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(9/19/04 5:54 pm)
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the only true scam
Scam on THEM, not you silly... read on. It's not for everybody, but it IS legit. I know this because two people I know have gotten brand new 20 gb ones.
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How to get a free 4gb iPod mini, or 20 gb iPod 4th generation in 2 weeks:
1. read this guide in its ENTIRETY before starting
2. Click here www.freeiPods.com/default...er=8736095
and sign up.
3. Click "NO" to the 11 mini-offer questions which pop up. Then when it give you the choices of the offers you must pick one of, pick the aol.com 2 month free trial offer. You will need a credit card to sign up for the trial offer, but they are an established reputable company that I've worked with before, for Google Answers researching, and will honor your free trial cancellation request. It is the easiest offer to cancel, and you assume NO risk unlike some of the other offers such as the 5 DVDs for $.49. Alternatively if you need a credit card, you can sign up for a GM Card with no annual fee, or a Citi Platinum Card if you're a college student. I already have enough credit cards so I just did the aol.com one. note: if you do one of the credit card signups you will assume no financial risk, but I hear carrying many credit cards may impact your personal credit rating
4. Send the offer to 5 friends who are willing to go through this same process. Alternately you can use the referral link that they give you to send to friends through IM/email/etc. like the way I did above. This is a pyramid-type marketing strategy which makes money on the fact that not everybody is going to find 5 people to propagate offers too so they'll never collect their reward. This would be an added risk to people signing up IF they didn't have an offer which you could cancel without risk (i.e. the aol.com offer). Because you can cancel without risk, you don't have to worry about actually paying for anything as long as you remember to cancel (see next step). Or you could have just signed up for a credit card if you didn't have one or wanted another (see above). You can only receive ONE iPod maximum, so when I receive 5 people with confirmed offer acceptances (you can see how many more you need to be done) I will be changing/removing my referral link.
5. In 5 days, or whenever you see that your offer acceptance has been marked successful call aol.com and cancel your account.
6. In about 3 days, they should have processed your aol.com offer, or in about 2 weeks if you chose a credit card. Add in the time that it takes you to get 5 friends to do the same (let's say a week) and you should have one ready to be shipped in 2 weeks. They say 1-2 weeks for shipping, but let's assume the worst, that brings us to 4 weeks. Enjoy your iPod, you didn't deserve it, but you got one anyways.
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For the skeptics in the group, I've already done my homework on the company behind this. I pulled Gratis Internet's Dun and Bradstreet report (their financial ranking report and history which is pretty expensive to get) because it's what my company does, and they've been in business for 4 years. They're in the business of "innovative internet advertising" and this is their latest. They've established about $55,000 of credit with various companies (Dell, etc.) over the course of the last 4 years which has been (this is the important part) being repayed in full, on-time to a maximum 8 days late (VERY good ranking for businesses as the industry standard for advertising companies is 9 days). They have no open or closed suits, liens, or judgements against them, meaning nobody's ever had a reason to sue them or bring them to court over late/missing payments. All-in-all they're ranked positively, and the D&B report is one of the most positive you can get on a company. So they're legit, and this is a bonafide marketing tool.
That said, if you choose to sign up, you carry the risk of $20 charged to your credit card if you forget to cancel your aol.com account within the 2 months, which is more than enough time. You also risk damaging your personal credit history if you have like 9 credit cards already and decide to go the route of opening another. However if you follow the guide above step by step, you should have 0 problems, and the worst that could happen is that this company gets a bit richer from all the kickbacks they're receiving from their partners like ancestry.com and you're one iPod richer. Please note, do not use any fake information in any part of this process as you will jeopardize your iPod and the referrer you're under. Ask any questions you have, and if you decide to copy/paste this guide to another forum to get your 5, strip out my referrer id and also the part about the D&B reports. Remember it doesn't to any good to get more than 5 people to use your referral id because it's one iPod per household, so don't go spamming this crap to everybody you know.
For you final nay-sayers, a news article I found with more backup that this is legit:
www.engadget.com/entry/1771223899144212/
Thanks for your help and good luck on getting yours
www.freeiPods.com/default...er=8736095
ps.. two guys at my college (university of hawaii) already got theirs... its free shipping even out to here... Good luck
also check out:
www.FreeFlatScreens.com/d...er=9026707
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