Abusing freebiesA friend of mine recently attended a 'Champaign Lunch', where he was compelled drink as much fizzy stuff as he could between the first and last courses. In an ideal world we'd ask restaurant staff to tell us stories about fatties stuffing themselves at All You Can Eat places, but we recognise that our members don't all work in the catering trade, so for the rest of you - tell us something about abusing freebies. BTW: Bee puns = you fail.
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lizard, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 14:16)
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CDs. Lots of them.There's a certain company that sells royalty free music to people, so they can use it in their own productions etc. They also offered a gift certificate to people who newly signed up, which was enough to buy one song.
Needless to say, that wasn't enough. So I found out that I could sign up for new accounts using spamgourmet addresses, which would be forwarded to my gmail. I set up loads of new accounts over the course of a few hours. If I logged in on the site with the original account, I could apply all of the "gift certificates" to the same account.
After saving up hundreds of dollars worth of credit on my account, I started thinking about what to spend them on. The site had a special offer on their entire music collection on CD for $700. That seemed good enough. Sooo I placed the order and waited.
And waited.
And waited some more.
I had nearly forgotten about it when a large parcel arrived. It contained about 30 or 40 CDs with all of the music that this company had ever produced on them.
Obviously I was very impressed with myself for scamming them out of £350 worth of music. So when they emailed me about having new collections of music available on CD, I started creating more accounts.
It didn't work. They had stopped allowing you to apply gift certificates to one account.
Argh.
I think a box full of CDs is still enough to be counted as abuse though. So ha.
No apologies, I'm a rude arsehole.
(, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 19:21, Reply)
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