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Originally Posted by BenMcr
To be honest it wouldn't matter which way they did it, as which ever way it would be unfair to a set of people
Random is probably the only way to make is fair as possible for those that pre registered
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The problem is the random is 'random out of the total list' not 'random out of those who haven't been called yet'.
So I hear that someone was called today twice within one hour, despite having bought Tivo on the first call (and some getting 3-4 calls over a couple of days).. and others (including me) not called at all.
That's a horrible way to do it from a resource point of view, as your limited number of people who are making the calls are going to be spending an increasing amount of time making wasted phone calls (as number of people not called decreases, the chances of the random number generator picking someone not called decreases also).
You could also improve the process by pre-checking whether the calleee was in a VM area (again, reports of people who can't get virgin getting 2-3 calls).