Is it really worth 99p?

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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... Track=true

It's one of those over 300 channels on your computer thing. I'm just interested to see if it's worth my hard earned 99p.

Any one bought one of these things? Is it entertaining for at least an hour? Or is it electronic junk?
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Cheese Head wrote:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... Track=true

It's one of those over 300 channels on your computer thing. I'm just interested to see if it's worth my hard earned 99p.

Any one bought one of these things? Is it entertaining for at least an hour? Or is it electronic junk?
It looks quite good that and seeing thats theres 100 left it seems too good. I mean, getting 300 channels for practically free doesn't seem right. If i'm wrong, please correct me. :)
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I'm normally more impulsive but it's screaming dodgy...
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Just as with all the other's it's a scam. How can someone afford to provide pay TV channels for a one off 99p payment that is '100% legal'? How can they manage to televise football matches that aren't being televised by any broadcaster? Why would a legitimate mass streaming operation pay for the licencing of two streaming technologies ('most of them come up in Realplayer or Windows Media Player' etc - and indeed what do the others 'come up' in?)?

Rather interestingly, it's listed as being at 99p in some parts, but in other parts of the blurb it's priced at £2.29.

At best, you'll get links to a few TV channels whose broadcasters have made them available on the internet for free anyway, at worst you'll get nothing at all.

It might seem worth the risk if you only stand to loose a quid, but remember, if this conman sells all 300 of his 'items', then he'll pocket £297 for doing nothing! Don't help contribute to that!

I haven't checked the 'sellers' history, but no doubt in the past he's sold 'secret ITV codes to unlock all the ITV regions on a Sky Digibox'
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It's nothing electronic at all.

It's just a link to a website that will tell you how to get the product they are advertising, and nothing more.

You see iBook's for 99p on eBay... it is just a link to opt into a pyramid scheme. In fairness, they do actually work if people continually pay into them, but it takes months.
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Love the "Hundreds of free channels for free"

And, cwathen, it is possible to watch matches at 3pm not shown on sky...
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Let me end this topic with the answer to the thread's topic:

No
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I just think it's possibly a link to websites like http://wwitv.com/ - a huge website to links for free tv straming stations.

There was a try before you buy somewhere, and i went to a website it was possible a part of "Video on demand" - a pay per view internet streaming service.

Fishy...
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