Guest Post: Online Offers!
Guest Post By Nicole from Nicole’s Nickels:
I know many of you have started to do online offers and in the past few weeks those of you who did an offer the last time I guest posted for Collin have received your gift cards! Both Collin and I have received several emails asking for more offers, so here they are!
New to online offers?
Definitely read my previous posts (here, here, and here), as well as the comments to those posts. Just about every question you may have has been answered there. If you have any other questions, email (nicolesnickels@gmail.com) or leave a comment on this post or on my blog somewhere. It’s better to ask the question than to do something you aren’t sure of and have it result in an unsuccessful offer.
It is very possible to be successful with these offers and get a $500 gift card for even less than $50 out of pocket! Remember, you can only earn $1,000 in prizes from each Ideal sub-company (i.e. Bullseye, 123, etc.), so choose wisely!
At the time of this posting, none of the offers below require referrals. All are do-it-yourself offers, which is much easier. Offers can change at any time, so be sure to review the terms and conditions before registering! I noticed some of these $500 offers are for 2-2-8 offers while others are 2-2-4 offers. Obviously the 2-2-4’s are a better deal, but I’ve included them all in case some of you have already completed offers before and need to pay attention to sub-companies.
If you’re brand new to online offers, I recommend you do this $500 Visa gift card offer through Top Notch.
ESolutionsMedia
$50 Visa gift card
$50 Visa gift card and XXL Bag of M&Ms
PS3 Slim
Bullseye Media
$500 gift card for USAir or American Airlines
123 Click
2 American Airlines airplane tickets
MarketLabs
Uggs Slippers
$100 Visa gift card
eSolutionsMedia
$500 Kmart gift card
$500 to Home Depot or Lowes
Jasper Marketing
$100 Target gift card
Top Notch
$500 Visa gift card
$500 gift card – Visa, Chili’s, TGI Friday’s, Itunes or EBay
$500 Visa gift card
$500 Toys r Us gift card
$500 Visa gift card
$500 Visa gift card and Twilight T-shirt
Nintendo DsI
Hip2Save here: I just want to let you all know, these gift cards do come! My sister did the Wii and Wii Fit offer that was posted previously and she received them! Yay! I’ve also had numerous readers email about receiving their FREE gifts too! If you’ve done any of these types of offers previously, I’d love to hear your thoughts on them!
I do still want to try for the giftcard though. I did a bunch of free stuff and Netflix and NSA which I would have done anyway, so I only have to do a couple other things now. I was getting errors ordering pantyhose too, but never got charges from them. Craziness. Maybe I could do it at the library with a Visa giftcard so nobody gets my #.
We were skeptical too but started this process back in mid-August and almost 2 months later had our visa credit card for $500! We spent a little more out of pocket than most. One of the companies that we signed up with shipped three different orders to us and it was in the terms that they could determine when they shipped.
Other than that one thing, it went exactly as Nicole said. Her directions and comment sections were terrific. I give her kudos because she was always quick to respond to all our frantic emails asking for assistance!
So.. I talked to my bank this morning about all of this (I am seriously having issues this week – lol – my debit card pin wouldn’t work at the ATM today!) and they said there is a fee for a Visa giftcard. Is that true? I have never used one.
I don’t know how I’m going to do this at the library with three kids, lol! Does anyone have the contact information for this site that I can’t get to anymore?
Okay this is nuts. I’m sorry I’m posting so much.
I called my mom and had her pull it up and it came up for her. She checked my status for me and I asked her to look and see what other silver offers I could do (I need one more). EVERY single offer says it’s expired.
So now what do I do?!
Sunshine Girl – I’m glad it worked out for you!
Kate: Wow, I’m not sure. I’ve never heard of offers showing as expired. Where does it say the offer is expired? I think you need to email Ideal customer service and find out what is going on with your account. Yes, most Visa giftcards so cost money unless you get it as part of a promotion like from a rebate or something. I got mine from my bank and paid a nominal fee – to me it was worth it. Many credit card companies these days are very quick to consider something fraud and many of the amounts you are charging in these offers is small so it raises eyebrows. You can call your bank before you do offers and advise them of what you are doing if you know them to be extra sensitive. I hope it works out for you!
I just completed my offers for the $500.00 visa gift card. This AM I was woke to a call from someone trying to sell me something. This is odd as I normally do not get these. By 9:00AM I have received 4 calls. The last one for an auto loan I had applied for. I informed him I did not apply for a loan. He then asked if I already had a car. I asked how he got my info. He then said I applied with a certain e-mail address. This is the address I just set up last night just to use for this gift card. This is all very disturbing to me.
