Reminder: Free Sample Showcase Today!
The free Sample Showcase goes live in just under 10 minutes. Well, probably more like 6 minutes by the time I get this published. Unless I have trouble thinking of what to write, then it very well may have already started. The point is, there are thousands of freebies stuffed in boxes and waiting for people to claim them, so don’t miss out!
woohoo less than 1 minute to go!
I can’t get in. keeps telling me “cannot find server” when I click to see if I qualify.
dang…the servers are down!! but i WILL keep trying to see if i qualify…lol
No Connection. Site is down
Siite crashed as soon as the clock stopped the countdown!!
Arg. Website must be slammed. It’s not letting me through!
waited all this time for their server to go down
*sigh* Guess I’ll spend my lunch hour refreshing.
yep i had the site up as soon as the clock was done it crashed
patience….go make some tea and come back to it
I made it through once, but the site crashed once I clicked the button to see if I qualified D:
Poooop, stupid thing crashed, I set an alarm for this thing to crash? I keep refreshing it.
I got through but did not qualify
On income I said prefer not to answer maybe that’s why? good to everyone else
cant get thru
Can not get connection to go through. Arghhh!
same as above, the second the clock switched over- poof! will keep trying though!
it took me awhile to get through and then it crashed again
still trying!
Argh! I refreshed and refreshed and finally got through, and I don’t qualify.
Wonder what breaks the deal to qualify…
Anyone know what the trick is to qualify?
no luck………
Having kids? Pets? An aardvark? Dirty dishes? A two car garage? LOL!
When I check to see if I qualify, it’s not recognizing the web page?
Maybe you need a spaceship to qualify…which is o.k. I have one in my yard…
What do you have to do to qualify??? Will someone who qualified tell me what you marked for all the answers?
Don’t qualify either. Boo. I think they’re looking for people with kids
I have had nothing but problems with this freebie. I finally got threw but dont know what my membership info is. I emailed support last wk and all they told me is my memberhship is activated, but didnt give me a membership #.
I said I was a female with a kid 0-3 and an income under 35,000…but i didn’t qualify
Grr had to go back to the beginning twice already.
It’s saying my membership info isn’t active either!!
Your membership number is your user name.
I signed on this morning fine..but now that they are giving the boxes out, it is asking me to sign in..I sign in..it says “Bad credentials”.
Oh well.
Wow that was a tough one but finally got it! Thanks for the reminder Goob!!!
Waiting….waiting…denied…try again, ok, got the web page, see if I qualify…waiting…waiting…problem loading page *SIGH*
OK I dont qualify either and im female with 3 kids in 3 different age groups so it has to be an income thing!
For now, I can’t seem to get past the “see if you qualify” page. I just hope I do qualify, once I finally make it past there. We’ll see!
What does it take to qualify? They should have determined that when you make your account!
i want to know if i qualify but it wont refresh
Well, I finally made it through, and have tried lots of different combinations and it seems like NO one qualifies! Grrrrrrr.
Grrr…i didn’t qualify but now i can’t even get back into the site to see if my boyfriends account will qualify…
I made it through and qualified, but the address page won’t work now.
Ugh i got thru after about 12 times but didnt have my acct# so had to get an email sent to me with the number, now i cant get thru! Oh goodness this is going to be a long day! sigh!
Hmmmm. Now the home page is saying “Keep checking back to see when the next Sample Showcase Box will be available.” Does that mean they’re all gone??
It wont even let me login.
Got a page that says”Bad credentials” hmmmm i was able to log in though
Has anyone gotten through???
Ya, I got to the screen to log in and I get a blank screen and nothing will load. Overloaded.
I qualified and then it froze on the page where my mailing address is. So annoying!
It really irritates me when companies do this. They should have a server large enough to accommodate!
Get massage that website not there.
I think the site is overloaded by hiffers:)
So WHO QUALIFIES??????????????????????????
My answers were ‘female, no children, up to $50,000′ and I still did not qualify. This is BS, but whatever. Just keep smiling…GRR
it said i will recieve my sample/coupon soon. and gave me more offers to look at.
