the quality of that picture is too horrible to be chopped. geez...spend the money you saved on a new camera...
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: imthebadguy
so i got my free ipod from the site that were not supposed to talk about right and i open it today....mind you i sold my 3g ipod a week ago, now i look on the back and there is "freeipods.com" engraved on the back on this thing.....AHHH i dont want it anymore!@!@!
EDIT: ok i do kinda want it but im just pissedand ill put up pics tonite
EDIT2: OK PICS ARE UP(MY CAM SUCKS BUT U CAN STILL MAKE IT OUT)
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What are you whining about? You got a free iPod.
Did you expect them to engrave Your name on it? They obviously did this to prevent sales on ebay.
Just enjoy the FREE toy and quit whining. If you don't like it, send it to me.
You could still sell it on ebay. I mean its yours. Who cares whats written on it.
FelixDeCat
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IPod Promoters Feel the Heat
By Leander Kahney
Sep. 23, 2004 PT
In the last several weeks, [website] has become more associated with spam and delays than free iPods, but the company claims it is sending out more music players than ever.
In August, Wired News reported that [website] is a new marketing scheme that rewards subscribers to various online offers with a free MP3 player.
[website] is one of several "customer acquisition" websites run by Gratis Internet of Washington, D.C. To get a free iPod, subscribers must sign up for various online promotions and persuade five other people to join up as well.
Subscribers are given a choice of about 10 different offers, including trials of The New York Times, America Online or Boca Java's coffee club. The offers are typically free and easily canceled, the site claims.
Once the trials are over -- for both the main subscriber and their referrals -- the free iPod is dispatched.
However, Wired News has been inundated with complaints about spam, mishandled accounts and shipping delays.
Earlier this month, Jim Youll, a 39-year-old CTO from Cambridge, Massachusetts, signed up with a virgin e-mail address and within hours started receiving spam.
"This is not an encouraging trend," he said, "and these are not targeted ads. They are garden-variety junk spams."
Aaron Shier, a 19-year-old student from Hamilton, New York, sent numerous unanswered queries to the company while waiting nearly 40 days to receive his iPod. When he did get it, it was from Hewlett-Packard, not the Apple Computer one he ordered.
"I am still getting spammed and so are the people who signed up for me," he said. "They stay true to their word that they will get you out a product, but their customer service is miserable."
"The terms and conditions are absolutely incredible," said Richard Strauss, who investigated the site before signing up. Strauss said the contract allows Gratis to substitute products, ignore complaints and change the number of required referrals.
"In other words, they can pretty much do, or not do, anything they feel like doing," he said. "Pretty amazing."
There are several records of complaints against Gratis Internet and its affiliate websites with the Better Business Bureau of Washington, D.C., but they are all listed as resolved.
A spokeswoman said the bureau has received about 30 complaints about the company, but was unable to elaborate. She said to her knowledge, all the complaints had been addressed.
As well as [website], Gratis Internet is also behind [website], [website] and [website]. The company recently launched [website] and is planning to introduce a couple of similar sites in the next few days.
Gratis is run by co-founders Peter Martin and Rob Jewell. In a joint interview, the pair admitted there have been problems, but said they are victims of their own success -- they're swamped.
"Things have been going really well," said Martin. "We're continuing to grow and we're shipping out more and more iPods.... We're trying to play catchup with all this success"
Martin and Jewell said between 100,000 and 150,000 people have signed up for [website] since August. To date, they have dispatched more than 4,000 free iPods, and another 1,000 are pending, they said.
Martin and Jewell admitted there have been shipping delays, but said they were caused by Apple's problems manufacturing enough iPods to satisfy demand.
"The wait is 100 percent due to Apple's manufacturing," said Martin. "Apple is on back order. The delay is three weeks plus. They sit in the queue and when it gets to the vendor, it goes out the door."
Martin said subscribers are advised to switch to Hewlett-Packard's iPod instead, since they are in better supply.
"If it was up to us, we'd ship them out tomorrow," said Jewell. "We want to get these iPods in users' hands. It hurts us to get them out slow."
As for spamming, the pair claimed users are not spammed, but do receive a small number of messages from select parties.
"We do withhold the right to send some marketing messages to our users," said Jewell. "It's not high volume and it's not a big source of revenue for us.... It's something we're upfront and clear about. We warn our users they may get some messages from our marketing partners."
