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Three ways to get a Nintendo DSi for free

The Nintendo DSi is a wonderful upgrade to the company's flagship portable gaming system. However, it is quite expensive at $139.99 SRP. This has led many people to look for opportunities that will help them win Nintendo DSi unit for free.

Below are 3 such methods that can help you win Nintendo DSi:

1. Join contests. This is, without a doubt, the most popular way to win Nintendo DSi. However, this offers the least chances of actually winning. Never think that you're the only one who'll enter an online or an offline contest to win Nintendo DSi. There will be hundreds, if not thousands, of other avid gamers who want to have the chance to score a Nintendo DSi for themselves. You'll have better chances of winning if the contest is skills-based or talent-based, such as a writing competition or other events that require the exercise of one's creativity and artistic gifts. This way, your fate will be in your hands.

2. Try to request for a review copy. If you own a website, there is one nifty trick that can help you win Nintendo DSi for free. You can send a request to Nintendo for a review copy of their handheld gaming system. The grant of such a request depends on a variety of things. First would be the statistics of your website. It's going to be a "what's in it for me?" deal. Nintendo, or any of its affiliated companies which you may have approached, will want to know what they stand to gain in exchange for the Nintendo DSi they will send your way. They will look at your website and determine if the subject of the same is relevant to their product. They will look at how your web pages are presented, because they will only want to associate themselves with professionals, and the professionalism of your business will be reflected on how well your web pages are conveyed. Then, they will look at the most important detail of them all: the amount of traffic you generate for your website. If you own and operate a small scale website that generates a serviceable amount of visitors, then you'll find it difficult to win Nintendo DSi via this method. But hey, it's worth the try. You have nothing to lose in the first place.

3. Try affiliate marketing. Some electronic entertainment web stores offer affiliate programs. You can opt to enroll under these programs. Thereafter, you will be given an affiliate link. Your goal would be to promote the merchant's products using your affiliate link. Every time you manage to refer a visitor to the web store, and every time such a visitor decides to make a purchase, you will earn a stated reward. Such a reward may be in the form of cash, which will be calculated based on a certain percentage of the selling price of the item sold. Or the reward can be in the form of store credits which you can spend, like real cash, on the products offered by the web store. Either way, you can use your accumulated rewards to sort of win Nintendo DSi unit.