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Article: THAT FREE IPOD WON'T COME EASY
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2005
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Have you gotten your free iPod yet? Me neither.
I almost did last week, after visiting an Internet site that
promised a free music player. Instead, I ended up paying $15 for a
music club subscription, $10 for some DVD rentals, and $6 for a
bottle of diet pills. If only I'd paid another $50 for human growth
hormone or for a Viagra substitute, I might be listening to music on
a new iPod right now.
But I'm already big enough. I refused to pay and my chance for a
high-tech freebie dwindled away, along with about $30 hard-earned
dollars.
Go ahead, laugh. Those free-iPod ads splashed all over the
Internet are such obvious scams that no sixth-grader ought to fall
for them. Except they aren't all ...