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Trivial Pursuits => Science & Nature => Topic started by: jough on March 04, 2005, 11:55:25 pm
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Generally I don't go for referral offers, but I know three people who just got a Free Mac Mini (http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=15810164) this week by using this site (http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=15810164), so it's legit and each person only has to sign up for a single offer. I used the Stamps.com offer which gives me $5 free internet postage - I was thinking of trying them anyway so no big deal.
Anyway, I figured if anyone here wanted to try it I'd post my referral link. If you go through and don't see any offers you're genuinely interested in then by all means just walk away. But if you can remember to cancel an offer within 30 days (your offer credit goes through in a little under a week on the free mac mini site, so any time after that is fair game to cancel) and you only have to get ten other people to join to get your Mini.
I've been dying to get a Mac to develop with, but I can't afford one, so this is a decent opportunity to get one to mess around with. They're really tiny and surprisingly fast for the 1.47Ghz processor (the give-away is the 80Gb model with the fastest processor).
Here's my referral link:
http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=15810164
if you could help me out, I'd appreciate it. And feel free to pop your referral ID here if you sign up using mine. We could probably get a decent chain going.
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Awesome. I have TWO whole referrals now, so only 8 to go (and hopefully those two will complete an offer and be on their way to getting their own Mini, otherwise none of us get credit).
What I'm going to do is keep my referral link up on my sites until I get enough to get my Mini, and then I'll change the link to each referral in turn until we've all gotten our Mac Minis. That way everyone on the board who wants in can help each other get free stuff.
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SHOOT TERRORIST
WIN IPOD
(http://art.gnome.org/images/icons/other/Pyramid.png)
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If I don't get my free Mac Mini, then the terrorists have won.
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If I don't get my free Mac Mini, then the terrorists have won.
The problem with pyramid schemes is that everyone is too wise/jaded about it. Why would my friends want to be my referrals when they could be my peers (and your referrals). Simple game theory dictates that everyone strives to be at the top of the pyramid, and so one never gets built.
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Well, because this pyramid is only one deep at all times. So it's not a pyramid at all - it's just a plateau.
I sign up for an offer, and ten people sign up under me. I get credit for the ten that sign up under me, but I get NOTHING for the ten that sign up under them.
So everyone is a peer from the get-go, and the only way to sign up is to join through someone else's referral ID. So it's win-win for anyone involved, and no matter where you come in you're always at the same plateau.
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When I first saw this topic I thought Jough had coupons for mac & cheese to give away or something. I'm actually a little disappointed.
[edit: I always thought it was "shenanigans"]
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First of all, congrats to CJ for his 3000th post. That is impressive.
Also, I think this conga line thing has some merit. I now "only" need six more signups (and of course those people need to complete one offer themselves, which so far none of my four have been credited for, but it's supposed to take a few days, and it's only been half a business day so far, so we'll see).
I always thought these offers were shenanigans too until two of my friends wrote to show me photos of their new free Mac Minis. One of those friends got a free iPod last summer from the same Gratis Network company.
I may do the iPod shuffle thing too, since you only need three people to sign up.
I think that we can find a few people on this board, enough to start a Shuffle conga line and get us rolling, although of course the last person in the line will have to help get links from elsewhere. Since you can only get one item, though, no matter how many referrals you get, I'm happy to change the link on my web sites to match the top of the conga link.
Yeah. I loves me some free stuff, even if it isn't entirely free.
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I clicked on your referral link, Jough and gave my information then clicked on the 'Next Step' button. It took me to a page where I could download thousands of :)s. There was no option to skip this page and get to the offers. I don't want thousands of :)s so I quit the page. I assume that they now have my e-mail address and tons of spam will ensue. What's up with that?
~Paul
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Clicked your link and did the stamp thing, jough, should show up in a day or two. Here's mine:
http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=15862285
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I clicked on your referral link, Jough and gave my information then clicked on the 'Next Step' button. It took me to a page where I could download thousands of :)s. There was no option to skip this page and get to the offers. I don't want thousands of :)s so I quit the page. I assume that they now have my e-mail address and tons of spam will ensue. What's up with that?
~Paul
Paul,
Once you give your info, it asks you yes or no questions.
Click "No" on all of them.
Then it asks you for "Optional Survey Questions" or something like that.
Click "no" to all of them.
Eventually it will ask you to select an offer below. THAT is where you can select an offer from too-legit-to-quit companies like eBay, Columbia House, Blockbuster, Stamps.com, etc. There were actually about four or five I'd be willing to try, so that shouldn't be a problem. But I mail a lot of stuff and like the idea of being able to weigh my stuff and meter it at home. And you get a free postage scale with a nice LCD readout even if you cancel later. But the thing I signed up for was $15.95 a month for UNLIMITED postage which sounds too good to be true, but I guess most people don't spend $16.00 on postage a month - I do, so it's worth it for me.
