Inside the Free iPod Offer

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 18, 2005 @09:26AM from the TANSTAAFL dept.

jonathanhowell writes "David Lazarus, The SF Chronicle's tech guy, has an article in today's paper with an interesting investigation into the work you have to do to get a "free" (as in beer) iPod. I'm trying not to call it a scam, because it appears completely legal, if ethically challenged." From the article: "What it doesn't say is that the offer terms will expose you to reams of spam and marketing solicitations, that the user survey is actually a lengthy marketing ploy, and that the sponsor offers needed to qualify for that free music player will almost certainly cost you money."

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Re:TINSTAAFL, indeed by Omega697 · 2005-03-18 10:19 · Score: 1, Offtopic

But technically, I ain't making any major errors in this sentance.

Except for the misspelling of "sentence."
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Re:TINSTAAFL, indeed by lukewarmfusion · 2005-03-18 10:20 · Score: 1, Offtopic

"However, their was a mistake"

Do you mean "there" was a mistake? I'm pretty sure you do.
Re:TINSTAAFL, indeed by ack154 · 2005-03-18 10:27 · Score: 1, Offtopic

"Do you mean "there" was a mistake? I'm pretty sure you do."

I'm sure that you meant to type "did you mean..." and "I'm pretty sure you did" because it was in the past that he was collecting the thought and actually constructed the post.