Instant Profitz - Finding Out the Hard Way.
What I Didn't Know - What You Should Know!
Blog readers, if you are a part of Instant Profitz, know before hand that your decision to enjoy it is an excellent one! I have been enjoying being a member of Instant Profitz for close to two months now and don't feel I will be looking back. Instant Profitz is here to stay and so am I. They have recently completed a full year in business and what a superb start to their second year with a new referral program, more "get paid to sign up" offers and more!
After saying all of that, I would like to share with you my experience so that you can do things differently the first time around and not have to learn the hard way like I did.
There are some "free" offers where you are allowed to try out a product without having to make a payment for the "free" trial for a particular amout of time. In some of these instances, credit card information is still requested so that, in the event you decide to continue with the product or service, the company has all of your information up front sort of as a guaranty that you will be committed to either backing out before the trial is over or your account will be charged.
This hasn't posed a problem for me at all since, for the most part, I do try out the product/service, decide that I don't want to continue and cancel beforehand - no credit card charges to follow. Some of you may be using prepaid cards, which is even better.
Although if you are using these type of cards, still be sure to read the terms of service ("TOS") and privacy policies for each company you sign up with. They can be tricky. My suggestion is to just get yourself a little notebook or do an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of the offers you do and cancel dates if you intend to cancel.
Getting to the point of this blog entry, now here is where I had a problem and have had this problem during March as well. When I sign up for the free offers where they ask for a credit card (prepaid card), I am absolutely clear on what the cancellation date is. However, it seems I've been cancelling too early.
For example, a certain online service says that I have seven days to try out their service at which time I can either decide to cancel or I will be charged "x" amount of dollars. So I do try out the service, but within 24 hours I am absolutely certain it is not for me. Well, I go ahead and proceed with the cancellation process.
What happens is that Instant Profitz sometimes, not all the time, does not credit your account right away, so if I cancel "too" early and my account hasn't been credited, then I forfit the "profit." This is not because Instant Profitz has a rule or anything about this, but if I cancel too early, they will not get paid and therefore, will not be able to pay me.
I did not know this or notice it was because of cancelling too early that I wasn't getting credited until it happened to me a few times. At first I thought it had something to do with not clearing my cookies, which I also corrected (You must clear your cookies after each offer you do or you may have crediting issues - Just do it and you'll be fine. :-)). Anyway, what a bummer, because the items were big ticket items (for me anyway at $25 plus in some instances).
So what should you do with this information?
If you do come across a product or service where you are promised a reward from Instant Profitz for "signing up," especially for "free offers where a credit card is involved," and you do not get that reward, maybe it's because of what happened to me. Hold off on cancelling until you get the credit.
If you see that time is running out, don't wait until the absolute last minute to cancel, because in some instances it takes more than 24 hours for the cancellation process to take effect. If you still haven't received credit, just chalk it up to "Oh well, maybe next time."
FREEBIE offers are not as "guaranteed" for lack of a better word as the paid offers are, so there isn't any way to contest the fact that you signed up and didn't get paid for that offer. That is one reason why I like doing paid offers. I haven't had any problems with credits in March or this month when it came to PAID offers.
While you are having fun this month with all of those offers, remember my experience. That way you will still be able to get your INSTANT PROFITZ!
Blog readers, if you are a part of Instant Profitz, know before hand that your decision to enjoy it is an excellent one! I have been enjoying being a member of Instant Profitz for close to two months now and don't feel I will be looking back. Instant Profitz is here to stay and so am I. They have recently completed a full year in business and what a superb start to their second year with a new referral program, more "get paid to sign up" offers and more!
After saying all of that, I would like to share with you my experience so that you can do things differently the first time around and not have to learn the hard way like I did.
There are some "free" offers where you are allowed to try out a product without having to make a payment for the "free" trial for a particular amout of time. In some of these instances, credit card information is still requested so that, in the event you decide to continue with the product or service, the company has all of your information up front sort of as a guaranty that you will be committed to either backing out before the trial is over or your account will be charged.
This hasn't posed a problem for me at all since, for the most part, I do try out the product/service, decide that I don't want to continue and cancel beforehand - no credit card charges to follow. Some of you may be using prepaid cards, which is even better.
Although if you are using these type of cards, still be sure to read the terms of service ("TOS") and privacy policies for each company you sign up with. They can be tricky. My suggestion is to just get yourself a little notebook or do an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of the offers you do and cancel dates if you intend to cancel.
Getting to the point of this blog entry, now here is where I had a problem and have had this problem during March as well. When I sign up for the free offers where they ask for a credit card (prepaid card), I am absolutely clear on what the cancellation date is. However, it seems I've been cancelling too early.
For example, a certain online service says that I have seven days to try out their service at which time I can either decide to cancel or I will be charged "x" amount of dollars. So I do try out the service, but within 24 hours I am absolutely certain it is not for me. Well, I go ahead and proceed with the cancellation process.
What happens is that Instant Profitz sometimes, not all the time, does not credit your account right away, so if I cancel "too" early and my account hasn't been credited, then I forfit the "profit." This is not because Instant Profitz has a rule or anything about this, but if I cancel too early, they will not get paid and therefore, will not be able to pay me.
I did not know this or notice it was because of cancelling too early that I wasn't getting credited until it happened to me a few times. At first I thought it had something to do with not clearing my cookies, which I also corrected (You must clear your cookies after each offer you do or you may have crediting issues - Just do it and you'll be fine. :-)). Anyway, what a bummer, because the items were big ticket items (for me anyway at $25 plus in some instances).
So what should you do with this information?
If you do come across a product or service where you are promised a reward from Instant Profitz for "signing up," especially for "free offers where a credit card is involved," and you do not get that reward, maybe it's because of what happened to me. Hold off on cancelling until you get the credit.
If you see that time is running out, don't wait until the absolute last minute to cancel, because in some instances it takes more than 24 hours for the cancellation process to take effect. If you still haven't received credit, just chalk it up to "Oh well, maybe next time."
FREEBIE offers are not as "guaranteed" for lack of a better word as the paid offers are, so there isn't any way to contest the fact that you signed up and didn't get paid for that offer. That is one reason why I like doing paid offers. I haven't had any problems with credits in March or this month when it came to PAID offers.
While you are having fun this month with all of those offers, remember my experience. That way you will still be able to get your INSTANT PROFITZ!
2 Comments:
At 5:41 AM,
Cindy said…
This is an awesome post. I just joined Instant Profitz and I get credit usually within minutes of completing an offer I'm up to 11.00 now without using a credit card. I'm linking to your post Great Job!!!!
Cindy
At 10:16 AM,
Susan said…
I actually joined Instant Profitz last month, thanks to you. I only just began getting around to signing up for some of the offers so I'm glad you posted this. So far, I haven't signed up for anything whereby I had to give them a credit card, but it's nice to have this information beforehand, should I do so in the future.
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