02.28
A friend of mine recently asked me about Notebooks4Free.
NB4F is a referral program, one of many that ask you to get people to buy crap so you can get credits and eventually claim your prize. They have several levels of prizes, depending on which program you sign up for.
Personally, I’m not really a big fan of it. It reminds me of pyramid scams, but I know some people online that sign up for these things and actually get what is offered. I remember when Heather and I went to Krissy‘s house to watch TV on some new box she got from one of those programs. So even though I don’t believe in them, I know they can work.
Since Krissy had experience with them, I decided to poke and prod her for more information. I expected to get more information about whether these programs were worth getting. I stumbled upon something “bigger.”
The basics behind all the programs is that they all use some kind of referral system.
“A user signs up under your referral ID,” explains Krissy. “Automatically they’re placed on a “Referrals List” under the account they were referred by.”
“They sign up to whatever offers are available,” she says, “take AOL for example. They click on the icon, and are taken to AOL’s site for the sign up.”
From there they sign up and eventually have their own AOL user and password, all thanks to your referral. And three days later, the referral is validated through NB4F and you are credited as such.
Can you cheat the system? Sure, why not. Just make a bunch of fake email addresses and go from there. Not so, says Krissy.
“So say 123.4.567.89 signs up with one email address at krissy.nu, but the same address signs up with an email address at thedeadend.net,” Krissy explains. “You both sign up under the same referral ID. They’ll see the matching IP addresses for those two email addresses and both accounts will be void, whether an offer was completed or not.”
Interestingly enough, Jennifer recently earned a laptop of her own. A HP Pavillion zd8120 with 3 gHz processor, 1 gig ram, 80 gig hard drive, CD-R/RW & DVD R/RW drive, Wi-fi, and more. I would have asked her myself about the program and how it worked except for one thing.
“It’s funny actually,” she continues, “Jennifer had two email addresses under my referral and every time she went to cash out it said that her account was denied because of multiple addresses.”
With Jennifer’s credibility at issue in the past, I decided the best way to get the right information is to go straight to the source. Krissy was a step ahead of me.
There’s a bit of confusion with another member whom recently received a laptop that you sent to her. I’m wondering if you can clear this up for me.
She had 18 referrals and went for the HP laptop with these stats:
Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Processor
1GB DDR SDRAM
100GB HD
DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
802.11g WirelessNow, she’s claiming that this one was the one that was sent to her:
Could you please clear this up for me?
If I were to choose that laptop, I’d like to know which of the stats I’d be receiving.
A reasonable request, and a timely reply.
On 2/21/06, support@offercentric.com < support@offercentric.com > wrote:
Hello,
Depending on the availability from our vendor, the specs may vary slightly.
Of course, it was also a bit vague. Krissy followed up with another email.
From: Krissy < krissy@acidgloss.net>
Date: Feb 21, 2006 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: General Question
To: “support@offercentric.com ”So is that the one she most likely received, or is she boasting ‘em up?
Cause you list your HP for like 1200 and she’s claiming to get a 1900 laptop. I don’t think the vendors would send out one that’s that advanced.
In fact, not only would venders not send out a fully loaded box, they generally tend to send refurbished products.
From: support@offercentric.com < support@offercentric.com>
Date: Feb 22, 2006 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: General Question
To: KrissyHello,
No we would never replace it with a model that is 500 dollars more.
Best Regards,
OfferCentric Member Services
Why would Jennifer lie about the specs? The NB4F site tells you what the computer is worth, and they’ve confirmed they wouldn’t send a computer valued at $500 or more than what they offered.
Maybe she really didn’t get it from them? Who knows with her.
Whatever the reasoning, it’s ridiculous, and it could make someone seriously interested in a program that gives free computers away second doubts.
i have a source planted there but they dont want to post 100 posts. they get sick just going there.
Her Current entry:
Of course she would. She wants to be just like her mommy and mommy doesn’t know how to do anything but sit online and start shit.
Considering the role model I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s getting nailed and slicing herself at 13….ON CAM!
i saw that and shes full of shit, i highly doubt her ugly kid answered the phone “hello”
wrong number much?
oh there is just no way. why? she doesn’t boast about anything else the kid does that is so advanced so I highly doubt it. And umm I find it funny that she did this on the heals of everyone talking about her kid.
