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Old 07-25-2004, 01:59 AM
sambeckett
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Default Free iPod scam?

Anyone know about this site?

http://www.freeiPods.com/

seems like a scam to me, they say if you sign up 5 people you get a free $300 iPod.

why would people waste so much time doing this?

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Old 07-25-2004, 02:02 AM
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From the terms and conditions:

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(a) Users must refer at least 5 friends to the site who must sign up, and correctly complete an offer from the site under the Terms listed above.

(b) Users must also complete at least one offer themselves.

(c) A user may not get credit for completing more than one offer. Their referrals must each do 1 offer, totaling 6 offers to be completed (1 by the customer, and 5 offers done by a minimum of 5 referrals).

(d) Referrals completing more than 1 offer will only count as 1.

(e) Users may refer more than 5 friends to try and maximize likelihood of getting credit and minimize the time it takes, but cannot receive credit for more than 1 iPod.

(f) Users may only receive one iPod for their account.

(g) Users must be residents of the United States.
Seems legit. Might be easier to just buy that Ipod though!

Oh, and moving to Off-Topic forum... :wink:

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Old 07-25-2004, 02:31 AM
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This sounds like a great PPCT project. Like one person starts, then we all sign up under the current person. Seems like a great way to get free iPods for the best Pocket PC community on the net! Anyone with me?

BTW, what are the "offers" that you have to do?
 
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Old 07-25-2004, 04:25 AM
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BTW, what are the "offers" that you have to do?
Probably something we don't want to do.
 
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Old 07-25-2004, 04:28 AM
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Like I said, it's probably easier to just buy one... :wink:

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Old 07-25-2004, 04:42 AM
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It's a pyramid-like scheme. OSUKid7, the PPCT "trick" would rapidly fail, as for each person you must find 5 new people -- going in circles wouldn't help. Therefore, a few people would get it and everyone else would be out to pasture, complete with a potential source of spam by having registered.

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Old 07-25-2004, 10:42 AM
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Yeah, total scam.

The first person hasn't completed the offer until all five below him have. So he waits. They get stuck in the same position. Since completition always requires the person below to also complete, it will never end.

So, the first person needs the five below to complete theirs to get it, the five below collectively need 25, the 25 need 125, the 125 need 625, etc. So, an infinite number of people would be needed just to get the first person an Ipod.
 
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Old 07-25-2004, 02:09 PM
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So, an infinite number of people would be needed just to get the first person an Ipod.
How did you arrive at that? Not that it really matters, I wouldn't bother with this anyway...

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Old 07-25-2004, 02:44 PM
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(g) Users must be residents of the United States.
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Old 07-25-2004, 07:43 PM
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So, an infinite number of people would be needed just to get the first person an Ipod.
How did you arrive at that? Not that it really matters, I wouldn't bother with this anyway...
(putting my CS hat on)

He's looking at the sign-up problem from a depth-first perspective. But wasgo, that's not correct. It's a breadth-first problem: each person only needs five other people to register, not to actually invite five others themselves.

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