Got to login page, hit submit then page can’t be displayed. Arrrrkk getting free stuffs is hard? goob? redirecting….
good grief! Finally got the form filled out, but the button won’t click to submit
Has me to confirm my login, then it kicks me off…ugggh
I’m a student and put in my info as: 0 kids and <35K a year. Didn't qualify. Broke students get no samples.
female 0 kids under 35000= NO
female, 3 kids, and income $75000-$100000 will get you qualified
female 0 kids 35000-50000 = NO
“Thank you for your order, your box will be on it’s way shortly.”
Took over a half hour, but I did it!!!
Thx Patti
Female with a 4-5 year old (for another week until he’s 6), income of up to $50,000 doesn’t qualify either so it can’t be that. 1 entire hour to find this out. Oh well. Maybe next time women with kids will qualify.
Site keeps kicking me off. Saying the server is down
tried about 20 times..kept refreshing…female, kids 6-12 and over 75 k for
income worked…got booted at the verify address but when I went back
it said thank you for your order
female, 3 kids, and income $75000-$100000 will get you qualified <—wtf! Whats in the samples, gold dust?
still trying had me log in , then says Bad Creditinals and page froze,
We have 5 kids 8 and under- so hopeing to quailify!
Thank you for your order. YES!
Can see the page for a second .. countdown shows 8 min.. hope i can get in fast!
i get to the confirm by logging in and it kicks me now it wont load arg….
My Bro didn’t qualify either. 2 kids 0-3years 75,000-100,000 income. Arrgh
Been trying all morning…
Got an error message after the survey, but the home page now says:
Thank you for your order, your box will be on it’s way shortly.
Please complete this Survey.
Keeping my fingers crossed!
I got my boyfriend to qualify…(made him a female with 3 kids and an income of $75,000-100,000…lol) but i’m stuck on the address form…i clicked submit and it just keeps sitting there like its loading…should i click refresh or will this kick me out??
Definitely a bit of a joke when this happens as it’s horrible planning from the website designers.
Maybe we can help each other out by setting our own honor system to limit our login attempts. This may ease up on their server.
Just to keep it simple, if your real-life last name begins with A-M go ahead and try for the first 30 minutes of each hour. If N-Z wait to begin at the bottom of the hour.
Just an idea…
Finally got through!!! Thanx patti for sharing the info that qualified!!!
WHEW!!! That was along hour or so. Got it! Thank you!
glad to see it worked for someone else, now that i qualified it’s not letting me finish the process
I get to the “please confirm you log in to continue” and sign in and nothing happens, just shows the same page again.. am i missing something?
Yeah I get to that point too Jenn. What am I doing wrong?
gee no clue as to whether I got it or not. after a billion refreshes got the verify address screen had to refresh that a trillion times and got a survey, only answered first two questions then it wouldn’t load…guess i’ll be surprised if it arrives
Took 1 hour and 20 minutes…..but I got it!!!!!!!!!!!
Female, 3 kids, 75k+ works…….
Thank heavens I’m at work and got paid for this time…..
I answered the questions, hit submit and got a page that says sorry an error occurred. Please try later.
I’m in but it says pls confirm your log in to continue…confused here…so I did it now I’m out! wth? this is ridiculous… more than an hour already for me…I have better things to do, done…
Maybe we should just be honest and if you dont qualify leave it at that. They may have set it up that way bueace they have samples for young kids, babys or older women ect. They want you to actually have a use for the sample so that if you like it youll be more likly to buy it. I dont think they do it to annoy, be rude, or make things difficult
Still can’t get in… and I actually am female with 3 children :/
finally got through and didnt qualify
To the people who got it, did you get an email from them confirming it? I had so many errors and not really sure if I got it. Got to the dumb ass survey and got errors.
I got through and put in my address info and then it said there was an error but on the home page it says the box is on its way. Who knows if I’ll actually get it.
