Re: Birth Mobiles
Get Your Phone!

How does it work?

Before you participate, it is important that you understand how the matrix system works.  When you buy our signal boosters (currently buy one, get one free so you get TWO for just £20!), as a free gift, you are given a place on a matrix list for a phone (or other item) of your choice.  When the required number of new members join, the required members list gets full, and the person at the top of the main list will receive their free mobile.  The list of required members then empties (not the main list of all people who have signed up though!) and when it fills again the next member on the main list is sent their phone.

You can sign up as many times as you like, and even refer yourself!

For example, in the table below five new members are required to sign up to subsidise every mobile sent out (for most phones it is actually between 20 and 35).  To start with James is at the top of the list.  After four more people sign up, his free mobile is sent out.  Sarah is next in the list, and once five more people sign up she will receive her free mobile, then, when another 5 more people sign up Mike will receive his phone.

Since the list is 5 people long, the person 10th on the list will have to wait for:
10 x 5 people = 50 people to sign up before they receive their phone.

If a list was 20 people long, the person 12th on the list would have to wait for:
12 x 20 people = 240 people to sign up before they receive their phone.

If on average 6 people join that list a day, they would receive their mobile after just 40 days.  To speed that up, you can refer people which will move you up a place in the lists (and so skipping out a whole cycle).  See the FAQ for more information about referring.

James buys a signal booster James is waiting for four new members
Sarah buys a signal booster James is waiting for three new members
Mike buys a signal booster James is waiting for two new members
Jenny buys a signal booster James is waiting for one new member
Simon buys a signal booster James receives his mobile
Pete buys a signal booster Sarah is waiting for four new members
Helen buys a signal booster Sarah is waiting for three new members
Tim buys a signal booster Sarah is waiting for two new members
Nick buys a signal booster Sarah is waiting for one new member
Holly buys a signal booster Sarah receives her mobile
Steve buys a signal booster Mike is waiting for four new members

For more information, see the FAQ.