Prepaid Credit Cards Are Not Allowed

In its earlier days, before all of the fraud occurrences, users were allowed to use prepaid credit cards to complete offers which was good for those that did not trust advertisers or incentive sites. Although incentive sites have no access to the information that you give to advertisers while completing their offers. Some users were using prepaid credit cards for safety while others were using prepaid credit cards to commit fraud and scam others. Due to the high number of fraud among prepaid credit card users, advertisers decided to not credit users that use prepaid credit cards to complete their offers so if you want to obtain your credit then you are now stuck with using a real credit card only. Although some advertisers may allow you to use Paypal but other than that, you have no other option anymore. This is a good reason why you should not commit fraud on freebie sites because you will ruin things for everyone including yourself because falsifying information may cause you not to receive your free gift!

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How Do Freebie Sites Give Away Free Stuff?

Most freebie sites requires you to complete offers or refer others in order to receive your free gift and the reason for this is because advertisers do not want to pay an excessive amount of money broadcasting on TV when there is an alternative that is not only cheaper but to a target group. Advertisers will allow what we know as incentive sites to advertise to users by allowing users to sign up for their services and by signing up for their services, advertisers will pay the referring incentive site an commission for the referral in which will be used to pay for your free prize. Advertisers are happy, incentive site owners are happy, you the user will also be happy. Everyone gets paid. How much do referrals usually go for? Referral costs depends on the networks but generally a referral will earn you about $35 to $50 so referrals aren't cheap. If you don't like referring others then you can waste your time doing other free stuff like clicking on links for less than a penny a click. The choice is yours.

Michelle512 cashing out on Free4Me'z Zogopoints

Get Credit

One of the many reason people think that freebie sites are a scam is because they do not receive credit for the offer that they complete. However, one of the many reasons why they do not receive credit is because they did not follow the right precautions. So here is a few tips you should follow if you wish to receive credit without any errors.

Get credit for your offers!

Here are tips on how to ensure yourself that you receive credit for offers you complete on any site. There are specific reasons why users don't receive credit so don't be one of them.

1: Before logging into any site, ALWAYS clear your cookies. This is the MAIN problem regarding not getting credit.

2: ALWAYS use Internet Explorer or Firefox. Other browsers have known issues with crediting.

3: ALWAYS make sure your cookies are on the lowest setting to accept them all.

4: DISABLE ANY antivirus, spyware, firewalls, or ad checking software. What a lot of people don't realize is any of these programs can either interfere with the cookies that make an offer track or they can block offer tracking in other ways.

If you do follow these tips and still do not receive credit in the mentioned timeframe then you can submit a support ticket to the site known as Manual Credit Report or MCR for short. In order to submit a MCR, you must provide a copy of the confirmation email that was sent to you when you completed the offer. It also doesn't hurt to take a screenshot of the confirmation screen either because sometimes you will not receive a confirmation email. The more supporting evidence that you can provide the better.

Last day for the FREE green promotion!

Cash Site vs Referral Site

There is another difference between what is called a cash site and a referral site that most people would not know about. Yes, obviously one has something to do with cash whereas the other has to do something with referrals. One thing that you may not be aware of has to do with the list of offers you can choose from. Some companies will not allow incentive sites to place their offers on a cash site so in a sense, cash sites have limited offers. The reason for this is because advertisers are protecting themselves against potential fraud among users. Sites offering cash rather than gifts are more likely to be hit with fraud because it takes less time to send cash than an item which allows companies less time to catch fraud. When it comes to catching fraud, time is of the essence. Fraud may not always be caught at first because it depends on when the fraud triggers alarms. Fraud is a major killer of most incentive sites which really ruins things for everybody including you, the one committing fraud. It is illegal and you may be prosecuted.

Bradenr jumping for joy with $75 from Free4Me

Check Or Paypal?

Most incentive sites offers you two choices when it comes to receiving your cash. You can either choose by check or by Paypal. The difference would be the time it takes to arrive and obviously by check would take longer. However, there are perks to choosing by check over Paypal. For instance, the only way for you to receive the full face value would be if your Paypal is a personal account but with personal accounts you are limited on your withdraws every month. The only way to bypass that limit would be to upgrade to a Premier or a Business account but by doing so you are charged a 3% fee on all of your incoming funds. If you choose by check then there is no limit and there is no extra fees, you get the entire funds however much it may be. Sure, Paypal is quick but it still takes time to go into your bank account if you choose to deposit the Paypal balance to your bank account. By the time your funds are in your bank account, it would be only slightly longer than by choosing a check. Lastly, Paypal is highly vulnerable to attacks because it is highly used by consumers so if your Paypal is compromised then so is your credit card that is associated with your Paypal and your bank account. The choice is yours.

