Comments on: HIF Survey Update

By: Pulley bearings

Pulley bearings — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:26:37 +0000

I wish pencil lead came in flavors!

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:20:09 +0000

Yeah, it looks like she came back and deleted all of her ugly comments…from this thread and another

By: Crystal

Crystal — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:15:30 +0000

I’m a little confused by Robin’s comment. What in the world are you talking about?????????
HIF is Great!!!!!!! I only wish I found it sooner! What comment???? Was it deleted?

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:36:01 +0000

yeah just got hif newsfeed in my email today i signed up a while back but didnt get them everyday, goob i told my apt mangement office of this site and they put it in our monthly newsletter, so hope some more people join, we have 300 apts here, hope it helps you guys out, yeah i am refering more poeple. to bad we dont get money lol(just thinking.

By: Goob

Goob — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:37:23 +0000

@fannie – yes, I’ll be sure to mention that any repeats have already been posted on HIF.

@Lori – Haha, I can’t put every recommendation into effect!

@Trish – I usually just delete their comments for their own privacy protection and they learn how things work based on other comments / finally reading our FAQ. I have a pretty Darwinian approach to newbies. And I don’t mean that as a slight, only that if I messaged each person who did that, I’d spend all day sending out e-mails

@Lucy – Give it another shot, I think Feedburner was having some issues yesterday.

@KFM – HIF’s daily readership is actually much, much higher than 5,000. It’s just that most people don’t participate in surveys and whatnot. I’m always amazed to hear how people found the site though, there are so many different paths that I don’t even know about that lead to HIF.

@Becky – That makes two of us.

@Sharon – Most texting freebies are via ShopText, where you sign up for a free accound and register your address & cell number. That way when you send in the text, the system has your address on file and sends the freebie out to you.

@Shreela – We actually don’t post many phone offers. We post all the instore offers we find, however, as I view them as a good complimentary source of freebies.

By: Shreela

Shreela — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:16:32 +0000

I recently subbed to this after finding it, and really enjoyed it at first. But then there started being so many phone and instore offers, I’m not enjoying it like before. Maybe I’m the only one, and everyone else likes phone and instores, so nevermind.

As far as a newsletter, WHY?, when there’s an XML/RSS feed?

By: Carolg

Carolg — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:03:26 +0000

There’s always one…… I LOVE HIF, best thing ever.. I saw you advertised on my local news station a while back and that’s how I joined you guys. I tell everyone about about HIF…

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:00:04 +0000

ok i have a question when some sites have a free sample where you have to text to a number, if you text for a freebie, how in the world do they know were to send your sample, it just sounds like a domb idea, compared to filling out a sample, why would you want to pay text message prices anway. thanks for reading just something i had to ask.

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:51:21 +0000

yeah i agree with becky, hif is the best i found it on a search and have used it ever since, i didnt see it on tv. but 5000 is great for a free site.

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:24:25 +0000

I’m a little confused by Robin’s comment. What in the world are you talking about?????????
HIF is Great!!!!!!! I only wish I found it sooner!

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:23:48 +0000

well keep up the good work goob, more contests and survey”s please, we are in a crisis, wish more people would just give us all money and send us checks and gift cards lol, just a thought, i need a job, unemployment is killing me,

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:45:45 +0000

Thanks for the response Goob!

By: KFM

KFM — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:26:10 +0000

WOW, I myself am surprised there’s almost 5,000 of us. I didn’t even know we were that big!

I never saw HIF advertised on TV, myself, so there’s probably a substantial amount of people in this country that didn’t, and will never know/hear about it.

I found it searching for freebies a few years ago, and I didn’t sign up for an account until I was interested in using the forum, so there’s probably a lot of people that aren’t really part of the community, but still read HIF.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:47:12 +0000

uhm… cannot sign up for newsletter. said not found, error.. sigh..

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:54:58 +0000

Goob, I thought of something to comment on after taking the survey. I’ve noticed that sometimes people who are new to this site think that you are giving away these freebies, so they post their name and address and ask you to send them stuff. Do you ever follow up and tell these folks to click on the links to request the freebies? And thanks for the “right click to open in new tab” tip above. I’m one of those IE users who wasn’t aware of that feature.

By: Lori Z.

Lori Z. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:10:17 +0000

So, I’m guessing that you have yet to read my survey, or I don’t rank high enough to have a say, or it’s just too funny, but I thought I said no “hiffers”! Did you notice that you even added an extra “f” for more of a “heffer” sort of relation? I’m telling you, I will lose the baby weight!

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:54:59 +0000

Congrats to the winners!! =)

By: fanniefarkle

fanniefarkle — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:24:47 +0000

I hope that when you re-list a long term freebie that it will be apparent that it is being re-listed. I simply can’t remember what freebies I have already signed up for since I get so many. That is why I was one of the 3%-ers who only wanted a freebie listed once.

By: Goob

Goob — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:38:15 +0000

@ Lisa, forcing links to open in a new tab/window is actually a bad practice for a website to do, as it doesn’t give the end user a choice. As it is now, people can either choose to have the links open in the same tab/window as the default is set up or they can decide to open them in new one by right clicking on the link and selecting “open link in new …”

In addition, one of the trillion reasons we mention surfing with Firefox is that it has a feature where all you have to do is click on a link with your mouse’s scroll wheel and it opens the link in a new tab. I’m not sure if IE has integrated that feature yet or not.

@ Sharon, I used Random.org to pick the winning numbers. I’m only about a third of the way through all of the responses though!

By: sharon

sharon — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:24:38 +0000

congrats to the winners if they dont claim it pick me too, lol, so goob how did you pick to people from 5000 i bet your head hurts now, poor guy lol