Technical conferences give them away all the time. I know people who have won them (I tried unsuccessfully 3 times).
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Did anyone get iPad for free?
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I got three for free.
I blended one and posted it on youtube - it was sick! I laughed my ass off.
It's not a waste 'cos I only need two - one to play angry birds seasons on when I'm on the bus, and the other for the bathroom to play canabalt.
I blended one and posted it on youtube - it was sick! I laughed my ass off.
It's not a waste 'cos I only need two - one to play angry birds seasons on when I'm on the bus, and the other for the bathroom to play canabalt.
wow, you all have only 3 at the most!! I got 5. It was simple, all i did was throw a brick through the apple store door and took them. 
So people like you can blow a blood vessel worrying about the "why". Just roll with it.
Mine was free. I charged it then filed BK. That's the American way!
Stop lying. You make people like me who tell the truth look bad.
As I said, Bing free iPad. You'll see.
Yeah. He's clearly lying. Mine took 12 minutes to arrive, not 10!
OK, in all seriousness, if anyone is wondering: it is (presumably) possible to complete one of these hair-brained schemes and possibly (presumably) receive a high-value device like an iPad, for "free". But what does this entail? Signing up and providing your name, address, and other demographic information -- which they will turn around and sell to every spammer who wants it. Then you need to sign up for "offers". Various services, like "fax to email service", or whatever's in vogue nowadays, for which you also need to create an account, once again providing your personal details, sometimes even a credit card or PayPal so that when your "free trial" is over, they can begin charging you the low, low rate of only $9.95/month for whatever service you didn't need. Hopefully you remember to cancel the service so they don't continue charging you for it, and hopefully the companies are legit and won't try to steal your credit card info, commit identity theft, and/or sell your data to less-than-ethical data clearinghouses.
Then, you need to make a bunch of your friends go through that exact same process.
So, basically, you are whoring out your personal and financial details, as well as that of your friends, to a bunch of less-than-legitimate companies in order to purchase/sign up for services you don't want or need. Obviously those iPads aren't free, someone paid for them: the advertisers and spammers/scammers did. And they clearly feel that all that information they are getting in return is worth their while. Goodness knows what they plan to do with it.
Myself, I feel that my personal and financial details, as well as that of my friends, are worth more than $500, but if you don't value yourself the same way, then by all means, sell yourself out on the internet (and your friends too) and see what goodies you can barter yourself for.
So you used Bing to google?
To address the OP's original question. You can get an iPad for free when you make a $500 donation to a fruit-based charity.
On a serious note. NPR gives away a free iPad when they are raising money. Leapfrog supplies it. While its not free, you only have to donate around $30 or so.
I did something similar to that about 2 years ago for a free ipod.
For the life of me I cannot remember the name of the site but it was legit.
Pretty much you had to fill out all these forms for free subscriptions and fill out surveys and what not.
Make sure you have a fake email ready for all the spam you'll get and of course I"m sure you know, when you fill out these forms, you give fake info.
If you go to slickdeals.com, and try a search, you might the site I used.
I couldn't find it now but it was on SD that that many people were joining and winning ipods, touch, shuffle. etc..