Originally Posted by
griffinj
I've started receiving a heavier volume of emails from MyPoints over the past month (10-20 emails per week), all of which promise at least 5 points for clicking through to the "partner's" site.
I've noticed that I have not received credit for all of the partner's that I have clicked through. It seems that the average is about 20%.
What have your experiences been?
Cheers.
20% seems pretty low. What I've been noticing lately is that maybe 1 to 2 in every 10 mypoints emails now has a link which, if you read closely, does NOT offer 5 points for clicking through. Most often the offer will simply state something like: "Sign up for BMG and receive XXX # of mypoints". It seems they are slipping in advertising, counting on us to respond in a Pavlovian manner, and not paying us for views.
To stop this from becoming more prevalent I would recommend looking a little more closely at every email you receive and trash those that don't say 5 points for clicking on the email. Unless of course you were going to take the offer anyway...
