Slightly Surprised

The wonderful people from UPS delivered this today:

What was pleasantly surprising was that I got it (mostly) free at everyfreegift.com, when I originally only gave it a 50/50 chance of actually panning out. It did take about 4 months to go through, and AOL will most likely still be calling me to offer their BRAND NEW 9.0 Security Edition (although I asked them very nicely today to stop calling), and my gmail account now gets a steady trickle of spam. But - it is an $800 camera for which I did not have to pay $800. So I consider it all worth it in the end.

August 24, 2005 11:28 PM
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so how many offers did you have to do for that one? and which ones did you do?

Pondered by bobw at August 25, 2005 02:53 PM

I did 6 offers. I tended to choose the trial offers over the credit card offers when I could as I figured that, though more expensive, they would be less of a hassle to cancel. These are what I did:

1. Blockbuster.com
2. BMG Music Service
3. Columbia House DVD - easily the most expensive of all the options. I considered it worth it because I did get a bunch of DVD's out of it
4. AOL MusicNet - the biggest pain by far. Not only is the software more intrusive that most viruses, their marketing department is insanely persistent.
5. GM Card - no cost at all, but I still haven't canceled it.
6. Entertainment Book - I have used it, but probably not enough to justify the cost by itself.

Hope this helps

Pondered by maphet at August 26, 2005 01:11 PM

Maphet, do you still need any referrals for the Xbox 360?

Pondered by gosey at August 30, 2005 04:25 PM

Yep

Pondered by maphet at August 30, 2005 04:29 PM

I hope this means more pictures of Samuel. I have really been missing his cute little face! :)

Pondered by Cindy at August 31, 2005 11:35 AM