Perhaps when we said that we’re going to be giving away 10% of our fund, you thought we weren’t serious.
Well, the time has come to deliver on the promise. It’s time to give out some cash!
Who are we giving our cash to?
We said, all along, that we’d give cash to our readers. All you had to do to be in with a shot was subscribe to our mailing list (the option is there on the right if you’re on a desktop, and down at the bottom if you’re reading on your phone).
Honestly, we thought that more might have subscribed to earn some free cash. But we understand, in this day and age where you assume that – a) half the stuff you read on the internet is a scam and b) you don’t really want to be giving out our email address to just anyone – people were slow coming forward.
Maybe it smelt like a scam – but you’ll now know we’re legit.
It’s good news for the lucky few who did sign up to the email list. We’ve picked three of them to give away some cash to.
Rather than explain how it will work, we’ve reproduced the exact email that all three of them have been sent. By reading this they will also know that the email is legit.
How our 3 readers can claim their cash! (A copy of the email we sent them)
Hi – e-mail subscriber to The Money Mountain,
This is an important email that we strongly suggest you read! There’s money in it for you.
Our site is almost a year old and that means it’s time for us to put the ‘reader share’ of our fund to use. I hope, as a subscriber, that you already knew about the reader share. We’ve been keeping back 10% of our fund to give to you. It was always our intention to use it for you.
We’ve decided to make it a bit more personal for three of our subscribers and offer you, as one of the three, the chance to have some money from the fund to do with as you please.
Here’s how it works. You can choose either of the following:
1) £25 in cash. Straight up. Paypal will be our preferred method of payment. Or
2) £50 to gamble on red or black in a game of roulette. You get the proceeds, which will either be £100 or £0. We will find a way to make sure that you can see we did this fairly – probably by live-streaming it somehow.
All we need from you is the following, in an email:
- Just a little about yourself. Whatever you want to tell us.
- What you want to do with the money and why. You might want us to give it to charity; instruct us to do something with it in our project; or you might just want the cold hard cash for yourself. It’s totally up to you, but if you want us to pay you the cash, we’d like some description of what you think you might do with it just out of curiosity: are you going to buy someone a gift, treat yourself, or go on a drinking session. Whatever, it’s your money.
Please note, we will put your response on the website for everyone to see what we’ve done with the money. However, it will be completely anonymous and we won’t publish your name or email address on the site – whatever option you choose. Privacy is paramount.
When we’ve heard back from you, we’ll arrange to get the funds where you ask them. We will NOT ask for bank details from you. If you want the money directly, Paypal would be our preference. If you doubt that this email is legitimately from www.themoneymountain.com then we have posted this exact email on our site for you to check out. It will be in our most recent blog posts.
Please get back to us in the next two weeks. If we haven’t heard from you by then, your money (along with the rest of the 10% reader fund) will go into a charity pot and we’ll decide amongst ourselves which charity to give it to.
Thanks – looking forward to hearing from you!
Ben, Chris and Dave (@ www.themoneymountain.com)
What will happen next?
The two week deadline to respond starts today, with publication of this post.
Hopefully the three people we’ve selected will come forward and we’ll get to find out a little about what they’re going to do with the cash!
We’ve got no idea if this will work, but we’ll find out in two weeks time.
If you’re reading this and thinking “where’s my free cash?”, you really must sign up to the mailing list for next year if you want to be in with a chance. In the meantime, we’ve got more cash that we need to use in our ‘reader share’ and we’re going to try to find a couple of charitable causes that we each believe in, to put it to some use.
Stay tuned for more updates!