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From: near pittsburgh pa
Weeelllllll, you are already under contract! Read second paragraph eighth line, after second posting of non-such transaction, you are bound to a $119.99 passing on fee! In good faith that I have, I will waive this to two monthly payments of $39.99 Only if you sign up for the blah-blah-blah. 
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Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Forest, Ontario
haha well then
Originally Posted by dkstuck
Weeelllllll, you are already under contract! Read second paragraph eighth line, after second posting of non-such transaction, you are bound to a $119.99 passing on fee! In good faith that I have, I will waive this to two monthly payments of $39.99 Only if you sign up for the blah-blah-blah.
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Joined: May 2004
Posts: 12,170
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
The word TANSTAAFL comes to mind...
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".
In other words, everything comes with a price. Look for the catch.
(Oh, and dkstuck...I ain't buyin' anything from you either!
)
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".
In other words, everything comes with a price. Look for the catch.
(Oh, and dkstuck...I ain't buyin' anything from you either!
)
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Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Plano, Tx.
did everybody just skip my post? My brother did it, he had to sign up for some free 30 day trials, and then he cancelled them before they charged him for the second month. (except for Napster, he forgot and paid for a month of music downloads) and now he has an Ipod that would have been free, ended up costing him 30bucks or something for the Napster thing. and our computer is fine. It's a slight pain if the butt but I'd say it's less work than earning $100 or whatever those things cost. personally I would rather earn the money, but then I wouldn't spend it on an Ipod either.
-matt
-matt
Hotshot
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 12,170
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
Okay, so it wasn't quite free, was it? Sure, he could have got it for free but they count on you forgetting to cancel some of those trials. And they really do expect you to want to keep going on at least some of the services they offer, that's the whole point of the promotion.
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Elder User
Joined: Aug 2003
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From: near pittsburgh pa
Originally Posted by TigerDan
The word TANSTAAFL comes to mind...
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".
In other words, everything comes with a price. Look for the catch.
(Oh, and dkstuck...I ain't buyin' anything from you either! )
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".
In other words, everything comes with a price. Look for the catch.
(Oh, and dkstuck...I ain't buyin' anything from you either!
) 
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Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 828
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From: Indianapolis, Indiana
Originally Posted by dkstuck
Well, if you sign up for my newsletter, only $5.99 billed directly to your credit card, or agree to get your own creditcard through me for a one time low rate of $79.99, or send me $19.99 for a three page report to let me show you how not to get scammed, or for only $9.99 ( plus $24.99 shipping) I will send you a three dollar watch! (watch has a lifetime warranty, Send $14.99 for sh/handling)
Now if you will do any of the above, I will answer yourr question within a 6 month period ( 30 day money back guarantee) or if you do all the above, with a $99.99 handling fee, must use $50 coupon located in the Utah Ocean Front Daily Newspaper, I will answer within 48 hours! Offer will be void if upon recieving your payment and I dont make it past the local pub!
Now if you will do any of the above, I will answer yourr question within a 6 month period ( 30 day money back guarantee) or if you do all the above, with a $99.99 handling fee, must use $50 coupon located in the Utah Ocean Front Daily Newspaper, I will answer within 48 hours! Offer will be void if upon recieving your payment and I dont make it past the local pub!
This is the funniest thing I have heard all week, Thanks!
Kyle
Last edited by kdmcinnes; Jan 7, 2006 at 12:42 PM.
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Joined: Aug 2004
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From: Roseburg, OR
There are lots of these schemes going on, some are just the banner ad things asking you to shoot something or hit something or whatever, and then you have a bunch of surveys to fill out and things to join. There was a pyramid scheme going on for a while (might still be) wherein you had to refer a certain number of people, who in turn sign up for the program, and supposedly when enough had signed up, you get an iPod. I think that one was actually somewhat legit. Surely there were some catches somewhere, but I did hear of people getting iPods. Probably just enough people got them to keep everyone from crying "SCAM!" and have the user base drop off.
I had a hankering for pizza one night while I was doing homework for my ED123 class, and what do I see at the top of my screen but "Win free Dominos Pizza for a year!". So I said WTH, clicked it, and proceeded through the 45 pages (I think it was literally about 45 pages) of stuff I had to sign up for and fill out. I got almost finished, and I was asked to sign up for services with a credit card. Nuh uh. I don't care how many friendly little "opt-out" links there are in each one of the three trillion spam messages I will be getting, I'm NOT putting my credit or debit card number in one of these places. Never ever ever. I felt dirty just putting one of my email addys in. And even though I never completed the whole process, my junk mail to that address has increased at least 3-fold. Not worth it, IMO.
I had a hankering for pizza one night while I was doing homework for my ED123 class, and what do I see at the top of my screen but "Win free Dominos Pizza for a year!". So I said WTH, clicked it, and proceeded through the 45 pages (I think it was literally about 45 pages) of stuff I had to sign up for and fill out. I got almost finished, and I was asked to sign up for services with a credit card. Nuh uh. I don't care how many friendly little "opt-out" links there are in each one of the three trillion spam messages I will be getting, I'm NOT putting my credit or debit card number in one of these places. Never ever ever. I felt dirty just putting one of my email addys in. And even though I never completed the whole process, my junk mail to that address has increased at least 3-fold. Not worth it, IMO.
