Stupid Internet tricks

[unmaker]

So, um, anyone want a free iPod? I'd dismiss it as a scam if I hadn't read about it in Wired. This can't be a sound business model... can it? Dot com anyone?

There are numerous credible reports of people actually receiving an iPod.

Go figure.

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[vengeant]

They deny that it's a pyramid scheme, but I'd call that, at best, a "misrepresentation." To get a free iPod, not only do you have to sign up for a free trial, but you have to get 5 of your friends to sign up for a free trial? It's like a chain letter, only without a threat. And if they get $50 per person that they get to sign up for a free trial, then they make a profit of $50 for each free iPod they have to send out. (And that also means that the live for those poor fools who only get 4 friends to sign up for free trials, thus narrowly missing the free iPod.)