FreeiPods.com: What's The Deal Here?

Greeting's AntiOnline. I was curious as to whether or not to post this in either this forum or wireless security, but whatever.. Anyways, lately on almost EVERY message board I visit I see someone with a link in their signature to some FreeiPod.com website which is like a referal thing. So I got curious and checked it out and supposedly, it's NOT a scam or a hoax according to MANY people. Basically everyone has gotten their free iPod after referring so and so to the site or whatever.

My thing with it is I'm trying to figure out the WHOLE deal with it, what's it about, how do you go about it, is it even real, etc. Anybody have information on this?

Haha, I've tried it before, but you only get the ipod if you participate in things suchs as BMG and other things such as that. Im not quite too sure if you really got the ipod or not because I only filled out the information needed then when it came to the 3rd step of the sign up process the thing came up about participating in other things for you to be able to recive the ipod so I never tried it. Although I think that you probably will get the ipod....

-S3nate

Yeah, because according to virtually everyone on their message board as well as everyone else I've talked to, you actually DO get the iPods. If the other small stuff is like signing up at some other site as well then **** I'll do it for an iPod. Thanks for the information, anyone else with some added info?

Some articles on it along with video:

http://people.bu.edu/jbrock/ipod_analysis.htm
http://axi0n.home.comcast.net/fipnbc.wmv
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html

Oh.. and these things tend to be a US only deal. I remember when they gave away free computers.

yeah have spoken to one person who got her ipod through that - but she says that you do have to answer some survey - refer a certian numbr of people and sign up to some 3rd party deal - but according to her if you sign up with the 3rd party and then cancel befoire your trial period is up you still get your ipod :)

v_Ln

how old do u have to be to sign up for this?..id love to get a free ipod but im only 15

only two words here : PYRAMIDE GAME

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only two words here : PYRAMIDE GAME

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not really - completly different kinda scheme than a pyramid as you aint paying anything out. All your giving up is time to fill in their survey and look at their ads (as well as getting others to do the same)

ok you could end up paying for one of the 3rd party services that you must sign up for but if you cancel before end of trial you dont....but they make their money of those people who actually want to continue using whichever service they sign up for after trial - or those people who simply forget to cancel........like those free AOL hrs cd thingies ;)

v_Ln

val: Not true, you need to basically pay before you can try to cancel. As you signup (I checked for all of them, believe me) you give them your credit/payment information.

am sure that girl said there was one where although yes you did have to give over payment details you got like a free trial before they started charging - so if you cancelled durring trial they didn't charge you - but if you forgot to cancel they charged you automatically (which is what they're hoping for)

v_Ln

Ahh correct, in either case though I don't own a Visa or Mastercard. :(

haha same ;)

well i will tell yah later if i think it works because i am giving it a shot right now...lol never ever really trusted them but i have heard it works so i am given it a shot.

Heh, thanks man.. but you need a credit card in order to do it for the signups part with a sponsor. Then you need to refer 5 people to the program and they have to have a credit card as well. Quite alot to do, eh? Referring 5 people probably isn't hard, but ones that want to do it AND have a credit card AND signup for all that crap..?

I have tried their site because about a month and a half ago they had an e-bay promo, so i thought to myself -- hmmm, ebay, that is free... so i went for that one and i have yet to receive credit for the offer that i did AND they havn't send me a "validation e-mail" to make sure my e-mail address is valid.

if anyone does get a free ipod let me know how you do it so that i may replicate the process.

I just recently found out about this offer, and like others I thought it was too good to be true. There are little catches to getting you ipod, that if you don't pay close attention to you'll get screwed. Like the blockbuster deal for example, in order to get credit (to get your free ipod) you must stay on the free trail for the 2 weeks. So you are not able to cancel the trail for the sake you will not get credit, and if don't cancel your trail you will be charge. After seeing this little catch I started looking through all of the offers and I eventually found one that looks to be truly free which is the Ancestry.com. With this deal you are on a two week free trail (in which you do have to give them your credit card number). You will get instant credit towards getting you free ipod, which means you can cancel free trail anytime during it with out being charged. The catch is if you forget to cancel and your free trail runs out you will be charged a ridicules amount of money. So as long as you don't go brain dead you can get a free ipod. And make sure if you are going to sign up to go through some ones referral page (like mine, http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=11213851 ), because you have to sign up anyways you might as well go through some ones referral page. By the way Hotmail and AOL are blocking e-mails from the site.