The warning, Jewell said, is in the site's 900-word terms and conditions.
Martin and Jewell claimed the content and volume of the messages are within Truste's privacy guidelines. [website] is certified by Truste and supposedly adheres to the organization's privacy standards.
Martin and Jewell denied e-mail addresses are sold to third parties, and said there's a clear unsubscribe mechanism for opting out of their marketing list. (Wired News received complaints that the unsubscribe mechanism doesn't work.) :laugh:
After the interview, Martin and Jewell said they will discontinue sending marketing e-mails.
"We are suspending all marketing via email to our customers, and wanted to make sure you knew this was an important and sensitive issue for us," Martin wrote in an e-mail. "Sending promotions to users is a fairly standard practice for many industries, as an additional source of revenue, but we definitely want to continue to spread a positive and trustworthy image of our company down the road."
Martin and Jewell said they've had their own share of problems with users trying to cheat the system or complaining unfairly when they have failed to fulfill the offers' requirements.
Not everyone is unhappy with [website]. Wired News got several notes from readers saying they'd earned and received a free iPod or flat-screen monitor.
And George Wedding of Elk Grove, California, said although he failed to find enough referrals to qualify for an iPod, he was happy nonetheless with his free trial of Blockbuster's on-demand movies.
"So far, no friends have signed up, and all have expressed that it sounds too much like a pyramid scheme," he said. "At least we are very happy with the Blockbuster service."
---------------
By Leander Kahney
Sep. 23, 2004 PT
In the last several weeks, [website] has become more associated with spam and delays than free iPods, but the company claims it is sending out more music players than ever.
In August, Wired News reported that [website] is a new marketing scheme that rewards subscribers to various online offers with a free MP3 player.
[website] is one of several "customer acquisition" websites run by Gratis Internet of Washington, D.C. To get a free iPod, subscribers must sign up for various online promotions and persuade five other people to join up as well.
Subscribers are given a choice of about 10 different offers, including trials of The New York Times, America Online or Boca Java's coffee club. The offers are typically free and easily canceled, the site claims.
Once the trials are over -- for both the main subscriber and their referrals -- the free iPod is dispatched.
However, Wired News has been inundated with complaints about spam, mishandled accounts and shipping delays.
Earlier this month, Jim Youll, a 39-year-old CTO from Cambridge, Massachusetts, signed up with a virgin e-mail address and within hours started receiving spam.
"This is not an encouraging trend," he said, "and these are not targeted ads. They are garden-variety junk spams."
Aaron Shier, a 19-year-old student from Hamilton, New York, sent numerous unanswered queries to the company while waiting nearly 40 days to receive his iPod. When he did get it, it was from Hewlett-Packard, not the Apple Computer one he ordered.
"I am still getting spammed and so are the people who signed up for me," he said. "They stay true to their word that they will get you out a product, but their customer service is miserable."
"The terms and conditions are absolutely incredible," said Richard Strauss, who investigated the site before signing up. Strauss said the contract allows Gratis to substitute products, ignore complaints and change the number of required referrals.
"In other words, they can pretty much do, or not do, anything they feel like doing," he said. "Pretty amazing."
There are several records of complaints against Gratis Internet and its affiliate websites with the Better Business Bureau of Washington, D.C., but they are all listed as resolved.
A spokeswoman said the bureau has received about 30 complaints about the company, but was unable to elaborate. She said to her knowledge, all the complaints had been addressed.
As well as [website], Gratis Internet is also behind [website], [website] and [website]. The company recently launched [website] and is planning to introduce a couple of similar sites in the next few days.
Gratis is run by co-founders Peter Martin and Rob Jewell. In a joint interview, the pair admitted there have been problems, but said they are victims of their own success -- they're swamped.
"Things have been going really well," said Martin. "We're continuing to grow and we're shipping out more and more iPods.... We're trying to play catchup with all this success"
Martin and Jewell said between 100,000 and 150,000 people have signed up for [website] since August. To date, they have dispatched more than 4,000 free iPods, and another 1,000 are pending, they said.
Martin and Jewell admitted there have been shipping delays, but said they were caused by Apple's problems manufacturing enough iPods to satisfy demand.
"The wait is 100 percent due to Apple's manufacturing," said Martin. "Apple is on back order. The delay is three weeks plus. They sit in the queue and when it gets to the vendor, it goes out the door."
Martin said subscribers are advised to switch to Hewlett-Packard's iPod instead, since they are in better supply.
