Read more like you were trying to curry favor in order to get the "freebie". What more could you possibly have written that the first two shills didn't provide in excruciating detail? All of, signing up, browsing, selecting a product, pressing purchase, then two days later it arrives?  What more precisely could you possibly add to that in order to make a story out of it all?  You signed up 4 days before the invitations were to become available suggesting you really wanted to review the service in order to write about it, then ignored, then upon Homero's whining about the media, there you were again, in your what was it third only post to the forum, offering to heal the wounds between the media you could....just get in invite.

That's fine if you saw quick and easy opportunity to get that new laptop you've been wanting for so long, for nothing under the guise of writing about it. Another self-proclaimed "journalist" attempted the same thing bit did it all wrong; he wrote a bad article and back channeled that he'd remove it if he got an invite.  You smartly offered to heal the wounds if you got one instead. Well done to you.

Have you ever written anything about them before?