Oh, also, it takes different amounts of time for your offer completion to show up in your account - most are 4-7 days - but I've heard that there's an Ancestry.com offer that posts immediately.
Anyway, I haven't gotten any spam yet - hopefully you won't either.
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Hmm... I don't see yours, Max.
I'd read that you have to be using IE for the referral links to work - I'm not sure if that's true or not but I use Firefox exclusively, and the guy I signed up with said he saw my address in his list of people who he referred (don't worry, your e-mail addresses are safe with me - it's not like I don't have access to them through the board anyway).
Anyway, it would suck if people weren't getting properly credited.
Max, PM me with the e-mail address you used to sign up and I'll see if I can get credit for it through them. I'm actually interested to see how responsive they are to customer service requests.
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Once you give your info, it asks you yes or no questions.
The page I was sent to did not have a no option.
~Paul
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I tried again to see if I was overlooking something. Nope, the only option I was given is download these :)s or die. Fuck a bunch of :)s.
~Paul
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Okay, Asherday is next up in the Conga line. I had to use their "Help" system, click through about a dozen questions, to finally get to the appropriate "I've completed an offer and have waited more than 15 days but haven't gotten credit for it yet".
Anyway, right now I have 23 signups but only TWO people who have completed offers - I don't know if that's par for the course or not or if people do not want a Mac Mini themselves, but anyway, if you HAVE completed an offer and have not been credited for it yet, by all means write to them. I just received my credit today after having signed up on March 4th.
For those who haven't signed up yet, the free trial offer from Blockbuster Video (their version of Netflix) looks pretty decent, and you're supposed to get instant credit for it.
Anyway, once I get my ten signup credits I'm going to start sending referrals to each of the addresses on my list, starting with Asherdan and working my way to the rest of you. Hopefully all of the signups from three weeks ago will start getting credited this week and then it's down the conga line from there.
Cha cha cha.
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I signed up under your code, jough. I think. I'm not sure I did it right.
How many more do you need?
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I have lots of signups, but only 6 of them have completed their requirement.
If you've signed up for something and haven't gotten credit for it yet, and it's been more than 15 days, you should contact them. I threatened to cancel my signup and they credited me a couple days later.
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Jesus, jough, don't you recognize a Ponzi scheme when you see one?
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Yeah, well, usually I avoid these things like muslims avoid pork, but I personally know four people that got free mac minis out of this deal.
So I'll throw a link up and let it happen, you know?
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Can you tell if the signup I did counts toward your total? What info would you need?
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Weird. Null, yours says:
Joined, but offer not completed.
User did not join via referral link.
Then if you didn't sign up via my referral link why does your email address show up in my list?
WTF?
Or does that mean that you didn't complete an offer using the referral link?
I don't know. I'd contact them to get proper credit.
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Jough, you should get full credit for me signing up to the Columbia House DVD thing. Let me know if there's anything I can do here.
...other than signing up again. Good lord, what an ultra-suck selection of DVDs. By which I mean lame, not that they feature oral sex.
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signing up to the Columbia House DVD thing
COULD THIS BE the most embarrassing thread in this board's history?
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Null wrote:
signing up to the Columbia House DVD thing
COULD THIS BE the most embarrassing thread in this board's history?
Could be, could be. We'll have to tune in tomorrow for the next exciting chapter.
NEXT CHAPTER: Null got out of the car before it exploded and flew off the cliff. Cheat value: 1.
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Hey Null, there's a button that says "Quote." You don't have to copy/paste/italicize text; in fact, it generates better HTML than that.
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Hey, I built a pretty decent dvd collection from CH. There's no shame in paying an average of $7 a disc rather than $20.
Anyway, I have no idea what that message means, but check to see whether your account says that you've completed an offer.
Like I said, I have no idea why it would tell me that you didn't use my referral link and then show you in my list of referrerals anyway.
It just don't add up.
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This is their explanation. It doesn't make any sense to me either, but it confirms that I won't get credit for your signup:
This means that this user did not sucessfully join our site by clicking your exact referral link. Users must join from your link in order to get credit. This user has joined our site, but you cannot receive referral credit for them completing any offers.
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This is their explanation. It doesn't make any sense to me either, but it confirms that I won't get credit for your signup:
This means that this user did not sucessfully join our site by clicking your exact referral link. Users must join from your link in order to get credit. This user has joined our site, but you cannot receive referral credit for them completing any offers.
That can't be right. I signed up right through the link on your first message, and didn't kill the browser or anything like that. If it didn't go through under your code, there's something wrong with the way they're recording these things.
They should credit you for this, bottom line.
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Sounds like they're moving the goal posts on ya, Jough. Surprise!
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Yeah, fun fun fun.
Well, this is the first and last time I'll deal with the Gratis network. Lesson learned.
I have heard from people that referrals don't go through if people use Firefox, but then again, why does an email address show up in my account as a referral if they're telling me that I'm not getting credit for it because they didn't use my referral link.
It makes no sense.
