Before blogging, I was still a freebie and deal fanatic. I loved finding sites to earn some free money, getting samples delivered to me in the mail. I tried a number of sites. I had used CashCrate. It was ok and I did get some money from it. I just didn’t like that the offers weren’t all in the up and up. IE those get a free $1000 Walmart gc just complete X amount of offers and give us all your personal info so we can spam you for the rest of your life type offers. BUT I made those choices and I did get some money.
Well then I had tried Points2Shop. About the same deal and I was earning pretty quickly and was excited about it. But then I noticed that there was another site linked to their site at the time called Cashle. Honestly I don’t even know if Cashle still exists but it did at the point of my experience. Well heck I signed up for that to. Then all of a sudden my earning amount changed and I was blocked on the site from completing some offers.
To cut to the chase I emailed them to find out what was going on. They told me I violated policies because I had more than one account. I had no idea what they were talking about. I only had one Points2Shop account. I ended up finding out that even though they advertised Cashle on the site and linked to it, because they owned both sites I couldn’t sign up for both. It said nothing about it in the policy. It did say you couldn’t have more than one account on Points2Shop but I did not realize that they meant on both of their sites. I argued it and exchanged emails with customer service. Customer service was extremely rude and as far as they were concerned I was someone trying to work the system and they were glad to be rid of me.
One rude email they sent told me they’d consider fixing my account if I deleted the Cashle account and I had to send over my drivers license number and all this other info that I felt was very unnecessary. Of course I refused to do it. I never got a single dime from them with all the offers I completed. I never was able to access my account again.
I realize there are some people out there that do try to work the system. I made an honest mistake due to unclear policy but they did not feel they did anything wrong and didn’t seem to care about their users.
I’m posting this now because with at least one of my affiliate networks there is an opportunity to promote them to earn money. Quite frankly points2shop can keep there money. Every time I see the name I remember the rude emails and the way I was treated. This took place in 2009 so it’s been a few years. I’d hope that it’s improved. Still it left a bad enough taste in my mouth to not be able to recommend the site.
