Freebie hitches and hopes

So, I feel like I've made a lot of progress, freebies-wise.

I have discovered freebie forums such as anything4free, freebiescout (personal favorite) and the free ipod guide. I've also discovered, in these forums, referral trading. I like this a lot because I never really wanted to annoy friends and family or turn into a marketer in their eyes.

I've embarked on my first referral trade, and it's been bumpy. I decided to go with the cheaper level B offers, of which you have to do 50 points' worth to get credit (and when I get credit, the person I' trading with will also do an offer for me). I did one 28 point offer, and also a 32 point offer. One of them went very nicely, the 28 point one. I ordered the product I needed to buy, which was some business cards. I only had to pay shipping. That's it. No obligation, they won't keep sending me stuff or keep charging me some sort of fee. I just bought something from this company, for only a little under 4 bucks. A steal when you look at the rest of the freebies.

The other product I needed to buy didn't go quite so smoothly. I signed up just fine, and I was excited to get a 7 day free trial of a product I thought I might actually like, paying only a $1.95 fee. So I signed up, and it said it would send me a confirmation email. Fine. Until I never got it. In addition to not getting credit for the offer, which it said would be instant. So I waited 12 hours, and then I called customer service. First call, I got a user number that I should have been able to use to sign onto the service with. I tried. Got a error message. So I called again. This time I was put through to a supervisor. She couldn't really help me, because the website was probably just having 'technical difficulties' she thought and when I asked when it would be fixed, she said 'well, you never know with that programming stuff'. Thanks. She did, however, extend my trial another 14 days. Which does me a lot of good when I can't even access the site. I only hope that when/if the site revives itself, I will get credit for the offer, and the credit-giving email wasn't eaten by a serer in Timbuktu. One can hope.

I hope that the person I traded referrals with won't get annoyed. I sent him a not and explained the circumstances. I don't really want to do another offer because many referrals are to come and I don't want to cut off too many options for myself. You can only do each offer once, regardless of the site.

And of course, anyone who wants to help a poor iPodless kid, who really really wants an iPod, could go to the link for the Free iPod touch (see bar on right) and complete an inexpensive offer that will absolutely make my day (or my life). I'll even be able to reimburse you via paypal as long as it was under 10 bucks or so. Email me at monkey[dot]kiwi{at}gmail[dot cohm], before you do an offer so that I can know it's you and then afterwards again. Make a girl's (sucky) day much brighter with only a few minutes of your time? This is an email address I'm using for only the free iPod stuff, so don't try any funny stuff. Thanks SO much!