Meryl's Notes Blog

I posted a while back (here and here) when free [fill-in-the-blank] offers were new where you have to complete one of the offers and forward the link to friends in hopes that five or so sign up for the offer. If they do, then you get a free whatcamacallit. The first one was an iPod. Since then, monitors, game systems, and other gadgets have been offered using the same set up. That was it for me. No more. It was a bad experience.

Then, Bryan Wirth contacted me out of the blue. He is helping friends and strangers (me) that have completed their end of the bargain. He established Gratis Internet Sucks (now Gratis Internet Rocks to assist people who have completed their offers, but were disqualified from receiving the iPod or whatever the item.

Many experienced glitches, like with mine — I sent a link to Paul who promptly signed up. I had neglected to recall that it can’t be the same address. It was rejected. No problem. I was cool with that. But I had a total of seven or eight legitimate completed offers (two over the requirement of five) other than the disqualified ones.

One of my friends did complete the eBay offer and even WON the auction. That was disqualified because Gratis Network stopped accepting eBay as an offer. Anyway, because of my mistake, Gratis suspended my account. I admitted the mistake and emailed customer service several times receiving the same answer every time.

Bryan sent a couple of emails to Gratis who took my account out of suspension and is letting me proceed with receiving my iPod. So I thank Bryan for his efforts to make more progress than I did and to Gratis for making good. If you are interested in an offer, I’d appreciate it if you give Bryan credit. You can get a Photo iPod (60 GB), Mac Mini, or PSP. If you had problems with Gratis, drop Bryan a line. He’s happy to help.

As for me, I’ll just take the iPod and pass up the offers though they’re tempting to this gadget freak. I’m going to wait six to eight weeks so I can get the color iPod instead. Then I can show off pictures of my kids while enjoying music and practice listening.