Been lurking for a while and decided to delurk so people don't start getting frustrated about all the "broken links" for this topic. I tried all the links, but none worked...However I noticed that it STARTED to load the page, but then automatically jumped to a 404 page. I cleared my cache, and reloaded all of the original URLs, and hit escape while they were still loading (ESC is the keyboard equiv. of the Stop button on a browser) and looked at the page source. You HAVE to get to the page via
http://www.3m.com/meetings first, then clicking on the "Promotions" graphic on the side, then select the free transparencies offer. the /meetings/ page puts a cookie on your system, and the promotions page looks for that cookie before it will display the page. If it doesn't find the cookie, it kicks you to the 404 page. If you are really quick and have a large enough lag on your system (it would probably be easier for dialup users), however, you can hit ESC before the kickover happens, but the links may or may not work :). Here are the comments I got from the page source:
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// this should prevent free sites from linking directly to this page. robertg 9.10.02
// cookie does not exists so user is linking directly to this page so send to 404 error page
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So direct links don't work, but there is no impediment to getting the transparency offer if you go through
www.3M.com/meetings first.
[Edited for a too-quick trigger finger on the submit button :) ]
[Edited again because
dummkopf does not know how to proofread :) :)]
critter42