I finally got through and finished the survey and it told me thank you for your order.
That was WORK!!! Forever to connect, forgot my user name, forever to get back, then I had to change the security on computer, page froze on submit so I refreshed and FINALLY got it!!! I was thisclose to giving up. Glad I didn’t
I got through fine, and after the questionnaire, it said my box woul d be on the way! Yay!
StartSampling’s Sample Showcase servers are overloaded,
to stop frustrating so many of you were are taking things down for a bit.
Check back later – there are plenty of boxes yet to be ordered!
Thanks for you patience.
LOL yup that will really help…
StartSampling’s Sample Showcase servers are overloaded,
to stop frustrating so many of you were are taking things down for a bit.
Check back later – there are plenty of boxes yet to be ordered!
Thanks for you patience.
ugh ok how do I get past this confirm your login screen??? it’s driving me bonkers!
did not qualified…oh well!!!
but im very curious to know whats in that box, that people with VERY high incomes are being accepted….
Just got this message:
StartSampling’s Sample Showcase servers are overloaded,
to stop frustrating so many of you were are taking things down for a bit.
Check back later – there are plenty of boxes yet to be ordered!
Thanks for you patience.
Got this…
“StartSampling’s Sample Showcase servers are overloaded,
to stop frustrating so many of you were are taking things down for a bit.
Check back later – there are plenty of boxes yet to be ordered!
Thanks for you patience.”
wow it’s totally DOWN now, few we all got fired up on that site…hopefully they fix it the right way and maybe it will teach them a lesson to be ready for us
oh well, least i got a free thong this morning heh…my life is complete!
wow this one was hard to get…
after qualifying (female, 3 kids, $70,000-100,000 income) it froze, so i had to refresh it a few times. the next time i got it going, it sent me to an address form which i filled out and after i clicked submit, it froze again. seems everytime it freezes, if you just keep refreshing it youll get one page further into the process. with all the folks trying to get this box, their servers are probably overloading.
so far ive seen the qualification page, the address page and a survey form. im hoping that after you get to the address form, it means you qualify and the survey is just for data collection.
the survey asks how you heard of the sample box, how youve received samples in the past 6 months and which products youve heard of from a list of like, 8 different products. honestly, id only heard of like 3 of the things. and for the other questions i put ‘from a friend’ and ‘in-store’ because i just went to Costco the other day and got samples :3
after the survey form it froze, and i was actually letting it load while writing this… when i hit refresh now it sends me to a white page that says “StartSampling’s Sample Showcase servers are overloaded, to stop frustrating so many of you were are taking things down for a bit. Check back later – there are plenty of boxes yet to be ordered! Thanks for you patience.”
wow.
Yay! I can’t believe I scored one right before the site went down!
#58…..create another acct. w/a diff email addy and say you are female w/2-3 kids and check the highest income bracket possible. This will usually do the trick. They want to send the samples out to the ppl who they think can afford to buy the products once their samples are gone!! LOL!!
You know the old story….Banks will only lend out $$ if you can prove you don’t really need it : )
Good luck everyone. Hope this does the trick.
(I ALWAYS check the highest income bracket possible cause when ppl think you have lots of $$ they wanna give you all sorts of things like FREE vaca’s to look at stupid timeshares, etc…)
BTW: I never got through. They took the site down for a bit. They stated there were still plenty of boxes to giveaway though.
I was re-registering when it went down…sods law!
I am confused. I looked on all the pages of the site I was on and I don’t see anything about how you know if you qualify. I have never done one of these kind of freebies before, so I am totally lost. All I did was fill in the membership form and saw at the top where you can get free samples of individual items. Does something come up that says you qualify, or how does this thing work?
It says the servers are overloaded. Although I probably won’t qualify anyway since I’m single, childless, and poor. It’s funny how you have to be rich in order to get something for free. LOL
Getting same message as others: servers are overloaded. I’ll go & walk my 3 dogs, and eat my soyjoy bar I got in the mail today; maybe by them it will not be overloaded.
