Thursday, July 24, 2008

Fish follow the bait

No Free Lunch, really true. For something, you must, have to, pay for that. Absolutely.

I fell into the trap again. Maybe you had likewise experience, too. What happens is that you get a certain information, for example, answer some quesions by text messages stey by step, and you'll gain some ( e.g: call charges, QQ coins, etc. ). Reply once, it will charge you 2 yuan. At the beginning, it will offer quite easy questions. An example, ?+3=4, or ?*4=8. Easy enough and you will follow the bait and go on replying. However, when it is going on the 5th question maybe the trap is waiting for you. E.g: This question is: Find out the regular pattern and fill in the missing number ( 3, ?, 9, 17, 33 ). No doubt the answer is 5. Congrats. Then the following is: finding the missing number ( 7, 10, ?, 12, 11, 14 ). My answer is 9. It's right, I think. But it told you are wrong. So you can't get what you want. Gosh. A trick.

In a word,when you go after small gains you may suffer big loss.

2 comments:

Bill said...

really?

You, fell into the trap?

Unknown said...

Yeah! I wanted to hunted a part-time job, which require a QQ membership. It offered a link to get it freely. But the result, you have known. ... I was cheated.