Want some expensive electronics for free? Get the full instructions here!

Below you'll find links to websites that are offering expensive gadgets such as MP3 jukeboxes, video game systems, digital cameras, personal video players, and more, all for free. Any intelligent person should be skeptical about someone just "giving" you something for free, but these sites actually manage to make a high profit (click here to learn how) off of these clever concepts, despite not costing you a dime (if you do it the right way).

Simply follow the links below, and you'll be taken to each offer site. Please note that by following these links instead of visiting the sites directly, you're helping me receive my free item, as well, and ensuring that the whole cycle continues. Once you've arrived at the site, choose the free item you want (don't worry, you can change your mind and pick something else before it's ready to ship), in some cases the free bonus item you may want, and then finish the sign-up process.

Once you've signed up, you'll be asked to complete one offer (and sometimes a second offer for a bonus gift). You'll find a variety of offers such as AOL, Audible.com, eFax, RealArcade, Ancestry.com, eBay, credit cards, and many more. Pay attention to what's required to make this offer qualify (just signing up, buying something, staying a member for a certain period of time, etc.), and pick the least objectionable one. If you see a service you actually want, then go for it, as this is the easiest way to qualify. Otherwise, pick one that offers a free trial period (eFax is a great choice), and sign up for it. Once you've completed this offer it can take anywhere from seconds to days for it to show up as completed on the free item site you signed up under. Read their FAQ for more information. As long as you've followed the rules, though, it's now safe to go ahead and cancel whatever free trial offer you've signed up for. Some sites have you call in, some have you e-mail, some have an easy online cancellation option, some do live chat, etc. Just find a way to cancel before you get charged and you're done. The credit card or checking account information went only to the offer you signed up for (such as AOL), so the sites linked below will never have it, and cannot charge you for your free item. At this point you're now done with the only part that could cost you money if you're not careful.

Now just get the appropriate number of other people to do the same thing for you. There should be a referral page on the site that lets you e-mail all your friends, and also lists your personal referral link at the bottom of the page. Simply give that to people and have them sign up under you. Some offers require only three referrals to qualify for your item, while some need as many as ten. Simply get that many people to sign up under you and complete an offer, and your item's as good as shipped. Your referrals don't need to get referrals of their own for you to get your item... they need only complete an offer. So you're not at their mercy to find other people.

At this point, if you're smart, you've noticed something familiar about this. It sounds a lot like those illegal, and dangerous pyramid schemes you hear about. This is NOT the same thing! At its heart, the concept's quite similar. Find X number of people to find X number of people to find X number of people to get your money. The difference here is that you're not paying out a penny, so if you fail, you've lost nothing but a little bit of time. The other difference is you're not relying on people who are three, four, even five levels below you to get your reward (the money ones have quite a few tiers, and if it falls apart before you get to the top tier, you've lost everything). This one is only you, and the people you find to help you out. Once they've helped, you're done, and whether or not they get their free item doesn't affect you.

Here are some helpful tips:

• Although most of these sites promise that they don't spam or give out your e-mail address, you may still wish to use an address you don't care about receiving spam in, such as a brand new Yahoo address. Careful with Hotmail, though, as they tend to filter out some of these sites.
• If you have any trouble with these sites in Firefox, you may need to switch to Internet Explorer. Although most of these new ones have worked for me in Firefox just fine, the previous sites I used often had problems on certain pages, making it look as though certain aspects of the sign-up had failed even though they went through just fine. It might be smart to use IE when completing the offer, then go back to Firefox for everything else.
• Be honest about all of your contact information on the actual free item site. They'll use this to ship your electronics, so withholding will only guarantee you receive nothing.
• Don't cheat! These sites have rules about using fake referral information, and they do a relatively good job of verifying whether you've submitted false referrals. Unless you're incredibly sure of what you're doing, don't risk it.
• Make sure you pay attention to how to cancel the offer you sign up for. Some sites, such as AOL, have a phone number you can call. Others, such as eFax, have live chat in which you can cancel. If a site has several methods, pick the one that's hardest for them to argue with. AOL will, for instance, do everything they can over the phone to convince you to stay a member, just short of lying to you about having closed your account. If you dig around their site, though, you'll find a toll-free fax number which you can use to cancel, giving them no opportunity to haggle with you. Just be smart. Under no circumstances consider your offer cancelled until it's been made crystal clear to you that you've definitely been cancelled (some give a confirmation number, for example).
• You can sign up for as many or as few of these sites as you wish. Although most are owned by the same company, each site is its own individual endeavor, so the one account per household rule applies only within each individual site.
• The free trial offers from companies such as AOL are generally one per credit card, not per person or per household. So if you've got several credit cards, or a check card and a credit card, or can make use of family members' cards (with their permission), you can use the same offer on several of these sites. I have two checking accounts and access to five different check cards between them, so I could use the AOL offer five different times if need be. And since these offers don't report back to the free item site any information on you besides the fact that you completed the offer, they'll never know that they're all from the same address.

