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Lost my excitement

firatkocak

Hi,

 

There have been so much times since the roadtest started. In the past times, there were less users, as a result of this, we had more chance to be selected as a winner and then tested the roadtested product. But now, being a winner is really really difficult. And i don't know who are the winners, before a winner presented his/her review. A roadtest starts, users enroll theirselves, a roadtest ends, we wait for a review to be posted and then we know "huh, here is one of the winners". There are little of reviews then expected. By the way, i would really like to know the ratio of the reviews posted by the products roadtested.

 

I know, if there are so many requests and less service, it is impossible to fullfill the all the requests. This is the fact that we know and accept. So, what i am doing ? When a new roadtest starts, i enroll myself and forget the rest of the process. If i am a winner, i will learn it by either a message from Alistair or will suprisingly receive a package.

 

So, i have lost my excitement about roadtest. I am just an ordinary user who enrolls himself and less visit the group, because there is so much less chance to win and there is almost no any review posted.

 

Cheers,

 

Firat Kocak

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  • Hi Everyone.

     

    Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts about the evolution of RoadTest. We are always looking for ways to improve our members' experience on element14, and RoadTest is big part of that. Normally, Alistair Winning would jump in here, but as I have sent him to a tradeshow for the next couple of days, I'd like to share some thoughts with you.

     

    I can see how your odds of winning a product were higher before large numbers of people began discovering element14. The only way to increase them again would be to offer more simultaneous RoadTests, which is something we are planning to do this year. If you give us a little time to fix a couple of things with our internal processes, we should soon be able to increase the number and type of products we offer through RoadTest.

     

    Completely agree with you about the importance of posting the winners' element14 screen names when each RoadTest is closed to further applicants. I'm not sure when or why this stopped, but we're going to start doing that again right away. Thank you for letting us know about this.

     

    We've had some challenges in the past ensuring that RoadTest winners would actually post a product review-- once they have the unit, that sometimes would be the last we'd see of them. To address this, we recently implemented a better follow-up system in which we contact the product recipient a couple of times to ask how everything is going. This should result in more reviews per RoadTest-- and we completely agree that getting reliable reviews is one of things our members value most about RoadTest.

     

    So please hold on to your excitement for just a little longer! Good changes are in store for RoadTest, and we want you guys to be a part of it. image If you have any comments or questions, please post them here. Alistair will also join the conversation when he returns. He's going to be one of the main people leading improvements to RoadTest in the days ahead.

     

    Thanks guys,

     

    Sagar Jethani

    Head of Content

    element14

  • in reply to bluescreen

    Sagar,

     

    Thank you for the update.  I look forward to seeing what comes next.

     

    Gordon Margulieux

    Garmin AT - Salem, OR USA

  • in reply to gordonmx

    Hi from sunny Germany,

     

    Could you guys do me a favour. Could you look in the "Demonstration Board for Freescale MC9S08LL and MC9S08LH Families of MCUs" Roadtest and see if you can see the winners? If not could someone post a screenshot? The winners are meant to show automaytically, and this will let us know if we have a bug. If we have i will post the testers username manually from now on until we get it fixed.

     

    Firat, as for your other point. I'm sorry but as the group has grown more popular the chanes of winning decrease for everyone. You were lucky you got in early and got to test a few kits. Hopefully you have more luck soon. Also, I been talking to our suppliers at Embedded World, and one especially was interested in a new  initiative.  I can't go public at the moment as discussions are still ongoing, but I'm sure you'll like it.  Instead of a random way of picking testers we will be actively seeking people

     

    Ally

  • in reply to awinning

    I can see there are 4 reviewers selected against the Freescale roadtest. Is there any other notification the roadtesters receive to inform them that they have won? Or does the item just turn up in the post one day?

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