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Somer Blink: Legit or Scam?
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Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#121 - 2012-07-05 17:33:25 UTC
Strangely enough I win very often, trouble comes with larger blinks, the more people are involved the less chances you have unless you bet more.

It's a simple game, don't like it, don't play it it's that simple. They've always honoured my wins and shipped my faction ships wherever I asked to, I don't know exactly how much my ratio is win/loose and don't even care but actually think I'm positive moneys with. I admit however play much more with frigs than any other ship, cause I love those ;)

brb
Stryfe Khayoss
Angels of New Eden
#122 - 2012-07-05 18:54:08 UTC
Aegir Oceanus wrote:


Mate, everything you've said before you're flipping coin stuff is your own opinion, which i respect.
But you should double check you math. The odds on you winning 50% of the time itself are 0.5^5000= 7.0798......x 10^-1506 , IF you bought 50% of the tickets every single time. I'd say winning 25% is pretty damn good.

As to my personal opinion on the blog, he makes some good points on the blog, and highlights out some points that to people that may not realize by themselves. But the tone in the entire blog makes him sound more like a whiny b***** than some one speaking out of concern for others, and to sell his point he does use similar marketing techniques that he points out Blink uses.


Much like people who misspell words when they correct others' misspellings, I find it ironic when people use bad math when correcitng someone else's math.

What you are calculating there is the probability of him always losing or always winning, not the probability of him winning 50% of the time. If I have a 50% chance to win every time, I would expect to win 50% of the times I played, given a statistically relevant sample size (i.e., not 3), whether that's a 100 times played or 5000. Winning 25% of the time over a large sample with a 50% chance of winning each time, is NOT good
Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpaid Tactical Team
#123 - 2012-07-05 18:55:42 UTC
Anytime I've played a Blink lottery, there's always some guy (or a handful of guys) rolling through the ranks winning all kinds of stuff. And it's always the same people.

I've won before, but it's always too minuscule to mean anything.

Then I realized Somer Blink is probably a scammer, just like most of the lotteries in New Eden.
Soundwave Plays Diablo
Doomheim
#124 - 2012-07-05 20:06:53 UTC
Aegir Oceanus wrote:
Flirty Girl wrote:
My story:

It is a scam. Bar none. Somer looks to fleece the big blinkers and not the little ones. Its the guys blinking the Dreads and Rorqs that are making Somer isk.

Every time I would be up and have isk in my bank, someone would show up and just clean me out. If I bought all but one ticket, the one ticket I didn't buy would win. Every time. And I am not the only one. Sometimes it would just be three people playing Ultra blinks, I would be on a convo with the other party, and no matter what we did or how we did it, the unknown 3rd party would win it. And not lose a blink they played. No one has luck that good. My losses would be streaks of over 15 losses, then I might win one. Then streaks of 15 losses again. Over and over. After awhile watching the losses mounting and it never once turning around, I walked away. About 60 billion isk lighter.

If I flip a coin, odds are 50/50. If I flip 5,000 coins or just one coin 5,000 times, the odds of winning will still be 50/50. And I should have won and lost close to 50% of the time. But that never happened. My wins amounted to roughly 25% on exclusively betting on half the tickets.

Yes, this is an alt.


Mate, everything you've said before you're flipping coin stuff is your own opinion, which i respect.
But you should double check you math. The odds on you winning 50% of the time itself are 0.5^5000= 7.0798......x 10^-1506 , IF you bought 50% of the tickets every single time. I'd say winning 25% is pretty damn good.

As to my personal opinion on the blog, he makes some good points on the blog, and highlights out some points that to people that may not realize by themselves. But the tone in the entire blog makes him sound more like a whiny b***** than some one speaking out of concern for others, and to sell his point he does use similar marketing techniques that he points out Blink uses.


If you had 1:2 odds to win and won 25% of the time and were happy about it, I really want to sit down and play a cash game of poker with you.
Replacement 234
Tremor Recorded
#125 - 2012-07-05 20:07:49 UTC
I suppose you could check my contract history and sorry the trade window transactions where I gave away items to friends and other blinkers won't be shown. You will see every ship Blink has delivered to me as they always come on a contract.

