It is now 9 weeks since I signed to earn a free iPod at getitfree.net and I am starting to have my doubts. You might be thinking I was mad to ever believe in this deal but hey, I am a born optimist.
My own status is pending and the same goes for the 7 people I have recruited. The blurb says it takes at least 30 days, and 4-8 weeks on average, for confirmation that you did the necessary to qualify.
So I guess I am not way outside the timeline but you would have thought one of the eight would have been confirmed by now. It might be time to email them.
Comments (3)
It smells like yet another email harvesting scam. It works like this. You sell your friends email addresses for a handful of silver. Then, surprie surprise, no silver! If you REALLY hassle them you might get something of lesser value. But probably not!
The key to how this works is in GetItFree's own terms & conditions...
http://www.getitfree.net/index.php?target=tos
Especially this section...
"GetItFree reserves the right to modify or amend this Agreement at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all, at GetItFree's sole discretion. We also reserves the right to change the methods through which free products are earned. This may include, but is not limited to, increasing the number of friends you have to refer or adding more steps to confirm that you have a legitimate account. GetItFree may also add or remove any gift product listed as an incentive at any time. If we replace a product, the new product may not be of equal value."
I.e. they change the agreement in whatever way they want, whenever they please and you are entitled to precisely NOTHING!
My advice:
1. Do a google search before subscribing to any "too good to be true" scheme/scam.
2. If the scam is web based then read its terms and conditions carefully.
3. Avoid GetItFree as if it were the plague!
Posted by Garfield Lucas | May 22, 2006 3:41 PM
Posted on May 22, 2006 15:41
Yeah it's one of those pyramid schemes. Hopefully you really get your IPOD. I hear some work, others don't.
Posted by suki | May 22, 2006 9:19 PM
Posted on May 22, 2006 21:19
ok hope to have a new ipod soon what can i say
Posted by mick peet | June 1, 2006 11:59 AM
Posted on June 1, 2006 11:59