TrialPay

[rhitwick]

A few words on TrialPay

From Wiki,

TrialPay is an alternative e-commerce payment system that works according to the “Get It Free” payment model, in which consumers get an item for free from a participating merchant by completing an offer – buying or trying out a product or service – from a TrialPay advertiser.

The company works with online merchants in the software, social applications, casual games, online services and retail industries, relying "on a web of business relationships to give consumers free goods, as long as they buy something else from a long list of well-known online stores.”

I used it couple of days ago!

I was using this software "Extreme Movie Manager" (EMM from now on) but the trial version and the :cough: :cough: version was not very useful. The software is really amazing, if you are into movie collection then you know the importance of cataloging and in that case you've already encountered "EMM".
I was really frustrated that day and thought of buying it! When in merchant page I was shocked to see it was priced as 25.99 Euro which is close to Rs. 1400/- But in payment methods I found "TrialPay" to be listed. I thought "what the heck let me check it out". When entering the site it simply told me to buy any other product in the list and in exchange of that purchase they would let me have EMM for free.
Now, this alternate buying could be of any amount. I chose a game of 2.09$ (USD). I paid via "PayPal" and no sooner the payment was done I had got a mail from EMM that my activation code for EMM is on next mail!
I got the activation code in next 30Seconds.

Well, it seems too good to be true! Chance of being a scam is high, but I researched it prior the transaction. Found few popular media reviewing it and till now found no negative feedback of it in net.

Why posting here about it? Well, from next time if you want to buy some s/w and don't want to dish out big bucks, look for if it has a "TrialPay" as a payment option. Who knows you might get a good deal!
Would I use it again? If I don't see any mysterious transaction in my CreditCard for next 2-3 months I would surely use it again.

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrialPay

*answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080626184904AAOjuyy

*forums.pcworld.com/index.php?/topic/24912-trialpay-free-stuff-with-some-strings/

 

[Flash]

So, is it like 'I have to buy a product from a catalogue of products(say 1 to 10 in that) and in exchange for choosing the product from catalogue, i will get some other prodcut as free?'.

In your case, the activation code is perpetual or limited to 90-or-180 days or something?

 

[thetechfreak]

I have seen this before too. Couldnt use as it “wasnt available in your region“
Anyways thanks for posting this. Will try out and post

 

[rhitwick]

So, is it like 'I have to buy a product from a catalogue of products(say 1 to 10 in that) and in exchange for choosing the product from catalogue, i will get some other prodcut as free?'.

In their site you won't see a catalogue.
If the software you want to buy lists "TrialPay" as a payment method then only its applicable. And after completing the transaction you would get that software for free for which you chose "TrialPay" as payment method.

In your case, the activation code is perpetual or limited to 90-or-180 days or something?

No, its lifetime free. The mail I got mentions no such condition. (IMO) TrialPay is a payment method rather a scheme, so I don't think there would be any strings attached to it.