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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Deepblue on January 28, 2005, 08:40:25 pm
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I am not sure if this forum allows this but:
The following links to an offer where you can earn a free gift by completing one offer listed and referring other people to this offer (if they complete one offer as well):
@Admins: If this sort of thing is not allowed go ahead and kill it.
How it works:
1. Complete just 1 offer.
2. Refer 10 of your friends to signup and complete 1 offer.
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Link:
http://www.pvps4free.com/default.aspx?r=200779
EDIT: Link fixed.
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Screw that. Pyramid Scheme.
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also, your link is http:///
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Reminds me of when my friend wanted to add my e-mail to "freepointsandgetstuff.com" or something. I told him to **** off basically, he assured me I wouldn't get spam. I told him if I didn't want to e-mail, it was spam...he told me it was the points.
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Do you know anyone who actually got the free gift, DeepBlue?
It´s a scam.
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I bet you found this in a spam email, diddnt you?
I get **** like this all the time like....
free laptop!!!
free IPOD
free computer here
contact your creditors now
the **** goes on and on.....
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I need to find some way to electrocute spammers....
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send them a virus that short curcuits their computer.
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do your ten friends also have get ten friends to sign before getting the gift?
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
do your ten friends also have get ten friends to sign before getting the gift?
Yes, that's how it works. And when the offer is over, there are more generations cascaded than the amount of people who got their gifts. I once was naive enough to see if it worked. I got a brand new Athlon T-Bird 900MHz cpu, except by the time I got it, I was already using a 2100+, and the CPU cost less by then than the offer required to get it was... AND IT WAS DOA!!
Its always a scam.
Added the quote to prevent confusion. // Sandwich
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Actually, some of those ipod4free type sites are indeed legit. Where I work, a potential customer's email address is worth actual money. By keeping in contact with said customer(s), offering special discounts, bringing certain items they may be interested in to their attention, you end up with a conversion ratio of about 20:1. Twenty people (who are indeed in the general market for the types of things you deal with) read an email, one of those people buys something.
With honest companies (like the one I work for), it's really not spam. I maintain the email list, and we do indeed have proper "Click here to unsubscribe" links on all our emails. Heck, we're still small-scale enough that I can deal personally with the morons who don't click on that link but instead email saying "Please unsubscribe me"; there's no point in us retaining someone on our list who's angered every time he receives an email from us he doesn't want.
Anyway, I got a bit sidetracked there. The point is, it's very logical to offer the equivalent of $300 in free gifts to someone if through that person, you will get the (valid) email addresses of, say, 10 potential customers. Those 10 customers won't make $300 worth in purchases immediately, but in time, with a proper marketing strategy, they will purchase items from you, eventually leading to way more than a measly $300 in sales.
The main challenge to honest businesses is how to keep from being percieved as yet another spammer. With us, we're still so small that we do indeed have personal relationships with our customers... quite often, a customer would call our 800 number in the US, which used to forward to our office here in Jerusalem, and end up yapping away with my boss for hours about life, the universe, and everything. My boss and the warehouse manager went to Indonesia to help with rescue efforts there, which was another great thing for us to be able to report on (http://www.israelshop.com/newsletter/indonesia_aid_mission.html) and keep that personal rapport with our customers.
So anyway, yeah, this kind of offer can actually be quite valid.
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You have been referred by: [email protected]
You've posted this just to get us to sign upfor you, right? :p
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It doesn't count unless you complete one of the offers. :p
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Originally posted by Swamp_Thing
Do you know anyone who actually got the free gift, DeepBlue?
It´s a scam.
Yes. I do.
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Originally posted by MatthewPapa
I bet you found this in a spam email, diddnt you?
I get **** like this all the time like....
free laptop!!!
free IPOD
free computer here
contact your creditors now
the **** goes on and on.....
No.
In fact it tells you specifically NOT to spam, or else.
Its perfectly legit, and they don't send out any emails.
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Originally posted by Scuddie
Yes, that's how it works. And when the offer is over, there are more generations cascaded than the amount of people who got their gifts. I once was naive enough to see if it worked. I got a brand new Athlon T-Bird 900MHz cpu, except by the time I got it, I was already using a 2100+, and the CPU cost less by then than the offer required to get it was... AND IT WAS DOA!!
Its always a scam.
Added the quote to prevent confusion. // Sandwich
If you want to recieve credit for an offer sign up for say the blockbuster online movie rental and then cancel after a couple days, you don't have to pay anything.