I decided to give Freepay a chance because of a
touted “it’s not too good to be true” attention
it was getting. Afterall, you just need to
complete 1 offer, and get others to do the same
to qualify for the freebie. The 1 offer may not
even cost anything, but your time.

I chose a credit card offer. I clicked on the
link and applied. The credit card company
confirmed my application and approved it very
fast. However, I never received any confirmation
from freepay about my clicking on their link, and
their site still showed that “I needed to complete
1 offer”. Their rules said it could take weeks for
an offer to show up as complete so I thought nothing
of it.

Well 1 month went by and still nothing so I wrote
their customer service. They wanted PROOF on my
part that THEY had sent me a confirmation (which
they had never sent). Their web tracking and
affiliate logs would obviously show that I clicked
on their link for the credit card, yet they want
me to PROVE this to them. Dumbfounded, I provided
them the dates and the E-mails from the credit card
showing that I was accepted, even to my first bill.

Of course, all of that is not good enough for them,
because as most these “freebie” scams go, they make
you provide the evidence to them that they even
recognized you visiting and clicking the links on their
site to begin with. Clicking links is tracked on THEIR
SIDE, not on the customers. So they claim you are only
authenticated if you received an E-mail from them, so
if they never SENT you the E-mail for all your clicking
and orders, you are screwed. They will not accept the
3rd party E-mails or confirmations you receive from the
sites you reached from their site.

Lessons: Don’t order or buy something unless you really
want it, and if you do want it, don’t expect something
free in return unless the offer comes directly from the
same exact manufacture or retail site as your order.

“If it sounds to good to be true it probably is” remains
very true. Please don’t waste your time and be taken
by these professional scam artists hiding behind a “legit”
looking business. I’m already in it knee-deep so will not
abandon the process without some resolution.

One last thing, Freepay has also MODIFIED its policies
on what and when you have to have everything completed.
Specifically they placed an expiration date on when
you must have all aspects of your order, and all the
referrals completed. This is a new angle at scamming
everyone already with orders, because Freepay changed
the rules in the middle of the game so to speak. This is
flat out attempt to screw most customers out of the offer.
And as Clifton mentioned, they are counting on you to “give up”
as that is the basis of their business model. The better choice
is not to get started or involved with them in the first place.

The moral of my story? Free stuff is awesome.