Click for freebies websites - A warning!

buxtonrabbitgreen

I nearly got caught by this as well, trying to send a free text. Luckily I am so techinically incompetent I don't know how to disable my pop up blocker so just gave it up.

tazical

On this occasion you should be covered by the Distance Selling Regulations, which mean that if you pay for something online or via telephone you have a certain period of time in which to cancel the contract and get any money refunded. I can't remember if the time frame is 7 days or 30 days, but a quick google will give you the info.

Edna_Bucket_2

cyberactivist wrote: »

...However, I looked at a website from a link through MSE. This was a freebie giveaway site which offered a £100 cinema ticket card for free. All you had to do was click on 6 company links in their selection...

If only you took as much time to check out "offers" in advance as you apparently have time to moan, cyberactivist!

I don't know the thread you refer to, but by the sound of the "£100 cinema ticket card for free" and "6 company links" it sounds like the classic pyramid scam scheme which scumbag spammers try and post on MSE regularly.

As poster manch235ter rightly says, this is an OPEN FORUM - the plus of that is that anyone can post, even if it is to take a pop at Martin, as you have done. The negative is that vermin can post to try and con people - such posts get removed but only when spotted and reported to the MSE team, who are unpaid to do that difficult job.

All of your criticism has nothing whatsoever to do with Martin Lewis or MSE so any sympathy I might have had for your situation has evaporated because you simply want to take a swing at any easy target for your misfortune.

...My experience has been a very bad one so far and I am not likely to use the MSE website again if this continues. Rather on the contrary, I am more likely to tell everyone of the bad experience...

Fair enough - goodbye then.

A so called money saving website which in fact, through their reccomendations, lost me £20 and a lot of time.

No. Your failure to check it out first (or greed at a "something for nothing" offer?) cost you the money.

Minus points on this occasion Martin.

As ML knows only too well, I have been known to be an occasional, but hopefully polite, critic of some things he has done in the past. However, you are picking on the wrong target here cyberactivist.

"Nul points" for your entry, rather than ML's, I think!

Nami

cyberactivist wrote: »

One of them was for easydvd.com which stated you had to take 3 dvds at £1.99 each. When I went through the registration process, on the penultimate page after punching in all my card details, it said I would actually be charged £19.99p for 10 dvd rentals.

If it stated that you HAD to take 3 DVD's for whatever amount, why would you proceed to enter your card details...

carolinosourus

Nami wrote: »

If it stated that you HAD to take 3 DVD's for whatever amount, why would you proceed to enter your card details...

Think the word 'muppet' springs to mind? He has only himself to blame, no-one else, HE put in his card details and HE disabled his pop-up blocker, no-one else did it for him!

savemoney

There are plenty of people on here who warn people of scams or spam No idea what thread you referred too but it does sound like a pyramid scheme

You can't blame the site for these posts it clearly says on the forums that the forum isn't monitored and that they rely on users to report such scams etc

Just like the real world the internet should be used with caution, you wouldn't sign a piece of paper or shouldn't sign it to say you get a freebie if you do this and that from a perfect stranger, so why should the net be any different?

Security and vigilance should be used at all times when you go on the net and take proper measures, like firewall and AV for basic.

It is irresponsible for anyone not to have any of these measures on there PC

-chris-

Can't believe what I have just been reading!!!!!!
You can't blame ML for your stupidity but I can understand your frustration. Did you honestly think that the £100 cinema ticket card was a genuine free offer??? It doesn't work like that and if you weren’t sure about the offer then you should have waited for someone to post feedback to say either it's a safe offer or it's a SPAM OR CON site. Are you one of these people that click on those ads e.g jackpot joy where it says you can win loads of money??? If you are one of those people then I suggest you phone your ISP and disconnect your internet. You’re a danger to yourself!!

-chris-

Sorry for my post above but you can't post such rubbish! It gets me mad!

carolinosourus

-/chris-/ wrote: »

Sorry for my post above but you can't post such rubbish! It gets me mad!

:rotfl: lol

CBo

Yes just great when people who think every site posted here is the personal responsibility of money saving expert. Have some common sense!
Any offer that requires you to sign up to a membership is going to possibly cost you a lot of money and not be worth the hassle just to get the so called "freebie". Plenty of freebies are posted on here that don't require anything more than your name and address rather than your debit card details. Just think next time you do a offer.