# Free Apple Products FB Page - what's going on?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-apple-products-fb-page-whats-going-on/652361>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 8, 2013, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-apple-products-fb-page-whats-going-on/652361 "2013-03-08T10:08:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-apple-products-fb-page-whats-going-on/652361/1 "2013-03-08T10:08:11Z")

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I’ve seen a lot of my friends entering the competitions on this Facebook page which claims to be regularly giving away hundreds of Apple products.

Thing is, I can’t work out what’s in it for them. They can’t be making money out of the number of likes on their page and I can’t see any other motivation for a company to set up a page like this.

I can think of only the following reasons this might exist:

1. It’s Apple owned and they are just trying to create excitement for their brand.
2. Some rich benefactor had decided he/she wants to give people something nice.
3. They page owners want to build up a huge number of FB followers (likers?) to the page so they can change it to something else or auction the page off.
4. This is a scam through which you “win” then get asked to send your personal details.

I’d personally discount 1) as ridiculous and 2) as massively unlikely. Anybody else have some theories?

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**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-apple-products-fb-page-whats-going-on/652361/2 "2013-03-08T10:13:51Z")

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It’s [item 4](http://www.hoax-slayer.com/free-apple-products-facebook-spam.shtml).

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**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-apple-products-fb-page-whats-going-on/652361/3 "2013-03-08T10:43:25Z")

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Do’h, should remember to add the link!: [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Apple-Products/318183114950946](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Apple-Products/318183114950946)

You’ll see tellyworth that this isn’t quite the same as described in your link however it may well be a variant of it.