I'm quite sorry, but poviding my api would compromise the identity of over 70 people who have mains in multiple corps/alliances which are not on friendly terms with each other. It would allow a keen observer to filter though and find the several friends whose gamestyle is the ransacking of corps with a character(s) the player will immediately biomass after all valuables have been transferred to a neutral, who will also be biomassed after divvying up the loot to many characters in small lots over a period of time which will not attract attention. It would also compromise the 'toons the players have been grooming on the forums of corps in which they hope to be invited to join while living squeaky clean lives for up to a year styled after the typical persona the target corp has been known to invite to join. I did mention that we all share a background in the unconventional part of the US Army, so we are not fools in the fine art of intelligence gathering and counter-intelligence activities. It was just this type of experience I hoped to use when I set out in a few months ago undermine Blink and find their scam. Undermining the corrupt is a breeze. Undermining the legit on the lookout to remain legit is damn tough to pull off.

BTW, would you post your main's API everytime you posted your opinions on the forums?

Did anyone notice my promo blink win ratio when looking at my stat sheet? I'm very surprised that has been let slip by.

The blink scam shot? Oh you failed to read/understand the part I posted about the times and the reasoning behind why I bought all the tickets for some blinks. You might want to read that part again, or for the first time to find out why what you posted means nothing to anyone who understands how to play blink and win the awards.

Laundering RMT? I can only imagine the volume of ISK involved and if my raw guesses are even half right, Blink has not done enough business to begin to cover it up.

This forum increased the blink activity this week? Perhaps you don't understand the 250T celebration lasts a week and the opportunities to profit are greatly increased, such as the doubling of a win which happens on a random basis. I have probably played 500 hundred blinks since the 250T mark was hit and I finally got my first doubled prize late yesterday (4 july, eve time). It was for a wolf, so I got two wolves. Two whole wolves is my take, so far, as I have hopes and a solid understanding of the theory of probability.

It is a theory and not a law. If gravity was a theory, you might float away sometmes and at other times you might not - and just as luck operates on the theory of probability, when it changes, a gambler could fall as hard as a person would when the "theory" of gravity changed.

To say the increase of activity in Blink has been increased because of this forum would ignore the similar increases in activity in past week long celebrations when other benchmarks were reached and there were no forum posts. It is as plausible as saying you were in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, found a quarter in the street and twittered all your friends about it, so you were responsible for the increase in tourism during Mardi Gras.

Having been the pilot of a black helicopter while assigned to the famed 160th aviation, I can tell you something I learned which has never changed. Once the Tinfoil Belief Society bites into something, they cannot be swayed by fact, they will only see and discuss evidence which could have an anecdotal twist to support their otherwise unfounded belief and they operate as if they have irrefutable evidence they are always about to present.

As I stated in my original post - show me incontrovertible proof of a scam and I will join your team lobbying CCP to ban Blink.

Don't bring me anecdotal comments, misunderstood commonplace events, re-hashed theories inherited from Y2k believers who had to find something new when that flopped - I operate within scientific principles not to find only evidence which supports an unswerving belief and ignore what doesn't - but to look at each item with the same scrutiny and then make the best determnation and giving it a percentage of variability considering all of the known information because there are always lurking variables

When Xrays were first around and as kid I went into shoe stores which had Xray machines into which you could insert your feet and see your foot inside the new shoes to see how roomy they were. I stood there for who knows how long under the supervision of a shoe salesman who was there all day every day with no lead apron. And then some lurking variables were found and precautions were invented after a great deal of damage was done to untold millions. (Google it) So no matter how throughly something is examined, there may be lurking variables, so the scientific method always includes a percentage of variance arrived at by using the scientific method to analyze data.

My research into Blink gives me the confidence to believe it is legit at the 00.01 level of variance which means I am 99.99% sure it is legit.

As stated before, if you are unsure, stay away.

