[quote name='Diiz']I want to try one of these referral deals... gonna work on trying to get a Mac laptop (I've wanted one for a long time now), unless I find out that the number of referrals required is insane, in which case I'll try for something else...
Does anyone have any tips for getting started, or can anyone point me in the direction of a good company to try this through (currently looking at freemacbookpro.com)? Sorry if this is the wrong thread to ask questions in, didn't want to start a new thread for it...[/quote]
Well this is probably the best thread to ask questions

. I've only completed a trainn referral site and they seem good, I'd suggest them, but they don't have any laptop site afaik, they have a desktop computer site with a mac mini, but that's it. You could always just sign up to any of their referral sites and take the paypal payment rather than the prize and then use that to buy whatever you want.
If you're looking for a high-end laptop that costs in the thousands then it's going to take a shitload of referrals, but a laptop that costs about $500-600 would probably be around 12-15 referrals, it generally seems like they give out around $50 per referral for paypal payments and a little more than that in the value of an item. You can check out
www.anything4free.com they have an index of sites and how trustworthy they are, etc. and also a forum where you can discuss freebie sites.
If you decide to go for a paypal payout then you can site up for just about any site, at least all the trainn ones give out paypal as well as items. I'll give you my links if you want to sign up under somebody

. I have a little raffle thing going right now for anybody that signs up for my flashipods4free, but I dunno how that's gonna pan out.
From experience, I can tell you that for flashipods4free you can get a $100 paypal payout for 3 referrals and $250 for 5 referrals, yourfreevideoipods will give you a $300 paypal payout for 6 referrals, and yourps34free will give you $375 for 8 referrals or $425 for 10 referrals. Most sites are probably about the same. Just don't go with freepay, they're gonna be dead soon I think. Good luck!
EDIT: and also, to add to that, as you'll see on anything4free, there are referral sites (offercentric I think, maybe others) that have "offers of doom" where the offers given to your last referral or near to last referrals are the harder and more expensive ones to complete to keep you from finishing. So watch out for that too, you'll have to do a lot of research.