 |
|
You are not logged in! F.A.Q Log in Register |
 |
|
 |
 Now online (1)big ...and 619 guests Last 5 registered Oplandisks nothingstar N_loop yipe foxtrotromeo Browse members... |
 |
Members 8025Messages 2614128 Today 0 Topics 127542 |
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Okay, I was really really skeptical about this too, but that geocities site seems genuine and I figure I have nothing to lose. You have to go to this freeipods.com site and sign up for one promotional offer (which you need a credit card for) and you need to refer five people to the site also, and they have to sign up for an offer, then you supposedly get a free ipod. I think it's real because the sponsors are not like "FREE SECURITY CAMERA!!!!," they're AOL and Columbia House and a few others. So I signed up for a free trial of AOL, which I will cancel in a week or so. Is anyone willing to do this? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Skeptical is the right word |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
so all i gotta do is get 5 friends with credit cards to sign in, sign out a week later, i receive an ipod, hmm |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I might be a total sucker. But I'm not paying for anything. Worst case scenario is I don't get a free iPod. Best case scenario is I do. Either way, I'm not paying for anything. Also, I just read that this is only valid in the US. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
^^^^^whats wrong with thuis picture? because of you that company has 5 credit card numbers that it can charge, think about it |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
the way they can do this, is because they sell your info on - see the Terms & agreements - "Only one account is allowed per shipping address. We do this to ensure quality leads for our advertisers.". |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Fine with me, it's a free iPod. And this isn't some sketchy company, it's AOL. I don't care if I get junk mail. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Sorry, this is a scam!!! I heard about it on NPR two weeks ago. THis is basiclly based around the" Bill Gates will pay you $100 dollars for every person you refer scam." You should be good if your credit card co. has fraud protection like mine does... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I agree with the others - anytime someone wants your creditcard info, you should be very careful. that geocities site could easily have been set up by freeipods.com themselves, how would you ever know. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
You're right, I wouldn't. But I didn't give my credit card info to freeipods.com, I only gave it to AOL. And AOL isn't a scam. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
have you ever been inside an AOL chatroom..? HA HA HA teh funnie!!! :P |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
total bs. the email addy that the geocities site gives in order to contact him, differs from the "conformation" email he receives from freeipod.scam.... also his page seems to have been put together with some care... so why would this guy go through all the trouble to help promote the so-called free-ipod deal?!?!?! If i were the guy, with a free ipod in hand,, i would cancell myh shit and be out! sorry... AND why doesn't he open it!?!?! because he is selling it on EBAY!!!! HA , yeah fucking right!!! he is returning it to the store he bought it from after the shoot... what a fucking joke. also check out his homepage, minus the freeipods.htm |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
let us know when you get your ipod or credit fraud warning either way. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
If anyone's gonna sign up, here's my referral link. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
it's just funny to me.. once it was pretty normal for people on the internet to try to keep their privacy - now people are selling theirs for a free iPod, and try to get 5 other people to do the same. they can keep selling your info over and over and over for years to come, getting MUCH more out of it than just the cost of an iPod. they can even sell your home-adress for "targeted promotions". (and what I read on other forums, you really do get a SHITload of spam..) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Yeah, I read that somewhere else also and I wish I would've used a junk email address. But what's done is done. And it looks like none of you guys are as idealistic as me :( |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
fuck anything where you get something for "free" in exchange for a credit card number |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i'd say something like "fuck ipods", but really i'm happy people are buying into them in a huge way because it means less heat on us disagreeable slskers... |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I regret doing this now. I can't imagine it will actually happen and I'm cancelling my retarded AOL subscription (at least I won't get charged). My first instinct was that this was too good to be true, and I should've stuck with it. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
too bad man, b ut the fact that these people can use your credit history and abuse it is not worth it...sorry. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
What does my credit history have to do with anything? You mean my credit card info or the actual history? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
this is disgusting. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
It's also says on the website as step 3: "3. We'll ship your order for free" I don't see anywhere that the ipods are free. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
1. www.freeipods.com and 2. "Choose your FREE iPod!" Where else does it not say that they are free? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ... fuck US - only |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i'm pretty sure this is real dudes. a couple of people i know on other messageboards have recieved their ipod... and here's an article from a relatively reliable source. and yeah, the way they do it is by having deals with all these other spammers, and businesses... but, it is legit. i created a trash gmail account to handle all the spam i'm going to get, and i did the free trial with ancestory.com (who i've been a member of before)... then i cancelled it immediately. it'd be super dope if one or two of you helped me out by clicking on and signed up too... but, i can totally understand if you don't want to fuck with it. I was completely skeptical too until a guy i fully respect showed pictures of his free ipod this morning. if anyone needs a junk email account i can send them a gmail invite too. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
fuck that, mr. Shope. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i didn't expect you to jump on my offer. :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I have a fly buzzing around my head. I have the feeling it wants to rape my face, but it just doesn't understand the concept of size and relation. how will your precious iPod-scheme help me now, mr. Shope!?? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
do they still ask for your creditcard number? if so, your home adress is a nice spam-station too. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
you could easilly smash that fly with your free ipod if you clicked my referral link. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
then I would have one of those fug-ugly iPods embedded in my face. you can go and click your own link, thankyouverymuch! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
freeipods.com does not ask for your credit card #. however, you have to complete one of their featured offers... some of those do ask for your CC#... some however do not, but the ones that do give you credit with freeipods.com immediately. and, i don't really care anyway. i don't give a shit about mail spam... i usually just unpackages it, write a nasty note on it, and send it back to the sender via their inclosed -no postage nessesary- mailer.... that gives me a smug sense of satisfaction. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah.. that'll stop em right in their tracks.. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i dunno... that could be kinda neat. like, that you be your schtick. hey, there's the guy with the built-in ipod forehead... boy, is he unique or what!?.. really ahead of the curve that guy is |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah. (if i had a creditcard) id never give my number out. even if you may or may not get something 'free'. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
this is genuine, i read about it in the paper today. but you have to get 5 friends to sign up to aol or some other service for a set time which won't be easy |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i hate this kind of offers coz i dont have credit card. ima racist. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i'm not trying to stop them... it just gives me something to do with my sad little existance. and, maybe it gives the 18 year old underpaid mail clerk at Bargin Mortgages Inc. a chuckle when he sees a big schlong drawn on a napkin inside their customer survey. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
hahahaah still havent got a bank account? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
sadly all the necessary ports are on the inside of his head, so he has to listen to that one mp3 of the Cheeky Girls "cheeky girls (touch my bum)" all day |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
sure it's easy... just click on my , friend. :) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
actually, i have one already. but its not that easy with credit cards here, i need to have / do / make something to have one, and i dont give a shit about it . |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
don't care about spam? how about getting 400 spam messages a day? take care of you email addys |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i would, if it was just a case of just clicking on a link! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i created a trash gmail account to handle all the spam i'm going to get, and i did the free trial with ancestory.com (who i've been a member of before)... then i cancelled it immediately. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
can't you like create email adresses and then sign in five times with fake info on your referral? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
you have to get 5 friends to sign up to a PAY service |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I tried to scam it by setting up a fake email/name and they caught me. My friend, however, succeeded. He hasn't received his ipod yet, but they say they're preparing to ship it. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Messageboard index
|
|||||||||
