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What’s this? A Pyrimid Marketing Scheme?

I tend to trust UserFriendly so I clicked on a banner ad there that I would have ignored on just about ANY other website.

Now I’m probably just making things worse by taking the next step and posting this link: Get a free iPod

As I understand it, this is how it works:
1 Sign up for an account and pick which iPod you would like
2 Complete one of the site’s promotional offers
3 Refer 5 other people who must also complete 1 offer (and I assume, refer 5 of thier own people… and so on)
4 Have your selecetd iPod shipped to you

I’ve completed step 1. This post (with the link above) is my attempt at completing step 3. I haven’t decided which of the promotions is the least evil yet, so I’m holding off on setp 2.

Why am I doing this? Why the hell not?

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 20th, 2004 at 11:46 pm and is filed under Music, On The Net. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “What’s this? A Pyrimid Marketing Scheme?”

  1. BlueGhost Says:
    November 21st, 2004 at 2:10 am

    surely the 5 people have only to complete the offer not refer 5 people… otherwise no one gets an ipod…

  2. Hooloovoo Says:
    November 21st, 2004 at 8:48 am

    For me to get an iPod, my 5 people must complete an offer. For each of my 5 people to get thier own iPod they need to find 5 people to complete an offer…

  3. Zhaneel Says:
    November 21st, 2004 at 5:25 pm

    Seems to actually be legit.

    There was a big thing on the QoW community on LJ about helping people get them and many people have posted about getting them.

    Zhaneel

  4. Hooloovoo Says:
    November 24th, 2004 at 8:21 pm

    cool… now i just need to get some people to sign up :)

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