the math, we hardly have any costs. We need to get $100.000 divided by 1.000.000.000 equals $0,0001 or 0,01 cents per visit. We will be able to collect this amount of money by selling advertisement space on our website.
5. 1.000.000.000, sounds like a lot of visitors, are you going to make it?
It all depends on you. If you come back every now and then, we won't need 15% of the world population, but only 1 or 2 %. Even better, make this site your homepage.
6. What if your are going to be rich because of this stupid project?
Thank you very much for this excellent question. A good thing to think about actually. Gijs will surely travel a bit and climb a few mountains. Eventually he likes to start up a company promoting sustainable development. Mark will most probably join Gijs on his travels for good company and use the money to pay off his student debts.
7. When do you think you will reach one billion visitors?
The internet is a magical instrument, things can go fast. We do not intend to actively promote the site ourselves. Hopefully you will tell two friends about this site, these two friends will do the same, etc. etc. Like this we only need 29 days to reach one billion. (this reasoning is full of flaws, but we hope to reach one billion before Christmas 2011).
8. When I try to refresh this page I am still the same visitor number, why is this?
Well, that is the little trick we built into this website. It is only possible to refresh the page once every hour, this to give others a chance to win prizes as well. Besides, we don't want anybody to waste his life by hitting the F5 button a billion times. Imagine it taking 1 second to refresh the page, it will then take this poor guy/girl 1.000.000.000 seconds, or 16.666.666 minutes, or 277.777 hours, or 11.574 days or 31.7 years of his/her life to win 100.000 US$. That's just not worth it.
9. I am visitor # 250 and the visitor count is at #254, how is this possible?
Since we only count you as a new visitor every hour, your visitor count will stay the same during this period. Meanwhile other people who visit the website change the total visitor count of the website which differs from yours.
10. This website looks a bit like the million dollar homepage, why is this?
Just like the million dollar homepage we sell pixel blocks. As they say: never change a winning concept. When this website will be a success we definitely hope to meet the initiator behind that website. Looking at his website helped us making our website.
More Questions: send them to question@billionthvisitor.com
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