[Grimey2]

Are those links bogus? Can you actually get a free ipod? I know its a scam, but its sooo tempting. Can you *reverse scam* them?

here is the link to the one i'm thinking about free ipods *link deleted*


If this does work, I want to know how. I would like to make money giving stuff away.


Found a geek.com article seems to be down, here is the google cache

wired.com article, says its not a scam.

Has anyone got one yet? Or is it just a :nuts:

 

[blue]

It's legal and you can get one if you jump through every hoop just right. It may also take you damn near forever...

 

[Toshi]

you will get one if you whore yourself out and piss off everyone you know by spamming referral links everywhere, and signing up for offers that turn out to not be free after all. don't do it.

 

[-dustin]

it's not a scam.

 

[Grimey2]

i'm just wondering if information is that in demand, that the parent company makes enough off of 5peoples personal info to give away a $200 product

 

[Handlebarsfsr]

i'm just wondering if information is that in demand, that the parent company makes enough off of 5peoples personal info to give away a $200 product

they dont. its a scam. we used to run a similar thing in a music store i worked for. we offered free magazine subscriptions. what we didnt tell people was that their credit card information was taken, sent to the mag company and any other company that wanted their address. the mag company then was able to charge them for the magazines, and often times, would continually add charges to the card, even after you initially canceled the magazine. oftentimes they would continually bill for months, even years after the initial cancellation. these companies do the same. NOTHING IS EVER FREE.

 

[Echo]

It's not free. You have to sign up for one of their "offers" which are not free. Then 5 of your friends have to sign up for one of their "offers", at which point you get your ipod.

I can't believe this doesn't fall under an illegal multi-level marketing scheme. by the time you're 10 levels into this scheme, 48 million people need to sign up for an offer.

 

[I Are Baboon]

Interesting way to sneak your spam on us, Grimey2 (your link has your account number in it). I've seen other people post the same oh-so-innocent question on other forum sites too. But since you are just asking the question to satisfy your curiosity, you won't mind if I delete your link...

 

[binary visions]

People who support these kind of retarded pyramid schemes piss me off.

Sure, you can get a free product. And in return for that, you get put on a dozen mailing lists, you get your friends and family put on those mailing lists, and the net result is that the company only has to give away a handful of these things due to the number of people who only jump through half the hoops, which means the company just gets a bunch of free mailing list addresses and one or two subscriptions.

Anyone who signs up for these stupid schemes deserves a huge :nuts: and a slap upside the head.

 

[jacksonpt]

Anyone who signs up for these stupid schemes deserves a huge :nuts: and a slap upside the head.

um..... uh....

*casually walks away from BV*

 

[binary visions]

um..... uh....

*casually walks away from BV*

Ahem.

*dashes off after jackson*

 

[-dustin]

People who support these kind of retarded pyramid schemes piss me off.

it's not affecting you unless you sign up. so why get pissed off?

 

[binary visions]

it's not affecting you unless you sign up. so why get pissed off?

*sigh*

Haven't you people learned yet that I'm melodramatic in my posts?

It doesn't really piss me off. Just bugs me that people think they can get something for nothing. There's always a price, and in this case, it's the person's family and friends who have to deal with the mailbox spam and subscription requests that they don't want, so that the person just might be able to accrue enough subscriptions to get their "free" toy.

 

[-dustin]

well that's why you offer a g-mail account. Handlebarfsr's deal sounds a bit more shady than the Free___. the Blockbuster Online promotion is pretty sweet. still have a movie i 'rented' in November. truely, no late fees.

 

[Echo]

You know you can get an mp3 player from ebay for less than the cost of one of those "offers", and you don't have to sell out all your friends in the process. So what if it doesn't say iPod on it, it plays mp3 files.

 

[binary visions]

well that's why you offer a g-mail account. Handlebarfsr's deal sounds a bit more shady than the Free___. the Blockbuster Online promotion is pretty sweet. still have a movie i 'rented' in November. truely, no late fees.

So.. uhh.. what's your point again?

With Gmail, you pay by having a sidebar of stupid advertising. But at least I know it ends when I log out of my account, rather than following me to my mailbox. Blockbuster isn't free either.

 

[jacksonpt]

You know you can get an mp3 player from ebay for less than the cost of one of those "offers", and you don't have to sell out all your friends in the process. So what if it doesn't say iPod on it, it plays mp3 files.

3 words for ya...

"free"
and
"the Jonses"

 

[-dustin]

So.. uhh.. what's your point again?

With Gmail, you pay by having a sidebar of stupid advertising. But at least I know it ends when I log out of my account, rather than following me to my mailbox. Blockbuster isn't free either.

i don't know what you mean by "sidebar advertising", because RM has more advertising on a page than Gmail does.

the blockbuster promotion didn't cost me anything. i guess i'm special.

 

[binary visions]

i don't know what you mean by "sidebar advertising", because RM has more advertising on a page than Gmail does.

the blockbuster promotion didn't cost me anything. i guess i'm special.

Yep, Ridemonkey isn't free either. You pay for it with advertising.

I don't know anything about the Blockbuster promotion. Link?

 

[Jr_Bullit]

i'm just wondering if information is that in demand, that the parent company makes enough off of 5peoples personal info to give away a $200 product

Think of it this way - companies can't legally send you spam email anymore unless you voluntarily give them information and agree to accept their spam. So - they need to datamine for your permission - giving things away is about the only way people will voluntarily hand over their email addresses, phone numbers, or personal information.

So - ya, in the end they do make money, because for every person who clicks that link and enters some of their personal information, they get that much more of a chance of selling you something worthless in the future.

 

[Handlebarsfsr]

well that's why you offer a g-mail account. Handlebarfsr's deal sounds a bit more shady than the Free___. the Blockbuster Online promotion is pretty sweet. still have a movie i 'rented' in November. truely, no late fees.

almost every one of the "free" promotions you have to sign up for (and your friends/family) require your credit card number, or require you to let them ship you something. either way, they then are able to bill you incessantly for their products.

 

[oly]

well that's why you offer a g-mail account. Handlebarfsr's deal sounds a bit more shady than the Free___. the Blockbuster Online promotion is pretty sweet. still have a movie i 'rented' in November. truely, no late fees.

I saw on the news thet there is some fee in that deal, and BB has to now return some $$ to those they charged.

 

[Toshi]

I saw on the news thet there is some fee in that deal, and BB has to now return some $$ to those they charged.

blockbuster actually has two programs. one is like netflix, where you get a set number of dvds out to you which you can keep for any length of time.

the other is like a traditional rental, only instead of late fees you get charged for the FULL PURCHASE PRICE of the movie after 7 days or somesuch. they got busted for advertising the second program as having "no late fees" :nuts:

 

[-dustin]

but the full purchase price is refunded once you return the movie, if i remember correctly.