In a rather surprising move, Marketing Pond, a popular downline builder for free money programs, has added its first paid program.
The program is Freebie Force. The site itself provide access to information on savings you can get for free. None of this information is secret, but the site collects it all in one convenient location for you to search.
For example, one of the current savings is information on how to get a free cooler at CVS stores. There’s also free software, electronics, hotel stays, etc.
Of course, the main focus of the site is rewarding you for referring others to it. They charge $9.95 a month for access to the freebies database. For everyone you refer, you get paid $1 a month, down 7 levels.
Freebie Force has the same disadvantage as most multi-level pay schemes, that you need your referrals to stay active and keep paying each month for you to earn. At least the site does provide information that can save a member more than the $9.95 fee every month, so it’s better than programs where you get nothing for your fee other than the right to refer others.
Up until now, Marketing Pond has been full of free programs (and has removed programs from the list when they stopped being free. So this is a bit of a departure, adding a paid program. It’ll be interesting to see how the membership reacts.
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Tanner
April 9th, 2008 at 2:03 pm Quote
1Jay,
Good article. The thing that drew me to the company was the amount of savings all in one place. It saves you hours of research to find the deals that are out there.
I saved over $80 my first day. Obviously, to make money you need to build a downline, but with the entry point so low and benefits so high, it is almost too easy.
People have joined me without even speaking with me. It is a business that just makes sense.
Jay
April 9th, 2008 at 2:33 pm Quote
2Hi Tanner, good to hear from a satisfied Freebie Force member. Bargain hunting is such a big thing with a lot of people these days, I think it should be a popular program.
Andrew Murphy
April 13th, 2008 at 7:14 pm Quote
3So many programs to choose from but unfortunately most of them don’t last very long. I hope this works long term for you. Everyone wants great deals!
Alissa
June 28th, 2008 at 10:01 pm Quote
4I signed up for Freebie Force because I thought it was worth a shot, but I was disappointed in the freebies that were available. Many of them were freebies that I have seen on other free freebies sites, others like those that involved going to a car dealership and taking a test drive don’t really count as free in my book and then there were the ones that suggested you commit various forms of fraud to get the free deal. Definitely these supposedly exclusive deals are not worth the $10 monthly fee, and as an honest person there’s no way I would feel comfortable recruiting other people to this program.
Jay
June 30th, 2008 at 8:02 pm Quote
5Thanks for your views, Alissa! I haven’t had time to use any of the freebies yet, so haven’t really examined them. I don’t really discount the “test drive” sort of freebie, since they’re often promotional gimmicks, but ones that required fraud would be out of bounds.
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