Free iPad Scam

If you are unable to afford a new iPad, you have most likely seen the “free iPad” advertisements on the internet while searching for a way to purchase the iPad. When you click on the links to these sites, you see a form requesting your contact information, and that’s usually about it. Can you actually trust these sites to send you a free iPad? Or this is some kind of a scam?

The free iPad sites are not a scam. They are a form of incentive marketing, where an incentive is offered to you to try and induce you to participate in a trial offer with another company. You get to choose the trial from a pool of available trials, and the process is entirely in your control. Should you wish, you can cancel out of the trial at any time. If you cancel too soon, your eligibility for the free iPad will be revoked. At the end of your trial period, and after you have referred some of your friends, you will be sent your free iPad.

Is your credit card going to be charged? You do need to provide your credit card when you sign up for a trial of your choice—and if you don’t cancel by a certain date, you will be charged. This date is after you get your free iPad though, and while the window to cancel is pretty narrow typically, you should still manage to do so before losing any money. If you do have any doubts, remember you can cancel at any time with no obligation.

Free iPads aren’t a scam. Trial offers are an effective marketing technique, and the companies which want you to sign up are well known companies you’ll have heard of. They pay freebie sites a lot, and thus the freebie sites can give away iPads. Everybody profits, including you!