View from the Wing

TravelTechTalk has free Hulu beta memberships to give away.

If you missed what Hulu is all about, it’s an online video site with programming from 40 different studios. You’ll find full length programs like The Office, Family Guy, Prison Break and 30 Rock. And all the content is in great quality, none of that postage stamp sized stuff. They even have a collection of great HD clips.

After Six is offering a free slider tie for siging up for information from them.

Find out how to get free underwear here.

SAS is giving out free luggage tags to all SAS Eurobonus members.

Just email eurobonus@sas.no with the subject BagTag and include your EuroBonus number in the email.

Budget Travel is giving away beer cozies for their new sister magazine Girlfriend Getaways. There aren’t a whole lot of ‘em according to this post, but something about the title of the mag just sounds appealing, yknow?

(I think the magazine is actually about women getting away together, so not applicable to all readers perhaps, but on the other hand . . .)

Sign up to receive (3) $10 gift certificates almost immediately by email from Ted’s Montana Grill.

So I haven’t been a big fan of Ted Turner since the ’80s when he was a huge Ayn Rand fan, but I do kinda dig the buffalo meatloaf…

I’m hardly an eBay veteran, though I won by first item there at least 6 years ago. For some reason, every so often I’d find something I wanted and I’d bid on it and… usually lose.

What little I know about auctions suggests to me that people ought to bid their highest amount for an item, since eBay will only make you pay the amount that’s a single increment higher than the next highest bidder. But that isn’t how people bid.

So I finally signed up with a sniping service, AuctionSniper.com, based on some recommendations from Flyertalk. I’m testing it out this evening, but like it quite a bit so far.

If you want to sign up for a free account (with 3 free snipes), you can use my referral link at no cost to you (and I get three free snipes).

Sign up for a no commitment T-Mobile WiFi account and get 30 days of free service. Offer expires January 31, 2008.

Signing up for an email newsletter nets you a free copy of Freakonomics.

After completing the form I get the following message:

Your copy of Freakonomics will be on its way to you shortly. Plus, you’ve been entered for a chance to win a Magellan® eXplorist™ 500 LE handheld GPS*.

I won’t actually drink Sutter Home wine, but I will take a free corkscrew…

This HP sponsored Fandango website will give you a free movie ticket using promo code ticketme. One movie ticket (up to $12.50 in value) per e-mail address.

Wine.com has ,a Holiday Wine club (in 3, 6 and 12 month periods) available, but the 6 and 12 month ones are shown as $0.00 while the 3 month one is $99.99.

I was able to purchase the 12-month club and have not been charged (but as this is $0 rather than an actual price being charged I’d guess it won’t get honored).

Choose the 6 or 12 month club and look for the $0.00 price.

(Hat tip to Flyertalk’s UnitedSkies.)

Through September 23, Staples is offering Peachtree Pro Accounting 2007 free after rebate — $140 minus a $140 rebate. Shipping is free.

(Go to Staples via a cashback or mileage portal, Fatwallet is offering a 4% kickback.)

A builder is offering $5 Starbucks gift cards for filling out a survey. As with most promises of Starbucks gift cards, it’s an open question whether it’ll come to fruition.

Hotel Chatter reports that Doubletree hotel properties are giving away their chocolate chip cookies to anyone who walks in and asks for 24 hours on the Fourth of July.

Yahoo! Mail is taking requests to beta test its new offerings.

HP is offering a $5 Starbucks card for customizing your profile with them. You don’t even have to sign up for spam.

Starbucks card offers rarely come, but it’s about 15 seconds of work…

Freepay, aka Gratis Networks (the free iPod folks), has made a really annoying unilateral change to their terms and conditions.

First, you’ll have only 90 days start to finish to complete their requirements. Second, you now have to place your orders by mail instead of electronically and there are deadlines for doing so. Apparently this was announced March 1 and everyone with existing accounts therefore has until the end of May to finish their existing free electronics offers.

