A Glossary of Freebie Trading Terms

Here are some Words you Will see in the forums and other places in the freebie trading world. It's a VERY big help to have a reference so you can easily determine the meaning if something you see is unclear. So Here you Go:

Approval - When you have completed all the offer and referral requirements on a site, submitted your order for the prize or gift, and been approved. This means that all of your referrals have been checked out and you will for sure be paid for them. After approval, you order status changes to pending shipment.

Avatar - A small graphic image that represents you on a forum.

Banned - Having your account disabled on a forum, usually for a rule violation. The ban can be either permanent or temporary depending on the severity of the offense.

Bump - "Bring Up My Post". Whenever a reply is made to a thread on an internet forum, the reply causes the thread to move to the top of the list of threads, or bumping it to the top. Sometimes people will reply to their thread for this sole purpose, and it is known as 'bumping' a thread, or giving it a bump. BUT, in FLR  IF/when you get to the point of posting a thread in the "paying for refferals" section you will NOT do it that way. In FLR there is a special "bumping" tool that you use to put your thread back to the top. You can bump your thread 3 times per 24-hour period.

Buyer - In any given cash for green trade, the trader who is paying a referral for going green on a freebie site, or a trader who primarily pays for referrals as opposed to being a referral for someone else.

CC - Credit Card. Some offers are CC (credit card required), or no cc (no credit card required). Some site deal entirely in no cc offers and are called no cc sites.

Clear Cookies - Clearing cookies in your browser is important to do before logging in to a freebie site to ensure that the crediting process works properly.

Cookie - A small bit of electronic tracking information stored on your computer. A site cookie is stored when you log into a site and click on the offer page. An offer cookie is stored after you are redirected to a specific offer page. Both cookies help you receive credit for doing the offer.

Crediting - This refers to receiving credit for an offer you completed on a freebie site. After you complete the offer, there is usually a short wait before the offer shows up as credited on your freebie account status.

Evergreen - If a site is evergreen you are green forever once you complete the offer requirements once, and may send an unlimited number of referrals to that site to receive the prize over and over again. Same as 'forever green'.

Feedback - After a trade is completed, trade partners may leave publicly viewable feedback for each other. Each time positive feedback is left for someone, their TR goes up by 1 point.

FLR - Free Lunch Room forum

Free Green - When a site waives the offer requirements and grants you green status without having to do any offers. All you have to do to receive the prize is get referrals. ( 9 times out of 10 you will NOT sign up Referred Either, to make it fair)... We'll get to that later....

G4G - green for green (trading sites with someone. You do his site he does yours. you both profit, but dont have to pay eachother.

Green - When your status is green on a site, it means you have met the offer requirements. Usually used as 'going green', 'went green', or 'giving someone a green'.

Green For Green Trade - Also called G4G, ref 4 ref, or site 4 site. This is where two people complete the offer requirements on each others sites. There is no money exchanged between the traders involved, but both parties receive their payment from collecting the prize on the site that their partner went green for them on. Usually this is a more profitable way of going green on a site as you make 100% of the per referral payout instead of just 50%.

Hi-jacking - Also called thread-jacking or thread hijacking. This is making contact with a person who replied to someone else's trading thread. This is highly unethical and against the rules on every forum.

IFW - Incentivized Freebie Site

Jump The Fence - Making the move to paying for referrals instead of being paid to be a referral.

Locked Thread - Forum administrators and moderators can lock a thread meaning it can no longer be replied to or bumped. Usually this happens because of a rule violation or inappropriate behavior within the thread.

LTCO - Looking To Complete Offers, a section of the FLR forum where people post that they are looking to go green by completing offers for cash.

MCR - Manual Credit Request. If an offer doesn't credit you can often submit an MCR. This involves copying and pasting the entire confirmation email you received from doing the offer (with full headers) into the form provided for this purpose on the freebie site. The freebie site will then verify the email with the sponsor company so you get your credit for the offer.

Mods - moderators. Mods enforce rules on a forum and help mediate disputes between forum members.

Network - Most freebie sites have multiple sites within the same network. For instance the freeforallmankind.com network has these sites as part of it's network: cash.freeforallmankind.com, games.freeforallmankind.com, and laptops.freeforallmankind.com (among others).

Offer - The advertisement for a product or service that a sponsor company has on a freebie site, usually a trial offer of some kind.

Offer Requirement - Freebie sites require you to complete offers to qualify for their prizes. This term refers to the amount of offer credits necessary to qualify.

