Free Mac book air (in retuurn for product testing) - Is this a scam?!

kittykat23uk

Hi all,

was wondering if any of you had experienced this. I've been getting emails purporting to be from a company called lucky day offering a free mac book air in return for writing a comprehensive review. Sounds tempting doesn't it? But I am somewhat suspicious as the only contact details provided seem to be for a company called DVX interactive which seems to specialise in generating email leads and direct marketing. Therefore my suspicions are that they will take my details and sell them and we'll get loads of junk mail. I also therefore wonder if the offer of the macbook is really genuine (i.e,. a true incentive to sign up with the expectation that we might be opening ourselves up to more junk mail or whether the whole thing is just a complete scam to get peoples' details). Has anyone heard of this offer and have you received your mac books if you've taken it up?

Cheers

Jo

trevormax

if it seems too good to be true, it usually is. Set up a spam email account and reply with that one. If it is a scam, they will have a useless email address.

sweetstudent

Somehow i doubt it! Apple would do all of the testing in house, by their own employess. So its a scam im afraid!

solodanceparty

I wouldn't trust it.... Apple would never do this type of testing ever.

omen666

the macbook air has had loads of consumer/product reviews and good ones at that the product speaks for itself cannot see why they would need it

kittykat23uk

Yeah thats what I thought.

MamaMoo_2

lucky_me123 wrote: »

I got a similar e-mail from the same company advising me I'd won £1000 of vouchers. I was suspicious at first so e-mailed them asking if it was a hoax. I read the terms and conditions and visited their website- it seemed genuine. All I had to do was give them an address and contact number. I gave my work address as the vouchers had to be signed for on delivery. They then informed me they already had an address for me although I had moved from there. The vouchers arrived at work yesterday and I have already checked with one of the stores that they are authentic! So if they have managed to track you down, the chances are they already have your phone number/contact address. It's a bit late to worry about it being sold on at that point- you may as well reap the rewards!

All I have to do is submit a short review of each store so I'm looking forward to a summer spree! It doesn't pay to be too sceptical!

Firt post. Promoting something scammy. Smells fishy.

To the OP, Apple have no need to send products for testing that are already on the Market an already well reviewed. It's almost definitely a scam.

Hern

lucky_me123 wrote: »

I got a similar e-mail from the same company advising me I'd won £1000 of vouchers. . . . It doesn't pay to be too sceptical!

Er, actually. . . It does. For someone who took the trouble to newly register here in order to revive a thread that died in February 2010, your post is suspiciously vacuous. And it fails to mention you must've deliberately signed up to the marketing scheme operated by DVX Interactive for them to have been able to email you in the first place.

So, just to clarify: DVX Interactive isn't a scam. What it does is this:

http://www.dvxinteractive.com/email-marketing.html

In other words: it develops its own archive of email addresses and then targets those addresses with marketing messages and promos from its own commercial clients. And it obtains those addresses via a couple of hook-'em-in websites:

http://macbooktester.co.uk/

http://www.lucky-day-uk.com/pages/UK/giftcard/shopper.php?p=27

If anyone wants to hand over their email address for the purposes of it being targeted with spam, fair enough: it's their choice. Statistically, many thousands will do just that, gambling that they're going to be a winner rather than a loser. Equally though, many thousands of others will think it's not worth the hassle -- or simply create a disposable gmail addy which isn't POP3'd to their computer and so they can leave all spam server-side.

It all depends on how desperate someone is to get something for nowt. Or how adroit they are at manipulating this particular 'email marketing' business model.

A post like yours is suspicious not because of what you said but because of what you've chosen not to.

So yes. . . it pays to be downright cynical when stuff like yours suddenly lands on MSE.

Kite2010

At least it isn't one of those pyramid schemes where you have to do an offer and get 20 more people to do an offer to get your free iMac *or something similar*

dealer_wins

lucky_me123 wrote: »

I got a similar e-mail from the same company advising me I'd won £1000 of vouchers. I was suspicious at first so e-mailed them asking if it was a hoax. I read the terms and conditions and visited their website- it seemed genuine. All I had to do was give them an address and contact number. I gave my work address as the vouchers had to be signed for on delivery. They then informed me they already had an address for me although I had moved from there. The vouchers arrived at work yesterday and I have already checked with one of the stores that they are authentic! So if they have managed to track you down, the chances are they already have your phone number/contact address. It's a bit late to worry about it being sold on at that point- you may as well reap the rewards!

All I have to do is submit a short review of each store so I'm looking forward to a summer spree! It doesn't pay to be too sceptical!

F off with your spam.

No one gets an email telling them they have won without entering a competition.

dacouch

dealer_wins wrote: »

F off with your spam.

No one gets an email telling them they have won without entering a competition.

I must be lucky as I get emails all day telling me I have won various lotteries and I have not even bought any tickets