About a little over a week ago, I started doing offers to make money... but if you're familiar with doing offers, then you must call within 7-14 dayish to cancel within your trial period so they don't charge you. I was so irresponsible and forgot to call a COUPLE of the m in time, so now my card got charged and lost about $300. It made me feel so depress and angry with myself because it was my fault. I was procrastinating and spending too much time on Halo 3 like usual. I guess I'm suppose to learn from this Anyway, have do you feel about losing money and have you lost money? (not gambling or anything like that)
I've done that in the past, except I was just signing for the $1 trial to get the $30 product ... but I'm always forgetful. : ( Now, I use online reminder services to e-mail me and txt message me to cancel when I sign up for silly things like that.
I had similar problems when I was just starting my only career. I signed up for a trial offer and got paid $0.20 on the condition that I did not cancel the trial until the second to last day before it would renew. Of course, I completely forgot... And lost $120.00.
Make sure you call to cancel atleast 2 days in advance of the date. I ran into this back in the days of "free ipods" I called on the last day to cancel my trial with ancestry.com. They totally snow jobbed me with some thing about different times zones and from what point during the day my account started. I was on the phone with them for 4 hours talking to everyone in house. I kept explaining that today was the last day and they kept saying they consider a new day at like 12pm. They kept my $80 and there was nothing I could do about it. That place is run by satan, most of them are.. Call WAY in advance.
That is how the advertisers on freebie sites work. 1/5 person would forget to cancel right before the trial ends.
A few years ago I signed up for something on a 'get paid to accept free offers' site, forgot to cancel something, and lost about $10. Not much, but since I didn't have much in the bank at the time I was a little upset at losing that little bit of money. I also went a little crazy and started buying into several schemes too many - overdraft after overdraft (there must have been at least 5 of them).
I'm surprise there would be some of you who done this before, but also make me feel a little better in a way. Yes I do use Excel to keep track but I still forget sometime. Now I have to work to make up for that loss
I lost money on advertisements. I forgot about a new campaign in adsense, 2 days later I noticed, that Google charged my credit card for $94. Fortunately I earned that $94 back in a week. But when I found out that I spent $94 on a campaign that didn't made money...argh I was sooo angry.
Learning to lose is a virtue. You'll find yourself in a better world once you get the lesson out of the consequences of being irresponsible when it comes to money. And that will help you grow up.
write everything down ... even then it is such a hassle to get a rebate nowadays. They always seem to lose your info, and want you to re-submit, etc...
Ya gotta make a notepad and keep it organized! that's what I do. Put the date you completed the offer and when you must cancel. Tis simple! I'm sure you will from now on.
I can't sign up for offers like that anymore. I figure if I can't afford it in the first place I might as well pass as I always, always forget to cancel (even with post-it-notes, calendar reminders with email updates, calls from my mother, and a kick in the pants from my rigged office chair).
Companies that offer those programs hope you do just what you just did. Happens to me all the time, doh!
When I make a mistake like this I call it the "Idiot Tax" Same for not putting a quarter in a parking meter and ending up with a ticket. Anything that is in your control and make a silly mistake that costs you money is an idiot tax.