Referral Websites

[King Wiired]

I was searching around for competitions or whatevz so I can get some microsoft points (currently skint) and, like I have about 239842398 times even unintentionally, come across people being like 'yeah if you join this site and we refer each other we get so much free stuff'

Though I doubt I'd be willing to give out all my personal details in the hope of a free Xbox or whatever, I was curious how legit you guys think they are.

I can see it more from a scamming perspective rather then a 'Hey, could you do me a favour to fill in some surveys and I'll give you £100' kind of attitude.

Maybe some of you guys have tried them? Succeeded/failed?

So yeah, your thoughts plz. Also ignoring any fhags that are like 'yeah do this blablabla.com/?referall2039' btw.

 

[rukus]

they're pyramid scams. you will be waiting for a looong time to get enough points for anything, and by that time, the company will disappear. referrring existing members won't get you anything. it is slightly mroe legit than a complete scam; barely though.

 

[Chewy]

Surprisingly most of them aren't scams. I have earned over $100 worth of wii stuff using this one site which name is censored on here(rhymes with smaming slagoon). I didn't even really get any referal points for it too, but I did sign up for some stuff with my credit card for some one or two dollar trial things(which gave me $10-20 worth of stuff in return)

The only problem with them is that a lot of times the surveys don't register with the site right. On a lot of them it is no big deal but if you sign up for some trial with a credit card then it's pretty annoying.

If you do sign up for them I reccomend you get the web developer toolbar for firefox. It has a feature that clicks all the questions on the page to "no".

And I always just filled out all of the surveys with false information and it worked. Except for the ones which required a credit card, but those were usually reputable sites like freecreditreport.com.

 

[King Wiired]

Surprisingly most of them aren't scams. I have earned over $100 worth of wii stuff using this one site which name is censored on here(rhymes with smaming slagoon). I didn't even really get any referal points for it too, but I did sign up for some stuff with my credit card for some one or two dollar trial things(which gave me $10-20 worth of stuff in return)

The only problem with them is that a lot of times the surveys don't register with the site right. On a lot of them it is no big deal but if you sign up for some trial with a credit card then it's pretty annoying.

If you do sign up for them I reccomend you get the web developer toolbar for firefox. It has a feature that clicks all the questions on the page to "no".

And I always just filled out all of the surveys with false information and it worked. Except for the ones which required a credit card, but those were usually reputable sites like freecreditreport.com.

Cheers man, that's pretty cool. Though the boldness is a key part to which I wouldn't particularly want to give the details away of.

 

[Chewy]

You aren't required to. You don't ever give your credit card information to the main site.

There are just certain things you can do, like sign up for a free credit report, which earn you a lot more points then taking surveys. They are generally for reputable sites, but you just have to remember to cancel your trial so you don't get charged.