There are a number of ways a company can make this scheme a pain for you. Posted by ClaireBear at 8:40 AM on Septem In these Covid-times, companies can't give samples in physical stores, so this presumably is what they're trying instead. They're usually paying an intermediary marketing company to attempt to get you to try the product. I only did the ones that didn't require review.Īnyway, the conclusion I came to with all of this is that these companies want people to try their product in the hope that you'll like it and want to keep buying it with your own money. FYI, a few of the offers I didn't actually go through with, as when I went further with them it became clear that they required positive Amazon reviews, which violates Amazon's terms of service I believe. However I sent them the Amazon order ID and my Paypal email address, and I got the refund through Paypal as promised. These were for food (low-carb), and much cheaper than a 60 quid webcam, so YMMV. posted by spielzebub to Computers & Internet (15 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favoriteīest answer: I have had offers like this on Facebook, and at least partly out of curiosity about whether they were legit, I responded. The company is a real, American company - they're not a gigantic megacorp, but they very much do exist and make real cameras that lots of people buy. in which case I've just ordered and received a webcam from a legitimate company. But I'm curious as to what the angle is! The worst case I can see so far is that I order the webcam and then don't ever get a rebate. I'm highly wary of this and I'm not going to do anything with it until I get a response from 's official marketing email contact. How can this benefit a scammer? You can't take money from someone just with their PayPal email address, right? The product is sold by the real company through Amazon and fulfilled by Amazon, so the theoretical scammer isn't funnelling orders through their own Amazon business. The email they sent me asks me to search for the product on .uk, buy it, and then send them the order ID and my PayPal email address, at which point they'll rebate me. It promises a free webcam for a week's testing at which point you have to submit 200 words of review to them. co.uk, which has an expired SSL certificate, rather than. The email is vague in what's expected of testers (alarm bells), and comes from.
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