Offer Weight - Offers are assigned a weight or an amount of credit that the offer is worth. For instance if a site's offer requirements are 1 full credit, you would have to do 3 offers weighted at 1/3 credits each to add up to 1 full credit and meet the offer requirements.

PFR - Paying For Referrals

PM - Private Message. This is the main mode of private communication among members on a forum.

PP or PPD - projectpayday, a website which provides training materials for freebie trading in exchange for a fee or completion of offers, at your choice. You can also do this along with everything I'm teaching you....Copy Paste this link into a new browser, At the bottom immedietly create an account and wait for instructions from me afterward. So let me know if you also are using PPD, So i can help you.

http://www.projectpayday.com/go/1627528

Prize - Also referred to as a 'free gift'. This is what a freebie site gives you in exchange for meeting all of the offer requirements and referral requirements. Usually this is electronics equipment, but could be anything. PayPal cash is almost always offered as an alternative to a physical prize. Many sites have unique prizes available.

Red Status - Also referred to as 'going red'. Having your account on a freebie site placed on hold, usually for violating the site's Terms of Service. You may not collect your prize, nor will your account be credited to the person who referred you to the site UNLESS the hold is lifted. Which is possible so no worries, it sometimes can be fixed., but YOU have to do it since its YOU who went red.

Referral or Ref - A person who has been referred to a freebie site by another person, usually by clicking the referral link provided by the person who is referring them.

Referral Link - The link given to you when you sign up on a freebie site that you can give to other people to refer them. When someone signs up with your referral link, your accounts are linked permanently and the person then counts towards your referral requirements once they have met the offer requirements.

Repeatable - If a site is repeatable, you can order prizes more than once after gaining the required number of referrals again. Most repeatable sites are also evergreen. But some will make you do an offer again and re-green before you can collect more referrals.

Scamming - Willfully committing fraud against another trader, a freebie site, or a forum. Usually involves failure to complete your end of a trade after having received a green from your trading partner, or refusing to refund when your account is on hold and you have already been paid.

Seller - In any give cash for green trade, the trader who is being paid for going green on a freebie site, or a trader who primarily is interested in being a paid referral for someone else.

Site - An IFW site or freebie site. These are the sites that contain the sponsor companies offers, and offer prizes for completing their requirements.

Spamming - Making unsolicited contact with someone with the possible intention of trying to initiate a trade with them or to advertise to them in any way.

Sticky - On threaded discussion forums, a sticky is a thread that always stays at the top of the list of threads. Some forums offer advertising by allowing you to have your trade thread stickied to the top of the paying for referrals sub-forum. There is usually a fee for this. Getting a trade thread stickied on a popular forum is a very effective way to get A lot of referrals.

Support Ticket - There is a special area on a freebie site where you can post messages to the support staff and receive replies. These messages are called support tickets, and are generally considered the most effective way of communication with freebie site administrators.

Thread - A new topic post on a threaded discussion forum such as freelunchroom.com.

TOS - Terms of Service. Both freebie sites and sponsor offers contain Terms of Service (or Terms and Conditions, T&C) that contain all the fine print and important details of a company's policies. You should always read the TOS of every site and offer before you sign up.

******I CANT STRESS THAT ENOUGH.... READ ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE YOU SIGN UP TO ANYTHING EVER****** IF YOU DONT READ THEM I PROMISE YOU WITH TIME YOU WILL LEARN YOUR LESSON*******

TM - Trade Manager. A trade and feedback tracking system in place on FLR.

TR - Trader Rating (or iTrader Rating), shows how many trades someone has completed favorably within a forums rating system, like on the Free Lunch Room.

Trade - Any agreement of exchange between two traders, whether that's a green for green trade, or a cash for green trade.

Trade Thread - A thread posted in a special area of a forum designed for advertising that you are looking for referrals on sites you have completed.

Trainn or TRAINN - Stands for Transcendental Innovations. A company that owns many freebie sites. Trainn sites are easy because they only require 1 offer to complete, but they are not repeatable.

Verified By FLR - A verification program on FLR that offers certain benefits to traders such as insurance against scammers and the eligibility to order stickied trade threads.

Walk Through - This is when you tell your referral every move to make during the process of completing a freebie site including what offers to do. It is against the terms of most sites and will get your account put on hold if they suspect you are doing this with your referrals.

Yellow Status - A referral has signed up for an account on a freebie site, but has not yet completed the offer requirements (gone green) yet.