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[stacy]

Great post, great information. Thanks.

Originally Posted by marbleeye

MESSAGE TO SCAMMERS: you can make more money doing this legitimately then you can by scamming honest green paying traders out of $20 here and there. If you are just doing it for kicks because you think its fun, you won’t think its fun when I track you down and kick your ass.

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[BLynsay]

Originally Posted by marbleeye

The number of RED referrals are rising. The number of Lunch Theft posts are rising. I for one pay on green. I believe that if you provide a service you should be paid upon completion of the service you provided. You should not have to wait for others to complete a service for you to get paid for your service. This is a comparison of being paid on green versus being paid on approval. I am now considering the other payment option. I have had several referrals go red on me in the last three weeks. In most cases I have received my money back. In other cases I have been scammed and quite frankly I am getting fed up with it.

MESSAGE TO SCAMMERS: you can make more money doing this legitimately then you can by scamming honest green paying traders out of $20 here and there. If you are just doing it for kicks because you think its fun, you won’t think its fun when I track you down and kick your ass.

MESSAGE TO NEW MEMBERS / VETS: please read

DO NOT SIGN UP ON A PARTICULAR SITE MORE THEN ONCE! If you signup on a particular freesite more then once YOU WILL GO RED! Meaning if you signup on zeropricetags under paypeck’s referral link you can not signup on zeropricetags under dtaylor5’s referral link. Most sites will give you an error if you try and do this but in the cases where they don’t YOU WILL GO RED! Now if you signup on zeropricetags for paypeck you can signup on gifts.zeropricetags for HeavenOnEarth. I know this may be a little confusing. But if you are not sure of something just ask don't ever assume.

USE VALID INFORMATION WHEN REGISTERING ON A FREESITE AND SIGNING UP FOR OFFERS! If you do not give valid name, email address, phone number, street address, credit card information etc, this is considered fraud and YOU WILL GO REDAnd, no P.O. boxes.

DO NOT SIGNUP FOR A PARTICULAR OFFER MORE THEN ONCE! If you do this it is considered offer fraud and YOU WILL GO RED! If you are not sure about an offer and you think it may be the same offer you did on another site, play it safe and don’t signup for the offer. Now I know some offers are confusing. Take the Auction Monster, Online business kits etc. for example. If you are not sure you can signup for a particular offer because you did a similar offer on another site, your best bet would be to place a support ticket with the site and ask them.

DO NOT CANCEL AN OFFER IMMEDIATELY AFTER SIGNING UP! This goes along with the rule: only do offers that you are interested in. If the offer is for a 10 day trial membership, try out the membership if you do not care for it then it is okay to cancel. If you cancel an Offer the same day you signed up for it YOU WILL GO RED!

DO NOT ACCESS YOUR FREESITE ACCOUNTS FROM A PUBLIC INTERNET PORTAL! If you log on to your freesite account from a Starbucks, Panera Bread, Public library etc, this will cause a duplicate IP address access issue on the freesite and YOU WILL GO RED! Please keep all your referral trading on one PC from one location. Do not do freesite referral trading from home and work. This is one that I learned the hard way early on.

DO NOT USE AOL TO ACCESS YOUR FREESITES! This goes along with the one above. This will cause a duplicate IP address issue and YOU WILL GO RED! AOL uses a proxies to access the internet. There are other ISPs that use proxies and you will have the same result. Usually dialup ISPs use proxies. If you are not sure call your ISP and find out. You can go to this link and see if a proxy is detected http://www.lagado.com/proxy-test I wouldn’t even use an AOL email address when registering on a freesite. Open another free email account yahoo, hotmail etc.

DO NOT TELL REFERRALS WHAT OFFERS TO DO! This is considered walking a referral through and is a violation of all freesites T.O.S. If you are caught doing this YOU WILL GO RED and so will your referral. This is a little tougher to track but if you do it you will get caught.

HAVING MISMATCHED INFORMATION WHEN REGISTERING ON A FREESITE: If the information you provide when registering on a freesite is not consistent with information gathered by the freesite such as information entered when signing up for an offer, paypal information, any ID verification sent to the site, etc. YOU MIGHT GO RED. I say might because this is up to the particular freesite. Freesites need to protect themselves from fraud. A lot of freesites are requiring ID verification to allow you to work and order from the site. So if there is any mismatching information on your freesite account this looks suspicious to the freesite and they may put you on hold. Usually a support ticket or and email that clears up any suspicious information will get an account taken off of hold. But, it is no guarantee



All these above are the major ways you can have you freesites accounts placed on hold. If a freesite has suspiscion that you are being fraudulent in any way YOU WILL GO RED! So read the freesite’s Terms of Service and abide by it. If you do make a mistake and you do have your account placed on hold, the first thing you should do is pay back the money if you were paid on green.

thank you all for your time.

Finally someone told me what it means to "go red". This is great info, especially for a scared newbie who wants to get it right and not cause any problems.

[nmtanjt]

Great information! I agree this should stay where everyone can read it!

[flybygirl43]

thank you so much for this thread! I've only been doing this for about a month & tried to do it right. I went red twice because the site owners wanted to confirm I was who I said I was. From now on I'm automatically sending in a support ticket with my id. Your thread is so informative & clear which makes this whole business much easier to navigate through. Thanks again.

[marbleeye]

Originally Posted by flybygirl43

thank you so much for this thread! I've only been doing this for about a month & tried to do it right. I went red twice because the site owners wanted to confirm I was who I said I was. From now on I'm automatically sending in a support ticket with my id. Your thread is so informative & clear which makes this whole business much easier to navigate through. Thanks again.

You are welcome.. It is always a good idea if you have an address that may not show up on mapquest or other online address search engines to email the site valid ID showing your current name and address.

[egialeli]

I agree marbleeye! If I have anyone go on red I'll join you in the ass-kicking. I'm not scared-besides my other hidden talents mentioned earlier today-I know Tae Kwon Do, and Self Defense!

[nani1987]

Hi I am new here and I am trying to under stand alot, I read but I need some help and some one to guide me in the right direction.
nani

pm me or add me

[taterbaby]

Originally Posted by nani1987

Hi I am new here and I am trying to under stand alot, I read but I need some help and some one to guide me in the right direction.
nani

pm me or add me

id love to help you out
send me a pm if you still are looking for someone to guide you

[speckledfin]

Thanks for the post!! I am a newbie and every bit of information at this point is very helpful!! I must admit it is kind of scary getting started, so I am trying to read everything I can so I am informed and will not make a mistake and go red!!! So thank again for the information!!

[Patrick]

Also a really smart thing to do is keep a log of the offers you have signed up with.