I was going to hold off on writing this post but today I received bad news from PayPal saying that they have concluded that they were unable to decide on my favor because it was an intangible item so InstantLunch27 you got away with my $30 and since you haven’t responded to the trade complaint on the forum the trade cops can’t do anything really other than ban you and give you a scammer tag so this post is dedicated to you and all the other scammers out there that do the same thing and because of people like you is that the Freebie Trading industry gets a bad reputation.

So it all started back in February 29 2012, Shenika (InstantLunch27) contacted me that she wanted to complete a Trainn site for me and on completion (Green) I would pay her $30 for the green, normally I would not pay on Green on Trainn sites but since it was InstantLunch27 and she had a good reputation (feedback) on another forum I treated her like I would treat a Veteran Trader and pay her on Green. So she goes Green and I send her the payment and then the next day I get a message from her saying and I quote:

hi i do not know what happen they closed my account this is the first i ever had a closed with trainn i sent a reply this what was sent so far. if it do’nt get fix in 2 business days i will refund thanks

So I just replied on March 2nd and told her just to keep me updated and let me know how it goes with the Trainn site. From experience I know how long it takes for the Trainn sites to answer a support ticket so I gave her time and I told her to refund me my paypal payment and then when everything got fixed I will just send it back to her to which she replied and I quote:

okay i will send it back i sent it to my bank so it should take about 3- 4 days to return it to my paypal
i will also put another ticket in

So again I gave her some more time so she could get the money back to her PayPal account then I contacted her again on March 15th just to see if she had any updates which she replied:

sorry have not been in touch with you been helping my daughter with her wedding for the 17th of this month let me check thru my emails to see if trainn relpyed to me 2 sent emails

So taking in consideration that supposedly she had a wedding going on I didn’t want to bother her on an important date like that so I waited until the 20th of March and sent her another message asking for my refund because it has been awhile since I’ve heard from her and since then (March 15th) I haven’t heard from InstantLunch27 (Shenika). And I still waited 5 more days from when I sent the message to get a response but when I didn’t I opened a trade complaint at the A4F forum on March 25th.

You haven’t responded to any of my messages, not even to the trade complaint post but you have the audacity to still login to JFW and TFX on April 12th? 2 forums which I’m a member, when all you have to do is send me a message and tell me whats going on? I see that you already got banned on the FS forum for scamming another member.

So enjoy the $30 I hope it was worth destroying your reputation on the forums…. And to the rest of the scammers, watch out because your name may end up on my blog!!

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So it looks like a lot of people are asking me the same question about why I took CaliStyle101 off my Top Freebie Trading Forums post so I decided to make this quick post to answer that question and why I feel that Calistyle101 is dying.

Ok so to be honest CaliStyle started dying out when Leslie and Chris sold the forum, I don’t remember the exact day but I know it was on 2010 but it was sold to Mike who is owner of the MoneyBonanzas Network and some changes started taking place and the forum was just not the same after that. I believe Mike had the best intentions of trying to make the forum grow with the PPD Traffic and the MoneyBonanzas blogs, I will not take anything away from Mike because I believe he tried to make the forum and freebie trading community grow but once they lost the PPD Traffic on September of last year to another forum the traffic at CaliStyle went down significantly but it was expected after losing the PPD traffic.

Once that happened I guess the owner decided to take the forum on another direction that will still have a section of freebie trading but it will no longer be concentrated around Freebie Trading it will be more like an e-commerce site with a bunch of make money strategies, schemes, programs etc. And because the forum is no longer a Freebie Trading forum that’s why it was removed from the Top Freebie Trading Forums post. To learn more about the direction CaliStyle is heading please visit JustTryItOnce for more information.

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It’s been awhile since the last time I wrote a post on my blog but today I want to introduce you my latest project Bittie.me and how you can use Bittie.me to take your referral links or any link to that next level and have way better conversions either if you are looking for referrals, selling something or promoting your own personal sites.


