if i answer to their surveys i can get one well i did and i haven't got one yet and it's been almost 2 months.and i'm getting very angry.so can you help me or tell me what i should do.
2007-04-02 08:54:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Hello you fell for a common internet trick, somewhere in the end user agreement their were probably stipulations on you actually receiving the laptop. You either had to give your email or address (or both) in order to take the survey. This is so they can send you unlimited amounts of spam. Companies compete to get email addresses and you fell for a trick that let them sell your address to hundreds of other advertising companies. As to what you can do...well all you can do is complain. Change to gmail is the spam piles up
2007-04-02 09:08:40 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin K. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those sites are (usually) legit, the only problem is they bend the truth. they'll send you a massive amount of spam, and WILL pay you to fill out surveys, at about 50 cents a survey.
or that you can sign up for a product instead of cash, which they will then keep a tally of the money you've earned until you earn enough for the laptop or get sick of surveys, which is what they're banking on so they don't have to send you anything.
Each survey takes between 10 and 20 minutes to complete. That would mean you would need to fill out 2000 surveys at 50 cents a pop for about 500 hours of work. (almost 21 days of solid filling out of surveys with out sleep)
Thats like working a real job for 12 weeks making $2 an hour, full time.
For being totally un-realistic, i call it a scam. Some say they just don't want to get out of their computer chair for a couple months and that its actually works.
2007-04-02 16:03:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is called spam!
any kind of software with spam filter will stop these however if you are using outlook for your email then you can right click on the mail and select this is junk email this will also stop them others = (zone alarm pro or Nortons internet suite)both quite good software costs around 30 euro.
keep in mind if it sounds to good to be true it usually is.
peter(www.vpi.ie)
2007-04-02 16:10:08 · answer #3 · answered by pp_doyle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
those type of things are not going to give it to you unless you get the claim number which is hard to get most of the time because it is in blinking numbers to disorient you. if you complete those types of thing they will only send you spam after that so just block them and never do them again.
2007-04-02 15:59:15 · answer #4 · answered by morocco103k7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set up a junk mail filter and trash their email! Don't open it!!!
2007-04-02 16:00:35 · answer #5 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
big mistake, these are all fake and you never get it or by the time you get it you are bankrupt, hope you didn't enter any credit card info.
2007-04-02 15:56:44 · answer #6 · answered by dustinh456 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a new email address
2007-04-02 15:57:06 · answer #7 · answered by Elly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