Aaaaagh. Still can’t open the site (hubby thinks it may be a server issue that could be fixed in time), but the offers are expired and I can’t even do my last offer. AND today I got an email from ThinAction confirming my order! It did NOT go through the other night, so I chose other offers. Well apparently it went through even though it gave ME and error! My credit card is now closed because of their first charge.
Someone even called to verify a shipping address and I told them I had no info from the company about an order and that it had given me an error and I said don’t send it to me.
Today I got an email confirming my order with ThinAction, called them, and they already shipped it. I told them I’m not paying to send something back that I didn’t order. The order did not go through – I think they took my credit card number and put it in themselves. It doesn’t make sense otherwise because I KNOW I got an error. It was an error like the form wasn’t filled out correctly, but I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it so I gave up.
Anyway they will be trying to charge my closed credit card a ton of money if I don’t send it back. I called the bank and it shouldn’t go through, though. They said 9 times out of 10 it won’t go through.
I have spent so much time on the phone today. =(
Anon: That is strange as I have done many offers and never received a call. I also have close friends who frequently do offers and they don’t receive calls either.
Kate: I’m sorry you’re still having problems. I’ve never heard of offers saying they are expired – where does it say that?
When you are on the page with all the offers, if you click on an offer, it opens the site but says it “this offer is expired.”
I only signed up on Monday (which was actually Tuesday probably because I’m in Idaho and it was so late) and it was a brand new email address!
Since I still can’t open the site, my mom went in and emailed them for me. I haven’t gotten a response.
I am the one that told about the calls for products. I signed up less then 24 hours ago and have now gotten 7 calls. 3 have been for products that I signed up for and they were verifying my address and then trying to get me to try another product. The first was at 8:00 am and the last was at 7:00 pm. This is so bothersome since I have young children. AHAHAH
Hi there –
So I posted after I signed up on Tuesday. The very next morning I started receiving harrassing calls which I have finally associated to the Purity Mineral product on the offer. It is fraudalant activity and I will be calling my bank tomorrow (I’ve been checking each day) as I’ve now been told my card is suspended. SUCH a bummer because I still harbor high hopes. The items I signed up for I really wanted to try as well (Netflix, Disney for example). I’ll muddle thru somehow. But here’s my issue: this is the 2nd fraud activity I’ve had in 4 weeks. The last fraud activity was the one reported on Hip2Save about the charges with a state of ‘CY’ associated. Had Hip2Save not reported that – I’d have been scratching my head wondering how that happened.
I’ve done more internet charging in the last 4 months than ever before in my life. So somehow I’ve gotten my info snagged somewhere. So I really recommend the giftcard approach – which I will do next time.
I’ve been posting and guest posting these offers for almost a year (and doing them myself for longer than that) and this is the first I am hearing of anyone getting any phone calls!
As far as the credit cards go, if you do go the prepaid card route, make sure to register your card online as it’s the only way you’ll be allowed to use the card to make purchases online, just a heads up. I’ve never had any issues with overcharging or mischarging but it may be the way to go.
Can anyone help me??
I got a pre paid visa… completed 2 silver, 2 gold and 1 platinum. Now all the other offers are declining my card when there is PLENTY available. What’s going on??? Any help would be much appreciated!
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So I click the link to the top notch $500 visa card and its not valid anymore. I really think I screwed up by trying this. Good thing I will only be out like $10 since I was able to cancel 2 of the offers already and I will cancel the other 2 monday. I am stuck with 250 business cards but oh well… learned my lesson I guess!!
I just received my $500 Visa Debit card in the mail yesterday. It was all very easy to do if you stay organized and read the terms and agreement before you choose to complete an offer. I spent $27.00 to get my $500. It took around two months to complete it all. Also, FYI don’t sign up for Green Tea Purity they will charge you no matter what you do. I googled them and it looks like nobody has ever been able to cancel. They are based out of China. I just cancelled my credit card and was sent a replacement. No big deal. I am going to continue to complete these offers. They get easier after the first one. Thanks for all your help Nicole
I’m kinda thinking Green Tea Purity and Thin Action might be part of the same company. Anyone know? It’s one that they charge $2.87 and then a ton of money if you don’t send the product back. My credit card is already canceled, so they can’t charge me but I wonder if they can call collections on me if I don’t mail their stuff back. (See previous comment as to why I wouldn’t send it back.)
Just wanted to say that I also received 3 calls the very next day trying to sell me different products from the same company. Next time I’m using my usual 867-5309 number.
Elaine: The 867-5309 made me laugh. It’s an idea! The offers change and the new batch of offers may be what is causing the calls. Like I said I haven’t received any calls or heard of anyone getting any until this guest post.
Anon 8:29 – Not sure why the card is being declined now. Perhaps call the company who issued the card to make sure it is still registered for use online. That’s the only thing I can think of.
