Should you promote free trial products?

Receive $40 Commissions For Every FREE Trial You Give Away!

Here's a fresh opportunity for World Niche affiliates:

This month we're giving you the chance to give away unlimited FREE 30-Day Trials of our popular #1 rated Weight Loss Supplement, ProShapeRX.

Offer your customers, subscribers, and visitors the chance to try a 30-day supply of ProShapeRX absolutely FREE, with NO risk and NO future obligation.

For each sign-up you send us, we'll pay you a significant $40 referral fee — no matter whether or not the client decides to keep their 30-day supply and pay for it… or not!

We'll Pay You the $40 Referral Fee Just For Getting the Client To Take Action, and Sign Up For the FREE Trial!

What could be more fair?

Your subscribers get a FREE 30-Day supply of ProShapeRX to try risk-free (they just pay $4.95 shipping & handling, that's it), without any future obligation. And you get paid $40 per referral. It's win-win!

This is the latest Free Trial offer from World Niche, one of the major players in the adult health market.

Now, on the face of it free trial offers seem like a great offer for affiliates and they are really pushed hard by pay per click marketers.

However there is a downside to these trial offers.

Once the surfer signs up for the free trial they have to give up their credit card details to pay for the shipping and handling fee which is a low (usually $4.95 or similar price) fee.

Now that the merchant has the CC details they can rebill the surfer in a months time if they fail to cancel the agreement. So there is the possibility that you will be signing up less than happy people who have their credit card charged because they didn't look at the small print.

Tough shit or unethical practice?

As the affiliate sitting in the middle does it really matter to you that the surfer get's charged for something that they were not expecting or is it good business for an affiliate?

In the mobile phone world legislation is being tightened up to stop operators offering a service (like text me the football score on Saturday) and then rebilling for the following games even though the subscriber didn't ask for them. Uusally it's not clear how to cancel the subscription and the subsequent texts can quickly eat up a big wad of cash.

On the face of it this seems like a great offer but if you are going to promote these types of offers be aware that there may well be fall out further down the line.

I'm not saying that the merchant is doing anything wrong, but there is growing pressure, especially here in the UK, to stop this type of selling practice.

The problem is there are just so many gullible people who won't read the small print and become irate when they think they've been done.

I'll be including this offer on the weight loss site and see how it goes.

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