#88 shelly, no email.
I can’t even remember my login details, wrote it down & can’t find them. At least I have time since the servers are down.
StartSampling’s Sample Showcase servers are overloaded.
To stop frustrating sStartSampling’s Sample Showcase servers are overloaded.
To stop frustrating so many of you, we are taking things down for a bit.
Check back later – there are plenty of boxes yet to be ordered!
Thanks for your patience.o many of you, we are taking things down for a bit.
Check back later – there are plenty of boxes yet to be ordered!
Thanks for your patience.
site is still down
Hmmmm well I dont know if I qualified or not?????? it would not stop crashing on me lol talk about getting beat up lol. hopefully I qualified. Good luck to all who was able to get through and good luck to all us who are still trying.
wow that message is too funny!! will check back.
I have been trying all day off and on! If I ever can get on the page what do I do? I alrdy signed up a few days ago. So I log on then what?
The site works, but it says this now:SAMPLE SHOWCASE ORDERING TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND
Click on “see if you qualify”. Then it will ask you a couple of questions. It will say you qualify if you say you are a female, have 3 kids, and make 75,000-100,000. Then just answer the following questions.
>:|
I don’t see “See if you Qualify” anywhere :/
“SAMPLE SHOWCASE ORDERING TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED DUE TO OVERWHELING DEMAND ”
This is the message on their page now.
This is what they say under “How it Works”:
Thanks to those of you who signed up at the new StartSampling’s Sample Showcase site! The consumer response to the site has been incredibly positive and very exciting. The overwhelming response has caused some technical difficulties, however, and we temporarily closed the Showcase site in order to make the adjustments necessary to handle the tremendous high volume traffic.
We are working diligently to give you, our clearly very interested members, the chance to see if you qualify to receive a Sample Showcase box. Note that there are tens of thousands of boxes left to be requested, so lots of chances still exist.
The Sample Showcase site is back up, but currently only for the purpose of explaining to our membership what is happening and to allow box recipients to respond to surveys. We will be open to accept orders again soon.
We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your continued interest, as well as your patience and understanding.
And please give our terrific member services folks a break and refrain from emailing them to ask “when” or to tell us how bad this was – we know we messed up.
From Larry Burns, President and CEO of StartSampling and the entire StartSampling team.
Now you get to the web page, but the “Next Box Release” area has a sign over it stating.
SAMPLE SHOWCASE ORDERING TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED DUE TO OVERWHELING DEMAND
The spelling error is not my work, lol.
Sample showcase ordering temporarily suspended due to overwhelming demand
Thank you. I do have 1 baby and am a girl so ill have to put n the high income thanks for letting me know. If any1 can get on the pg once its back on for ordering let me know, thanks so much! I hope the box is worth all this trouble its free so guess that alone makes it worth it
Temporary suspended due to overwhelming demand. Did anyone get through?
No I have not got thru to order it will let me sign in and everything now but says temp suspended for ordering
Now it says link is expired.
That only applies to YOUR link. Refresh your page.
The site is up and working again!
Just got my free sample. Can’t wait to see what I get.
Just filled out the info, my box should be on the way. Thanks for the reminder.
SCORE!! Thanks Goob! It will be like Christmas in April!
Site is up! Just got mine! Can’t wait to see what I get. Thanks!
got mine too!!! hurrah!!!
thank you!!!
Just got mine! thank you!!!!!!!!
I click on see if you qualify, log in, it logs me in but then the blank log in boxes keep showing up!
How terrible. After all that waiting to find out you don’t even qualify. This has to be the worst…..
FINALLY! After trying all day, and waiting for the site to come back up and boxes being available, I GOT IT! I received one last year and they are GREAT SAMPLE BOXES!
Thanks to all my coaches here I’ve got a sample box on its way! Now go Bulldogs!
Got on, told did not qualify. A waste of time.
I just got mine. I have never worked so hard to get a freebie before. I can’t wait to get mine.
