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I found this website earlier in the year and did a little research. I found at least three news articles reporting on it and I could not find a single report saying it was false. It's not totally free though (there's ALWAYS a catch)--what you have to do is sign up for an offer through one of the affiliated companies (a few examples are a free 2-week trial of blockbuster's new mailing service, try realrhapsody for $0.99 for a month, 5 dvds for $0.49 through colombia house dvd...there are some others also) and get five of your friends to complete offers as well. I'd be game for trying it, but most of my friends are skeptics as well.
Oh also (a tip for if you do try it): my understanding is that some of these offers are either free or pretty cheap, but you have to be very careful and READ EVERYTHING! Some of the offers have some interesting fine print...for example, I was reading a contract on one of the vitamin/mineral supplement trials (2 weeks worth for $7.95 or something like that) and it also mentioned in fine print that if you didn't cancel within 14 days that they would sign you up for a $70 package! And since you'd have to give them your credit card # to pay for the two-week trial, they could easily bill your credit card.
So if you do decide to try freeipod.com, make sure you READ the contracts, CANCEL subscriptions if necessary (so you don't get billed up the wazoo) and BUY one of those mastercard or american express gift cards instead of using your credit card so they really can't bill you for money you don't have.
Just my two cents.
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