Shoot The Gold Ipod!

joeblogg

Oct 27 2008, 10:03 AM

yay. you can win a free ipod by shooting the gold ipod! its so easy to shoot you'd think everyone would get free ipods right. well obviously not because its a scam. you have to put in your phone number and then they send you text messages and charge it to your phone bill becuase they pay the service provider. they work together. its just one big scam. don't do it. i think its fun to shoot the ipod but i don't put in my phone number.

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Jelly

Oct 27 2008, 11:53 AM

Haha, I've seen plenty of those

, mostly having to do with iPods aswell.

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Nabb

Oct 27 2008, 01:37 PM

I tend not to click on ads unless the content advertised interests me. Or somehow the flash compels me (for example one of the Scion ads did this).

Although sometimes I muck around on flash ads for fun - e.g. not shooting the gold iPod (which is pretty boring, because there's not many iPods to be shot), or getting one less than the required basketballs in the hoop.

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Jelly

Oct 27 2008, 06:17 PM

I recall some shoot the goose ones or use a slingshot to hit George Bush, those were fun to play around in.

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surbjit

Oct 27 2008, 09:34 PM

QUOTE(Jelly @ Oct 27 2008, 06:17 PM)

I recall some shoot the goose ones or use a slingshot to hit George Bush, those were fun to play around in.

Haha, I remember that one.

Anyway back on topic, yes these are fake. I tend to play these games that come up on the side but never enter my telephone number for anything.

The would use your telephone number to get survey companies to contact your home and make you complete surveys and keep phoning you once every often. So my advise never click on these sort of adverts that look interesting but just scam you in the process.

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saitunes

Oct 27 2008, 11:02 PM

I really hate any of those type ads, the 'shoot the gold ipod/iphone', the thing is they're not just on one or two sites. There's on pretty much every site.

I have to admit, I turn on the pop-upblocker and shoot to my hearts content.

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amarti64

Oct 29 2008, 01:34 PM

You know what else really sucks? The ads with sound. The last thing I need to hear at two in the morning is "Congratulations! You've won a free Nintendo Wii! Now that I'm finished scaring the heck out of you, please click here so you can be bombarded with offers!"

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cangor

Oct 31 2008, 11:16 PM

^I totally agree on that haha
You know what I think would make a great idea for a website? Someplace where it takes all these game ads where you have to shoot or hit or toss or whatever except they're not ads and when you click them they don't open up some spam offer, you just get to play then for fun....
Hey, shooting the ducks can get pretty interesting.

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willielwgg

Oct 31 2008, 11:22 PM

Duh. You never put your real info in there! Most of the time you have to but ADT security or Dish TV and they get the money from there. They figure it's free since you get security or tv, but you are actually paying for the iPod.

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onscreen

Nov 1 2008, 12:45 AM

It is not a scam. First in the to-do list, always read the fine print on the bottom. That is what you need to really see instead of the attractive get-this-*insert an Apple product*-free! If you do not read everything shown on the site, that is you cheating yourself for "believing" such advertising.

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Jezstarr

Nov 2 2008, 06:20 AM

haha I know what you mean, most of the time I'll shoot every other ipod but the gold ones. They gold ones look like crap anyway.

There are so many of these scams it's not funny!

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joeblogg

Nov 2 2008, 03:11 AM

just do the ads for fun but don't actually give them any information and stuff. thats how you don't get tricked.

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