I have one more favor to ask. I've had a lot of people sign up under my links but NOT complete their offers. If you sign up and don't complete an offer, there's no point in having signed up. Please... if, for some reason, you sign up and decide you don't wish to complete the offer, please let me know why via my e-mail address at the bottom of this page. I'm really more than willing to help explain anything you don't understand, and I can assure you, quite strongly, that you can do this without it costing a penny as long as you follow the directions. Any confusion, just e-mail me.

And now on to the offers:

NEW! - Free PSP - Get a free Sony PSP! I'm a Nintendo fan at heart, but there's no denying how cool this thing is. Now $250 is a lot to swallow, but free is a hell of a deal. Just sign up, complete one offer, and get five other people to do the same and you're set. Seriously... this one's worth it. I'm working my ass off to complete this one as I just can't afford a PSP for myself right now, but there's no better option than free. Sign up, and please e-mail me if you're unsure and I'll help you however I can. This one's through Gratis Networks which is the same company I've received my free iPod and flatscreen monitor from, so I have complete trust in them.

NEW! - Another Free PSP - Get a free Sony PSP or $250 via PayPal! Much like the one above, this is another site for a free Sony handheld video game system. Complete one offer, get five other people to do the same, and it's yours. Complete one more offer and get two more friends to sign up and get an additional two friends to sign up and get your choice of NBA Basketball, MLB Baseball, Gretzky NHL, Twisted Metal, Wipeout Pure, ATV Off-Road Fury, Ape Escape, World Tour Soccer, or $35 via PayPal.

Free Tech Gear - Get a free 1GB iPod Shuffle, 20.1" Dell LCD Monitor, 80GB Mac Mini, 40GB iRiver H340, 20GB Apple iPod, 40GB Apple iPod, 60GB Apple iPod Photo, iPod Mini, $350 via PayPal, WebCertificate, or Amazon.com, ER-6i Headphones, Nintendo DS Bundle Pack (including accessories and three games), Sony PSP, Oakley Sunglasses, Archos AV420, Bose SoundDock, a wide variety of watches up to $450 in value, Logitech Harmony universal remote, or a PalmOne Tungsten C. It's a hell of a list of items, really, and each has its own number of referrals required. Anywhere from three referrals for the lower-end Oakleys or the iPod Shuffle, to 15 for the Mac Mini. The choice is entirely yours. They've got several good free offers including Blockbuster Online and eFax, so if you do this one right, you should walk away having spent nothing.

Free MP3 Player - Get a free 20GB 4th Generation Apple iPod, 5GB Rio Carbon, 20GB iRiver H320 (my favorite), 4GB iPod Mini (in your choice of colors), or $275 cash via PayPal or check. If you don't know what these are, please crawl out from under the rock. MP3 players allow you to take your music with you wherever you go. These hard drive-based units give you a ton of space, often allowing you to store your entire collection in one small, pocketable device. To get one, just complete one offer, and get five friends to sign up under you and do the same. If you complete a second offer and get two more referrals you can select one of the following bonus gifts: $40 iTunes Gift Card, $40 Musicmatch Gift Card, iTrip FM Transmitter, iBeam Laser/Flashlight, or $35 cash.

Free Personal Video Player - Get a free iRiver PMP-120, Archos AV420, Creative Zen PMC, Samsung DVD-L200 Portable DVD Player, 40GB iPod Photo, or $450 cash. PVPs are pretty damn cool, as, much like the MP3 players, they allow you to take VIDEO with you wherever you please. Most will store quite a few DVDs-worth of video that can be played back wherever you go. They generally also play MP3s, serving double-duty. Also included in this list is a portable DVD player and the iPod Photo, which is basically just an iPod with a color screen that can display photos as well as play music. Get one for free by completing one offer and getting ten friends (or strangers if you're clever) to sign up under you and complete their own offer. If you complete a second offer and get two more referrals, select one of the following bonus gifts: Shure E2C Earphones, $100 Musicmatch Gift Card, or $75 cash.

Free Nintendo DS - Get a free Nintendo DS or $145 cash. The Nintendo DS is Nintendo's newest, hottest handheld system. It features dual-screens, a touch-sensitive bottom screen, a microphone, wireless multiplayer (including internet multiplayer), 3D graphics, and more. The system could potentially change the direction of video games for some time to come. To get this one for free you'll need to sign up for one offer and get only four helpful people to sign up under you and do the same. With minor skills you can get one more person to sign up, complete a second offer yourself, and snag one of the following bonus gifts: Super Mario 64 DS, Madden NFL 2005, The Urbz, Spider-Man 2, Asphalt Urban GT, or $35 cash.

Free Digital Camera - Get a free Canon S1 IS, Sony DSC-P100, Sony DSC-W1, Canon A95, or $325 cash. These digital cameras range from 3.3 Megapixels (enough to print a 5x7 or 8x10 in a pinch) with a kick-ass 10X optical zoom, to 5 Megapixels (enough to crop and print an 8x10) with typical zooms. All are good models, although I'd personally lean toward the Canons for overall quality and less expensive memory cards. Snag a free one for completing one offer and getting seven other schm- er... close friends... to do the same. Complete a second offer and get two dear, sweet, beloved loved-ones to do the same and you can pick up one of the following bonuses: 512MB Memory Stick Pro (for the Sony cameras), 512MB Ultra II CompactFlash card (for the Canons), or $50 cash.

Free Video Game Console - Get a free Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, or Microsoft Xbox. These are the current three home consoles on the market. There's really not much more to say about them. They're all great overall, with good selections of games. This one's from a different company than the first four offers, and is much simpler. This one only requires that you complete an offer yourself, then get three other people to sign up and complete their own offers. That's it. No bonuses, but three should be easy as pie for you to get. If you don't have three friends who want a free video game system, then you're a loser.

More Free Video Game Consoles - Get a free Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation 2 (the new slim one), Nintendo GameCube, or Nintendo DS. This one is much like the one above it in its simplicity, although it requires four referrals to sign up under you and completer offers instead of three. That said, it's done by Gratis Networks, the same company I RECEIVED my iPod and flatscreen monitor from, so their validity has been proven to me twice before. Highly recommended. Plus, since it's seperate from the previous two video game offers, you could get yourself a DS via the first DS offer, a PS2, Xbox, or GameCube from the offer above, and one of the other two from here. If you're a gamer who's already got one console, this is an easy way to collect all the systems you're missing!

How it works

You're here because you can't figure out why the heck a company would just GIVE you a free iPod, PVP, camera, or other several-hundred-dollar piece of electronics for free. Good for you... that means you're not a stupid sheep. But there's actually a simple way these offers work out:

Whenever you sign up for one of these offers (AOL, Audible.com, a credit card, etc.), the company that got you to sign up for it recieves a referral bonus. Kind of like how your wireless provider gives you $25 for getting a buddy to sign up, or your bank gives you $10 for telling a friend about their free checking. But when it's being done company-to-company like in this scenario, they're able to negotiate much higher referral bonuses. AOL, for instance, pays some retailers as much as $50 (sometimes more) per customer they manage to sign up for a FREE trial to their service. Why? Because they know that if they can get a dozen people to try their service, they'll likely hook two or three people into keeping it (at $23.95 a month), and another two or three will forget to cancel during the free trial, gaining back at least part of the referral bonus. The end-result is profitable for AOL, and gets their referral partners to work harder to get people to try AOL. This applies to all the offers, although on different pay scales. Some, such as the smaller sites, only pay around $25. Others, such as the credit cards, pay as much as several hundred dollars. No matter what, though, there's some profit to be made in the referral business

So now we apply this to the free electronics sites above. The free MP3 player site gets you to sign up for free AOL. They've now received $50 because of you. Now you're required to get five other people to sign up under you. At $50 each, that's another $250 they're receiving because of you, or $300 total. Since they're buying this hardware at closer to wholesale prices, at most each player costs them $275, with units like the Rio Carbon and iPod Mini costing them about $235 total. That's $25-$65 profit guaranteed. Now factor in the fact that these companies are banking on you failing to get all of your referrals. They're hoping and assuming that you will get only 3 or 4 of your required referrals. So now they've made $200-$250 from you, pure profit, as they don't have to send you your free MP3 player.

So, as you can see, they make huge profits in the business, while the clever user of their service isn't out a single penny. Your worst-case scenario is that you don't get enough referrals and you wasted a little bit of time. Your best-case scenario is that you put a little effort into it, challenge their assumption that you'll fail, and get yourself an expensive piece of electonics for free. Woo-hoo!

Got a question?

Since by doing this you're helping me out, too, I'll be a nice guy and offer to help you with any questions you have. I can't guarantee I've got the answer, but since I've successfully received both an iPod and a Flatscreen LCD Monitor from these types of offers before, I probably know more than you do. So if you've got a question, shoot me an e-mail and I'll help you out as best I can. But be forewarned: No, I will not pay you to help me, and no, I have no tips on how to cheat the system. I've done all of mine legitimately and plan to continue doing so with these.