Anyone up to shipping a free camera to Iceland?

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Well....
I was tidying up my online mailbox, and usually I dont open the anoying offers of free this and that and you have won a million and do you want a bigger penis (I dont even want to have a small one
) and all that...
...now I thought I look at one for once.
So, free kodak camera, offer ends 21.3., today, just have to buy some dvd´s at Columbia House.
I wonder why, why would people give away cameras? what's the catch? Would one ever get the free camera? This does only apply to the US, is there anyone who would ship the camera to me, it I dont have to buy an optical studio in order to be eligible for it?

How ever does this work? Does it work?

The more I think about it, I dont think this is without a huge catch


So, I may sound stupid even considering this, but I´m desperate for a camera, and would gladly buy some dvd to get one
But I would not buy a car to get one
 

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I would be a little skeptical of those things - sometimes they rope you in to buy more things...I have been there.
 

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it's a gimmick just to get you to buy the DVD's. They'll give you an initial price on the DVD's & etc but then after so long they jack the price up and make you buy them for a certain amount of time. So, in the long run they get money enough to send you a free camera.

I wouldn't do it.
 
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There is a camera offer here as well, that is advertized as a "camera for a penny", but the details sais that in order to get it you would have to pay a "subscription" for 18 months, about $30 pr. month, and included where 30 or 35 photo prints per month. So in that 18 months you have paid $540 which is a bit much for a 2 mega pixel camera, even though those prints were included. To get a slightly better camera it´s possible to pay $285 instead of the penny, so in 18 months that adds to $825 - for that money I would want a really good camere!


But this "free" camera had no small prints at the bottom of the page, so wondered how it would work, since I dont mind the dvd´s.
 
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