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Back when I sent sponsors 1/10th the sales I do now? (circa 2004?):
I would get mountain bikes with custom parts and a fitting at a local bike shop. I've received laptops and iPods back when those were a thing. Phones. I would get flown to Vegas and put up in a hotel and invited to some pretty crazy parties.
I would also get shit I didn't care for since I am a seller of porn and not a big fan of it. Stuff like shirts, bumper stickers, coffee mugs, pencil holders, letter openers, etc. I usually gave this swag to my friends who were single.
These days when I send them 10 times the sales?: I get chocolates that cost $25 or less. I get more swag. Sometimes I might get a decent bottle of liquor or a gift cert to something like Amazon for $200.
Times have definitely changed a lot since the days of TCG and Lightspeed. Back then I'd often forget about the "funny money" I was accumulating and one day I'd be like, oh shit, I have like $4K in funny money to spend. Some like TCG would have a "store" you could spend it in and that reminded me of Wheel of Fortune back in the day when they would buy stuff from the prize room.
I once bought all of my family's Xmas gifts with funny money. Probably around 2004 or 2005. I think I spend around $12K in funny money. AND I got gifts from the sponsors on top of that.
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