Okay, before I even try to explain what I’ve got myself into, let me first say I was completely informed about what I was getting into. I know all about pyramid schemes, multi-level marketing crap and all the other scams out there that force you to “recruit” other members to join the great economic revolution you’ve just been suckered into. “Want to receive checks in the mail every week for hundreds, even thousands of dollars? Join us and then get 3593 of your closest friends and family to join and you can get checks in the mail every week like we do!” The old adage “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” is almost, without fail, always correct. Nonetheless, this particular setup had an allure that other scams didn’t have. A lot of pyramid schemes promise checks every week in your mailbox, cars and spectacular vacations. All this one promised was a “Free Laptop”. I know, I know, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, so there’s no such thing as a free laptop. Well, I eschewed common sense, and I said “what the hay?” and I tried it anyway.
So here’s the deal. You pay twenty-nine dollars ($29) to join YourFreeLaptop.com. That gives you membership to their “club” with all the perks and benefits that come with it. Basically it’s a glorifed group of internet links and other crap a blind rhesus monkey could find. But your membership also puts you on the Laptop Ladder. Woohoo, sounds fun, right? Well now all you have to wait is for more people to join. So lets say you are number one on the ladder. No problem, you wait until 77 people join and wham, you get your free laptop. Cool, right? I thought so, too, so I joined. I knew I’d have to wait for a long time to join but I thought 29 bucks to get a laptop would be the frigging steal of the century. Only problem? I’m number 2077 on the ladder. What does that mean? I have to wait for 155,776 people to join.
That’s a lot of people I have to wait for. I joined on 10/30. Since then, in the past five days, 463 people have joined. about 90 a day. At that rate I get my laptop in about 4 years. Perhaps the rate at which people join will skyrocket and droves will start pouring in by the thousands. Call me a skeptic, but I don’t think that’s gonna happen. The last person that joins to qualify me for my laptop will have to wait for approximately 11 million more people to join. In other words, every person in Cuba would have to join. That is hilarious when I think about it. At least I got in when I did. If this sounds like you may still want to take a chance and give it a try, I’d join asap. Each time someone joins, the wait gets longer.
So basically, I’m counting it as a loss of twenty-nine smackers. If a laptop shows up someday, it will be a pleasant surprise. For the fun of it, I’ll be adding a little section to the left side of the page for current stats of how close I am to getting my laptop.
I’m just not holding my breath.
