I’ve seen cars with advertisements on them and have heard about getting your payments made for you if you drive one of these cars around, but to find out any information you have to pay a $30 (or so) fee to sign up.
Has anyone ever done this. Is it for real?
I thought this died off with the dot-com bust.
IIRC, not very many people jumped on the idea as the car was wrapped in advertising, they tracked where you drove with GPS and you had to park the car is highly visible areas, rather than in a garage. Recall there were some driving minimums as well - they wanted the car to be on the road as much as possible, rather than parked at home.
It is a Mini Cooper with a giant can of redbull on the roof. Woul d you REALLY want to be seen driving this thing? :smack:
I would TOTALLY drive one of those.
In fact, don’t tell them, but I’m the sort of guy who’d PAY to drive one of this.
haha, I’m with Ross. I’d love to drive around in some sort of crazy decked-out car. And if I can do it for free, even better!
The house at the end of my street has a Quizno’s VW Beetle. I don’t know if they’re getting it through something like this or if they work for the company. I signed up for one of these deals where you didn’t have to pay. Nobody ever contacted me. Perhaps it was because I was the one asking for the car, not offering up the car.
A friend of a friend did this several years ago. Her deal:
You had to already own the car.
It had to be a certain kind of car in certain colors (hers was the new at the time VW Beetle in bright yellow). It couldn’t be old and it had to be in perfect shape
If your application was accepted (and not everyone’s was - she also happened to be a pretty darn good looking 21 year old girl - the type beer companies pay to stand in bars) they paid the “car loan”
The deal was renewable for them every six months.
They dropped her when her car was a year old.
Rob Cockerham of cockeyed.com fame investigated this recently, going so far as to pay good money for a list of sites that provide “free cars”. You can read his story here:
Its probably more a scam than a good deal…they’re offering “How to Beat a Speeding Ticket” in ads right next to the car deal.