Whew, been trying all day, just got confirmation!!!! Thanks for this great freebie referal……….I’ll be down by the mailbox!!!!!
Up & running – Got mine like a breeze!! Yay!!!
Just got mine. I forgot earlier, and after reading the posts, I’m glad I did. Thanks bunches!!!
Finally, got confirmation. Curious as to what I’ll receive. Thanks for all the freebees, Goob!
I’m not sure what the “qualifications” are, but alas, AGAIN, I do not qualify. I sure would like to know what I am doing wrong???
I think it’s broke again … I got one, and was trying to help my BF get one, and same thing … (log in then empty log in boxes)
back up and working
female, 3 kids under 18 and income 75000+
up again. Just got it, thanks for the tips HIF ppl.
yeah finally…got 1
are they all out or something? it was down all day and now it says sorry check back for more boxes.
Just got mine, had to do it twice, first time it came up with an error message. I login the second time & it went through. To qualify you have to put 3 kids(I put in the ages of my 3 dogs LOL) & the 75,000- 100,000 income like many people have posted; thanks it worked!
Whew, I finally was able to request a box! I did what others here suggested and put that I am female (which I am), have three kids, and have an income of $75,000 to $100,000 (I wish!). It didn’t specifically say that I qualified, but I must have because my manage account page says thank you for your order. I didn’t get an email confirmation though. I hope it went through! This is probably the coolest freebie I’ll ever receive!
I finally got through, also. There were no questions about children or salary, just questions about products I’ve heard of or used. My box is in the mail.
i clicked check to see if you qualify and it said that an error occurred.then i clicked home and it said that my box was on it’s way shortly and asked me to take the survey.I tried taking the survey,but the same error message popped up.do they send a confirmation email after they say you get the box,and do i need to take the survey?cause i might not have gone through…idk…
What a crock!
I keep getting “bad credentials” when I enter my username and password. Got the same response in IE and Firefox. Any suggestions?
I click “See if you qualify” and it makes me put in my member name and password (even though I am currently logged in) and then when I hit submit it just refreshes the same page (blank again) asking for my name and password….ughhh.
f*ck you sample showcase
I either get – bad credentials with IE
or
an error has occurred with Firefox
This is worse then it was last year with all the errors. I qualified last year, but no box came. Mail carrier must have had the munchies
I clicked “See if you qualify” and kept getting an error. Then I got the form to fill out the child/income questions. Then I submitted and got an error. I went back and clicked again. Then I got the form where I put in my home address. I submitted it. I kept getting the error so I opened up the site in Firefox. When I did that, I got a message saying a package would be delivered. I then got the survey about the products.
This is so confusing! Is there a final confirmation that you actually get the product? I logged back in and get this:
“Thank you for your interest in StartSampling’s Sample Showcase™.
We know that most people like trying new products, so we’ve assembled a single package with great product samples that we will be delivering right to your home. The products included are brought to you by great companies and brands that want you to try their products….”
try using internet explorer, chrome just looped back to a sign in screen, but it went through first time in explorer
I just got in on the showcase! I check 1 child 13-18 and income 70,000 and it went through
!
@Shelly, I got the same message, but I didn’t have to submit my address or anything. Is my info already saved in the site?
Hmm, I logged in and filled out the gender/ How many kids/Income part and then it asked for me to confirm my mailing address. I thought I was home free but then it asked me Where I heard about the Sample Showcase and I can’t find any select/OK/enter buttons… Do I have to answer that question?
It never asked how many kids I had…and I did it twice; one under my husband’s name (who’s now female!) ha, ha!
I didn’t qualify.
Finally got through. Kept saying “There was an error, try again later”. I just kept refreshing and it would take me to the next screen. Hung up for good on the survey part, but when I went into my account it thanked me for my order. So hopefully, I will get it.
At this time, you do not qualify for this particular Box.
Thank you for your interest in StartSampling’s Sample Showcase™
I think I just got it, I did the 3 kids under 18 and income of 75,000+
It wouldn’t work, so I hit home and then it had me put in my address, error again, hit home again and it said thank you for you order!