BTW, Blink does not allow it's account holders to advertise Blink. Look at the chat in Jita or anywhere and see the constant slew of ads for Blink competitors and notice they all end with a different "refxxxx". That is the reference number of that player who is encouraged to cover New Eden with spam and they will be rewarded for each person they recruit. Blink rewards for person to person recruitment one friend to another.
Replacement 234
Tremor Recorded
#126 - 2012-07-05 23:00:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Replacement 234
Danjae wrote:
Andrev Nox wrote:
It'd be a horribly transparent way for someone to try and fool the GM's. Money comes from character A, money goes back to character A. I sincerely hope CCP isn't confused in that process where the money was before it was sent away from A :p

But by all means, please, if you suspect them, or us, of any type of RMT - petition for an investigation of them, us, or both. :)


You forgot to mention from WHERE that character get money first time, before he deposited it to blink Bear

I dont need to petition I will keep an eye on Blink to get more proofs )))

Fly safe Big smile



So you want Blink players to alert blink as to the origin of the money they deposit? Just want to be sure of what you are expecting.

BTW, if you want people to look at documents you post, it would be good idea to post them on a neutral site like photobucket or one of the many others trusted sites. That would help people like me who only open files from sources not known to me to be neutral by using my un-networked "dummy computer" which, after reviewing the document, I then restore to it's purchase date to prevent any unwanted baggage from coming along with the document. Much safer than relying on constantly changing software and constantly changing nefarious techniques. Not that I'm saying anything about you, but I don't know WHERE you got that document the first time , before posting it's link to Eve.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#127 - 2012-07-05 23:21:32 UTC
Aegir Oceanus wrote:

Mate, everything you've said before you're flipping coin stuff is your own opinion, which i respect.
But you should double check you math. The odds on you winning 50% of the time itself are 0.5^5000= 7.0798......x 10^-1506 , IF you bought 50% of the tickets every single time. I'd say winning 25% is pretty damn good.

As to my personal opinion on the blog, he makes some good points on the blog, and highlights out some points that to people that may not realize by themselves. But the tone in the entire blog makes him sound more like a whiny b***** than some one speaking out of concern for others, and to sell his point he does use similar marketing techniques that he points out Blink uses.



Uh, I think you've made a tiny little mistake there.

Namely that, that percentage is the chance of winning everything, when you have a 50% chance of winning on each.


If you have a 50% chance of winning, that's a 50% chance on each and every iteration. And it doesn't drop the more iterations you do, as they aren't affected by the probability of the preceeding interation.

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#128 - 2012-07-06 00:02:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Mr Epeen wrote:
Skimming through this thread, it seems like everyone wins and no one loses.

So either none of the people losing their shirts are posting or a lot of people are lying.

That, in itself, is fishy enough for me to not sign up.

Mr Epeen Cool

Well, I never posted that I always win.

I started with 100m, and won a Republic Fleet Firetail (13.5m), Daredevil (79m), and a Sabre (60m) = +52.5m

I then deposited another 100m and won nothing = -47.5m

Even though I came out negative, I still don't consider it a scam. Prizes were delivered promptly, and it was entertaining while it lasted. There was no false advertising, and all obligations were met.

EDIT: Oh and in the process, Somer awarded me 38m in credit for achievements.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#129 - 2012-07-06 01:34:29 UTC
My win rate's about 14%. Which is pretty much where it should be (around 600 blinks).


I've just been lucky my wins tend to be on the bigger blinks I do.

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter
Thibault Etienne
#130 - 2012-07-06 01:35:15 UTC
Won a billion. Having a whale of a time. Great fun 100% legit. Thanks Somer
Tony Two Bullet
Monocle Madness
#131 - 2012-07-06 02:04:26 UTC

All success comes with its costs.

While micro-lotteries may not be for everyone, other games of chance are available out there for those interested in different types of games.

In the end, lottos and games of chance should be played to have fun. The question is how much are you willing to lose to have fun? And how much can you win until you're satisfied with what you've won?




CEO  Monocle Madness ~ Mega-Insane Lotteries for the Mentally Unstable http://www.monoclemadness.com
Replacement 234
Tremor Recorded
#132 - 2012-07-06 03:25:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Replacement 234
I see the blink hating site on the blog spot has named me the number one shill and bases it on a lot of research done into my posts by some guy, but not much understanding of the context of the quotes. One of which is when I was being the mediator between a character who wanted anonymity while buying a new character and had only so much to spend, just a mere 9 billion was his top offer after my fee, so I told the seller all I had to spend was 9 billion. the researcher, a far too generous term for this guy, made an incorrect assumption that my 'toon, Replacement 234's wallet only contained 9 bill. This poor guy has no idea how this game is played and how many mediators are out there doing deals for others. I was really thrilled that he posted screen shots of one of my best win streaks ever which I think is the one from just the other night. Shame he did not post any from the day before when I lost 20 billion on the opening day of the 250T celebration.

