Accepting Offers

I recommend that you first click here - Marketing Pond Program and join for free - then join each of the free paid to take surveys or offers programs. The main reason to join the Marketing Pond Program is that they keep track of how these programs pay or perform and delete any that present problems for their members. The following companies pay for completing offers and are all within the Marketing Pond Program.

Income is earned by signing up with survey companies, confirming your email or taking surveys. Additionally a substantial amount can be earned by accepting free or paid offers. Most of the best paying offers require a credit card and if you don’t cancel within the specified time your credit card will be charged for the purchase. The top paying offers often charge a shipping and handling charge for sending you a sample product. Those charges are usually less than $5 and the payouts for the offers range up to $16.

Is it ethical to accept trial offers and cancel? That’s up to you. This is advertising plain and simple and it’s a win, win for you, the website owner and the advertiser. You may like the product or service so much you decide not to cancel and the advertiser makes a sale. The website owner is basically splitting the amount the advertiser pays with you.

I personally wouldn’t give out any more information than is required to validate a credit card. Other information need not be entirely complete.

Some offers are not available unless you are a U.S. resident, but there are many offers for Internationals too.

Now, lets make some money!

My first choice is CashCrate and just a few of its offers are as follows:

eBay – Sign up for a new free account with your new email and win an auction. Pick something really cheap and bid on it. There are some things on eBay you can get for a penny - Payout $8.00.( Whoops!, just found out this has been deleted so will have to deduct $8 from the total.)

Lightspeed – Survey company, sign up and confirm email address - Payout $.75.

Join Surveys – Fill out one page and join. – Payout $.50

Mini Vacation – Complete survey – Payout $1.35

MyPoints – Sign up and confirm email – Payout $1.00

My Smoking Rewards – Participate in survey – Payout $2.50

Survey – Quiznos vs. Subway – Payout - $.75

Free Online Credit Report – Credit card required – free 30 day trial period – Payout $9.00

eFax – Credit Card required – 30 day free trial – Payout $8.00

Yahoo Success Center – CC required, S & H cost 1.95 - 2 week trial period - Payout $15.00

Net Flix – CC required – 2 week free trial – Payout $13.50

Total earned - $60.35 less S & H of 1.95. Probable wait time for payment will be about 45 days. (Dedeuct $8 for eBay offer no longer available from CashCrate) These offers come and go all the time as advertisers change their budgets and etc.

Avoid offers that require you to ship back unused portions of samples. You need to carefully read and note the cancellation terms of each offer and ensure that you know how to cancel and do so before the date indicated. Some of the higher paying offers involve substantial fees if you don’t meet the requirements for cancellation so due diligence is required.

For instance, an offer may require that you telephone a 1-800 number to cancel or send a fax or letter. An email may not be sufficient. You have to decide before you accept an offer whether it is worth your time. If an offer pays $15 and only takes a grand total of 15 minutes to submit and then later cancel, that is pretty good pay.

You should be credited for your earnings within a few days after completing an offer. Check the offer website to ensure you have been credited for the accepted offer and then cancel the offer with the advertiser before the cancellation period ends. If for some reason there is a delay, contact the web site or just go ahead and cancel the offer with the advertiser. Don’t risk a large charge for something you don’t want. If a website continually delays crediting or payment, report it to Marketing Pond.

Always ask for payment as soon as your payment threshold is reached.

Now, clear all your cookies and you can join the same offers with different emails at Treasure Trooper, Inbox Dollars and the others.

As you work through the offers you will get a feel for how they work. Avoid signing up with surveys companies in any of the surveys companies that you join, because they will not pay you anything. Always go back to your offers websites to sign up with survey companies.

Again, is this ethical? You decide. I tend to believe that the advertisers are earning income from the offers websites or they wouldn't exist. That means that many people actually wind up purchasing an offer, either because they like the product or didn't read the fine print and failed to cancel the purchase as required.

You Can Earn $$$ Accepting Offers