How do you know if an ad is legit or not?

astros99 · #1 (**permalink**) 11th November 2006, 10:16 AM

These days you see many ads, 'get a free this', 'get a free that' . Most of the ads today are false but there is still good ads out there. The only question is: How do you know which ones are the good ads, and how do you know which ads are the bad ads? Well, recently I saw two ads that gave free ipods. One of them was the usual, enter all your information and you get it. To me, that one was a fake one. But another one seemed legit to me. You do one of the offers they ask. Then get 5 friends to do the offers, and then you get your ipod. But for all the other ads, how can you really tell whether the ad is legit or not?

fadyllan · #2 (**permalink**) 11th November 2006, 02:29 PM

Not really. Well, i choose to ignore the ads altogether. Because one of the way to get all those spam email is by entering your email in such ads. I wanna win an ipod, i prefer to participate in one of those magazine's competition or promotions. That way i don't get spam! :lol:

astros99 · #3 (**permalink**) 31st December 2006, 09:57 PM

You're very right. The more you enter your e-mail into places on the net, the more chance you have of getting spammed. See, an important thing about ads is you should shy away from them if they ask for your personal information, which includes your e-mail. If they just direct you to another site, most of the time that is OK.

mini_0 · #4 (**permalink**) 15th March 2007, 09:23 AM

good ads are the ones that have sme legit and real testimonial on them also , you can see that they have some paid offers that make you to sign up before they give away a free gift , there is virtually no thing free , the only thing is that they make you do some stuff for money that cmpensates the free part .Badly desined websites are a complete no no and they are close to scams .

astros99 · #5 (**permalink**) 22nd March 2007, 09:51 AM

Yeah, you would think that companies know better than that. I am pretty sure that most people don’t click on ads that guarantee free stuff, because most people know that they are scams. They would be more effective if they just took out the word free while guaranteeing free stuff..

w3bmaster · #6 (**permalink**) 24th March 2007, 11:10 AM

You know what , SPAM is big business. Technically savvy SPAM companies exist and are doing well ,they just send offers to get more traffics to their site or anything they would gain by doing so . Personally i never click an ad that offers anything free cause nothing in the world is free they obviously want some thing from us ! There are some companies that are legit and would give you prices but you should be real careful in distinguishing those scams and the legit ones .

mini_0 · #7 (**permalink**) 6th April 2007, 07:52 AM

There are a number of ways to tell that if something is legit or not . A bad design may seriously be a letdowna dn you should not be checking that website again . Plus some of the websites you can see these days they are full of google adsense , that too on the empty pages . So , this is also a big reason to avoid them because you know that they are more interested in advertising dollars than serving you with some quality content . The unwanted email of any offer which you never asked for is also aviodable because they are only forcing you . this is what is called spam .

rowenahere · #8 (**permalink**) 6th April 2007, 04:56 PM

Personally, I think all the ads for getting something free is just a bunch of nonsense. You never get anything for free. They just want you to just spend money in order to get something for "free". Somehow, that just doesn't make sense. How are you getting something for free when you have to shell out money? I have never won anything besides money that was ever worth anything.

mini_0 · #9 (**permalink**) 17th April 2007, 02:21 AM

It is a proven fact that to earn money on the web , you do not need to send money to anyone . so if some website asks you for money then it is just making profit for itself as theya re just selling a prioduct to you . and that product is most of the times jsut an e book or something like a list f websites which is available free of cost obn the internet . For example , i saw a website that tells you how to make money from google adsense . all the info about it is readily available on the google free of cost , so wjhy do we need to pay for it .