1st Steps

If you didn't get it from the description above, here's the deal...

I saw some guy selling an Xbox360 for nothing on Ebay, now I've always thought damn you're con-artist bastards. So I decided to email the guy and ask what the deal was. He told me the following...

"1)sign up
2)complete an offer (i suggest lovefilm as it is totally free. if u sign up to love film, you can wait until it says that u have completed the offer, (usally 3-4 days)then after it says that it is completed simply cancel the free trial.)
3)get your friends to do the same
hey presto you have a totally free console
thanks for your interest "

Sounds too good to be true huh? That's what I thought. And if something sounds too good to be true, then it ususally is. End of story, cheerio...

But something was nagging me. The site looked real enough, there seemed to be a fair amount of people who had mentioned them on the web. Surely if this was a big scam, I'd know about it, like the whole "President Mgumbo from Malawi want's to give you $200,000,000" scam. So I signed up. What harm can it do? (Well quite a lot if it's a big scam). It was relatively painless. I signed up to the website (that never asked for my bank details, that would have made me run a mile!) and got got the choice of a number of different offers.

I've taken up the free 6 DVD trial at LoveFilm. They seem reputable (I think they used to be Screen Select), I've had to give them my bank details, but if they are going to send me DVDs I can understand that. Their Terms and Conditions say, as long as I cancel within 3 weeks or before I receive my 6 DVDs then, hey presto, no commitment.

Have I opened a door way to hell? Am I going to get scammed within an inch of my life? I honestly don't know. I hope not.