It went through for me. I’m stoked!
I logged in on Internet Explorer and it worked like a charm after it continually not having it work on firefox.. hmmm… weird.
If you are having issues with Firefox (mine just kept refreshing the login screen) then switch to IE. It worked fine in IE.
Didn’t qualify. How ruddde.
And I had to try it with internet explorer which I despise.
well I finally made it in. it appears they are looking for females making 100k with a bunch of kids in order to qualify. :-/
went thru with ease @ 9pm est
I didn’t qualify…..said I have kids in all the ages PLUS income of 30,000 to 50,000
Thanks Becky & Andrea,
Logging on with IE is the trick. Firefox doesn’t work. I too hate IE.
But whatever works.
I entered and qualified at around 5pm PST.
Worked now at 9E – I used Firefox. Worked fine. And I qualified. yay!
Hmmm…I used Firefox and it went through! No error messages or anything!
Okay I just redid this under my maiden name & other email address as a female (which I am) w/a child of 13-17 and 18+. And income of 75+ and qualified. WTF??? What the hell is in this box??
Got mine! Yay!!!! I can’t wait!!!! I got one last year and it was awesome!
Yay! Got in! Thought I was too late. Hope it’s as great as the last one!
yes got it! woohoo!
I’m having problems seeing if I qualify. Everytime I click to see if I qualify, it asks for me to enter my user id and password. When I click submit, it just goes back to the same page. It never tells me if I qualify or not. :/
To all the people who received a box last year: how long did you have to wait to get your box? (Can you tell that I’m anxious? LOL)
I went to the main page and it said thank you and I would get my box soon yay!
I tried to get one for someone else though and it said “bad credentials”?
I am an LAPD officer and it says I have BAD CREDENTIALS…please….
YAY! I’m getting a box! I didn’t “qualify” for the last box so I’m excited to get in on this one!
Finally! I’m getting a box!
Went through for me..said I had a kid in each of the 1st 3 age catagories. And my income was >$75k
Now it won’t let me log in, says i have to confirm my account over and over again. ugh i want this one!
Thank you to everyone for all your useful comments. I was disappointed not to get the last one, so I am thrilled I might get it this time. Good luck to all!
Got it to work, but didn’t qualify.
I had to get Internet Explorer 9 for it to work.
After trying unsuccessfully earlier today, I easily got through the site this time and they said they will be shipping my samples soon. I really enjoyed all the goodies last time.
Does anyone know how many of these boxes they actually give away? I would really appreciate if someone could tell me… I feel like they are “giving” so many out without the website saying “sorry, we reached our limit” and find that me getting through so easily was too good to be true… Will the website eventually reach a limit? If I got the message “it is in the mail” will I actually receive one?
Couldn’t get IE to let me get past the log in screen so I went thru firefox and it went right in just now so there are still boxes left!! female with the first 3 age groups and 75+ income! Hope you get one!
Signed up twice, since I did not qualify the first time (as a female student with zippo kids and prefer not to say income)…
Second time around:
Female, kids in every age bracket (minus 0-3), and 75,000+….and I have my sample!
Will be interesting what is in it!
Got it to work for my friend who had trouble
and another friend. I would think we’d get our boxes if the confirmation message is displayed. Maybe they over-stocked since last year’s release.
Corrina, Last year I ordered 4/22 and received 5/3.
dont waste your time. they want all your info and then it magically doesnt work. im pissed.
Can some1 please please help me. I rly want to get this I’ve spent so much time trying today. It keeps having me confirm when I click on see if you qualify then blank boxes come up again and again!
Judging by family members who did and did not qualify – you need to be a female with at least one child making over $50,000 per year. My son did not qualify but his wife tried right after him and she did qualify. The only different answer was that she is female.
I can’t even get to the part where I answer questions it won’t let me past the confirm login part even tho I’m alrdy logged in. What can I do?
give up
I’ve used 12 different email addys and names, made myself female *shocking*, lied about income, used different browsers, made fake blow up kids (3) of different ages, but it just don’t work.
