Loading ...Update: It looks like I have enough signups to fulfill the freeflatscreens.com offer so from the gmail invite offer is now NULL and VOID for signups that occur after 10/30/2004 18:17 central. Thanks to everyone that participated and as offers show up in the system (it sometimes takes 3 as long as three weeks) I will send invites.
Hot on the heels of my success with the freeipods.com offer, I figured I would give the freeflatscreens.com offer a shot. freeflatscreens.com is run by the same company as freeipods, Gratis Internet, and the offers follow a like process. The main difference is the object of desire - in this case a free flat screen TV. Also, this offer requires 8 completed referrals versus the Ipod offers 5. I have some thoughts on this though. I think the freeflatscreens.com offer is superior because it does not have near the media saturation of the freeipods offer. This is further helped by the fact that Gratis Internet does not interlink the free sites so people are not going hog wild tossing referrals codes around like candy. More people are focusing on the freeipods offer at this point. The result I think is that freeflatscreens.com is an easier offer to complete. Time will tell…
In keeping with the spirit of my last offer I will give each person that completes an offer on freeflatscreens.com using my referral link a GMail invite. I make this offer in the spirit of my freeipods proposition even though only two people wanted an invite for completing a freeipods.com offer.
As before, I recommend completing a credit card offer but the eBay new user deal is also currently in rotation. As to credit cards, there seem to be two in random rotation - a GM card and the eBay card. My thinking here is that a credit card is free (no annual fee) and the interest rates are reasonable - 9%. Sure, I have cards with lower interest rates but no one is forcing me to use the card and they were offering some reasonable balance transfer options. As a plus, the eBay card is available to students with $15,000 in yearly income.
freeflatscreens.com offers several choices of flat screens:
* Samsung 17″ LCD Monitor ? $400
* Samsung 15″ LCD Flat Panel TV ? $430
* 27″ FD Sony Trinitron WEGA TV ? $400
* Toshiba 24″ Pure TV/VCR/DVD Combination ? $500
Personally, I think the 15″ LCD TV is the way to go for coolness factor alone unless you are in the neighborhood for a new computer LCD.
8 Comments Received
October 13th, 2004 @12:00 pm
i need a Gmail invite, please send me one
October 16th, 2004 @7:53 pm
You should know that when you sign up for anything on that site it relays your info, even credit card info, to an unencrypted site.
October 16th, 2004 @10:29 pm
Tony has a valid concern but he is slightly off base. There is an offer or two that will be auto populated with your name and address and I do not recall which offer that is at this time but I do seem to recall that the offer page that was prepopulated was SLL encrypted. The data sent does not include a credit card as Gratis does not have your credit card.
The information used to prepopulate a form can follow two paths - either the user’s browser transmits the information from a cookie or the referring site (freeipods.com / freeflatscreens.com) transmits the information as part of a POST transaction. In this case, I suspect the information is pushed client side but in either case as long as SSL is used, the information is secure. Well, secure is a relative term but the information is as secure as any web transaction can be which is pretty secure.
I just clicked through all of the offers available to me and I could not find one that prepopulated an offer form but I do recall there being an offer …
October 26th, 2004 @8:57 pm
nice
November 15th, 2004 @11:25 am
gmail invited
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