And you just don't get it dude. Your major problem at this point is that you seem think the "value of blink credit won" is a net profit and it is really not even the gross profit. The value of blink credit won rolls back into your blink wallet and your keep using it over and over while the net profit remains pretty much the same and the value of blink credit won continues to advance with each win - If you bought 16 tickets and lost trillions, your value of blink credit won would still increase by the value of the prize + the 5% bonus. 12 of 16 is the "sweet spot" for not losing too much and maybe even making a little, which I did not. It is nothing like anything in RL.

I'll type slowly so you can understand - I already explained this in my other post but I must have typed too fast for you.

I foolishly made a bet that I could gain one trillion Value in blink credit in one week after doing some quick math on the back of an envelope. I thought Blink would hit the 250T a few days sooner than it did, thinking the added opportunities for profit which come with the celebration would help. like the random doubling of prizes after they are won. I've only had that happen once so far and I got a wolf doubled. I have spent way too much time explaining how the game works than I have playing and had I not won a very nice amount on the bet I mentioned earlier, I'd be Blinking away with a very different strategy than I used to win the bet because that strategy will advance the value of blinks won, but won't put much in your wallet. I don't have a really good strategy for winning isk because I was in the process of developing one by starting at 12 of 16 hoping I could work my way down to 10 of 16 or even better 8 of 16. The biggest problem I have is that don't have access to the numbers which have won beyond the ones I can actually track with my eyes. Dominating the board with 12 of 16 tickets is one thing but the board cannot be dominated with 8 or 10 of 16. I did have to buy some GTCs and had another 'toon of mine with max market skills sell the plex for me to be able to continue.

Ok, here is how you can replicate what I did. Start with 20 trillion, patience, common sense, couple of hundred on your credit card or enough time to do a lot of incursions. Buy 12 tickets of 16 by initiating the expensive prize with one ticket and then using your FPS skills to click like hell to get the other eleven before any other player can do it. If you are playing with any other blitz blinker, just quit and come back later - That is easy for me to do, I have physical impairments in the lower half of my body and have a lot of time on my hands. If you win, you exchange the prize for blink credit which gives you a 5% bonus on top of the the over the market value of the prize.

As I am typing, the blink value of a Rorq, one of my faves is
2,756,600,000 ......now increase that by 5% and you get blink value of
2,894.460,000 ......the amount Blink will increase your metric "Value of Blink Credit won"
2,684,999,004.06 ..regional market from Jita shows there is one in Eruka selling at this price
2,529,101,008.08...region wide buy order for one placed at Jita
Comparing the market value and the blink value plus bonus, it is a no-brainer to redeem the prize for blink credit (no taxes and broker fees.)
192,500,000.........The value of one ticket
............ x 12
2,130,000.000 ......cost of twelve tix
2,894,460,000 .....Value of Blink credit won - not profit - Thank God my bet was not about profit.
- 2,130,000,000....minus the cost of 12 tx
= 764,460,000.....The actual advance of Isk in the my blink wallet 764 billion profit from a single 12 tix win.
So if I have 75% of the tickets, I just might win 75% of the time - one loss costs me 12 tickets or
2,130,000,000......cost of 12 tickets
764,460,000 ........net profit for one win and if I win 3 out of 4 times my winnings will be
2,293,382,000 ... ..net profit for three wins which is more than one loss of
2,130,000,000...... cost of 12 tickets is the cost of one loss
163,380,000......... net profit of 3 wins and one loss - not a fast way to make ISK

You do have streaks of losing which might extend far enough to require you to deposit more isk, but overall, if you own 75% of the possible winning tickets, and experience a 25% loss ratio, you can easily advance your value of blinks won and not win much isk - unless you have a large bet you are going to win waiting for you at the end of the rainbow.

I don't seem to have been very encouraging for people to bet 12 tix and I am not because the odds are but just too close for my comfort. I want a strategy where a single win will pay for all the losses expected within the theory of probability. I expect to find many fewer than than 12 tix to be the answer I seek.

