According to the fine print of getmyfreelaptop a consumer must “agree to receive solicitations, marketing materials and other communications from us and Sponsors via e-mail, telemarketing, direct marketing, mobile marketing and any other method.”
I don’t know how many people think that it’s worth the risk of having your professor’s e-mail bounce back to them because FreeCondoms decided that you might want to check out some kinda free Soulja Boy ringtones. over a hundred times.
Let’s say that you have a brand new Gmail account and you want to see just how full you can get that inbox, and spam isn’t an issue for you. Well, there’s on more thing keeping you from that iBook of your dreams, you need to sign up for the right amount of sponsors, or if you are into condoms, the right about of points.
On Getmyfreelaptop after signing away my privacy and the personal information of one Mr. Ike Lyke Bigboughtts, I was asked to complete several surveys when I answered “no” the website stalled. It wouldn’t take me any further until I said “yes” to at least one of them. I picked an offer for a $5,000 dollar shopping spree, all I had to do was take a survey on tobacco. Of course I don’t use any kind of tobacco product and there was no option I could choose to say so, but it did ask me if I was interested in Smoker’s rights. (Maybe the smokers and the furries can march on Washington together.)
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