Here’s the note sent out to all accounts:

Important Change to Terms & Conditions




• With a start date of March 1, 2006 – users of FreePay websites have 90 days to complete all offer requirements.
  
• Upon completion of all offer requirements, existing users will need to print a “Redemption Form” that must be filled out in its entirety and mailed with a postmarked date no later than 30 days of completing their offer requirements.

You will find an indication of how many days you have left to complete the requirements on the Status page. When you have completed the requirements you will be able to download the redemption form from the Status page.

Now, these things can be completed in 90 days. And this is still a worthwhile project to undertake. But it’s certainly an annoying change, some of the offers I’ll leave for months at a time and then remember them and complete them.

This change presumably increases Freepay’s profits at the expense of its members by reducing redemptions and leaving more stranded completed referrals.

I’m going to have to quickly return to the (3) offers that I haven’t yet finished:

• Free laptops
  

• 
  Free PS3
  

• 
  $300 SuperCertificate (from giftcertificates.com)

Disappointing, to say the least, but I’m reasonably close to finishing these and 90 days is plenty of time to do so…

Freepay, aka Gratis Networks (the free iPod folks), has made a really annoying unilateral change to their terms and conditions.

First, you’ll have only 90 days start to finish to complete their requirements. Second, you now have to place your orders by mail instead of electronically and there are deadlines for doing so. Apparently this was announced March 1 and everyone with existing accounts therefore has until the end of May to finish their existing free electronics offers.

Here’s the note sent out to all accounts:

Important Change to Terms & Conditions




• With a start date of March 1, 2006 – users of FreePay websites have 90 days to complete all offer requirements.
  
• Upon completion of all offer requirements, existing users will need to print a “Redemption Form” that must be filled out in its entirety and mailed with a postmarked date no later than 30 days of completing their offer requirements.

You will find an indication of how many days you have left to complete the requirements on the Status page. When you have completed the requirements you will be able to download the redemption form from the Status page.

Now, these things can be completed in 90 days. And this is still a worthwhile project to undertake. But it’s certainly an annoying change, some of the offers I’ll leave for months at a time and then remember them and complete them.

This change presumably increases Freepay’s profits at the expense of its members by reducing redemptions and leaving more stranded completed referrals.

I’m going to have to quickly return to the (3) offers that I haven’t yet finished:

• Free laptops
  

• 
  Free PS3
  

• 
  $300 SuperCertificate (from giftcertificates.com)

Disappointing, to say the least, but I’m reasonably close to finishing these and 90 days is plenty of time to do so…

Freepay, aka Gratis Networks (the free iPod folks), has made a really annoying unilateral change to their terms and conditions.

First, you’ll have only 90 days start to finish to complete their requirements. Second, you now have to place your orders by mail instead of electronically and there are deadlines for doing so. Apparently this was announced March 1 and everyone with existing accounts therefore has until the end of May to finish their existing free electronics offers.

Here’s the note sent out to all accounts:

Important Change to Terms & Conditions




• With a start date of March 1, 2006 – users of FreePay websites have 90 days to complete all offer requirements.
  
• Upon completion of all offer requirements, existing users will need to print a “Redemption Form” that must be filled out in its entirety and mailed with a postmarked date no later than 30 days of completing their offer requirements.

You will find an indication of how many days you have left to complete the requirements on the Status page. When you have completed the requirements you will be able to download the redemption form from the Status page.

Now, these things can be completed in 90 days. And this is still a worthwhile project to undertake. But it’s certainly an annoying change, some of the offers I’ll leave for months at a time and then remember them and complete them.

This change presumably increases Freepay’s profits at the expense of its members by reducing redemptions and leaving more stranded completed referrals.

I’m going to have to quickly return to the (3) offers that I haven’t yet finished:

• Free laptops
  

• 
  Free PS3
  

• 
  $300 SuperCertificate (from giftcertificates.com)

Disappointing, to say the least, but I’m reasonably close to finishing these and 90 days is plenty of time to do so…