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Free Winks for MSN Messenger 7.0

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  • Clareo
    Clareo Posts: 324 Forumite
    Seven wrote:
    A freind told me about this earlier on in the week,you just needed to change your email addy on the uk site, i got a heap of winks.

    I was reluctant to post the thing here as it seemed a bit dodgy lol

    i will next time :-)

    It doesn't work by just changing your e-mail, the problem is the cookies, they're what need to be deleted or it still remembers you no matter what e-mail you use. The e-mail actually doesn't haven anything to do with it anyway as when you have deleted the cookies you can use the same e-mail anyway! :)

    I tried it now just to be sure things hadn't changed but you definitely need to delete cookies or visit one of the other country sites not just change your e-mail! Or use the method that 8383 suggested and close the window whilst the pin is being considered but again you don't need to change your e-mail for this way! :)
  • System
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    Clareo wrote:
    It doesn't work by just changing your e-mail, the problem is the cookies, they're what need to be deleted or it still remembers you no matter what e-mail you use. The e-mail actually doesn't haven anything to do with it anyway as when you have deleted the cookies you can use the same e-mail anyway! :)

    I tried it now just to be sure things hadn't changed but you definitely need to delete cookies or visit one of the other country sites not just change your e-mail! Or use the method that 8383 suggested and close the window whilst the pin is being considered but again you don't need to change your e-mail for this way! :)

    :confused:

    It definitely did work just by changing the email address, me and a few friends did it earlier on this week, but it doesn't work anymore, as i just tried it myeslf. Perhaps they didn't have the cookies in place at the start of the week, but I definitely didn't delete any cookies and got about 20 new winks, just by changing the email address.

    :j

    Edit:

    Just checked the mess.be website, and it seems bluemountain sussed the changing email addy thing and that's why they now have a cookie placed.
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  • Clareo
    Clareo Posts: 324 Forumite
    Seven wrote:
    Just checked the mess.be website, and it seems bluemountain sussed the changing email addy thing and that's why they now have a cookie placed.

    Cheers for the update, that makes sense. I was trying to figure out why it would work for you and not me :D Was wondering if you a special non-cookie accepting computer :D
  • cherrypie556
    cherrypie556 Posts: 513 Forumite
    I used each site and didnt need to delete my cookies it worked fine!
  • Clareo
    Clareo Posts: 324 Forumite
    I used each site and didnt need to delete my cookies it worked fine!

    Yep that's right, you can use each country's site once, it's only if you want to use them more than once you need to delete cookies.

    However Seven was saying that you used to be able to use the UK site over and over again by changing your e-mail but they've stopped that now which is why you need to delete cookies to use it again or use the method mentioned by 8383 a few posts back :)
  • cherylx_2
    cherylx_2 Posts: 184 Forumite
    Great,thanks for this! ive only got one so far (for my dad) and it also said ive bin charged but i saw someones post above so you sure you dont get charged? also thanks again for this,its a great freebie n fun seen as i use msn everyday,thanks again :)
  • Clareo
    Clareo Posts: 324 Forumite
    Absolutely positively sure you don't get charged for getting free winks using the various methods listed on the previous posts :D
  • Viper
    Viper Posts: 283 Forumite
    :j Thanks for that OP.
  • mjenn5
    mjenn5 Posts: 556 Forumite
    aww

    Well I downloaded one ligitimately and then after reading this I tried for another.

    Guess what they have removed them from my account. Even the legit one.

    Shame.

    I won't be spending my moeny on them thats for sure.
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  • Clareo
    Clareo Posts: 324 Forumite
    mjenn5 wrote:
    aww

    Well I downloaded one ligitimately and then after reading this I tried for another.

    Guess what they have removed them from my account. Even the legit one.

    Shame.

    I won't be spending my moeny on them thats for sure.

    Did you download when logged in on the same msn log in as you're using now?

    I have loads of illegitimate ones and they're all still there :)

    I don't see how they can remove them?
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