Oh noes. what am I saying..I'M A SHIILL

Look they are games not money trees. Play it for the fun of it or if you don''t trust it - STAY THE **** AWAY!!
Replacement 234
Tremor Recorded
#133 - 2012-07-06 03:58:03 UTC
how could I have left anything out?

I have over 9 billion isk won and put into my blink wallet in achievements, and I don't think that includes the 5 billion achievement I got for reaching 5 trill - an award anyone who reaches 5 trill will receive.

The winning are so liberal without having to pay for castle in downtown Lost Wages which makes the playing so much more fun.

Anyone who wants to gamble to pay their rent is in trouble and needs a smaller place or a second job. These are games, not a source of income. It is nice to win, but I amost get as much of a thrill saying "Grata" to another who has been friendly and encouraged me.

I cannot say enough about the people in the chat an how nice it is to mingle with them and the employees of Blink.

When I first started - on the first or second day, I did not know the real difference between a bonk and a mini-bonk.

Bonk = ticket of usually 500k for prizes like one of every pirate ship, or BPOs for all the mining ships except the Rorq.

Mini-b0nk is paid for by tokens you get for winning and I think 1 token for every mil deposited. and prizes vary

I got sonfused and started clicking on the Bonk thinking I was spending free tokens, then I suddenly realized I had put all my isk into the bonk and had nothing left to play with. I moped around a little and told someone on the chat waht I had done, expecting tobe flamed for newb error, but the person encouraged me to contact a Blink person, "because they are very understanding"
Before I could even do that one of the moderators had seen my post and looked into how much I had deposited in the Bonk and was asking me how much I wanted back or if I wantted to leave some in the bonk.

Thanks Andrev,, You have always been undestanding and knowledgeable.
Replacement 234
Tremor Recorded
#134 - 2012-07-06 04:00:44 UTC
how could I have left anything out?

I have over 9 billion isk won and put into my blink wallet in achievements, and I don't think that includes the 5 billion achievement I got for reaching 5 trill - an award anyone who reaches 5 trill will receive.

The winning are so liberal without having to pay for castle in downtown Lost Wages which makes the playing so much more fun.

Anyone who wants to gamble to pay their rent is in trouble and needs a smaller place or a second job. These are games, not a source of income. It is nice to win, but I almost get as much of a thrill saying "Gratz" to another who has been friendly and encouraged me.

I cannot say enough about the people in the chat an how nice it is to mingle with them and the employees of Blink.

When I first started - on the first or second day, I did not know the real difference between a bonk and a mini-bonk.

Bonk = ticket of usually 500k for prizes like one of every pirate ship, or BPOs for all the mining ships except the Rorq.

Mini-b0nk is paid for by tokens you get for winning and I think 1 token for every mil deposited. and prizes vary

I got sonfused and started clicking on the Bonk thinking I was spending free tokens, then I suddenly realized I had put all my isk into the bonk and had nothing left to play with. I moped around a little and told someone on the chat waht I had done, expecting tobe flamed for newb error, but the person encouraged me to contact a Blink person, "because they are very understanding"
Before I could even do that one of the moderators had seen my post and looked into how much I had deposited in the Bonk and was asking me how much I wanted back or if I wantted to leave some in the bonk.

Thanks Andrev,, You have always been undestanding and knowledgeable.
Ashera Yune
Doomheim
#135 - 2012-07-06 04:13:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Ashera Yune
There is word that there are alts who have unlimited blink credit that buy out much of the tickets on megablinks.

If you see some of the big blinks like capital ships and faction battleships you'll see people who buy half the tickets of the ships

for more than cost of the ship itself on the market.

Why would they spend that much? One possible answer is that these people have access to unlimited blink credit, they buy out the tickets to decrease the chances of legitimate players of winning while increasing profits made. If they win the ship with odds in their favor they get to keep the ship and get the extra isk from tickets bought by real players. If they don't they still make a good profit.

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth."

 Kahlil Gibran
Sobach
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#136 - 2012-07-06 04:54:45 UTC
Ashera Yune wrote:
stuff


someone either did not bother to read the explanations provided above, lack the intelligence to understand it, or is just another troll alt that's more interested in spreading fud than anything else.

