FreeIpods.com Not A Scam • Non-Gaming • Apple, Mac, and iPod • Eurogamer.net

Whizzo 23 Sep 2004 00:40:35 44,810 posts
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Just watched a Newsnight report on the advertising scheme that revolves around [link=http://www.freeipods.com/">FreeIpods.com and it's perfectly legit and there's even a sister site

Khab 23 Sep 2004 00:42:30 6,583 posts
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So, er, if I had an addy in the US I could ship to this would work?

Whizzo 23 Sep 2004 00:43:45 44,810 posts
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If you've got a US address to send to I should imagine it would work.

Khab 23 Sep 2004 00:44:04 6,583 posts
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/comes

Khab 23 Sep 2004 00:44:38 6,583 posts
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No, I mean, what does one have to do to get it? It seems insane that it would work?

Whizzo 23 Sep 2004 00:48:13 44,810 posts
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For full details of how it works look here, I thought I'd delete my ramblings as this is much better.

Edited by Whizzo at 23:50:19 22-09-2004

Khab 23 Sep 2004 00:50:03 6,583 posts
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Yep, that it would be, but if I get a free iPod and all anyone has to suffer is some more spam.... fuckin' AYE!

Whizzo 23 Sep 2004 00:53:24 44,810 posts
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There's some instructions in how to get an Ipod without doing too much here, pity it's US only.

Khab 23 Sep 2004 00:56:32 6,583 posts
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Aaaaah... you'll need five US mates. Feck.

Lucky tested the waters with doofus info...:/

MrWorf 23 Sep 2004 01:03:33 64,193 posts
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Do it and be as happy as these guys!

LOL

Foregone-Reality 23 Sep 2004 01:05:30 2,216 posts
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Razz wrote:
Do it and be as happy as these guys!

LOL

Guy on Right reminds me of the guy who used to pick on Sweetchuck in Police Academy.

..What was his name?

Khab 23 Sep 2004 01:06:29 6,583 posts
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We should get BGiE to set this up for us, and then post 'em over here.

Mike_Hunt 23 Sep 2004 01:54:06 23,524 posts
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Khab wrote:
We should get BGiE to set this up for us, and then post 'em over here.

Slight flaw.

The person in the US needs to have friends.

[MH]

terminalterror 6 Oct 2005 19:26:01 18,932 posts
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Its your basic pyramid scheme, but because instead of scamming the people in each succesive layer by making them pay for the layer above, it scams the companies running the affiliate schemes which all the people sign up to and then cancel, but they still payout affiliate money which then funds the ipods. So because you are scamming AOL (for example) instead the people below you its all OK

Just like all pyramid schemes, it stops pretty fast as you need the following numbers of people per layer if each person needs 5 referrals to get their ipod:

5
25
125
625
3,125
15,625
78,125
390,625
1,953,125
9,775,625
48,828,125
244,140,625
1,220,703,125
6,103,515,625

It doesn't take long to require every person on the earth to sign up for only 1/5th of them to get iPods. Obviously it runs out far quicker than that.

mashcrash 24 Oct 2005 23:25:11 3 posts
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I don't think they are a scam but you will get loaded with spam and have to start trials of lots of services requiring your credit card number... and if you don't cancle (hard to do sometimes) you start paying for those services.

otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
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Pyramid scheme, surely?

otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
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Razz wrote:
Do it and be as happy as these guys!

LOL

Is Kevin the one with the pearl necklace? Or is it John?

Furbs 14 Jun 2007 22:45:51 45,740 posts
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Shall we all laugh at Whizzo?