I’m going to concentrate more on how to use it if you’re looking for referrals since this is a freebie trading blog but keep in mind that this has so many functions that I can’t go through everything on this post. So with that said let’s get started, Bittie.me is a link shortener but with a twist that will take your referral link to the next level because when someone clicks on your referral link you can add an overlay, it can be a video, a message, a form, an image, it can be pretty much whatever you want your referral to see BEFORE they go to the site. 

Let me show you a couple of ideas just so you can have a better idea of what you can do with this:

Idea#1 Lets say you when someone clicks on your referral link you want to show a video showing your new referral how to correctly register on a freebie site, you can now do both with a bittie.me link. See the example: gifts.innovusnet.com?refBy=4072 

Idea #2 Lets say you just want to show your contact information so your new referral can get in touch with you in case they run into any problems or have any questions, you can do that also. See the example: Example#2 

Those are just a couple of ideas, there are so many ways you can use Bittie.me to take your referral link or affiliate link to that next level that i can’t cover everything like I said before on this post but if you have an open mind I know you can also benefit from this site like I have and the best part is that you can use the services completely FREE. As a registered member which is also FREE you are able to Edit your links, Keep track of how many hits you are getting, and delete them if necessary. And it doesn’t just stop there, if your link is one of the Top 10 links getting the most hits your link is automatically added to the “Top 10″ page where all the visitors that use Bittie.me will see your link so you will get even more exposure and even make the link go viral since it will have a facebook “Like” and a Google “+1″ buttons next to it to make your links go viral.

I’m real excited to share my new site with the freebie trading community first, hopefully you guys can take advantage of this website and if you have questions feel free to leave a comment below and I will answer them asap.

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200 Successful Freebie Trading Trades!!

I just noticed that I haven’t written a new post since March on this blog… Is not that I’m not doing freebie trading anymore, is just that I have been busy with my other sites and other ventures but today I’m posting to celebrate my 200 successful trades as a freebie trader. 200!!!! Hell yeah!! lol. It has been 2 years since I first started trading and last night I just got my 200 trade feedback, the best part of this accomplishment for me is that in my 2 years of trading I haven’t received a negative feedback not even a neutral one, I want to thank all the traders that have traded with me, I really appreciate you guys for choosing me over other good traders.

Now here is my feedback from all the forums I trade on (Click for bigger view):

A4F (127)

JFW (10)

TFX (15)

Cali (42)

TFS (6)

200 baby!! Thanks again to all the traders that traded with me and the ones that will trade with me in the future!

p.s. When I hit 300 I will update this thread again!!

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A lot of new traders get lost with all the terms or lingo we used on the freebie trading industry, so I decided to share most of the terms that are used on the forums, so you guys get a better idea of their meanings.

So lets get started:

• Newbie, Noob, Rookie- Term used for the new traders coming into the freebie trading industry for the 1st time, Rookies.

• Green or Going Green- is used when a trader completes all the requirements and receives credit for it at the IFW/Freebie site. They use green, because the status on the freebie site will turn green.

• Yellow- is when a referral has succesfully signed up under your referral link but hasn’t completed an offer or received credit for an offer.

• Red or On Hold- a referral that has successfully signed up under your referral link but has been disqualified by the IFW/Freebie site for violating TOS, committed fraud or provided false information.

• MCR- stands for missing credit request, MCR’s are submitted to the IFW/Freebie sites when your offer doesn’t credit. Some sites have a waiting period before submitting an MCR others don’t.

• PM- stands for Private Message. On the forums you can communicate with other traders through PM or Private Messages.

• Scammer- dishonest trader.

• Offer(s)- advertising options you must complete on a IFW/Freebie site in order to complete your requirements and go Green.

• IFW- Incentivized freebie site. Websites that giveaway cash and prizes to those who meet the site requirements.

• PP or PPD- stands for Project Payday. PPD provides new traders with the training to start on the freebie industry for a fee or completing an offer(s). Most of the Vet traders have their own training sites, providing the same or better information for free. Just like this blog

• Free Green- free greens are given away by freebie networks do to a special promotion they might be running that month. What it means is that you are granted the Green so you don’t have to complete offers, you just refer people to the site.

