Saturday, January 23, 2010

Why, oh why, can't this be easy!!


I must say, I am a bit frustrated right now.
I was on the internet yesterday, checking my email. Low and behold, I have an email that tells me I can receive a whole year's worth of diapers. All I have to do is answer a few questions. HA!
I answer all the questions.
Now, all I have to do is sign up for 2 free offers, then I will receive my year's worth of diapers. Double HA!!
I signed up for 2 free offers. (These free offers cost me $11.49, by the way.)
Then, I was prompted to click the "next" button to claim my free diapers. Triple HA!!!
When I clicked "next", I was then prompted to sign up for "just 9" free offers to claim my free diapers.
WOW. I wasted alot of time. My precious baby is sleeping, and I thought I would be doing my budget a great service by signing up for these 2 free offers, then getting free diapers for a year. It would be well worth it to use my limited time doing this (instead of, say dishes, laundry, shower, sweeping, etc.). NOPE - big fat waste of time.
How many of you have been caught in this terrible, misleading scam? I feel completely stupid. I even had to go back and make sure I had read it all correctly the first time. I had read correctly. There has to be someone I can yell at, right? I need to be able to yell at some big-wig who is sitting in his plush office somewhere, laughing at all these poor people who sign up for "just 2" "free" offers in order to get something for free. (I'm not sure that using double parenthesis is grammatically legal, please forgive me if it is not..)
Thank you for indulging, and feel free to share any frustrating stories about getting "stuck" in one of these "short survey" nightmares, only to get nothing in return...
PS - I did double space between paragraphs, but can't get it to post that way - have had this problem before - sorry!!

2 comments:

  1. I've had that happen and it is VERY frustrating. I see it as the new way of fishing/scamming.

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  2. I will admit to being sucked in a few times. But the temptation of a year's supply of diapers would have caught me, too! I need to kiss on that baby's face!!!

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