kpizzl cashes out $250 from 123StuffForeFree

Santa's Going Worldwide Afterall

It was announced earlier that SantasGiftsAllYear closed its international site which disappointed alot of worldwide users because there are not many freebie sites out there for international users. Most freebie sites are only open to US and Canadian residents but even Canadians are limited on most networks. So not to disappoint the world, there is now a site open for users from all countries! The international site from SantasGiftsAllYear is also known as the Do It Yourself or DIY for short meaning you do not have to refer anyone in order to receive your free money. You can do the offers yourself but there is an incentive in referring others because you will receive 10% of your referral's earnings. So, users of the world, come one and all because Santa is waiting for you!

International cash site for the world so spread the joy!

Haroon cashing out on $490 from Trainn

The Online GPT Market

There are so many ways to make money online that it is insane! You have your usual GPT incentive sites with your usual trial offers. You also have your choice of doing online surveys for money. Next comes writing online articles and even blogging for money. There is even forums where you can earn money from posting on their forums where the usual pay rate is between 3 to 9 cents a post but if you are a active online forum poster then your online hobby can earn you a large chunk of change. I will list some legit pay forums in a later blog. The new online market has grown so much that now people are actually renting other people's forum signature's space for a fee! I always knew about link swapping and banners but this is the first time that I have heard of buying someone's signature. It just goes to shows you that you can pretty much sell anything to advertise on.

Thecomptechguy is totally enjoying his $580 from Trainn!

Custom Gifts

As you may know, there are a ton of incentive sites out there and each catering to a certain genre of gifts and not all sites and networks are repeatable. With sites and networks where you can only do each of their sites once, what happens when you want to do a certain site but do not like the gift that is being offered? One word, custom. Most sites have the option of allowing you to choose your own custom gift if you do not like the gift options. For instance, let's say you signed up for YourPS34Free from Trainn but do not want any of the PS3 options but you want your free gift. You should open a support ticket requesting a custom gift of the same value. So let's say your earned PS3 gift was about $500 so you could option for an iPhone instead. So don't think that if you sign up for a certain prized site that you are stuck with limited options.

Sah0724 is enjoying 13 months of XBOX live thanks to Trainn

Referral Bonuses

There are a few incentive sites where obtaining referrals will benefit you in more than one way. The typical sites will only put you one step closer to obtaining your free gift. However, there are a few networks out there that will give you another added incentive in obtaining referrals. Not only will you be one step closer to your free gift but also you will earn 10% off from your referrals! So imagine this, you're cashing out $100 and in order to obtain your $100 you need 2 referrals and they also want $100. When they cash out on their $100, you will not only get your $100 as well but also an extra $20 on top and so on and so on. It's extra money in your pocket without all of the extra work. It sounds great to me but of course the choice is up to you.

Juden enjoying his bonus pay from V-Bux

Alpha Omega Oh Mama!

It has come to my attention that a long time incentive site will be closing its doors officially on December 15th,2008. It has been around for years but unfortunately it has been forced to shut down. The owner, Benjette has not released as to why she is shutting the site down but for most sites, it is mainly due to scammers and users committing fraud and of course personal reasons. Fraud really ruins the freebie market because fraud may not always be caught at first so some scammers are able to cash out before it happens and when the affiliates notice the fraud that went on the affiliates would ultimately revoke the credit that was given and thus refuse to pay the site owners which ends up as a double whammy loss to the site owners. You may think that you're only really screwing the site owners over but really you're screwing everyone over including yourself because you will be marked and banned as a scammer and some networks will go and prosecute you for committing a crime. Anyways, back to Benjette, her site AnyGift4Free has settled as a grade B site and have given out a number of freebies. I have completed a few AnyGift4Free sites myself so I am sad to see it go. Thank you Benjette and AnyGift4Free for everything you have done!

In spite of it all, another incentive site has announced its revamp in motion. Peter of Free4Me has announced that Free4Me will receive a whole new face lift and will be moving to a whole new system. I wonder what this new system has in stored for us all! It has been announced that all pending referral credits have to hurry up and obtain their credit because only credits will transfer over to the new systems. You will keep your greens and your referrals so don't worry! As long as they receive credit that is. So hurry up and get those referrals to green!

Ringer37's first Trainn payout of $250!

Different Forms of Freebies

There are 2 main types of freebies in the freebie world. Incentive and Get Paid To aka GPT for short. Within each types there are 2 forms of method, referral or do it yourself. You should participate in the one that best fit for you because if you don't then you're basically not going to get very far or earn much money.

