With the e-mail addresses, isn't it true you can't have people with non-ISP email addresses, such as Yahoo or Hotmail?

With the e-mail addresses, isn't it true you can't have people with non-ISP email addresses, such as Yahoo or Hotmail?

A Hotmail one worked for me...EBay wouldn't accept a Yahoo email but I know Hotmail works there too.

LMAO - Flasoxx, if you marry her, you will become KING one day...

LMAO - Flasoxx, if you marry her, you will become KING one day...

That is my plan. natch. It will be GOOD TO BE THE KING. A King buys his own damn iPods!

might as well try the flatscreen one now, since you dont have to pay anything. i need 8 referrals

 

http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com/default.aspx?referer=7451191

 

if you dont know how to do this:

sign up for a yahoo mail account. then sign up for a scenekids email account http://scenekids.mail.everyone.net/email/s...enu.pl?user=new

then click on my link up above and enter your yahoo email address. fill out the stuff and just click no on the banner survey until its done. when it says to sign up for an offer, click the ebay one. sign up as a new user and for the email address use your scenekids one. be the highest bidder on an item, like a digital camera for a penny. you dont have to win the item, just have to be the highest bidder at one time. that should be it

From wired.com

 

ANother story, this time from money.msn.uk

Not exactly music to your ears

 

However, there are now fresh warnings over the offers on eBay and other auction sites promising hot technology items like Apple’s iPod for as little as £20. As that’s roughly just 5% of the normal retail price, warning bells should be ringing straight away. Remember what I’ve said before: if something looks too good to be true then it probably is!

 

In fact, what you are facing here is nothing more than an online pyramid scam. What happens when you pay your £20 is you get given a link to another site which is just a waiting list. When your name reaches the top of the list, that’s when you get your iPod.

 

Of course, most of these sites are just fakes and you have as much chance of reaching the top of the waiting list as I do of reaching the summit of Everest.

 

New legislation being drafted by the Department of Culture Media & Sport should outlaw such practice in the next Parliamentary year but could stumble over the fact that most of these sites are hosted on servers outside the UK.

 

Allowed yourself to be scammed this way and it is unlikely that you will have any recourse to the auction site you used. Three months ago the Office of Fair Trading unveiled its own guidelines to buying at auction on the internet. If you’re not sure of what you are getting yourself into, they are worth reading.

 

You’ll find them on the www.oft.gov.uk website

 

Bear in mind your rights as a buyer vary depending on whether you are buying from a private seller or a trader who is acting in the course of a business. You have much less legal protection if you are buying from a private seller.

Here's the meat of the matter from Tex's Wired link:

 

Kohm said matrix schemes appear to be classic pyramid schemes, in which victims are promised iPods or cell phones instead of the more usual cash.

 

Kohm noted that simple math shows these schemes cannot work. As the scheme grows, the number of new members needed to support it grows exponentially. The number of people needed to sustain the scheme would exceed the world population after about a dozen iterations. In practice, the schemes collapse much sooner than that, although early members sometimes get what's promised, Kohm said.

 

"You are always going to have more people who are not getting anything than those who are," he said. "Everybody's recruiting, but not everyone's going to get an iPod."

 

What are the chances that any one of you who found one of the free iPod or flatscreen sites found them within the first few iterations if eBay, the FTC, and the UK equivalent thereof are already aware of the schemes?

 

No thanks - I'm sticking with my Nigerian Princess-Orphan-Hottie with the massive bank account. Money in the bank, Brother.

well after 3 months i finally got my free iPod

well after 3 months i finally got my free iPod

Have you tried the new IPOD site from OfferCentric? It's just like Gratis's site, 5 referrals, you can even choose to be given cash via paypal. If you are interested in getting another IPOD use this link, it's just as legit as Gratis's site, I've already received a TV and IPOD from them and Digital Camera from OfferCentric. Take a look at it.

 

http://www.mp3players4free.com/default.aspx?r=33645