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A lot of people are selling Ipods and other items on Ebay that they've got free by using an incentive programme - no purchase necessary! A colleague of mine (an accountant with her head screwed on the right way) has done some research on it, and so have I, and we've both come to the conclusion that it's genuine. My colleague's put a listing on Ebay but I thought I'd go the friends/family route because they're more likely to believe me than some stranger on Ebay!

Basically, you follow the first link below and sign up for an offer, enough to earn a credit. Some of them are free, so those are the ones I'd recommend (LoveFilm, for instance). By using my link below, I get a referral, and once I get 12 referrals, I get my free Ipod! I might keep it, but, to be honest, they are selling around £200 on Ebay, so I'd be more likely to sell it and then try a different incentive programme to get another one.

The 2nd link below shows a TV documentary about how these incentive programmes make money, and gives the experience of some college boys in the US. Although it doesn't specifically mention this incentive site, it does set my mind at rest about the business reason that these companies can make these offers.

There's nothing to stop you getting an ipod - or any of the other items on the Apple site - just please go through my link in the first instance to sign up! And if you'd like to circulate my link and this explanation to all your friends and family, that would be great! After all, wouldn't you like to be the one who helps them get a free Ipod???


http://Apple.real-incentives.com/?referral=18533

http:////news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40101000/rm/_40101790_ipods_carver22_vi.ram

Still alive and kicking

The first two months of the year have just flashed by. Getting up at 6.15am and not getting home until 9pm a couple of nights a week and 6 or later every other night tends to make leisure time a bit restricted and I've had some busy weekends, too. This is not just leading up to an excuse about not having put away the Christmas decorations yet (no, they aren't still up, they just haven't made it from boxes on the floor to the attic yet) but it is leading up to a reason for the distinct scarcity of posts since the New Year.

I'm working hard, it's tiring because I'm not used to it - my last job is fading rapidly to the back of my mind, thank goodness, although I do still have the odd flashback nightmare of a couple of the freaks I had to work with. Well, 'work' doesn't really cover what I did there. I turned up, was treated like an imbecile, got paid and got more and more miserable with every passing moment.

Anyone from that evil place who is reading this will know that I don't mean that everyone was hateful and loathesome there - on the contrary, I met some really nice people there who I shall stay in touch with - but sharing an office with someone who thought the world revolved around her and interrupted and tried to take over every conversation, and who questioned every single statement, comment, request or observation was more than mere mortal flesh and blood could stand. Added to the smelly bearded git who was allegedly my line 'manager' and the neurotic stick insect who called herself a senior programme 'manager', and the lack of any real work to do, I'm amazed I lasted as long as I did with my sanity more or less intact!

All this ramble, though, leads me to my point (yes, there was one!) At the University, having sod all to do all day except try not to make eye-contact with some of the freaks who came into the General Office, meant that I had time to post regularly on my blogs and spend a fortune on Ebay. Alas! (or maybe Hurrah!) that is not the case here at CVML. I am a very busy little bee and a very happy one. I don't have time for blogging or Ebay while I'm at work - today is an exception! - but I don't want my faithful (if invisible) readers to feel I'm neglecting them.

Regular posts will resume when I've got into a better routine at home, so watch this space and don't forget - spit every time you pass the Boldrewood Campus of the University of Southampton! I do ....