Ok, before I even get into this, I want to let everyone out there know that Uncle Nasher is not an idiot.. all the time… before I began said experiment, I was in full knowledge it was going to get ugly before I started. I did it, because judging from my e-mail alot of people that read my blog are not too bright, thus I felt the need to educate the masses….
If you have surfed the internet long enough, I am sure that you have come across an advertisement or two along the way that offered you something really cool…. for free… like an Ipod, Iphone, a Plasma Tv, all kinds of shit, high dollar stuff… absolutely free… or you can get it free, “For testing purposes” Yeah, sure pal…
Anyway, to my point, I happened to see one of those ads the other day, and I was not so much surprised at the ad, in itself, but that it was on a website I would have taken to be more careful in associating itself with such silliness and obvious scamming… but I digress.
So of course, knowing full well it was a rip off, I signed up for it. Specifically it was a company that wanted to give me a free Apple Macbook Air. My close friends will know how funny that is as the only thing I detest more than Apple computers are warts on my ass and circus side show freaks… at any rate, I signed up for it, and you guessed it!!! I had to “Fullfill” 2 agreements for them… I might post pictures later since this was acctually a really well made website. The colors were bright and it made me in a way think of the circus side show, it certainly made me want to vomit…
So after I filled out all my info and signed up for these “Services”, I sat back and watched as alot of money began to dissapear off my credit card from companies I have never heard of, and never wanted to hear from… anticipating this, Uncle Nasher did all of this testing with a pre-paid credit card so when its all said and done I can just cancle it and walk away.. though I will never get the dirty feeling off of my soul…
Regardless of all that… and how stupid it is to fall for that shit, I needed to post this so that maybe someone might be enlightened….
Anyway, no I have not gotten my free Macbook Air… when I went back to the website later, I supposedly had to fullfil 4 offers, not just the 2 they told me about in the begining, so it went from just 2 harmless offers… ((Which ended up costing me over 150$ btw)) now they wanted me to do 4 more… do you see where I am going here kiddies?
What can we learn from this…. one… DO NOT GIVE YOUR INFO OUT!!!! Not to anybody… unless you are ABSOLUTELY sure you are getting what you are paying for… two… if it sounds to good to be true, ok, I won’t finish that, you know what I mean…
One more important thing… one of the charges on my card was very strange, as in, it had a phone number attached to the charge, but LO AND BEHOLD!! When one called said number, all you got was a “Disconnected” Notification from the operator.. so take that morons that think this “Free Item” shit really works…
I will not mention at this time what webpage I happened to be on when I seen this, you have probably seen these all over the place, but I will say this.. the web pages that host this advertising I feel are as liable for you getting screwed as he company bending you over. They allowed that advert to show up on there webpage, and while they may not endorse it, they got paid to have it there and its causeing financial greif to there users, so yes, I hold them liable for what is seen on there page.