Can I trust the Earn your Zen?

revolutionl
revolutionl Posts: 1 Arc User
edited December 2009 in General Discussion
I've seen ones that ask for your email which is fine with me but will it be constant spam? or? and which others are ok
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  • Blancheneige - Heavens Tear
    Blancheneige - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,494 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    revolutionl wrote: »
    I've seen ones that ask for your email which is fine with me but will it be constant spam?
    Quite likely. Better use an alternate email acount.
    and which others are ok
    None.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

    Thanks Brit for the sig b:laugh
  • Jer - Dreamweaver
    Jer - Dreamweaver Posts: 215 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    yeah u will get email spams forever =/
  • _grimreaper_ - Lost City
    _grimreaper_ - Lost City Posts: 49 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    if they get my mail and send spam ill mail bomb them till their mail box crashesb:angryb:angryb:angry
    why is my avatar a wolf while i clicked the lionb:cry
    ill burn the forumb:angryb:angryb:angry
  • Dydrial - Sanctuary
    Dydrial - Sanctuary Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    Use an alternate email, as others have suggested. ONLY use the free offers (genuinely free - does not require credit card for a free trial etc.), and yes, you will get massive spam.

    Though this goes against what the companies want, I do not suggest giving out your real phone number or address, either, as that may subject you to junk mail and telemarketers. If it's a survey, they have very little reason to absolutely need your personal information (beyond gender and age in some cases) and really, every single survey is just a bait to get you to sign up for services you don't need.

    Also, the key to getting zen from these is getting all the way to that last page. Answer "no thanks" to everything, and at the end they will give you pages of "silver" and "gold" offers to look at. CLICK ON ONE. Just go to an offer page, do NOT accept the offer and fill out info for it. You only have to go to the page to qualify for the gold.

    Keep in mind that you WILL have to check email on your alt email account for the confirmation emails and go through the "confirm account" steps by clicking the links to prove you have gotten the mail. If the email has a confirmation code, keep it. You may need it, see below.

    Lastly, you will likely not get all of your zen. Keep up with the completed offers page and you will see which ones are pending. If they are in that state for more than 24 hours, it's time to send a report via the "missing zen" tab or button. Most of them will ask for a confirmation number. If you got a confirmation email (and you won't always get one) they will ask you to copy/paste it into the body of the form. If you did not get an email, you will have to type something long enough to make the stupid thing THINK you pasted it. I did the following:

    "Filling this out because I completed the offer, as you can see on my account, and still received no zen. I checked my email for a confirmation note and have not received one of those, either. I am making this unnecessarily long because your system demands that I paste the contents of an email I did not get. I did, however, get plenty of spam. I'd paste all that but I would run out of room. I'd like my few zen in compensation for all this spam I have to delete.

    Thanks very much."

    I had to do this for over 15 offers, but I did get most of my zen. Unfortunately, now I can only pull up the offer program I did the fewest offers with, so I guess the others got tired of me getting zen without buying any services. >_>

    Way too long and stuff, but I hope it helps. It is worth it if you have time.
  • Chershir - Harshlands
    Chershir - Harshlands Posts: 34 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    How can i say this clearly?
    DO NOT give your telephone number.
    One of the companies that runs surveys (not related to PWI) will text you surveys, quizzes, yada yada... but they will also charge you $10/month. this is supposedly described in the survey company's TOS, but you have to dig for it. The moral here is: Never Trust Anyone
    Not really, just read TOS before you give any real information. junk email accounts were invented for this sort of thing.

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