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Everything is free, as long a as you sign up for a few offers. Most of the offers require a credit card*, even if there is no fee. They have a great selection of games, though. The prices are determined by points, and the average for a new $50 game is 1950 pts. Mosts of the offers give about 300 to 500 pts., so it shouldn't take long to get a free game.

Confirmation: This deal is real... see note below for my uh... impressions on it...

NOTE: This deal officially sucks ass for those of us who aren't in possesion of a "credit card." These "credit cards" are evil inventions designed to make people suffer. CASH people! CASH! its all about cash credit cards suck... or at least they do until i get one...

I don't know... I skimmed through their terms and conditions, and they make no guarantee that you'll get your games. It's worded similarly to those eBay pyramid scam sites that say you can supposedly get free stuff. I think this site falls into the category of things where if it seems to good to be true, than it probably is.

I've successfully ordered a couple of video games from them in the past - freevideogames.com is indeed real. Before you get too excited, however, be aware of two issues; 1: It generally takes about 3 weeks for processing and shipping on top of however long it takes you to accumulate points, so I wouldn't use it to order a freshly released title that you can't wait to play, and 2: Some of the services that you need to sign up for in order to get points are rather unscrupulous with their online cancellation methods. I've been charged subscription fees in the past even after canceling. However, I've never had a single issue that wasn't easily resolved with a quick e-mail or phone call to their support, so it's only a temporary issue, but one you should still be aware of. Despite these minor issues, though, it really is a wonderful way to get some of those games that you just "kinda" want but can't bring yourself to spend money on.

-Matt

I have also used this site, and the points you earn can also be used at freedvds.com and freecds.com also. The shipping has been quite fast, 3-4 days, whenever I have ordered from these sites.

Would it be really terrible to post what offers would be worth doing to get the points and which ones burn you (as was stated by Mattfish). 1950 points to earn a brand new free game, while most of the offers give you 500 credit points? Geez, do tell if this is a buncha crap or a good deal!!

According to my outgoing e-mail complaints, I was charged for the following offers after canceling them before my trial period ended:

shopping-4money.com
fitmd.com
win-anylotto.com

If you sign up for these services, you will see a pattern - they are all billed by a company called Chettle Investments. Their online cancellation system is the worst. It's extremely buggy. However, as I said, they will refund you if you simply send them an e-mail or call and explain any errors. It's just kind of a hassle to have a $40 deduction from your credit card for the week or so it takes to get reimbursed.

-Matt

Thanks for the heads up, Mattfish.
It seems pretty shady.

The best offer I saw was the AOL ver. 9 offer, it doesn't require a credit card, and takes five seconds to do... if only they would count the multiplw times i signed up for it, I might not have to pay for a video game ever again... problem is, its not an instant offer... maybe Mr Mattfish could tell me when i will recieve the points...

My account got credited for the AOL trial in about a week

The only AOL trial I looked into was the AOL for Broadband offer, but when I found out that it required a credit card I changed my mind (I can't stand canceling AOL accounts - I swear, the operators are paid extra if they can convince you to stay on for another "free" month). But you say there is no credit card required and it's a quick sign up? I think I'll go check it out!

Edit: I just checked out the deal - apparently, if you don't call to cancel the account within 45 days, they will charge you. Cancelling AOL is such a hassle, but then again 600 points is a big chunk of a video game. I'm curious, though, as to how you managed to sign up multiple times for the deal. Doesn't it check for duplicate mailing information? If you can, please inform us all as to how you did it and if you do get awarded multiple times for the same deal.

-Matt

Like I said, I am not sure as to wether they will count it twice, I haven't even recieved the disk in the mail yet, but it did allow me to fill the form out more than once... I only did this twice, just to see if it even works... as soon as I know, you guys will...

You can also cancel by mail, which is how I did it. This site tells you the details needed to be included and the address, also I think it explains how to fax it.

http://help.stargate.net/dialup/cancel-aol.shtml

is there like a limit to how many pts u can get a week or month? i was signing up for those instant sites and after i got 1400 pts, they stopped giving me those pts. After 2 businesses days, i emailed them with my confirmation letter and stuff, but no replies or pts....

any help on wut i'm doing wrong?

thx

Originally Posted by Smkm123 is there like a limit to how many pts u can get a week or month? i was signing up for those instant sites and after i got 1400 pts, they stopped giving me those pts. After 2 businesses days, i emailed them with my confirmation letter and stuff, but no replies or pts.... any help on wut i'm doing wrong? thx

I don' t know this from experience, but I read some points take anywhere from a few days to maybe a week weeks I think it was to enter into your account.

Any update on the AOL points, Raijin? It's been exactly one week since you reported signing up and I'm curious what happened.

-Matt

Sorry, no go. I haven't even recieved the disc in the mail yet, and I dont know how to qualify for the points once I do. Just got to hold tight and hope for the best... I'm drooling over those free games...

You don't need the disc they send you, you can pick one up at Walmart or something, and use the name and password you registered with, it was a week after that when I was credited.

Which AOL deal is this? The AOL 9.0 offer I signed up has no disc involved and I needed to enter a credit card number (which means I can only do it once). I also received my points in about 4 days. Seems like a completely different offer...

-Matt

Originally Posted by Mattfish If you sign up for these services, you will see a pattern - they are all billed by a company called Chettle Investments. Their online cancellation system is the worst. It's extremely buggy. However, as I said, they will refund you if you simply send them an e-mail or call and explain any errors. It's just kind of a hassle to have a $40 deduction from your credit card for the week or so it takes to get reimbursed.

I was similarly burned by Chettle Investments -- for two of their sites. I was charged $39.95 x 2, despite having cancelled within the 1-day trial (beware, by the way, it's not quite free... ~$2.50 "credit card processing fee" for the 1-day free trial). I emailed their customer service numerous times over the course of a month, but got no replies and no credits to my card. I ended up having to report my card as stolen to get my bank to investigate and credit me.

Aside from Chettle, I've had no problems with FreeVideoGames.com.

Hmm, I've been looking at getting some games, maybe I'll try this out.