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This is really clever. Even if you could get just two large virtual currencies (where points win prizes) and exchange those, it would be beneficial. Perhaps even from the same publisher.

You could encourage the companies by offering to take a rake on the transaction and sharing it with them. It'd probably be against their T&Cs if you didn't ask permission.

Other posts about loyalty are true. But if the points are transferrable, people will trade them. Far better the publishers get control over it - but you'd have to pursuade them.




Flooz. Beenz.


Both flooz and beenz are famous failures which tried to introduce a new global reward scheme.

The OP and myself are talking about is a trading market between various existing (and assumedly succesful) point reward systems.


Points.com?

I guess maybe I'm just not following.




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