Couldn't help but notice that people are frustrated with the trade-ins. Here are a few things to keep in mind while hanging out in the ZVIP Zone!

Z100 loves our listeners but we are not a warehouse full of prizes. We have a limited amount of items to offer you guys. In order to get more things we need our sales partners to supply us with prizes. Keep in mind that you are winning these things for free.

Why do things sell out so quickly? This is probably what's bugging you the most. When we first launched this program back on December 14th everyone started out on an even plane. You all had 0 points, however, at this point there are at least 100 people with 85,000 points. The top points leader has 198, 500 points. Therefore there are a lot of people with points and they are always checking out the site. So when something becomes available they buy it.

Why are things more expensive now? As previously stated everyone started of with 0 points but now that the top points leader has almost 200,000 points we are going to increase the cost of prizes. Why are we doing this? Because it wouldn't be fair for the people who have a ton of points to buy multiple prizes and they can easily do that if we set things for 55,000 points for an iPod. At 90,000 they have to spend almost half of their points to get it. This way it will help someone else get something further down the line.

From now on every trade-in will be listed as coming soon with the time that it will become available. It will not go on sale 1 minute earlier than the time listed. If it's only one item then the person that gets it first will win it. As for the speculation of whether we actually have these prizes and do we really give them away? Yeah we do, everyone who has won has gotten their prize ask around and you'll see.

So we are sorry that you guys are not too happy with the system but a year ago you didn't even have the option to win anything just for hanging out online. You had to enter contest where it only let you enter one time. You can always play the raffles as well, they are much cheaper to enter and you can enter as many times as you want.

Keep you eye out for more prizes every week! Thanks for listening to Z100 and hanging out in the ZVIP Zone!