Anon 9:15 – The link is still valid when I click it so it must be an issue with your cookies. Try clearing them and see what happens or access the link from a different computer.
Aaron: I’m so glad it worked out for you!
You will have a lot of telemarketers calling you! Not even four days after I filled the information out I was receiving 10 calls a day at all hours. It is a pain.
I signed up with fake information just checking this out but did my real address and fake age. Do they catch on to this stuff? If i want to start can i make a new account with real information and won’t get DQ’d? or even if you haven’t started and use 2 of the same email addresses will you get DQ’d?
thanks.
Still haven’t heard back from the company about the expired offers. Bummer. I was hoping I’d be able to get my other offer done.
I still can’t open the website on either of my computers. My hubby thought it would have fixed itself by now if it was a server issue, but he also doesn’t think it could be a computer issue because it’s happening on both of them and started at the same time.
I would think they rigged it this way, except that you all aren’t having these problems! =)
Anon – It won’t work to use info that’s not real because you need to submit IRS tax information with your redemption form as I’ve stated before. I’m not sure about the rest of your questions, read the terms and conditions carefully asnd it may help.
Kate – I’ve never heard of the issues you are having and receive lots of comments and emails from people about these offers!
Hi, Nicole I had a question for you. I just complete my second $500 visa offer from Top Notch. The rules state you can earn $1000 every six months. Does that mean I will be able to do another $500 offer 6 months after the date that I completed the first one or do they do it differently? Thanks
Thank you for all your help. I always wondered about these. I started my first one on October 22. I just checked and the company received my letter with my documents today. Not even 2 weeks later. Without your help I wouldn’t have been able to do this.
Thanks
Aaron Z – The timing rules aren’t clear in their terms and conditions so I would play it as safe as possible.
I have tried to do several of these and as soon as I get through the pages that you are allowed to skip, I’m met with a blank page. Is it because I’m using a Mac, and has anyone else had this problem?
Wahoo! Okay the site STILL doesn’t work on either of my computers at home, but I am out of state and my inlaws’ house and I randomly decided to check it out. All of my offers have credited and I still had just one silver to do. So I did it and it wasn’t expired anymore! Wahoo! I did Blockbuster so hopefully that one credits quickly and I can get my $500 giftcard!! It was 10/19 when I started so I think I should make it! I am SO EXCITED!! Only I’ll have to figure out how to get the forms and send them in ’cause the site still doesn’t work at home… =P Thanks, Nicole!
Malone – I’ve never heard of that happening. I would try on another computer and see if it works there.
Kate – That’s good news. I know this has been frustrating for you. Replacement offers should credit in 1-2 days so if it hasn’t you’ll need to do another and then get your form off quickly!
Is it a replacement offer just because I did it two weeks later or should I have done something different to make it a replacement offer? Wondering why it would credit more quickly as a replacement. I just went into the silver offers and did one just like before. Thanks!
Wow, it credited already! I just checked. So I filled out the redemption form thing only now I can’t print it out. I have no print options on the page, even when I right click. I hope a copied and pasted one will be acceptable?! Eek! =P
Okay if this helps anyone else, I was not able to print straight from that page in Firefox, but I was able to in Internet Explorer if I right clicked. Yay!
Kate: There is no special way that makes it a replacement offer. What you did is correct – it’s a replacement because you did the correct amount of offers at one time, not all approved and so you had a few offers you had to do to replace the others. Glad to hear it printed. Control P is the standard print command for a screen, that will work regardless of browser and right click options.
Okay, so I mailed my redemption certificate and tax form and sent it with delivery confirmation. It shows that it got there on Nov 6. When I go to check my status (the website suddenly works on my computer again – yay and lol!) it still says to print the form, etc. I’m assuming it just hasn’t been updated yet. This is the same place that should tell me they are mailing my gift card, right? I sent them an email saying they got my stuff on Nov 6 and asked what’s up. Just want to make sure I’m not missing anything. =)
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They say
“According to public records (whitepages.com) the address and phone number
listed on your account are not registered to you.
Please mail (via the postal service) a copy of your driver’s license and
phone bill that shows that the address and number which you provided to us
are indeed yours.
We would like to remind you that per our terms and conditions you cannot
provide us with false demographic information.”
I have had internet phone for 4 years and that’s the phone number I used. And we just moved to Idaho from Kansas and we are in a rental and I don’t even have an Idaho driver’s license yet. =( =( =(
YAY! So they accepted my proof, I got my Idaho driver’s license and all that, and my thingie got processed! WOW! I am kind of in disbelief. =P I don’t know if I’ll start another one soon though, LOL! =)