Null, I'd write them saying that you want to be credited, otherwise you'll have to cancel your CH membership.
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I GOTS to KNOW, did anyone get that Mac Mini?
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I have eight of the ten referrals.
I've pretty much given up on it. It cost me $15.99 via Stamps.com.
Maybe a couple of the others will come through. But I'm not going to count on it.
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viva la pyramid scheme!
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Well, apparently I'm visitor 846235 to this site. What's MY prize?
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Did Jough ever get a computer?
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damn, dude, I would love a mac mini.
back when I thought I was going to earn a ton of money this summer, that was my idea of what I might buy.
The other options being a drumset, new pickups for my old guitar, a wah pedal...
as it is, I have saved up like 100$ once I pay back my dad for my new amplifier. So, boo to that.
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Well evidently all you have to do is con 10 friends into signing up for blockbuster.
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This thread necromancy is an abomination unto my eyes.
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I tried this somewhere else - somebody had a referral thing and I signed up so they could get theirs. It was stamps.com, and it was like the worst thing ever. They never charged me, but it almost killed my computer, and I never could get it to work right. If it looks like a scam, it is a scam.
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TANSTAAFL
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Thanks, Lazarus.
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That should have been a lock post, 'Dawg. It would have been old days 'Stad worthy.
It would have been but I'm not a mod on this topic, so I didn't feel like I should impose my will.
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so, completely random, but instead of Free Mac Mini, right now I could use a "Free Trap for the Cockroach hiding under some shit in the corner of your room, you know you won't be able to go to sleep until you know that fucker is gone."
right now I am on hour 2.5 of roach-watch 07 and OH FUCK THAT FUCKER IS ON THE WALL AGAIN.
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. . . climb inside your nose and clear it of obstructions, making it easier to breathe.
Or lay eggs.
Im in your bedroom, laying eggs in your nose.
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yeah, um, this guy has completely psyched me out. i have no moral compunctions about killing him, but... that noise. that crunch. I...
I can't handle it.
also he is in the corner between the ceiling and the wall, so he's high and hard to get at.
also, I have a pu$y, and not a tough one like some ladies have. I have a dainty little vag.
at least, with my endless ability to make these things fun, it has turned into some sort of Experience. Where the experience is my room apparently being really messy and spontaneously generating bugs.
I will never hear the end of this. a cockroach has never been seen in our house, my mom nags me to clean, and voila!
edit: the point when it stops being semi-funny is when your dad wakes up and notices your lights are on, and is basically disgusted with you. and then he tries to get it, but it disappears into your room. WAITING.
so now I am afraid to clean my room? awesome. I think this has taught me a lot about myself, in re: remaining shreds of the illusion of manliness. especially because I still find it kind of funny, and will probably tell too many people this story.
now, I sleep in my brother's bed (he is out of town), just on the principle of refusing to share my room with a big ol' jerk of a bug. it has nothing to do with idiotic fear.
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This sounds like the event that made me decide to move out of my old apartment. That and it had no central air.
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You should call him Kafka and feed him little scraps of dreams and mundaneness. Just watch out if your dad starts calling him Daniel. That is one thing you need to watch out for. Seriously.
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You should be able to get some boric acid powder at the drugstore, just sprinkle that around the corners of the room. I guess the idea is that they pick it up on their feet, and when they groom themselves they ingest it and die.
Oh wait, you have pets, right? Hmm, maybe you will have to go with a "roach motel".
Cuz seriously...if you already have "Kafka", there are bound to be lots more where that came from. Sorry to burst your bubble.
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oh, yeah, I am aware that there are probably more. the obvious issue, and I am very happy that my mom assumed I had figured this out and didn't mention it, is that I routinely eat in my room and leave scraps out overnight. So, you know, they had a reason to be in my room. There will not be food there again, and hopefully that will help?
I have already promised one friend that I won't throw any apples at him.
I won't feed him, either. I may or may not abandon him for life in the countryside.
edit: I would like to think that Gregor and I can live in peace. Once I remove all clutter from my room, stop eating in there, and buy a mask to protect my ears nose and mouth.
edit2 : damn. I ruined a 3333 post count by posting about my lame problem.
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Lame? Are you kidding, this is the most entertaining thread in weeks.
Weeks!
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And dawg balked at my thread necromancy!
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Just go to sleep - the only thing he might do is climb inside your nose and clear it of obstructions, making it easier to breathe.
Nows your chance to be a brilliant entrepreneur and take the market away from that Breathe-Rite guy.
n.b.: Entrepreneur exceeds its 'e' allowance. I blame it for Polish surnames.
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update:
THE BITCH IS BACK!
I am debating whether to Raid him, or knock him down with a broom and attempt to capture him. I know, though, that if i do this it will not work out, and end weirdly (badly.)
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Yeah, I got my ten signups and never got my free computer. Meanwhile, two of my friends (who signed up via my links) DID get theirs. Fuckers (the free stuff people, not my friends).
Oh, and LOCK'D.