There are about a dozen free iTunes to be had by watching a series of interactive financial tutorials from Penn State Federal.
Some are longer than others and they’re quite rudimentary but if you want to click through learning about debit cards and how to buy a used car you can get some free music.
Goodies Blog tells you how to get your soda and chips for the Super Bowl for free.
Get a free sample of Post-It Wall Stick pads. I use these in meetings at work, they’re great!
The first 100,000 people who sign up will get a Chick-fil-A® Peach Bowl Plush Cow and a coupon for free chicken.
Freepay (the freeipods folks) require you to complete one of their marketing offers in addition to referring friends who do the same.
I recently completed an easy one that still showing available on all of the electronics offers I’ve checked, so I thought I’d pass it along.
The 30 day free trial of RealArcade GamePass works like a charm. The credit posts in a couple of days, you have a month to cancel, and cancellation is a snap and hassle-free. You can even cancel on the weekends (no waiting for weekday business hours, though admittedly I did have to hold for a few minutes).
I’ve been told — though haven’t tried this personally — that the RealArcard trial will work more than once. In other words, you can use it on more than one free electronics offer. Presumably you just need to use a different email address and credit card each time.
The four offers that I’m still working on are:
I’ve written several times in the past about Gratis Networks, now known as FreePay, which offers free electronics for completing their marketing offers and referring friends. In some very real sense it’s a pyramind scheme, but it pays off.
Gratis Internet was listed as Inc. magazine’s #18 fastest growing company in the U.S.
I just noticed that there are three new offers I hadn’t seen before:
For the record I’ve completed all of the offers other than these three news ones and the free Xbox offer. I’ve received everything, too.
When you signup for the PS3 offer takes, the site takes you through a few screens of ‘optional’ surveys. Just select no on every question, these don’t help you get your item.
All the sites work as follows: you complete an offer from one of their marketing partners, and then you refer friends who have to complete marketing offers as well.
My favorite current offer is a free trial from eFax. It doesn’t cost anything and you can even cancel via online chat (which means you can log the chat and have written proof of cancellation).
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The Army National Guard is giving away iTunes downloads. But if you give them a real phone number they might call you.
JudysBook.com is a site with reviews of restaurants and hotels, but also local auto mechanics and real estate agents. It’s new and they’re offering $5 Starbucks cards for every 5 reviews you write by September 30 (up to $50 total).
It’s a little late to take advantage of this, but they’re also offering a free iPod Shuffle for writing 50 reviews and referring 10 friends, and up to 50 iTunes if the friends you refer write reviews themselves. Problem is that this needs to be completed by Sunday. I just got around to checking out the site today, already posted 10 reviews, and may just go for the iPod — but there are lots of terms and conditions to iPod offer (which don’t apply to the Starbucks offer), such as
Sign up to receive information about a checking account with Wells Fargo Bank and you’ll be sent a code for a free iTunes download.
You can get one download per email address you use to sign up.
(Hat tip to the Flyertalk S.P.A.M. forum.)
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Gratis Internet, the people who brought you the free iPod and free digital camera, have a new promotion for a free X-box 360. These folks are seriously quick — it was only unveiled a week ago. This thing has wireless controllers, HD gaming, iPod compatibility and online features out of the box.
Now, it won’t ship for several months, but I’m hoping to be one of the first ones to get it through the Gratis free offer. After all, I’ve already finished all their other offers.
Some free magazine subscriptions available:
A one-year subscription to Genre Magazine (for gay men)
I’ve completed all my requirements for the free digital camera from Gratis Networks (the free iPod folks).
Actually I’ve completed everything for all of their free electronics offers, and am waiting to receive only the digital camera and the Playstation Portable.
For those of you who need to complete a marketing offer for one of these promotions, I notice that both eFax Plus and consumerinfo are currently on the offers list. Both offer 30 day free trials. Thirty day trials are the best because you have plenty of time to get credit for the offer and cancel without being under a time gun. Nothing is shipped, so you don’t even have to pay for shipping. I’ve used both of these before and had no problems with cancellation. (eFax offers cancellation via online chat, and I was able to just save a copy of the chat transcript.. just in case.)
Another offer that’s actually worth something in its own right is from Blockbuster for their unlimited rentals by mail service (a la Netflix).
You’re on the hook for $9.95 even if you cancel but is actually something that can be worth having, plus they give some nice coupons.
Still, I like the eFax and consumerinfo offers.
I just completed my marketing offer for the free digital camera. It was the easiest offer from Gratis Networks yet — Napster.
You sign up for a 14-day free trial. You do have to download their software (and when you’re asked whether you want to restart your computer, it’s important to say NO or else you may not get credit). Then a couple days later credit for the offer shows up on the free electronics offer website. The best part is that you can cancel online — you don’t even have to speak to a live person. I printed out the page saying I had cancelled, but I also got an email from them anyway. Then I uninstalled the software. Easy, free, a great way to complete a requirement.
The other easy one that I see up at the moment is EFax. You cancel via live chat with them. It’s a free offer, so you aren’t out any money. And the good part of the cancellation process is that you can copy the entire live chat into Word or use some other method to save the whole conversation, so you have a record of the cancellation just in case.
As a quick refresher, the various free electronics offers require you to complete a marketing offer and refer friends who complete marketing offers as well.
When you sign up you’ll be asked whether you want to participate in several ‘optional’ offers. Answer no to each one of them.
Then complete an offer like Napster or EFax — which cost you nothing. Naturally you don’t want to join Columbia House…
(For additional context, these are the same folks that offer the free iPod which I got myself almost a year ago.)
If you got yourself a free iPod, why not also get 33 free songs from iTunes for test driving an Audi?
The ever-controversial Gratis Networks has given away over $8 million in free products. I’ve gotten everything they offer except the free digital camera — I’m still working on that one.
It all started with the free iPod, of course, but since then I’ve gotten the flatscreen TV, photo iPod, iPod shuffle, desktop computer, Mac Mini, and Xbox.
I just did the required marketing offer for the Sony PSP this morning, completing that one as well. I signed up for a free trial with Napster. The free period is 14 days and the offer should post within the next 3 — so there’ll be plenty of time to cancel before I get charged anything. It’s nice to have a totally free option back.
I’ve gotta say that Gratis Networks has no customer service whatsoever. More often than not you don’t need it, everything works as it should. But patience can be required.
