Free iPods, for real

You’d think that I would have learned my lesson after my earlier post about free Xboxes, but nooo…
Lately I’ve been getting 5-10 spams a week for freeipods.com. The claim is that you can get a completely free iPod Mini (or 20GB, or 250 iTunes Music Store songs) for free. The deal is supposedly that you sign up with their service and complete one of their “offers”, ranging from the onerous (signing up for a GM Card credit card) to the simple (registering at eBay and bidding on something). Once you’ve done that, you have to get five friends or family members to complete one of the offers, and voila! goodies for you. I was reading Engadget the other day and saw that, lo and behold, freeipods.com is actually legit. What really confirmed it for me was seeing the conga line on FlyerTalk, plus this article.
Naturally, I signed up– I mean, who wouldn’t? My 15GB iPod is nice but has no headphones, dock, or remote, and the newer units are cooler 🙂 This falls squarely into the “why not” category. Now all I need is some referrals. The process is very simple:

1. Drop by the freeipods site
2. Sign up for one of the offers. The eBay offer is free and doesn’t require a credit card or other obnoxiousness. I signed up for AOL for Broadband because AOL, although annoying, is reputable, and I know they’ll cancel my free trial account when I ask them to.
3. You’ll get your own referral link. Get five of your friends, relatives, blog readers, or random street people to sign up using your referral link. (Feel free to post your referral link in the comments, too!)
4. Wait for the UPS man to bring your iPod.