Get a 40GB iPod for €35 + p&p (anyone...?)

peckerhead

Hope this doesn't contravene posting regulations? but I've come across a suss that is 100% legal and actually works. No pyramid selling, no MLM, just a little bit of common sense. Am listening to music on my buddy's one right now.

pm me if anyone's interested.

Mods, if this breaks some rule, please just delete the post rather than banning me —I ain't trying to start anything bogey here, I ain't selling anything, & I ain't making a cent out of this.

G'night all...

peckerhead

Guy:Incognito

if its all above board and legal, post a link/details.

Smithers

Boards is a community that share info , so as Ste says post links/info

Mr. Fancypants

If it sounds too good to be true......

The fact that you havent posted the details alone suggests that it is a dodgy scam.

Stephen

Sounds too good to be true, though.

edit: heh, you just beat me to it

IrishMike

lets all sing 2gether
"scam scam scammmmmmmmmmmmmm scam scam"
:rolleyes:

peckerhead

It is, I've checked it out. But pm me your email address, it's too long to go into here...
No hard sell, I'll just send you the details and my own (VERY suspicious-minded!) evaluation.
Repeat: I won't make a cent out of this. People are flogging this information on eBay at the moment & charging up to Stg£51 for it, the forkin bustards. Still, there's a sucker born every day...

In fact, here, just go & look on eBay, and then make your own mind up about it.
I'm not looking for anything out of this. When I saw it first, I thought "SCAM!", but then I looked further into it. And changed my mind.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3078025658&category=48451&sspagename=STRK%3AMESSE%3AIT&rd=1

peckerhead

P.S. Stephen & IrishMike, both your posts crossed mine. That's exactly what I thought. Like 2 words: "barge", "pole", etc.
Check out the eBay link, and make your own minds up. I'm selling nothing. I wouldn't have believed this sh1t either, but I "put my finger in the hole" and changed my mind (I'm talking the sword-wound in Jesus's side, now, not that filthy Spanish footballer guy that was on the Last Word last night... )

Mr. Fancypants

I’ll give it to you for free — with one simple condition that will cost you nothing.

So, what is the condition? Is the guy on ebay (like yourself) just giving the information out of the goodness of their heart?

peckerhead

pm me and find out, mbroaders (or just ask me a question through the eBay link).

Nothing to do with fingers in holes, either... lol

Email me through the eBay link, anyone who's half-interested, 'cos I ain't gonna sit here & watch this thread all evening. I'm going home to make LUUUUUUUURVE to my Wooo-maaaan. I'm not pushing anything on anyone, and I don't guarantee anything. But I've seen this work, that's all, and I'm happy enough to have put up my own €35 (actually, Stg £25, like a spa — didn't stop to check out the conversion rates... )

I'll be answering emails tomorrow. Yes, out of the goodness of my heart.

Stephen

Just messaged the guy on ebay now. It will be interesting to see his reply.

edit: oh, that's you? heh. ok.

sikes

http://www.thephonematrix.co.uk

pyramid scheme.....

walter

i do need one ,how can i contact you ?

davej

This is a pyramid scheme and it is illegal.

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Feb/gee20040212023837.htm

The "instructions" will ask you to pay the money and then recruit lots of other people by setting up an auction on ebay. You can't gain your "prize" until enough other people contribute their €35....

davej

peckerhead

sikes and davej are both wrong on this, and so is the sub-literate Matthew who wrote the "Geek news" article. As against that, Lonewulf's comment (the 2nd one down the page linked to by davej) is almost correct, so let me quote it — and spare you the yee-haw drivel since added by the other "users"...

"Pyramid Scheme? (11:12am EST Thu Feb 12 2004)
I don't think this technically qualifies as an illegal pyramid scheme. It might be underhanded, but to qualify as an illegal pyramid scheme, money has to "travel" up the pyramid, while no goods and/or services come back down. The fact that you can purchase products in order to move up the "list" means that goods and services are being rendered for the expenditure of money. On the other hand, if you had to "buy" your position, then recruit people to "buy" their position in order to move up the pyramid without getting anything out of it until you hit the top of the pyramid, then that's an illegal pyramid scheme." [end quote]

"Underhanded", I'm not so sure. In the (free) information I've offered to provide to people above, I've spelled out in considerable detail the potential pitfalls of the scheme I'm talking about and, I'm quite sure, the "swamp" [sic] of similar offers currently floating around on eBay. The particular offer I've referred people to is 100% legal, in the US, UK & here. The terms and conditions are also very clearly spelled out on the website concerned. Caveat emptor, and all that. Nothing is promised that can't be delivered. Certainly, it could be argued these kinds of selling schemes are in spirit not entirely dissimilar to pyramid schemes, which are quite rightly illegal on the basis that they deliver no product for payment made by the vast majority of their purchasers. Unlike, for instance, the National Lottery. But that is not the case for the website I refer to. Read the so-called "small print" — quite large actually, about 14pt, and repeatedly referred to at every step of the signing-up process.

Yeah, sure, these schemes tend to disfavour the gullible/ill-informed/unaware or simply careless participant. A bit like d'Lotto, really — rightly described as a "voluntary tax on stupidity" by informed commentators who understand the maths behind such "schemes" (since the term seems to evoke such strong reactions...)

"...It could be you!" Ask yourself how much of your tax dollar (sorry, yoyo) has gone into promoting this wonderful "scam" over the years, at staggering expense (and to the detriment of so many more pressing economic needs of this country). "Ah, but sure look at all the wonderful causes they support..."? As my ten-year-old kid would say, "Er, yah, right..." Anybody here care to refer me to one shred of serious proof as to the accountability of that particular government-appointed quango...? But that's another day's story...

My whole point in posting this thread in the first place was to say:

(a) You don't have to hand over €600 of your hard-earned to get an iPod, there are other ways.

(b) People (mostly in the US/UK) are charging suckers over Stg£50 just to find out about these other ways — check out eBay items # 3077319487 and # 3077319487 and you’ll see what I mean. I'm giving that info away for free. Frankly, I wouldn't sleep easy otherwise.

(c) Yes, these schemes come with a certain in-built risk factor. A bit like d'Lotto, except the odds against you are about 10,000% better than for that great "National Scam" (yes, ten thousand per cent. Ask a statistician.) And more importantly, unlike the Lotto, you have the chance to further improve those odds very significantly, if you care to listen to what I have to say... for free.

'Nuff said. I'm tired, and it's getting late. Anyone doesn't like the sound of what I'm talking about (not selling, offering for FREE, remember?) — just walk away and disregard all of this.

P.S. Viagra is wonderful, when you get to be a grumpy ol' man like me... Damn hard to sleep afterwards, though...

P.P.S I believe another (currently quite fashionable) grumpy ol' man has some quote doing the rounds at the mo' about being a pigeon, or being a statue...? Read my lips, a-ha, a-ha....

BigEejit

So you are saying its not a pyramid scheme, just 'like' one. And you have to recruit other people into it to get what you want .... rigghhhht .....

/me backs away from the nasty pyramid scheme man

cgarvey

So where does one return it, how does one claim under warranty, who retains title of goods, what form is the proof of purchase, etc.

bah

.cg

Keeks

closed :rolleyes: