<OT> Free stock shares - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Mar 1999

The other gotcha on this one is that it's not Monsterboard, the well-known
online job search company, but Monsterbook -- anybody ever heard of it
before?

Sort of an online version of getting a swell Alphine car stereo or
Panaphonic VCR at your local discounters -- close, but no banana...

-- Tony

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Jim Strickland [SMTP:jim@calico.litterbox.com]
	Sent:	Thursday, March 25, 1999 12:27 AM
	To:	Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
	Subject:	Re: <OT> Free stock shares

	Um no.

	What it SAYS is:
	"As a special promotion, MonsterBook.com has announced that if and
when it files
	 for an Initial Public Offering of shares in the future, within 1
month after 
	the Public Offering of shares it will give you $10 cash (US
Currency) for every 
	friend you referred to MonsterBook.com who subscribed before May 1,
1999. 
	Should you earn a Referral Bonus under this promotion, you will be
able to 
	choose to receive your Bonus as a cash payment, or to apply it
toward the 
	purchase of stock in MonsterBook.com. See agreement below for
details "

	Which means after the stock has gone through its IPO gyrations, THEN
they
	give you your 10 dollars toward stock.  AND, according to the fine
print,

	"This offer is limited to the first 1 million people to subscribe to
receive 
	the free MonsterBook Internet Directory in the mail, and the maximum
Referral 
	Bonus to be paid to any one person will be $500. "

	It's not a BAD deal, assuming the company lasts long enough to issue
stock
	(and considering they're offering to flush capital down the toilet
like that
	I wouldn't hold my breath) but it sure as heck isn't free stock.
...

 A US company is giving away free shares (like Yahoo did
 at its beginning).  They're called Monsterboard and are pretty big.
...
  go to :   http://www.monsterbook.com/SignUp2.asp
 and sign up, all they want is your demographics.  If you don't mind,
...
  please give them my referral No. ( 277673 ).  Hurry,
they are only
 taking the first one million people.  They will probably have that
 many within about 24 hours.

 If this is an imposition, don't bother with my referral No.  If you
...
  wish, register all by yourself.  They just want name
and address
 and e-mail address.  Since many of you already make that available,
...
  on this list, I doubt they would have any more
information.

 Sincerely yours,

 Jerome Fine

	-- 
	Jim Strickland
	jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com

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