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Originally Posted by thomasjmaccoll
it sounds the exact same as these free ipod things: you forward it to your friends, i think the company makes money off ads in the emails, once this equals the money for an ipod/laptop + probably some profit, they send one to the first person on the list, so if it takes 1000 emails to be sent before they send one to one person, if you're the 1000th, there'll need to be 1000000 emails etc... it's basically a scam.
(this is all a slightly uneducated estimation gathered from things i think i picked up around the place...)
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Apparently what you do is sign up to try a trial offer, the easiest one is online DVD rentals, once they send you the 5 free ones you cancel it and don't pay a penny, get 5 friends to do the same and you get it. For your 5 friends to get one, each of them has to get 5 friends to try it.