Free laptop? No such thing.
Free laptop?
There’s no such thing as a free laptop.
You have to wade deep into I Want My Free Laptop Web site’s voluminous fine print to learn that you may in fact never receive that free laptop and that much more is afoot than merely driving traffic to sponsors’ sites.
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.
This isn’t a new ploy. Another common online program, as I’ve written in the past, is to offer a free iPod that, the consumer soon learns, requires filling out a “survey” that’s in fact a lengthy marketing pitch, and agreeing to various solicitations that will almost certainly cost you money.