I’ll go back to selling tacos in the alley behind the bar
I wish my Dorrito chip face would go away
Haha well u rly tried man I thought I tried.. wow what a waist of time this has been today I’m 1 very disappointed girl!
and hey at least you don’t have some stupid purple face trying to be cool… Haha
Just signed up, & got the promo with no problems. Thanks, Goob!
if you are having problems logging in switch to internet explorer it brought the questions right up once i switched to it. I was having problems on firefox.
It’s up and running. Female, three children, 75000-100000 income, job- middle management, college education, and I have tried three of the products it asks for. I used Firefox too. That’s what worked for me. Good Luck!
mine worked with the truth! female 3 kids 50-75000 college, hope it works as good as the liquid i got.
I think I got it, I’m not sure? I have a screenshot here.
allthosethingsilove.com
Ok I got mine now. Before when I signed in, it didn’t say “See if you qualify” for some reason. But everything is fine now!
Looks like I got it – it says “Now that your Sample Showcase box has been ordered, we invite you to explore our site, make some comments and visit our Sample Center. We thank you again for your order and hope to see you back soon.”
Sure hope it comes!
Just got mine. If all you ppl who didn’t qualify would’ve read my earlier posts….you would have: (
Remember, Female, 3 kids, income 75-100K, w/a job
THAT’S IT…..Wait for your box to arrive. VERY SIMPLE : )
****If the page keeps refreshing, log out and back in again. Enter your info, click on “see if I qualify”, enter info again and for God’s sake’s SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE…It’s there- farther down the page!!
Best of luck. Hope my postings helped everyone get one. I got one last year and they are awesome. Looks like we’re gonna get:
# Blue-emu Pain Reliever
# Secret Clinical Deodorant
# Coffee Mate Non-Dairy Creamer
# G-U-M Soft Picks
# Wisk Deep Cleaning laundry detergent
# Starbucks Via
# Nonni’s Biscotti
# Dream Waters Sleep Aide But….We’ll see???
Nonni Biscotti….TO DIE FOR PEOPLE!!!!!!!!
Secret Clinical is EXCELLENT also: )
Thanx Robin for the heads up… site seems to be working fine this morning. $50-75K works too. (Wish I made anywhere close to that, but oh well…)
female, 3 kids under 10, income 75K-100K. Can’t wait to get the box, hope it was worth all the headache…
Hadn’t read the comments…tried today with 3 different usernames, M/F, children and no, first 2 incomes and didn’t qualify for any of the 3!
my husband got approved on his account
i didnt though
I got it last time, but didnt qualify this time. Boo
Maybe it’s just me, but it just seems funny that they are sending samples to the high income bracket. Do they figure they sit around all day eating biscottis and drinking Starbucks?
I’m receiving one. I put I have a kid between 6-12 years old. my income between 75-100 and that Ive tried secret and coffee mate.
Husband retired and I’m disabled and have and 38 year old son back home, I’ll take anything please.
Did HIF break the record for most comments on one post? Whoop. Yeah, got mine…you’re the best goob…Good stuff!!
Holy freaking crap man I didn’t qualify on my own account so I created one under a new email last night. Today all day said “Bad Credentials”. SO I created one under my husband’s name and email and made him female with 3 kids and finally got it to go through.
To those who said “they want you to be able to afford their stuff”… I mean if I REALLY like the item and want to buy it I will. I don’t have to make $70K a year in order to buy stuff. But thanks to whoever said to always click the highest income bracket and you get more. I will do that from now on when taking paid surveys, I feel like I never qualify for those.
And thanks to Patti who originally let the world know what to choose.
Today is my first day of being female with 3 kids. It really doesn’t feel all that much different. Snagged a box.
I got one, but couldn’t get my husband to qualify. So I changed his name from Michael to Michelle and it went through. Now I just have to notify his secretary that his new name is Michelle so she doesn’t send the box back.
