Dear Ldblack,
Please consider that the shop has just opened and new products need to be added. There will be cheaper products added soon. Once completely done, the store will have over 80 products to offer ranging from $50 to thousands of MotionEmpire dollars.
The level 4 products that you are talking about are macbook pro and imac. They are worth over $2000 each. don't you think its worth it to work 4 months and increase your user level and win them for free?
And about the point you made about not being able to afford products: i have to say you are right. At the moment we are only giving away $500 M.E. dollars per month to the top 100 users because we are a small business and we don't have much income. We are barely surviving with the server costs. It was a hard task to start the gift shop at this point of time. Once we have more income from our ad revenue, we can increase this $500 monthly prize to $1000 and then more and more. It will be eventually $10,000 per month or even more (based on the number of competing users) for the top 100 users and at that rate you will be able to afford the products faster if you finish in the top spots.
For now, I recommend you to focus on the referral manager because you can
make unlimited MotionEmpire dollars referring people via yahoo answers, youtube and other source. The reason you can make unlimited money with referrals is that you will help us increase our users and at that point we can afford to give away more prizes.
Read this guide for more info:
http://motionempire.com/Help/Friend_Referral_System_Tutorial/Please understand that we are a truly unique website to offer all these cool prizes for free. We are not a big business and we cannot afford to give away thousands of MotionEmpire dollars per month right now.
Hope it all made sense.
Cheers
-Zexcy