• Forever Green- when a IFW/Freebie site is forever green/repeatable it means that you will only complete the requirements once and you can send unlimited referrals to that site to get your prize.

• DIY site- Do it Yourself sites don’t require you to get any referrals, you just sign up and complete the offers to get your prize.

• Offer Weight- Offers are assigned a weight or an amount of credit that the offer is worth. For example if an IFW/Freebie site requirements is 1 credit, you must complete  2 separate offers weighted at 1/2 credit to complete the requirements, or 3 separate offers weighted at 1/3 credit and so on.

• Ref- is short for referral. Is when someone signs up through your referral link provided to you by the IFW/Freebie site and completes all the requirements and goes green.

• A4F- stands for the Anything4free forum.

• TFX- stands for The Freebie Exchange forum.

• JFW- stands for Jaymans Freebie World forum.

• Cali- stands for the Calistyle101 forum.

• TR- short for trader rating. Trader rating is like feedback, once the traders complete their trade they leave feedback or tR for each other.

• PTC- stands for Paid to Click.

• GPT- stands for Get paid to. This type of freebie site pays users for performing a specific task or jobs.

• R4C- also known as Ref4Cash stands for Referral 4 Cash. You will see this section on the forums, this section is when you receive cash for completing sites for other traders.

• R4R- also known as Ref4Ref stands for Referral 4 Referral. Another section found in the forums, this section is when 2 traders exchange referral links and complete offers for each other.

• R4O- also known as Ref4Other stands for Referral 4 Other. Is another section in the forums, if you don’t have the cash to trade you can trade goods or services on this section.

• TM- stands for Trade Manager, the trade manager is were the trades are setup.

Those are most common terms used on the freebie trading industry, hope this helps some of the new traders out there. If I missed something you can leave a comment and let me know and I’ll add it. Thanks!

More useful terms used on the freebie trading industry:

• GLOSSARY OF TERMS used in the Freebie Trading Industry…Updated – There is an incredible amount of jargon associated with freebie trading, and you may sometimes wish to look up a specific term. It’s a good idea to glance over these so you have some familiarity with them. …

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This post is just a recollection of all the posts I have written over the last couple of years that involved everything you need to know about freebie trading plus a couple of bonuses also about freebie trading.

1. What is Freebie Trading

2. What You Need to Get Started with Freebie Trading

3. How to Register to a Freebie Site

4. How to Clear Cookies

5. How to Submit a Missing Credit Request (MCR)

6. Top Freebie Trading Forums

BONUS Links

1. Freebie Trading Scams

2. Freebie Trading Lingo

3. Freebie Trading HYPE-Dont Fall for it!

4. Make $150 in 5 Days

I will keep this post updated as I go, thanks for visiting my blog and if you have any questions feel free to contact me through the contact page or just leave a comment.

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How to Submit a Missing Credit Request (MCR)

This is a quick tutorial on how to correctly submit a Missing Credit Request or MCR. For those that don’t know a missing credit request is when you complete an offer at a freebie site but for some reason you don’t get the credit for the offer you completed, so when you dont get credit you submit an MCR with the freebie site to see if they can manually credit you for the offer that is not crediting.

1st Part- The first thing the freebie site is going to ask you for when submitting an MCR is the email confirmation with the full headers, a lot of people think that they can just copy and paste the email and submit it, when they clearly ask for the “full headers” of the email. Here is a list of how to get the full headers in different email accounts:

* For Gmail:
1. Log in to Gmail.
2. Open the message you’d like to view headers for.
3. Click the down arrow next to Reply, at the top-right of the message pane.
4. Select Show original.
The full headers will appear in a new window.

* For AOL:
1. Log in to your AOL account.
2. Open the message you’d like to view headers for.
3. Click Details under the To field.
The full headers will appear above the message text.

