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These so-called “free” FON offers

Written on January 8, 2007 by Conor O'Neill

I’m starting to become very dubious about the supposed free FON offers that keep popping up. When the very first offer appeared quite a few months back, I applied, and got nothing. I mentioned it to Antoin who said I needed to reply to some email that I had been sent as a confirmation. So I did, and I still received nothing.

I finally gave in and actually bought one and it works fine.

Then I was at Le Web 3 in December and part of the schwag was an offer for a free FON router. I thought “why not?”, always good to have a backup. I went to shop.fon.com and entered the code, gosh, guess what? “invalid promotional code”. I mailed support. No reply. I tried again yesterday, code still invalid.

C’mon don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk. FON really need to start writing Free as “Free”. Reputation is something hard won and easily lost.

UPDATE 1: Brainwave. Sign up as a new user, remove spaces from promotional code, free offer works! Clearly whoever runs FON used to work for a bank, ye know the ones where you get better deals if you are not a customer.

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10 Comments on “These so-called “free” FON offers”

  1. Ewan McIntosh | January 8th, 2007at 7:32 pm

    I have only just sent off for my Fon router and everything seemed to go fine and I have my wee receipt to reassure me. If it doesn’t arrive, I’ll blog forthwith! ;-)

  2. Conor | January 8th, 2007at 8:14 pm

    Is yours one of the free ones or did you just purchase? Purchased one arrived fine here and setup is trivial.

  3. Ewan McIntosh | January 8th, 2007at 11:01 pm

    Mine’s one of the free ones - still waiting on it to arrive, though!

  4. Conor | January 8th, 2007at 11:35 pm

    Ye lucky sod.

  5. Gonzague | January 9th, 2007at 12:44 am

    My code was working too :)
    I have to wait because I ordered it this week

  6. Conor | January 9th, 2007at 8:57 am

    They must be just picking on me then, twice. Maybe if I pretended to be not Irish.

  7. Tom Raftery | January 16th, 2007at 12:01 pm

    Thanks for the reminder Conor - I applied twice for a free one, with two different codes and was told the application was successful each time.

    I have yet to receive a router though! And I applied back in November afair.

  8. Andy | January 19th, 2007at 8:35 pm

    Hello,

    if anybody has a free promotion code please send it to me. I would like to share my 1MB internet connection.
    Thanks in advance.
    Andy
    andy76sz(AT)o2.pl

  9. Ewan McIntosh | January 20th, 2007at 12:16 am

    It’s arrived. It came in special TNT delivery this morning. They can’t be all that bad ;-)

  10. Tiago | February 24th, 2007at 10:50 pm

    If anyone can send me a invitation code too, i’l be very happy. JPPais@hotmail.com
    Thanks

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