Here
are some terms you may see in use on the forums and other places in the
freebie trading world. It's a big help to have a reference so you can
easily determine the meaning if something you see is unclear.
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.
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.
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.
G4G - green for green (trading sites with someone)
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%.
IFW - Incentivized Freebie Site
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.
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.com, a website which provides training materials for
freebie trading in exchange for a fee or completion of offers, at your
choice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TM - Trade Manager. A trade and feedback tracking system in place on FLR.
TR or iTR- Trader Rating (or iTrader Rating), shows how many trades someone has
completed favorably within a forums rating system, like on the Free
Lunch Room.
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. 