* For Hotmail:
1. Log in to your Hotmail account.
2. Click Options next to the tabs.
3. Select Mail from the left-side menu.
4. Click Mail Display Settings.
5. Under Message Headers, select Advanced.
6. Click OK.
The full headers for all of your messages will now be available.
Return to your inbox, and open the message you’d like to view headers for.

*For Microsoft Internet Mail:
1. Log in to your Microsoft Internet Mail account.
2. Open the message you’d like to view headers for.
3. Click the File menu, and select Properties.
4. Select the Details tab to display the full headers.
The full headers will appear above the message text.

*For Yahoo! Mail:
1. Log in to your Yahoo! Mail account.
2. Open the message you’d like to view headers for.
3. Click Full Headers at the top of your message.
4. classic Yahoo its down at the lower right hand corner you will see full headers
The full headers will appear above the message text.

*For Outlook Express:
1. Open Outlook Express.
2. From your inbox, locate the message you’d like to view headers for.
3. Right-click the message, and select Properties.
4. Open the Details tab in the dialogue box.
The full headers will appear in the dialogue box.

*For Apple Mail:
1. Click on the email you would like full headers for
2. Go to View>Message>Long Headers

Quick video showing how to get the full headers on Gmail:

Once you find your email with the full headers all you need to do is copy the whole email with the full headers and go to the freebie site and get ready to submit the MCR.

2nd Part- How to submit an MCR (I’m going to use a ZipNadaZilch site for this example)

1. Log in to the freebie site

2. On the top tabs, there is one that reads “support”, you’re going to click there.

3. Once on the support page, you’re going to see a link that reads “Submit a Missing Credit Request” you’re going to click on that link.

4. Once on the Missing Credit request page, first thing you need to do is choose the offer you’re submitting the MCR for from the drop down where it reads “Offer Completed”, then you’re going to choose the date the offer was completed from the drop down that reads “Date Completed”, after that where it says “Confirmation Email” there is where you paste the email with the full headers and just click on the submit button and you’re done.

Here is a quick video on how to submit an MCR on a ZipNadaZilch site:

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In the freebie industry we have different types of scammers that use different methods to deceive traders and take advantage of new traders and even established traders. This scams hurt the freebie industry and today I decided to write about all the different types of scams you may encountered and need to watch out for.

Freebie Trading Scams:

1. “Go Green” Scam- This scammer is looking for traders that pay on green or the same day, they look for the highest bidder, most of the time they come prepared and already know what site they can go green on fast (most of the time Trainn sites). These scammers will usually go RED by committing offer fraud or supplying false information.

How to Identify them:

• They will most likely contact you through an instant messenger like YIM or AIM

• They may ask you for money upfront

• Most likely their paypal account is not verified, but some of them are verified

• Impatient, they don’t want to chat or be bothered with questions, they just want to go green and get paid

• They may have different emails and usernames  to sign up on multiple sites using different emails.

2. “Non-Paying” Scammer- This scammer is out looking to “buy” your green, but have no intention on paying you for that green. They will create posts at the forums and even appear like they are helpful users in the forum.

How to Identify them:

• They will Spam any user through instant messengers, pm and emails

• They claim to help new traders but are very impatient with new members, most of the time they will tell you what offer to complete so you go green fast

• They will try to avoid setting up a trade on the forums, they prefer to just work through private messages or instant messengers

  3. “Underpaying” Scammer- This scam is directed mostly to new traders. The scam is to take advantage of new traders that don’t know how much they should get paid for a green.

  To avoid this scam just shop around, go through multiple threads and see what other traders are paying for the same site before agreeing to a trade.

  4. “Multi-Site Payout” Scammer- Another one directed to new members, scammer will post a thread offering a really high payout for doing multiple sites ($200, $300+). For example the scammer may offer $300 if you complete and go green on 5 sites, the scammer will ONLY pay if you go green on all 5 sites, If you as a trader go green on only 3 and can’t complete the other 2 sites, the scammer will make you believe that you didn’t complete the trade so you won’t get paid anything, not even for 3 sites you already completed.