INCENTIVE:

Referral:
- Able to find others to sign up and do offers
- Best if participate in trade swaps or advertise in very popular websites or blogs
- Low cost to you and less work

Do It Yourself:
- Do not want to find referrals
- Prefer doing offers yourself
- No need to advertise to anyone

Get Paid To:

Referral:
- Find referrals to gain bonus pay
- Ability to win items that referrals win

Do It Yourself:
- Get paid to search, click, post
- Earnings depends on you

SharkBoy receives his free iPod Touch from Transcendent Innovations

My Freebies Gallery of Proof

I decided to dig up some old pictures of mine showing that incentive sites are legit so all of you nay sayers can shut up your mouth. This is only a sample of how much I have received from participating in freebie sites because I deleted most of the pictures. If you're still doubtful because this pictures are old then I will post recent freebies that other people have received on here as well so you doubtful ones can eat your words again.

Cyberpower PC from Freepay

PSP and iPod Shuffle from Freepay along with free T-shirt

iPod Video from Freepay

$535 Paypal from OrderCash4Free

$100 Paypal from AnyGift4Three

$60 Paypal from AnyGift4Two

$145 Paypal from Get4Friends

Are Free Stuff For Real? Y E S!

I never ever heard of incentive sites until 4 years ago during the incentive site boom which I guess had to do with the housing boom. A friend of mine sent me a link and told me to sign up as my friend's last referral so she can finally receive her free iPod. I had my doubts but as a friend, I did it anyways. A week later and to my surprise she received her free iPod and a free T-shirt to show off and that was when I knew incentive sites were legit. So I did a little Google and found sites that were created to help people complete their freebie sites by either swapping sites or paying others to be their referrals. It sounds crazy but that's the only real effective way to complete incentive sites because the only other ways would be if you have a site that receives a ton of hits and post your link or if you beg and beg your friends and family to sign up which is not likely going to happen anyways because people are doubtful. It's free but you do have to put work into it but most people don't so they quit and call it a scam.

There are 4 steps to completing an incentive site:

1. Sign up and complete an offer
2. Refer others to do the same
3. Once completed, pick your free gift
4. Receive your free gift

In my first year of swapping incentive sites using one of the sites that I use to swap trades, I have made over $7,000 in freebies and cash. It sounds great but be warned, there are risks so my suggestion to you would be to only do sites that are considered Grade A and trade with other traders that have a long history of being legit traders and have a high trade record. The mistake that most newbie traders do is that they become so excited that someone wants to trade with them that they would accept trades from everyone including other newbies which are most likely scammers with new accounts to scam with. So please proceed with caution.

Here's a list of sites that proves incentive sites are legit and will help you complete your own incentive site so check out their forums:

Anything4Free
FreeiPodGuide
ReferralSwapper

And good luck to you!

Santa to the rescue!

It was suddenly announced on Friday, November 21st that the freebie network FCA Net Inc owned by Charles Edgar would be shutting down on the same night. All users who wanting to cash out or redeem their gifts are requested to put in their requests by 11:59:59 PM. Talk about short notice. FCA's sudden closure is definately a big shock and it is very likely that over half of its users did not make the deadline so they are not going to be very happy about that. It is sad to see the network go after being achieving a grade B site status over the course of 3 1/2 years but it only proves that incentive sites are too much of a burden to be run by only one person and personal matters do not help the situation either. Goodbye FCA...and hello Santa! Out from the ashes of the financial crisis comes a whole new network ready to step up and play with the big boys. SantasGiftsAllYear.com boasts a workforce of 12 and offers a variety of gifts to choose from or even hard cold cash. Santa's here to stay all year long and he has something for everybody regardless whether you've been good or bad.

Santa wants you!

Thankful Freebie Network Empires

Thanksgiving is the time of year that we should be thankful for whatever reasons so I'm going to give a list of freebie networks that are should be thankful for still existing among the huge number of incentive sites nowasdays. Many networks came and many fell apart and a few continue to stand tall and worthy enough to continue to participate in.

Still on top A list sites and legit worthy:

Free4me continues on top
Trainn continues to please
123StuffForFree standing up with the big boys
V-Bux holding strong

Fall from grace sites that went from A list to not legit scam worthy:

Free4Every1 sudden fall from grace and continues to not pay out

Other grade sites that fell down a notch:

OrderCash4Free still hanging in there
OffCentric still hanging out with the scammers
GiftFiesta straight up scammers
Freepay still holds to grade D but still hold happy

That is all I have to share with you today because there are too many networks to list now so I will only name the big players. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!