Have you seen or heard the commercial for “I Want My Free Laptop.Com?” Well, I thought about checking it out and then I decided it sounded “too good to be true.”
Turns out I was right. Here’s a link to an article about it from The San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/15/BUGL6QFGUB1.DTL
The company that’s pushing it is “iffy”, it seems. Here’s a paragraph from the article:
“In fact, the people behind I Want My Free Laptop — we’ll get to them in a moment — are selling you as a commodity to a wide variety of marketers, who in turn are virtually free to do as they please with your personal information. “
I sure don’t want some marketer to have my personal information. Not on a bet!
The magazine PC World has a blog and here’s what one person said:
“I created a test email account and went through one page of the signup (I balked when I had to provide my address and birthday. I know, I could have faked it, but I already felt like I was swimming in shark-infested waters.) But simply giving the test email address was enough—I started getting spam within minutes.
So if you’re looking for spam and a big hassle, feel free to sign up. If you want a laptop, I’d suggest buying a new one. Based on this site, it doesn’t seem like you’ll get a free laptop easily, if at all.”
The link for that blogpost is:
Anyway, if you’ve been tempted to sign up – DON’T. Just thought you ought to know.
Razzmatazlady 
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