We have now the next in what seems to be becoming a series of reviews of the new question and answer site Akatoo. May just ended, which means that the month’s promotion also ended. I finished in third (or maybe fourth) place on the leaderboard as ranked by promotional points gained in the month. To the top twenty at the end of the month go iPod nanos, and to those ranked 21-70 go iPod shuffles. April’s contest winners posted on the site at the beginning of May that yes, they did get their iPods in the mail, so I was satisfied but not surprised when I received an email at the end of May 31 asking me to provide a shipping address to an email address at the Akatoo domain. I did so, and come Monday June 2, the next workday, I received an email back asking for a phone number, as the Apple site required one for shipping (from which I gather that they order them from Apple at the end of each month and have them sent directly to the contest winners rather than via themselves).

I sent that information back that afternoon. Come the morning of Thursday June 5, FedEx left a note on my door to let me know that they tried to deliver a package but couldn’t get the required signature (I was sleeping at the time). I signed the slip and put it back out, and come Friday morning, the package was waiting for me when I awoke. In it was, as expected, an iPod nano–silver, 4 GB.  Quite like the one on the far left here.  I opened the shipping box, but haven’t removed the iPod from its case yet. I’m not certain of I want to keep it, or bring it somewhere and get store credit for something else or to upgrade to a larger version. I wouldn’t be surprised if I ended up on the leaderboard at the end of June as well (I’m sitting at #7 now, having hit #2 and then lost internet connection for a while), and two nanos could well equal a bigger and better model.

So for anyone who’s wondering, I can confirm that yes, Akatoo does give real, legitimate prizes for its monthly promotions.