freeminimacs.com BEWARE!!

[gotscammed]

Everyone seems to be excited about freeminimacs.com, and so was I. Yeah, I thought it was for real. NOT! I signed up on 1/19/05 and got 11 of my co-workers and friends to sign up and take an offer. when I got to 11 I went to get the free Mac Mini and they go through a process to verify your referrals. They say to check back in 5 days. 8 days later I check and find that they invalidated 4 of the people I referred because they were "Suspicious" . I emailed and asked why where they invalidated? They all signed up and took a offer from a program sponsor. Gratis replied that they would not discuss it with me but each of the people who were invalidated would have to contact them themselves. Each of these people were my coworkers and as legitimate as they come. They emailed Gratis Network (the people who run the freeminimacs site) and were told that they needed to fax in proof of identity.. They did, Drivers licenses with a picture and also membership information from the sponsors whose offers they signed up for. Their status remained unchanged so they emailed to find out why, as a matter of fact multiple times because Gratis ignored them at first. After a week went by, Gratis said they never received the fax so a couple of them refaxed but the two other continued to be ignored. as of now, thier status has not changed and Gratis does not reply to them. What a joke. Since I still had 7 referral credits that they allowed, I figured to heck with it and started asking friends to join again. I got 3 more friends to join. One signed up for Travelers Advantage and the second signed up for Great Fun Online. Both were credited to me right away. The third friend, signed up for the Nexiderm offer and I was waiting for that one to credit so I would be back at 10 and could put in for my free Mac Mini. I checked the status on the freeminimac site a couple times a day to see if the 10th credited and on February 25th the status of my account went to "on hold" . I emailed Gratis to find out what that meant because I was just about to hit 10 again. Theoir reply was that they suspect fraudulant activity on that account and that was the end, no more replies from them, no details end of story. All the work I put in, having my friends join their programs was all a huge waste of time because Gratis is calling me a crook. I resent that, I played by their rules and a total of 15 people joined thier program and particiapted in one of their offers (2 people joined 2 of thier offers) and when it came time to give away the Mini Mac they ripped me off. I have a website called freeminimacsscam.com . It will have specific information about my case and a message board soon. I am not afraid of Gratis because the truth is on my side. The only thing on that site will be the plain truth and only the truth. The corporate Counsel at work will help me file a notice of claim against Gratis. Clearly they have been copmpensated by the sponsors of their site for the 15 offers that were completed by me and my referrals so they are all going to get a letter outlining the fraud that gets perpetuated using their names. I hope people think twice about falling for this offer and getting their friends involved because in the end, there could be huge dissapointment in their lives. Good luck to you all and be careful. Things are not what they seem, especially in this case.

[jokach]

Wow, thanks for sharing your experience. Based on some of the research I did months back on the "free ipod" craze, what you stated is exactly what a lot of people were experiencing. There was a forum at one time (can't remember the name) dedicated to experiences with free-ipods and the such, and I found it humourous that the 'complaint' forum seemed to have 10 times the traffic of the 'happy customer' forum. Stories like yours above seemed like the norm, pretty much, Gratis did as they wished and didn't have to answer to anybody. As long as they gave out a few ipods each week, people kept signing up and it 'disproved' the fact that it didn't work (do you see a similarity here with matrix sites?? Gotmatrix even?????)

The other problem with the whole free-ipod thing, and maybe others can agree, is that everywhere you go on the internet, people are asking you "Do you want a free ipod?" with their link attached ......... its annoying!!!

Ok, rant over .... :crazy:

jokach

[ycchen]

gotscammed, welcome to matrixwatch and thanks for sharing. I am sure MW members will check up your website www.freeminimacsscam.com to get more information before they signup. :)

[pillsbury09]

NO you are wrong..This is a gratis site..and I got my free ipods, they may be very slow, and under staffed but they are not a SCAM!! When will peopel understand the difference between a comapny and a dumb guy running a matrix.

[MatrixWatch]

You are right, there is a difference. You must admit though, that if you didn't receive your iPod you too would probably be among those who are calling it a scam. :)

[concerned]

I guess the Federal Government should adopt a new policy. If pillsbury09 gets an IPOD, then it isn't a scam. That should cut their workload down some, shouldn't it?

[Matrixfool]

Heres the thing, they are suspicious about the same IP addresses now, which your company probably has. Last year when I got my iPod, they put my account on hold, and I believe it was because of that. I lived in a dorm building with the same IP. After making my case for about a month, I did in fact receive my iPod.