"If it was up to us, we'd ship them out tomorrow," said Jewell. "We want to get these iPods in users' hands. It hurts us to get them out slow."
As for spamming, the pair claimed users are not spammed, but do receive a small number of messages from select parties.
"We do withhold the right to send some marketing messages to our users," said Jewell. "It's not high volume and it's not a big source of revenue for us.... It's something we're upfront and clear about. We warn our users they may get some messages from our marketing partners."
The warning, Jewell said, is in the site's 900-word terms and conditions.
Martin and Jewell claimed the content and volume of the messages are within Truste's privacy guidelines. [website] is certified by Truste and supposedly adheres to the organization's privacy standards.
Martin and Jewell denied e-mail addresses are sold to third parties, and said there's a clear unsubscribe mechanism for opting out of their marketing list. (Wired News received complaints that the unsubscribe mechanism doesn't work.) :laugh:
After the interview, Martin and Jewell said they will discontinue sending marketing e-mails.
"We are suspending all marketing via email to our customers, and wanted to make sure you knew this was an important and sensitive issue for us," Martin wrote in an e-mail. "Sending promotions to users is a fairly standard practice for many industries, as an additional source of revenue, but we definitely want to continue to spread a positive and trustworthy image of our company down the road."
Martin and Jewell said they've had their own share of problems with users trying to cheat the system or complaining unfairly when they have failed to fulfill the offers' requirements.
Not everyone is unhappy with [website]. Wired News got several notes from readers saying they'd earned and received a free iPod or flat-screen monitor.
And George Wedding of Elk Grove, California, said although he failed to find enough referrals to qualify for an iPod, he was happy nonetheless with his free trial of Blockbuster's on-demand movies.
"So far, no friends have signed up, and all have expressed that it sounds too much like a pyramid scheme," he said. "At least we are very happy with the Blockbuster service."
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That was back when NOBODY could get an iPod - they were all abckordered for months. Even payign customers couldnt get them in a timely manner. Really had nothing to do with freeipods. Terrible journalism.
rocadelpunk
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- Jul 23, 2001
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wow people bitching about getting free items..wow.
no $hit you're gonna get spam, that's why you have a spam e-mail account.
the hp ipod was given as an option to switch to, at the time their current shipper e-cost was sooooo slow and wasn't getting orders out at all, so they got another vendor hp to help offset the slow shipping of ecost.
within the last couple of weeks they've cancelled all the orders with ecost and hp and are now just dealing directly with apple and are shipping orders at a very fast rate.
yes they do have quite an "unfair" terms that allows them to do anything pretty much, even after you get your ipod, but it's mostly there for people who cheat/try to cheat or don't read the requirements to begin with.
i get spam with just about anything i sign up for on the internet nowadays...hence you have a spam account. and wow the hp ipod is identical to the apple, except it has a better warrenty...that poor baby.
I honestly don't see the big deal, i got my ipod, i got 5 people i knew on the internet who i'm friends with to do offers... it takes like 10 min, you sign up for aol or some other free offer and cancel a week or two later..not that big of a deal. It's the same as the aol disks you get in the mail..::shrug::
it is a pyramid scheme, but there are new websites that pop up and are legit because the business model works.
and waiting 40 days is nothing, i and a lot of others waited 2 months. they state anyway when you order to expect 4-6 weeks till you get it.
Ok lemme get this straight... do they send tons of spam to your home address? Also what would be the best (as in free) sign up be? They say you need to stay a member for 2 weeks which blockbuster would charge you 17.50 then.
i got my free ipod a couple of weeks ago ...i haven't received any spam from them tho, wonder what determines if you receive spam or not from them...
...i haven't received any spam from them tho, wonder what determines if you receive spam or not from them...
rocadelpunk
Diamond Member
- Jul 23, 2001
- 5,589
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i had began my ipod hunt in july and have not gotten anything in the mail and I haven't even gotten that much spam in my account if any..I do get e-mails from like aol/ebay, but i had originally signed up for those places ::shrug:: not like i check that e-mail account anyway.
they are all easy to sign up for/cancel, just choose one you'd actually might like.
i generally tell people to do the aol one(s) b/c you have so much time to cancel in case you forget.
they are all easy to sign up for/cancel, just choose one you'd actually might like.
i generally tell people to do the aol one(s) b/c you have so much time to cancel in case you forget.
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