I'll echo what replacement said, show us who are these alts with unlimited blink credit that keeps on buying more tickets than the ship is worth (and no, half is under that value) on a consistent and continual basis. Don't give me the "there is word..." crap, proof or STFU.
Andre Cadelanne
Carebears and Noobs Inc
#137 - 2012-07-06 05:02:13 UTC
Replacement 234 wrote:


As I am typing, the blink value of a Rorq, one of my faves is
2,756,600,000 ......now increase that by 5% and you get blink value of

192,500,000.........The value of one ticket
............ x 12



sry to correct you there, but 12x192,500,000 equals 2,310,000,000 and the winnings you can assume on average are 0.75x2,756,600,000 which equals 2,067,450,000, which in turn tells you that you, on average will lose 250m ISK per Rorq you play...which is a pretty good quota on Blink and which is why Somer DOES NOT have to get any alts on there doing nasty stuff - its plain obvious to everyone that in the long run you would lose.
On the other side, if you play it smart, you can, almost certain, MAKE ISK on Blink (I just say, calculate how much ISK you need to lose to "buy" one Token and then calculate what "win" one token will yield on average).


Also I'd like to clear up another confusion here (which I at one point submitted as a bug (which it isnt)): the "Value of Blinks Won" statistic is calculated by taking the TOTAL TICKET VALUE. So if Replacement wins a Rorq and gets 2,756,600,00 (+5%) ISK (Blink credit) the statistics will actually rise by 16x192,500,000 = 3,080,000,000 ISK (at which point one might asume that he in the long run, against all odds, wins more ISK then he should by the "laws" of probability)

All I can say as a last Statement is that I am convinced that Blink IS NOT a scam (apart from the losing you almost guaranteed have in the long run if you play excesively and not use up your tokens "properly")
Soundwave Plays Diablo
Doomheim
#138 - 2012-07-06 05:10:57 UTC
Sobach wrote:
Ashera Yune wrote:
stuff


someone either did not bother to read the explanations provided above, lack the intelligence to understand it, or is just another troll alt that's more interested in spreading fud than anything else.

I'll echo what replacement said, show us who are these alts with unlimited blink credit that keeps on buying more tickets than the ship is worth (and no, half is under that value) on a consistent and continual basis. Don't give me the "there is word..." crap, proof or STFU.


I've seen it quite a few times, but didn't SC it.

Just loaded the page and saw someone who has enough money into a SNI to flat out buy one.
Replacement 234
Tremor Recorded
#139 - 2012-07-06 06:05:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Replacement 234
Andre Cadalane - I yield to your more finely tuned motor skils and thak you for making the corrections you did. Just strengthens my assertion that buying 12 out of 16 is a bad bet and kinda makes the blogsters belief I i was promoting thr 12 ticket strategy even more ridiculous.

Add to that the chat logs where I advised others not to use that strategy as I was not working for profit in Blink but in a most lucrative bet.

When I have more energy tomorrow - I will make the corrections - but I am whipped right now. And as I recall, I only had a few chararcters left on that page, I may have to use this reply to give you the credit for finding my transpositioning of those two digits,

But I can tell you from experience that once the Tinfoil Belief Society gets going, no fact will sway them from their predetermined ideas, and they end up just talking to each other after everyone else has written them off as loons.

Thank you again and let me wish you good fortune and good heath.
XavierVE
No Corporation for Old Spacemen
#140 - 2012-07-06 06:23:41 UTC
The idea that Blink needs to 'scam' to maximize profits is kind of odd, when every blink itself is a guaranteed profit. As Odenkirk said on Mr. Show: "Who would want to **** on a flag made of ****? It's an empty gesture!"

Scamming with shill players on top of that would be pretty silly, since if word of that broke (and it eventually would), their site in general would cease to generate profit. It's akin to saying that various states that run lotteries fake the win... when state lotteries are set up to guarantee huge profits. There's no point to a scam, they have a guaranteed profit on every blink no matter who wins.

I've won five promos, corpmates have won at least a dozen or so more. One member has made so much isk playing Blink that we regularly remind him that we're going to have to call Gambler's Anonymous on him if he keeps it up.

The page seems pretty far-fetched, overall.