Ha, I just went to her site and couldn’t see it on my end, cause it says this:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/xoxo/public_html/refer/refer.php on line 40
..interesting.
Dana, that happened to me last night too. It works now and I got to read her crap about Alyssa answering the phone. I mean she hit the talk button and said hello but she can’t tell mommy she needs real food to eat?
And at this rate why isn’t she potty trained?
http://www.xoxo.nu/the-content/wall-of-shame
No comment. This speaks for itself.
They’re not even the same ladybug… Is jenn that fucking retarded?
Haha, WHO stole the ladybug in the first place? What a retard.
I have always thought that walls of shame were pretty lame. That other chick’s layout looks so much better than dipshit’s & the lady bugs are the only similarities. I thought she was “over the petty e-drama bs.” Apparently not.
I think she’s just trying to get her “minions” to console her and harrass the other girl… but who really knows what goes in that head of hers.
“wall of shame”? I thought that was something 12 year old geocities “webmasters” did.
Wow, that’s all that comes to mind. Lady bugs aren’t hard to make at all, without a tutorial or with a tutorial.. ( http://herlife.org which is a design I did for a friend recently )
And a wall of shame.. man, if I was up for some drama, I would surely give my two cents on that. :/
well right now i lack creativity and those ladybugs are looking good to me. your layout though reese is just awesome. and original.
The best part about the ladybug controversy… the “thief” actually has the shadow working the way it’s supposed to.
Way to go, fuck face!
It actually looks like the alledged ‘thief’ followed the tutorial and did it on their own. It’s not identical to the tutorials finished bug.
I just think it’s rather hypocritical of her. I know people have accused her, in the past, of mocking/stealing other peoples designs/images or whatever. I’ve had several emails and comments where people said they thought she’d ripped me off. (a snowman layout and various other things) I guess I could’ve put up a wall of shame too, considering it’s nearly the same thing. (Since she didn’t actually steal my images, they were just very similar/familiar), like with the two lady bug layouts in question.
One of her followers emailed Kimberly (herlife.org) recently and said Kimberly ripped off Jenn’s design. But they looked nothing alike to begin with and I found that so funny. :x
after so many people accuse you, you lose all credibilty and just start to look guilty
she’s just digging that hole of hers deeper & deeper, ain’t she?
thanks for the lavish snapshots i almost fell out of my chair in laughter.
ill revisit the site in a few days to see if she said anything dumb (yet again)
i think i’ve said this before but its good so ill say it again.
Jenn remind me of that moron that sees a “wet paint sign” and has to touch it just to make sure.
if one would look closely at both headers of Jenn’s & oh nooooooooooooooos “thief”, the other chick (Lissa) has a much bigger ladybuy & she has more of them on her header than Jenn does.
Lissa’s & Jenn’s
I’m not grasping the concept of this “thievery” at all. Nice stab at trying to maintain your online credibility, Jenn ;)
Funniest website review ever! NOT a drama queen?
http://despair.nu/review.php?id=69
she paid that site for the review, she had to because no one in their right mind (and those tempted by money arent in the right mind) would believe even one of those compliments
Hey she took down the wall of shame (well it’s still there, but nobody’s featured anymore)
That’s because the other site did a slight edit on her design. Which looks ten times better.
And which makes Jenn’s site still look like it was raped by HTML 3.01
Worse… it was raped by Jenn.
This is the kind of thing that makes that despair.nu review even funnier, right? I honestly don’t get how people can believe one word that girl writes anymore, nor do I see why she has such devoted followers. She’ll never have any kind of credibility with anyone who can use their brain and see her for what she is.
for shits and giggles I went to the retards site.
you’re going to love this quote
“To quote my husband’s new favored insult, what an idjit.”
hasn’t that word been used for ages now?
i didn’t think it was possible but hes as dumb as she is
Yeah, didn’t Mandi call you an idjit on IG four years ago?
mandi? as in rainbow not so brite? dude, she couldn’t even spell idjit. she was an easier target than Big nose Nicole