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The free iPods folks are offering a free I love Free iPods.com t-shirt when you complete one of their marketing offers. No referrals are required for this one, but you do need to do an offer youself. Frankly not worth it. I’ll save doing offers myself for the offers I do want, like the free Playstation Portable or the free digital camera.
Points.com is giving away 15,000 American miles each day, but perhaps more importantly you get 100 miles just for entering. You need to signup for a free Points.com account to enter, or if you’re already a member you can simply sign in for the points. Points.com has unveiled their new interface, and while it appears slick and streamlined there’s no new functionality that I’m going to find personally useful. What’s more, they’ve increased their fees to $10/month for a premium account!
ING Direct is offering 2.8% on their FDIC-insured online savings account.That’s a pretty good rate for a savings account (my local bank is offering a similar rate on 12-month CDs). What’s more, ING Direct offers new customers $25 just for opening the account when referred by an existing customer (the referrer gets $10). There are no account minimums and no fees. You can open the account with $1 and get credited an additional $25. They’ll make you wait some time, I think a month, before you can withdraw their $25. Other than that, no restrictions. There was once a $50 referral offer, I haven’t seen that in a couple of years though. I signed up at $25, pulled my money out, but then a couple years later realized I still had the account (with 17…
The people that brought you the free iPod, free Playstation Portable, free handbag, and free iPod Shuffle are at it again with a new offer. This time it’s a free digital camera. Among the cameras is a Canon Powershot S70 7.1 megapixel which retails for about $500. Like all of the free electronics offers, you have to sign up and complete a marketing trial (several are free if you cancel within the trial period) and get friends to do the same. Whereas the iPod shuffle offer requires only three referrals and the Playstation Portable requires five referrals, the digital camera offer takes ten — but then the iPod Shuffle retails for $100 and the camera is five times pricier. Once you’ve entered your email address, you’ll be asked whether you want to participate in several…
Through February 28 Frontier Airlines is giving all new accounts 1500 miles just for signing up. If you have a Points.com PointsPlus account (which you can get free) you can immediately transfer these 1500 miles into 675 eBay points, 349 American miles, 750 Asia Miles, 2250 Goldpoints, or one of several other choices.
Gratis Networks has a new free electronics offer (yes, another one!). This time it’s Free Playstation Portables. I’ve gotten the free iPod, the photo iPod, the desktop computer, the game system, the flatscreen TV, and the handbag. The Mac Mini has been shipped. Alas, I still have to wait for my free iPod shuffle — hasn’t shipped yet, and I want it. I’m not the most patient person in the world… It’s worth noting that these free offers probably mean a bunch of spam. If so, it all goes to my junkmail folder, but I assume that Gratis markets their customer lists. Their privacy standards have been roundly criticized. It seems a small price to pay for the great payoff in free electronics. I’d rather “sell” my information that way than give it away for…
Gary Steiger has returned from vacation and updated his comprehensive and indispensable Free Frequent Flyer Miles website. It contains links to a plethora of credit card, telephone, internet service, mortgage, and other bonus offers. I often use it as a reference myself — Gary Steiger catalogues the offers, so I don’t need to save them all when I want to refer someone to the best possible bonus.
I still don’t know what I’m going to do with a free Mac Mini but this Wired piece suggests it can turned into a livingroom video recorder, a media center for cars, or a toaster. Though that last one may be a little too MacGyver for me.
The eFax 30 Day Free Trial offer is back on the Free Mac Mini site. I did the eFax trial for my photo iPod. It’s a 30 day free trial, which is good because it makes it plenty easy to cancel. Cancellation is done via online chat, so you can even save the chat in case something goes wrong (just copy and paste it into your wordprocessor). So if you’re looking for an easy offer to complete, this is a good one. The past few days had seen only sketchy offers like 7 day trials that required you to stay signed up for the full 7 days, or even a 1-day trial for $1. Too much hassle. Much prefer to have a month…
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
