Freebie Phil’s Guide to Free Offers

Yes they are real. Yes they do work. But it doesn’t happen in one day.

The Basics:
Sign-up on a Free Site. On that site are a number of offers. An offer is a trial product. Examples are BlockBuster or NetFlix movie rentals, Video Game rentals, Shopping Clubs, Weight Loss Medicines, eBay helpers, credit checks, Flowers, language software, etc.

Most sites make you complete one or two offers in order to get a credit. You need one credit to have a valid account. Many offers are free or $1 to cover shipping costs. After you complete an Offer, it should credit to your account by the time stated. Now you have two options: you can try to get other referrals or most sites allow you to complete a number of offers for a free gift. Once you get the specified number of referrals or offer points, you submit your account to be processed and approved. The Offer site checks over your completed offers and if everything is legit, they send you the free item.

1. Get Organized
Have a secondary email address. While the Free Sites are rather private with your email address, the people running the offers may not be. It also helps to keep things separate from your day-to-day email address.

Get a PayPal account. Almost everyone, free sites and referrers, pay via PayPal. If you don’t have one, you have to get one.

Also, create a system of keeping track of what you are doing. I use a spreadsheet that keeps all of the following information:

You really can’t keep too much information as long as you keep it organized.

2. Getting Started
Find a referral link. You can find them all over, but if you’re going to start, these sites have a good selection.

3. Signing Up
Go to the Free Stuff web site and sign-up under a referral link.
This is very easy. Use that secondary email address. Fill out the form and use real information. Free Sites keep track of this info, so if you provide fake addresses, you risk failing offers, being banned, or not getting paid.

If you’re looking to scam people, don’t. Word gets around fast as to who is a scammer. Most of the time PayPal will refund the money. You’ll be left with nothing but hassles.

4. Check Out The Offers
Each site is different in the amount, but they all require you to complete Offers. An Offer is usually to try out a service or a product that you find interesting. They typically require one of three things:
- A small fee $1-2
- Shipping and handling for a free product
- A sign-up fee

If you are new, almost all have simple offers that you can do for a couple of dollars maximum. In addition, these offers will typically give you an extra bonus of Gift Cards to popular retailers.

It is common to spend $2 on an offer, but end up with $10-20 in bonus Gift Cards.

5. Pick Your Offers
Sites typically require you to complete One Full Credit before you can get anything. Pick appealing offers that will add up to a full credit.

6. Doing the Offers
Before clicking on any Offers, make sure your cookies are turned on. This is how they keep track of your credits. If they are blocked, you get no credit.

Turn off pop-up blockers or anything else that prevents normal web browsing.

It doesn’t hurt to clear-out your pre-existing cookies as well. It helps to start from a clean slate so that no old cookies interfere with the ones that track your Offers.

Get out your spreadsheet and read the Offer. If it sounds appealing, fill out your info. Use real info! They do check and if there is incorrect information, you may not get credit or they might even ban your account.

Before submitting an Offer, READ THE TERMS. There is a lot of legalese, but you want to read how long the trial period lasts and how you cancel if you do not like it.

Get the phone number to cancel the offer. This is one of the most important details. Most Offers are auto-repeating. If you do not cancel, they will bill your credit card for the full amount until you do.

If you have more than one, keep track of what credit card you used. I’ve never had problems, but in-case anything fishy goes on, you know where to look.

7. Submit the Offer
Click submit. There should be a Thank-You page when you are done. Shortly, an email will arrive giving you deals on the Offer. Check your spam box in case your confirmation email was sent there.

8. Next?
Either complete more offers or find referrals. Friends or co-workers are good. You can also find other traders on forums that cater to the Free Site world.

So What is the catch?
There really isn’t one. Here is what each party gains:

The Free Site
The Free Site gets paid by the people behind the offers. When you complete an offer, the Free Site gets paid a percentage based on the offer. As an incentive to do the offer, the Free site will send you free stuff when you complete enough points or send them enough referrals.

The Offer People
They want you to try their product. They would also like you to keep trying your product. They count on people not canceling the order when the trial period expires. Most people are lazy, so they cover the costs of those to cancel in time.

You
You can win in many ways.
- Get paid to do credits for other people. Also known as “Going Green.”
- A lot of offers pay you with bonus gift cards just for trying something.
- By accumulating enough points or referrals in order to get paid by the Free Site. Most pay-outs range from $100-500.

Some sites only require 3-5 referrals. Get a couple of friends together and in no time you could have a Wii/iPod/Xbox or $100 to $250 to split. Or, pay your friends to do the offers for you and make a few bucks on the side.