So the free (or almost free) products are coming at me now like a version of The Fast & The Furious! That's awesome, right? I just checked my Amazon orders and I'm supposed to get 13 (you read that right, THIRTEEN) products delivered tomorrow! Poor USPS hasn't had a day's reprieve from my house in a solid week! Oh wait, I guess they go to most houses at least 6 days... LOL
What I wanted to point out is that with every single product I receive that I got either for free or heavily discounted, I made a social contract that, at the very minimum, I would provide an Amazon product review. The reason I mention "at a minimum" is because through
Tomoson, I often agree to do various other things (i.e. blog, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and/or YouTube video)! Remember, I apply for every single product that I receive, so I know ahead of time what I'm agreeing to do.
To date, I have ordered and received most of products totally
$746.63 (retail, not including any shipping), and my personal expense has been $24.84 ($9.95 of that was for a super awesome tennis ball launcher for my precious pooch Witzy). That's a LOT of stuff and TONS of savings!!!
Now that I'm just over a week in, here is where I've had good luck receiving products from:
- Amazing Deals Group - I've gotten 2 items through here. Tiniest selection ever and probably not worth signing up for
- AMZ Review Trader - Fairly simple and I've received 14 products through them thus far. I will say that the majority of the $24.84 that I've spent has been through this site too...
- Elite Deal Club - So far I've gotten 10 items through this site. You get your coupon code immediately where some of the other sites go through a request/approval process. However, this one is a feeding frenzy... Their hosting site often breaks down - kinda funny - but they get it fixed in a few minutes to an hour. You can request a single deal starting at 10 a.m. Things sell out exceptionally fast so may the odds be ever in your favor. You can always go back after 2 p.m. to get another item. The freebies are long gone by then though!
- Etekcitizen - This one is fairly straightforward and more geared toward techie stuff. If you read their FAQ, you will see that you can get about 9 free things a year. This isn't going to be your biggest review site but still... I'm eagerly awaiting my Electric Pencil Sharpener ($29.99) because that will help my kids out tremendously at home!
- Product Elf - I've received several products from this site. It's one of those that you submit that you want to review something (supposedly you should get the coupon code immediately but I have yet for that to happen) and then eventually you might/might not receive an email approving you and giving you the code. I don't know the rhyme or reason for this but I am appreciative for their products nonetheless!
- Review Kick - I've received a few products from this site. So far it's been a decent experience! You can request up to 10 items. This one seems to take quite a while to get approved to review things but if you are patient, it can happen!
- Reviewsio - You can request tons of things but so far I've only received one. You get 'points' for logging on every day that you can eventually redeem for Amazon gift cards. Unfortunately, it's like 100k+ points to redeem for anything so it'll be quite some time.
- Snag Shout - This one you get the coupon code for right away. You only get 1 initially, then you start to show that you are a responsible reviewer and can earn more 'snags'. I think you eventually can get up to 5 snags at once.
- Tomoson - To me this is the Taj Mahal of sites. However, this one requires the most work! They want to really get the 'influencers' who have a long reach. You have to have a blog to get started with them. You do best when you link your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Rather than just performing product reviews on Amazon, based on the requirements of the vendor who is providing the item, you may have to do stuff with all the other social media outlets. You can apply to review a product and then click that you are NOT willing to do one of the outlets, but I venture to guess you have a higher probability of getting the item if you're willing to fulfill ALL of the vendor's requirements. I have received several items from this site and have been approved for several more. This site has some of the BEST stuff!!!
Here are the sites that I signed up for and never received anything from them after the confirmation email. These are sites that supposedly send you an email with deals on a regular basis. I have checked my spam folder, I've tried re-apply for them and still... nothing.
- Amazon Review Club - This one doesn't send emails but I've yet to find anything on there that I wanted.
- BU View
- Deals Dock
- Deals for Reviews
- Honest Few
- iReview Home
- Shop with Reviews
There's the low-down dirty on what I've learned so far doing product reviews. I'll post more as I learn!
