I write this article not to scare people away from referral sites nor to brand all referral sites as scams, what I aim to get through to the reader here is to show what is good and what is bad about the referral systems that are taking over the Internet.
We have all seen it right?
Sign up here to get a Free iPhone or sign up here to get a free Playstation 3... Sounds good right? But why would some one give away a free high in demand gift for nothing?
They are not! In fact what you have to do on most of these referral sites is sign up, complete a paid offer or a free trial and then get X amount of people to do the exact same thing. Now I don't mind people using the word Free if they actually tell the truth but many sites will play on your emotions to just get you to sign up.
But even if you do pay, do these sites actually work and if so how?
That question was in my mind a lot when doing research on these sites, I just could not understand how they could afford any site afford to payout for such high demanded gifts for just 5 referrals?
Let's do some maths here, let's say you sign up to an offer and it costs you 10 pounds or USD (Depending where you live) and you get 5 other people to do the same, now in total thats 60 pounds/USD...
Now is it me or does this not all make any sense? I mean the only way I can see it actually working is if these people stay as a member to the offer (thats if they get a percentage of every monthly payout) which then gets me thinking, is it all just a numbers game?
So I did a little research and asked around in the community to get some answers, I asked the simple question, hows it actually possible?
Here is some of the responses I got from people who have managed to get over ten thousand pounds worth gear. I was firstly told that these sites hope that they get sign ups who complete and offer and don't actually finish getting all referrals, meaning they don't have to pay out for a gift, its also a numbers game, for example, if one person gets 10 people to go green (e.g. Signs up and completes an offer) and only 1 of them people go on to get a free gift then the referrals company have made enough to cover the cost of the product.
It's complicated but there is madness to their method!
There is now a new method coming in to play which is now being used by Freepay, this company now require you to finish your account with a set amount of time, at the moment its a 90 day limit, and if you don't get your X amount of referrals within that time frame then you don't get your gift. This helps the referrals company save loads of money and helps them improve profits too, since if you go green and you get X amount to go green and you fail to reach the time limit then they have made money and not spent a dime.
So is it actually worth paying others to sign up and complete offers for you?
This is a big yes from me, what most miss here is that even if you pay your friends or family to finish your iTouch referrals that is still saving you a big sum of money. But the problem is people in todays world know just how evil the world can be and we are shown from a young age that if it seems to good to be true then it is.
If you want to stay save then its best stay in a group, there are many forums around which cater for the freebie seen and you can get tips and free information regarding the entire process. Not only that such sites such as eXceem will give you a list of who to trust and not to trust, eXceem is a massive community of people who have tried and tested most freebie sites so its totally worth looking in to if your looking in to doing a freebie offer.
Before signing up to any sites and completing offers always do research, this not only goes for freebie sites but anything you purchase on the Internet since you can't see the final product in your hands till its sent to you.
Not only this is good practice, so many people jump straight in to these things to soon find out that its not really a good deal or they have actually been scammed. Take my advice and use the power of Google and look up more information regarding these sites, I am not hear to scare you away from them but to make you do more research before signing away your money to some random guy.
Like stated before, there is the good and there is the bad, lucky for you the good out numbers the bad but some times good fish get caught in the bad guys net...
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