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Make Sure You Get Your iPod For Free
You may have read the post I made at EverythingUlster.com a few weeks back called "Free Colour/Photo iPods Hit UK" where I explained how you could get a free iPod by signing up to a free trial. If you haven't read it already, you might want to read it now.
In short you get a free iPod for signing up to a free trial with an online DVD rental company called ScreenSelect (it really is free, even the return postage on the DVDs is pre-paid by them). Like any TGTBT offer, there are catches, but if you follow a few simple steps you can make sure your iPod really is free.
Follow up:
The most obvious one is to cancel your DVD trial within 21 days. Actually this is not quite true. You need to cancel your membership AND send your DVDs back within 21 days because ScreenSelect don't cancel your membership until they've received the DVDs back, so I advise doing it around day 17.
The second is to remember that if they send out a 6th DVD then you get charged too. There are 2 ways to get round this. The easiest one is to remove enough all the DVDs from your selection so you can never have more than 5 sent out. For example, when you sign up you have to choose 10 for your list, so when they send out your first 2 that leaves 8. What you need to do is remove 5 of these from your list so that way once they send the 5 out they've none left to send you. They'll keep pestering you to add more, but ignore them. Your other choice is to simply cancel the membership as soon as you receive your 5th DVD. Be careful if you're on the "2 at a time" package as they might send 2 at once, that's why I recommend carrying out both these steps.
So here's what you do.
- Day 1: Sign up to ScreenSelect through freeiPods and make a note of the date your free trial will end (they'll tell you this). Choose your 10 DVDs to activate your account.
- Day 1-3: Wait for an email telling you that your first DVD has been dispatched. At this point, sign into your ScreenSelect account and delete 5 DVDs from your selection. This means they can never send the 6th DVD.
- Later: When you receive your 5th DVD, immediately sign into your screenselect account and cancel your membership
- Day 17: If you haven't already cancelled your account, do so now. They will try and offer you different packages instead. Just cancel. Send any DVDs you have on loan back ASAP to ensure they arrive back with ScreenSelect before your free trial ends.
Now all you have to do is spread the word. Get 5 friends to do the same and the iPod is yours. It takes a week from signing up with screen select for freeiPods to credit your account though so have patience. It does pay off. I haven't actually got my iPod yet, but the guy who referred me has his, so this works! I'll let you know here when I get mine.