   GD.NET Lounge Investigative Reporting, Inc. Free Ipods? Help me find out.
It is imperative that you read through this entire post before clicking any links.This 'freeipods thing appears to be a legitimate effort by legitimate companies to advertise their products to us web nerds. To do this they draw people on the offer of a free iPod. The catch is, you have to complete an 'offer', and then get five friends to complete an 'offer' as well. Apparently, enough people sign up and don't get the required five friends that this becomes profitable for the advertisers.Should you decide to do this, why don't you help a fellow GD'net'er along toward their goal? Here's how this works. Scroll through the thread, and click the topmost referral link (that would include me, too!). Sign up for an account, and then complete an offer (discussed below).Once someone in this thread has received the required 5 referrals, they will remove their link, so the next person can get in on it. Feel free to post who you used as a reference, as well as your own referral link once you have joined.Offers. It appears that there are three offers that are easiest to do. The most lucrative (for us) is the eBay offer, since it doesn't require a credit card. Just sign up for ebay by following the link provided on the free ipod website. Using a domain-based email (eg: not free like gmail, yahoo or hotmail) you can skip the credit card process. Here things become foggy. Some people say you need to win a bid, some people say just bid low on something that is bound to go high. A few websites linked to below this information say do the second, so apparently it works.The second easiest, according to the internet, is the Ancestry.com offer. Just sign up, and then call to cancel your account a day or so later. See link below for more detailed information.The third easiest is AOL. According to all the sources I saw this requires no credit card. Just sign up for their offer, wait a few days, and then call and cancel to get out of it.: end updateSo, in this thread I expressed my insane desire to get my hands on an iPod. Well, someone suggested that I try out freeipods.com. Being suspicious, I checked out google, and found this site. Well now, things are looking a bit legit to me. Engadget also has an article on it.So here's my incredibly selfish idea. I've already signed up for ebay, and I'm going to bid on a cheap old game, or something (I'll play it safe and win it). If five people from here would be so kind as to use my referral link below, I would be like, incredibly grateful. Note: you have to use IE6 to use their site. Sucks, I know, I already tried with Firefox but it didn't work. [sad].If I get an iPod I'll post six gazillion pictures of it (and of me with it! OOOOH GEE WIZZ WOW!!!!), so everyone can be jealous. Wadda ya say, help me get an iPod for free, so I can still upgrade my computer to play Doom?I think the easiest offer to complete would be the eBay one, since you don't need a credit card and it's rumored that you don't even have to win an item, you just have to bid and hold top position for more than five seconds, or something.As of this moment, this is what I have done.- Signed up for an account at freeipods.com- Went into my account on freeipods.com and had them send a confirmation email to my gmail account. Email was filtered to spam folder, so watch that.- Started the sign up for ebay, (had to use a domain account, since gmail required a credit card)- Bid a dollar on a copy of max payne 2 for PC. If I loose, I loose, if I win, well, I get a game I want for a buck. :)Let's see if this is really a scam or not! Heh.[Edited by - Katta on July 26, 2004 11:01:27 PM]
  The eBay offer is certainly the best, but if you already have an account, I've heard that the ancestry.com offer is also pretty easy. You do have to use a CC, but you can just call their call center and cancel your account the next day or something.EDIT: Does it sound like I'm sitewhoring? Because if it sounds like I'm sitewhoring I'll shut up.   ;  Ebay doesn't let you have duplicate accounts? I signed up again using the exact same information (sans the email) that I did for my other, primary account.   ;  Oh, well.Damn.;  Please, some people use me as a rererrer, too! We all need five in total! LINK!;Quote:Original post by PixolMasterPlease, some people use me as a rererrer, too! We all need five in total! LINK!Har.to Katta, sorry I didn't use your link (you put it on the bottom, and your freeipods.com link on the top is not your referral link), I saw it after I already register >_<   ;  If a friend and I both have account, will we both be able to help eachother?   ;  for those of us who don't want to sign up yet, can someone explain how it works? You sign up and get 5 referrals?EDIT: I've found out how it works now, so here's an explanation.You get a referal link from someone already on the offer. To actually give them credit for the refer, you have to sign up.This involves putting in your details, name, email, address and so on. Then comes the crunch. You have to also sign up for one of their "partners". This for example includes ancestry.com. You sign up for that, then your freeipods register is complete and you're ready to get referals yourself. The reason it's free is because you can then cancel the ancestry.com subscription (incurring no net fee) and keep your freeipods register.Seems dodgy, but I think I'll try it.[Edited by - baldurk on July 26, 2004 4:03:00 AM];  Well, I have one refferal! Only four more to go.Quote:to Katta, sorry I didn't use your link (you put it on the bottom, and your freeipods.com link on the top is not your referral link), I saw it after I already register >_<Heh, oversight on my part. It is most definetly fixed now.Quote:If a friend and I both have account, will we both be able to help eachother?I don't think so, you kind of have to get new people to sign up.   ;  arggh I dont live in the U.S!!!Do u think theres any way i can get around this, maybe by giving them an address in the states?I'd sign up under someone's referall id ff they gave me a US address to use which they could collect mail from (I dunno, maybe an older siblings house or something lie that - In fact one thing that might work would be a slightly different spelling of your name and your next door neighbours adress.  Since I'm currently working for the postal service over here I know that letters and parcels like that always go to the correct house i.e yours!!! and even if it didnt your neighbours would think there had been a mistake and pop it over to you!!!) then you could post the ipod to me in the UK - I'd pay shipping and all.What do you think?Anyone wanna help me out on this?Ta   