<p>My dorm is kinda stiff right now, which makes sense with all the orientation and ice breaker events going on, there's nothing really fun waiting back at the room for me. One of my friends just sent me an email with a link to a site that offers free Xbox360 Elites, which would definitely help make the place a little more fun, but I'm a little skeptical. </p>
<p>I still signed up so he'd get credit for my referral, but I'm still not sure it will work. Has anyone here tried one of these sites and (successfully) completed their terms? Do they work? This one seems easy enough- refer 9 people to the site and register, and the reward is yours, so it does seem tempting, if not a little too easy. Can someone offer insight?</p>
<p>Okay, so it does work? That's really all I was concerned about. I've already taken care of the one thing I was required to sign up for (it was free, so no sweat); the main hassle is going to be recruiting 9 other people, which I don't think will be so bad- between email, myspace, family, and flyers on bulletin boards around campus, I think I'll be able to pull it off. I just needed to know I wouldn't be wasting my time.</p>
<p>Nah, not fishy... any of these things that give away free game systems and whatnot are always a hassle. They'll always ask you to sign up a friend (or friends) and sign up for a number of offers, and make you go through 10000000 advertisements and offers before even giving you a chance to taste the free prize.</p>
<p>Update- I received an thank you note in my email yesterday from my friend Mark, since I was his eighth person, and his mom agreed to sign up only if her account would be the clincher. His 360 is in the mail with a tracking number and all.</p>
<p>However, to anybody interested- it is kind of frustrating. Signing up didn't cost me a thing, and of his nine referrals only our friend Jeff spent money (he signed up for a Gamefly membership), since most went for the free offer. It really is as easy as getting 9 people to sign up, but that's the difficulty. Most of our friends are mutual friends, so I have a small pool of people to contact. My family is paranoid about free items and worship the TINSTAAFL mentality, and most of my Myspace friends that I know well enough to ask already helped Mark, or declined. I've also posted signs on community bulletins around campus (two referrals from these! so far . . . ) In all, I'm up to six referrals, and I don't think the last 3 are going to be too hard to find.</p>
<p>These things do work afterall, but if you sign up, pray you have a HUGE email address book or myspace.</p>
<p>And I think some game magazine, EGM I think, reviewed a service where you didn't have to sign up anybody else, just your own credit card to a bunch of trial offers. The conclusion was something like if you take the time to make sure to cancel the services and read through the fine print to make sure stuff is free, you'll actually get a free XBox.</p>