  Legitimate traders may post a total payout for all of their sites but will never required you to complete all of them. You SHOULD get paid for every site you complete and go green on, no questions asked.

  5. “Referral 4 Referral” Scammer- Sadly but True, this scam happens when a user, typically with an established Trade Rating seeks out a user with a lower Trade Rating to set up a Referral 4 Referral trade. Since traders with lower Trade Rating always go first in a trade, once they go green on the site and is time for the higher Trade Rating trader to green the site, the higher TR trader comes back with an excuse like ” I can’t complete the site because there are no offers for me to complete” So then the higher Trade Rating trader will offer to pay the average payout on the green they received.

  An easy way to avoid this scam is when you setup the trade on the “Notes, or Details Section” of the trade, put as a requirement that if either trader can’t complete the site the other trader will get paid 100% of the payout on the site they went green on. Believe me this will stop the high TR traders from taking advantage of you.

  
  

  This are some of the most common scams in the freebie trading industry, hope you learn something from this and now you can avoid getting scammed.  If you have questions, concerns or will like to share your freebie trading experience please leave a comment below. Thanks!

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Freebie Trading Experience

Written by: DarkMatters07

As a student, I always tried to conserve what little I had and make the most of it.  I mean let’s face it…..how many different ways DO YOU know how to make ramen noodles?  If there was such a thing as IRON CHEF Ramen…..I would be a major contender!  But seriously…….we as students a lot of the time know how to Macgyver our way through school and adapt to hard times….i.e., like when our pockets are empty and we don’t want to call Mom and Dad.

That was my situation a couple of years ago.  I was sitting in a computer lab while all of my other friends were tap, tapping away on their laptops in the comfort of their own bed in their own room.  It was then and there that I decided to find a way to earn some extra money and get my own personal laptop.  With my class load I found it extremely DIFFICULT working a full time job and taking a full course load.

One day in the cafeteria, a friend of mine (who dressed like a hobo but was a next generation EINSTEIN) starting tapping away on his laptop. This was getting ridiculous.  I mean this guy had less of a budget than me.  Ofcourse I thought it was stolen (sorry friend) but to my surprise he said he got it FREE.  WTF???!?!?!??!……. I then thought, “Not only is this laptop stolen but my friend is now into drugs”.

Turns out he had gotten a FREE and EXPENSIVE LAPTOP just for trying out Netflix and renting movies.  On top of that, his room was decked out with all the latest entertainment gadgets and gizmos which he also got for FREE.  Well after that I immediately jumped on the bandwagon and sure enough in less than a month, I was tip, tapping on my own FREE laptop.  A few months later my room was also loaded with a MANCAVE DREAM (PS3, XBOX 360, Wii, and a HDTV) and it was ALL FREE.  I even got a little extra pocket money which helped out during the school year.  Needless to say, the phone calls to the parents stopped from that point on.

Now I am a little older and a student in medical school.  Rather than carrying tons of books and notes, I have an IPAD that I got for FREE and to me you can’t beat  FREE…FREE….FREE.

Now the INSIDE SCOOP:  I’m going to tell you exactly HOW YOU CAN GET AN IPAD FOR YOURSELF!

1.) Sign up with an e-mail address (your own or create a new one) at the above link.  Fill in the appropriate address information where you want your Ipad to be shipped.

2.) Try a sponsored offer, i.e. Netflix, emusic, etc.  (Advice: Try a CreditReport.com because they credit (GREEN) instantly.)

3.) Finally, get your family members or friends to do the same thing.  (Easiest way:  I usually tell them that either the holidays or my birthday is coming up and this is all you want.  You’d be surprised how often this works.)

4.) That’s it.  Kick back and wait for your electronic item or cash equivalent in the mail.

I want to thank DarkMatters07 for contributing and sharing his experienced with us, if any of you guys (reading this blog) will like to share your experiences, reviews, etc. Feel free to contact me through the contact page.

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