Newest way to donate to Avlis- Fo' FREE

Post by **Orleron** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:41 am

If you direct your attention to the "Community" sidebar on this front page, you will see a new link: "Shop our Sponsors" This is the newest way to contribute to Avlis. For some of those banners, like Real Arcade and Gamefly, all you have to do is sign up for a free trial, and we get $10 or $12 for it. Others, you'll have to actually buy something and we get a commission, but there are many useful things on there, like Ebay from various countries. If you open up a confirmed account on Ebay, for example, we get a lot of money. Btw, to make sure this is all legit, I tested most of them out on myself already before letting anyone else do it and have not seen any problems.

So like I said, in some cases, this costs you NOTHING but a little time, and we get a nice check for it, so here's your chance to help support us once in a while.

Also, I have full control over what kinds of banners we get, so if there are any that you would like to see that are not up there, let me know. I have placed up banners with the following interests, based on what I know about us as a community:

Ebay and trading sites
T-shirts
Historical gifts and jewelry
Online movie rentals
Online game rentals
Online game downloads
Online photosharing
Bookstores
Electronics
Music downloads

***When you look at the sponsors page, remember to reset it. That will show you different banners each time you do.****

neurotap · Post by **neurotap** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:56 am

this is sweet, a way for me to help get you guys some money.

im gonna go through and sign up for as many free trials that i can find in those links. me not having a credit card to make purchases but somehow already having an ebay account.

for the ebay, do you have to sign up for a new account and get it confirmed or can you log onto an existing one and you still get commission?

Post by **Orleron** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:50 am

Need to sign up with a new one and get it confirmed.

The free trials also require you to input a credit card, so you're outta luck there.

Darkfire · Post by **Darkfire** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:54 am

Orleron wrote:Need to sign up with a new one and get it confirmed.

The free trials also require you to input a credit card, so you're outta luck there.

ah hell

bonescott · Post by **bonescott** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:30 am

I tried to sign up for gamefly, but it would not accept a non US customer for the free trial.

I will try real acrcade then ebay next.

neurotap · Post by **neurotap** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:41 am

Orleron wrote:Need to sign up with a new one and get it confirmed.

The free trials also require you to input a credit card, so you're outta luck there.

i will see if my dad will let me use his card for a few free trials. if not, i can always open up a new ebay account. i can do that without a card.

Naieth · Post by **Naieth** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:04 am

Signed up for cafepress,
couldn't for Real (creditcard needed),
spreadshirt designer.com worked; signed up,
buycostumes.com had a pretty silly site - I found no way to sign up in the five minutes I spend there,
signed up succesfully for thinkgeek.com,
signed up succesfully for the kodak site,
signed up succesfully for the blackjack site,
intelliflix needed a credit card,
gamefly needed credit card,
signed up for shirtcity,
musicmatch jukebox required creditcard,
signed up for buy.com,
signed up for buyanime.com,
signed up for museumstore.com.

Hope this brings in some $

.

Cassandros · Post by **Cassandros** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:16 am

As long as this doesn't lead to pop up advertisements, i think it is a very good way to make use of the amount of people who use the website.

Been needing to sign up for ebay *heads off to sign up*

Levis Pie · Post by **Levis Pie** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:23 am

Well, as soon as I turn 18 (may 30) I'll be getting a debit card, and all that good shit, debit will work same as a credit card right? Then I will be buying lots of shit! YAY *prepares to wear his OoG shirt in front of darkfire just to spite him*

Post by **Orleron** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:23 am

Naieth wrote:Signed up for cafepress,
couldn't for Real (creditcard needed),
spreadshirt designer.com worked; signed up,
buycostumes.com had a pretty silly site - I found no way to sign up in the five minutes I spend there,
signed up succesfully for thinkgeek.com,
signed up succesfully for the kodak site,
signed up succesfully for the blackjack site,
intelliflix needed a credit card,
gamefly needed credit card,
signed up for shirtcity,
musicmatch jukebox required creditcard,
signed up for buy.com,
signed up for buyanime.com,
signed up for museumstore.com.

Hope this brings in some $ .

Thanks. Signing up for the ones that take credit card information is the way we get money. We don't get anything if you sign up from the ones that don't ask for your credit card, but we do get something if you buy from any one of them.

So if you have some basic shopping needs and we have an ad for it, help us out.

Marleh · Post by **Marleh** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:22 am

signed up succesfully for thinkgeek.com,

Ive been eyeing the one handed keyboard for ages... hmm.

Post by **Orleron** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:44 pm

Added a bunch of new merchants that give us $$ for free trial sign-ups:

UseNext (german site that lets you download stuff)

GoToMyPC.com (remote PC access site, both a US and a UK banner, but anyone can use either)

XDrive.com (great site for remote disk storage, I've used them before)

CallWave (sending and receiving faxes on the internet)

Credit cards are still required. I have free trialed all of these myself already.

Post by **Orleron** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:28 pm

Added a link to a place called Jamster, which sells ring tones and backgrounds for cell phones. Pretty cool.

We get $5 whenever you buy there.

Also added a video chat one, PalTalk, which could be cool. It's a free trial, requires credit card and we get some money when you sign up for the trial.

Grunt · Post by **Grunt** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:30 pm

Marleh wrote:
signed up succesfully for thinkgeek.com,
Ive been eyeing the one handed keyboard for ages... hmm.

Which one? The Micahsoft, or the Al-tech?

Post by **Orleron** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:32 pm

Thank you to whomever bought from ThinkGeek.

You decided to go for that keyboard, eh?

Eef · Post by **Eef** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:35 pm

Geeky science T-shirts for a geeky science teacher

Post by **Orleron** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:07 am

Peerflix!!

This is an online DVD service where you can trade in your DVD's for others. This requires NO credit card to sign up for a free trial, yet we get money for it. There ya go!

Post by **Orleron** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:47 pm

AOL Music Now has a 30-day free trial which pays us $10 when you register on the site. Costs nothing for you to do, 'cept a few minutes of time.

Post by **Orleron** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:10 am

Added a Matchmaker.com banner.

Anyone here dating?

I can't test this one, but it says we get $35 when someone signs up for it successfully, though I have no idea if it costs anything. Er... I won't find out either.

Post by **Orleron** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:56 pm

Just a bump. It's the beginning of the month, and that's the time Orl takes to try to ensure we get enough.

Game on.