Some days you win!

Today I received a box in the mail. It contained the free personal DVD player I won at www.Topfreegifts.com I completed 3 "offers" and jumped through a couple of hoops and here it is! The offers were not free for me. Some of my online friends will run through the offers and then cancel them; so their gifts are nearly free. I wanted the things I signed up for, though. One was Dental Plans where I found one which I had been looking for that had my dentist listed in it. Another was Literary Guild. I don't mind buying a few new books. My third offer was signing up for a new credit card. That one just joined the collection. I may cancel that soon as I have enough of those.

The news here, though, is that these free offers online can work. You have to pay very close attention to details and stay on top of what's going on - and never give up! If you sign up for more than one freebie plan, you can get a bit overwhelmed with the details. I am also running one with www.Everyfreegift.com It requires more offers completed (6) as I am going for a larger gift....a DVD player with a hard drive in it. We need that one for our downstairs TV. The upstairs one has Tivo on it. The personal DVD player is for my middle child's birthday gift. She will be delighted as she can use it to run her exercise videos anywhere.

For the www.Everyfreegift.com deal I have to complete 6 offers. So far, it's been 45 days since I began and I did all the deals on the first day. They are easy, but you have to keep track of how long they have run and cancel before being charged a monthly fee. This morning I was pleased to see that 3 of my offers were approved, which means I can download the needed certificates and print it out to send for my DVD machine. I need to wait till I have all 6 certificates to send in. Two of the offers still show "in progress" and the 6th has been driving me nuts because it shows as still "pending". I called them up and told them it's past the 45 days. They told me to fax them proof of the one that's pending and the rest is good to go. That's great news! My fax is sent and soon I hope to report that I have a new DVD machine here with very little effort on my part.

Here's a little advice from a soon to be grandma:

Please, stay away from any of these freebie offers that require you to get referrals!

I spent most of the rest of my day studying how to run an auction on Ebay. Did I tell you about the air mattress inflator I got from my daughter's trash? I found one just like it that sold for over $60 on Ebay last February. I'm going to get mine up there to see what kind of fish I can catch. It's not a good time of year for selling with people on vacation, but I need to get my feet wet and this looks like a good item to start out with.

Oh my... friend Hans will give me advice to "focus" again. I am way sidetracked again from doing my niche pages.