manOFice
17-06-2005 17:04:15
If someone signs up for an company on his computer on his cc. If his sister wants to sign up on his computer but under her name and her cc is this legit?
FreeOffersNow
17-06-2005 18:26:26
No. One account per household.
hehehhehe
17-06-2005 18:28:15
The company whose offer you're doing won't care. Gratis would care though, since their TOS says one account per household.
Peksim
17-06-2005 18:31:11
[quote6f477b4476="hehehhehe"]The company whose offer you're doing won't care. Gratis would care though, since their TOS says one account per household.[/quote6f477b4476]who wouldn't care?
Hanjet
17-06-2005 21:11:18
i think it says that in all of the companies' TOS...
one per household only...
theysayjump
17-06-2005 21:14:34
[quote1c6d375a1f="Hanjet"]i think it says that in all of the companies' TOS...
one per household only...[/quote1c6d375a1f]
yeah you're right.
Peksim
17-06-2005 21:18:39
I was about to gain about 20 additional "family" members.... all using one IP.
lol that is what I figured.
Hanjet
17-06-2005 21:33:01
[quoteafb289dced="Hanjet"]i think it says that in all of the companies' TOS...
one per household only...[/quoteafb289dced]
yep just checked most of the sites, it clearly says
"One member per household only" wink
hehehhehe
17-06-2005 22:31:57
my bad, lol.
However, let me explain. Most companies track you by your name, address, email, and/or CC#. Blockbuster for example, uses email and CC#. I only know/think thsi because I had an account there earlier (nothing to do with freebies), had canceled it, but signed up again aabout a month later for my first freebie site using another email and cc#. Wasn't concurrent, but I bet they wouldn't catch two individuals in the same house with different emails and different cc#, unless they really made an effort. It's really about how much money these companies want to spend to track these things. It's not necessarily fraud so it's kind of in a gray area and not a priority. Same goes for AOL. When they were giving away $100 Amazon GC for sign-up, people signed up multiple times using different CCs and email addresses and got their goodies. Another example is Walmart DVD rentals. There, you can use the same CC# but keep sigining up for their DVD rental trials with different email addresses (I did it just once).
In any case, it was wrong to say they wouldn't care, as they clearly do. My examples above were about cheating the system. However, I bet companies like ultraslim/appera/trimlife/etc... really wouldn't mind signing up multiple people from the same family if they really are trying their products.
In the end though, with Gratis this is a no no so this is a moot point.