Shopping "Deals": Offers You Should Refuse!
Brand Name Rewards (offering a "Free Dell Laptop"),
www.brandnamerewards.com
Brand Name Rewards (offering a "Free Dell Laptop"), website
www.brandnamerewards.com, is yet another "free computer"
deal. There is a fine line between marketing hype and
outright lies, but some "deals" are are only good
for the company pushing the product! In our opinion,
this "deal" is, at very best, one that you will have
little real chance of completing, if the lessons of
previous such "deals", such as
Shopper's
Saving Centers and Pay Day Buddies hold
true.
Brand Name Rewards offers a "Free Dell Laptop")
which sends you an email that implies that you won a free laptop
computer. Their
terms & conditions say (the misspellings are theirs):
"You agree to be bound by the relevant Official Gift Offer Rules for the
offer giveaways. To receive a free gift, you must accumulatet indicated in the
Official Gift Offer Rules."
See their
Redemption Instructions & Gift Rules. Also note their
Privacy Policy. Their gift rules state (abbreviated below,
follow
this link for complete text on their website):
"To qualify for and redeem your FREE* DELL XPS M5130, you
must complete each of the following:"
- Registration Form.
- Survey. Complete all questions as indicated in the survey pages
that follow the Registration Form.
- Sponsor Offers. You must participate in and satisfy a total of
6 Sponsor Offers as follows:
Page 1: 2 offers
Page 2: 2 offers
Page 3: 3 offers
- Sponsor Offer Registration....you must meet all qualifications of
the Sponsor offers you select, and you must elect to participate in them
through the online registration form for the offer (not via telephone).
- Verification of Sponsor Offer Participation. Each Sponsor must
provide written verification to brandnamerewards.com that
you have successfully qualified for and completed that Sponsor's offer. ...
The qualification time varies by Sponsor, but may take up to 30 days... a
Sponsor ... may require you to use the credit card to make a purchase, take
a cash advance, or transfer a balance, to satisfy the Sponsor's
qualifications.
- Your gift should be shipped to you within 6 to 8 weeks after
brandnamerewards.com receives confirmation of your delivery
address.
Here is an example of the email they send, this one sent to us on February 2,
2008:
Technical Investigation:
Whois.org provides the following information about
www.brandnamerewards.com:
Registration Service Provided By: Enom, Inc
Contact: CustomerSupport@enom.com
Visit: www.enom.com
Domain name: brandnamerewards.com
Registrant Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent (qfhwtxnrt@whoisprivacyprotect.com)
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4256960234
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O brandnamerewards.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
Administrative Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent (qfhwtxnrt@whoisprivacyprotect.com)
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4256960234
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O brandnamerewards.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
Technical Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent (qfhwtxnrt@whoisprivacyprotect.com)
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4256960234
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O brandnamerewards.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
Status: Locked
Name Servers:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com
Creation date: 06 Dec 2007 20:42:44
Expiration date: 06 Dec 2008 20:42:44
But notice that the url in the email actually takes you to this website:
Notice that this "business" is based in Romania, famous for being the home of
many internet scams. Notice also the dates. Thanks to an alert visitor who
sent the scam to us, we were able to post it within 2 days of its creation, to
warn potential victims.
Registrant:
SC Adiral Com SRL
Calea Dorobantilor 134-138
Bucharest, Bucharest 7000
RO
+40744433988
Domain Name: ARIDIRDOWN.COM
Administrative Contact:
Velea, Bogdan office@adiralhost.ro
Calea Dorobantilor 134-138
Bucharest, Bucharest 7000
RO
+40744433988
Technical Contact:
Velea, Bogdan office@adiralhost.ro
Calea Dorobantilor 134-138
Bucharest, Bucharest 7000
RO
+40744433988
Record expires on 01-30-2009
Record created on 01-30-2008
Domain servers in listed order:
NS0.DIRECTNIC.COM 69.46.233.245
NS1.DIRECTNIC.COM 69.46.234.245
Opt-out screen? Yeah, Sure...
CFR's Recommendation:
DO NOT CLICK ON
THE LINKS! AVOID
Brand Name Rewards (offering a "Free Dell Laptop")! Do NOT sign up for it!
If you simply do the math of having to agree to an additional 6 "offers" (at
what total cost?) and wait as much as 30 days or more for each to qualify or
verify, then it is easy to figure that it could take many months before you
would even have a chance of receiving your "free" computer. And remember,
the offers you sign up for will certainly have additional costs associated with
them.
Considering that you can buy a new laptop for as little as $500 these days,
we cannot imagine how this "offer" would benefit you.
How to file a complaint against Brand Name Rewards
(offering a "Free Dell
Laptop")
If you feel that you have been victimized by this company, file a complaint against them: go to the
BetterBusinessBureau and click on "file a
complaint". For the address of the business use the information below:
BrandNameRewards.com LLC (offering a "Free Dell Laptop")
740 West Palmetto Park Road
#4-664
Boca Raton, FL 33433
What are victims saying about Brand Name Rewards
(offering a "Free Dell Laptop")?
See this page for emails and
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