Newsgroup: it.comp.macintosh
Titolo: Free iPod from Gratis Corporation

Instructions:
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Some basic requirements
You must live in the U.S. 
You need to be 18 or older 
You may need a credit card, phone bill, or checking account.
To receive your iPod
Go to the FreeiPods website 
(
http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8105814
) and put in an 
email and mailing address (for them to send the iPod to) 
There's a marketing survey.  You can respond NO to all of them if you 
wish.  Make sure you have verified your email address. If you did not 
receive an email go to the My Account page and click the link to send the 
verification email. (There have been problems reported using Hotmail and 
MSN addresses becaue they may consider the verification email as spam).
Create a temporary email account if necessary at Yahoo!, Walla.com, or 
gmail.com
. 
Sign up with one of their partners and complete an offer. Skip down to 
see instructions on the different options for completing offers. (It can 
take up to a few days for the offer completion status to reflect on your 
account) 
Refer 5 friends and have them complete 1 of the offers each 
Wait for your iPod to ship :=)
When signing up and completing offers, always use Internet Explorer. 
FreeiPods is not compatible with Firefox, or any other browser (to my 
knowledge). Sorry guys, thats just the way it is. [NOTE: There have been 
reports that the site is now functioning properly with Firefox. Your 
mileage may vary!] [NOTE 2: I recently received an email from someone who 
referred a pair of friends who used Opera. They signed up for an offer 
but did not get credit because of their browser. Word to the wise: USE 
IE!] 
RealRhapsody is a new offer on FreeiPods.com and FreeFlatScreens.com and 
many users have found it to be an easy-to-complete and useful service. 
From a senior Gratis representative: Due to suspicion of frauding the 
ebay offer, Gratis Internet has had to pull the eBay offer down. It is 
unclear right now whether or not this offer will come back any time soon. 
Please try one of the other offers listed on the site... and remember 
only try the one(s) you are seriously interested in trying. Gratis 
Internet will go away if enough people are not really interested in the 
advertisers and just cancel right away... 
Options:
Note: These offers require a Credit Card to complete. 
AOL w/ MusicNet: Sign up for their 45 day free trial. If you are not 
satisfied, you are charged nothing. 
Ancestry.com: Sign up for their 14 day free trial. If you are not 
satisfied, you are charged nothing. 
Video Professor: This costs $7 or so. It is also a risk-free trial. 
RealRhapsody: This costs $1. It is also a risk-free trial. 
There are a number of other options. Choose the one you are most 
interested in! 
If you do not wish to share your credit card, there are options 
available. Many banks will sell you "charged" cards that have a certain 
amount of funds on them. Additionally, PayPal Premium Business customers 
may use a "Virtual Credit Card" to register for one of the above, and 
then cancel it right afterwards.
Proof the site is not a scam:
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Below are articles that states the site is legitimate.
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp
?
Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/08/04
&ID=Ar00501
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1771223899144212/
http://www.dc.bbb.org/report.html?compid=W1035561&national=Y
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2

 You must live in the U.S. 
;-P
-- 
me