LOL Steve. Don’t forget to get the free tampons and panti-liners!
got it. income NEEDS to be 75+k
Thank You SO much! Got in folllowing your advice. Frankly though I think Waaaaaaaay less of the brands in the showcase now, bc we are in a serious economic downturn, and I feel like they are clearly uninterested in the average consumer.
This little piggy read the above comments, put in the right info, and got a box. This other little piggy, better known as my boyfriend, didn’t read the comments and didn’t get a box. HA! It always pays to read other HIFer comments. Thanks guys.
i’ve been trying to get this over an over, finally decided to make a new account and fudge my info. i fudged it so i’m married with 3 kids, have a post-grad degree, work in a company with 500+ employees, and make $100,000+. this account worked while my real account where i’m an unmarried 18 year-old childless student didn’t get a box. i’ll enjoy my samples, but probably won’t spend my own money on them.
Still won’t let me get it! It won’t even let me log on anymore! I’ve tried making another account about 7 times now and every time it tells me my emails been used and so has my username. I’m over it!
Jamie didn’t qualify, but Jacqueline did! Everyone’s advice worked. Female, 3 children under 12 salary bracket $75,000-100,000.
won’t let me log on
Thanks to you guys I used IE and NOT Firefox, and voila I have a box on the way!
After not being able to get into the system, I read some comments. I used Safari instead of Firefox and, like many people suggested, chose the following: income of 75+K, female, kids’ age category 6-12. Went through! So happy! Thanks everyone
hey everyone. Didn’t read these comments before I tried the first time and didn’t qualify. So I just signed up for a new account..had to use a different email address but it didn’t matter that the street address was the same. Did the 3 kid thing with 75-100000 income (far from the truth ha ha). hey i don’t need a bunch of money and kids to afford starbucks and deodorant.
Firefox works just fine.
To those of you that don’t understand why a company would want to focus on a higher income-level demographic, it is common sense: People with a higher “discretionary” income have more money to spend on non-essential items like these. Further, in households with multiple children and larger-than-average discretionary incomes, the mother is typically the person that does the shopping, so it is common practice to target “her” with advertising.
Regardless of these “hard economic times”, those of you who think less of these vendors because they don’t want to give away their products to people that are never going to actually pay for their product or patronize their services are not in touch with the real world. These companies are not a not-for-profit organization. They have every right to make money, and they don’t “owe” you anything.
Please support the companies that send out freebies by actually BUYING FROM THEM. If freebies never bring in a return on investment, companies will stop sending them out.
female, 0-3 kids, 75K-100 salary works. Box supposedly on the way.
So the system let me order one and said it was on its way but that was two days ago. Am I to assume that I’m not getting one after all?
Must always read comments…must ALWAYS read comments…MUST always read comments…MUST ALWAYS READ COMMENTS!
Tried a second time after being rejected (and feeling dejected). Female with 3 kids and income over $75K worked for me. Thank you to all who shared their winning ways. Goob’s followers have generous spirits!
“Hey, it’s Free” is positively spirited (and I don’t mean you are haunted, Goob!
WOW. I followed the advice from the comments above and got a sample box 4 days after the showcase opened. How cool is that?! Hiffers are awesome! Thanks so much!
To answer my own question my box just showed up today, a week late but at least I got it. Probably because I live in a hick town.
Mel, I ordered a box on Apr 6 but I still have not got it.. when I go on it says thank you for ur order how long did it take to get ur box am I going to get mine?
I haven’t gotten mine either.
Received my Sample Showcase today. Not too bad I didn’t get it last year so I have nothing to compare it with. Secret Clinical Strength deodorant, G.U.M soft picks w/coupon, Wisk, Nonni cookie, Starbucks coupon, 2- Coffemate Vanilla creamers.
Got my box yesterday. There weren’t as many samples as last year, but it was still nice to get. The biscotti was gone within a minute of opening the box. If you time it right, you can use the Gum picks coupon at Walgreens when they have the Register Reward for them, so they’ll essentially be paying you to take them.