Platinum-giveaways has a rating of 1.0 star from 3 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Platinum-giveaways ranks 114th among Free Stuff sites.
They are less than honest in that they purposely hide their requirements to earn a gift. I was supposed to warn an Apple MacBook Air. After purchasing p products and/or services. Well, I purchased 10 products and when I clicked on a bar to claim my gift and I was taken to another website (Consumer something) and was asked to purchase 9 more products and services to earn an Apple MacBook Air laptop. Sad, eh?
I was supposed to get a Best Buy gift card for a thousand dollars. I didn't get it and was charged multiple times. I called Best Buy, and they said are already looking into this problem. I called Net Flix, one company I signed up with and was charged three times, and they said they would email me an answer. The credit card company I used was canceled.
I didn't bother calling Platinum Giveaways as I am not willing to waste anymore time.
On August 9,2009, I responded to a promotional offer from Platinum Giveaways – a company that, I found out later, has 51 alternate registered names – including Consumers Reward Solutions. Platinum Giveaways offered a free Best Buy gift card worth $1,000.00 if you sign up to receive products from certain companies listed on their website. As prompted, I signed up with 2 companies, giving out my credit card information. The companies turned out to be legitimate – I spoke with them the following day, which was a Monday and the first business day I could reach them – but the legitimacy of Platinum Giveaways is highly doubtful. After I signed up with the 2 companies, Platinum prompted me to sign up with additional companies before I could receive my free gift card, and this made me suspicious (to be more fair to Platinum than it deserves, its offer does post a link to its "Official Gift Offer Rules," which state that a total of 13 companies must be subscribed to in order to quality for the gift card, but I did not read their Rules in advance). Instead of signing up with more companies, I contacted Best Buy, and one of their representatives told me that Platinum's offer of a Best Buy gift card was unauthorized and illegal (again, being more fair to Platinum Giveaways than it deserves, for the sake of accuracy I must state that this same representative, fifteen days after this day that I first spoke with her, withdrew her assertion that Platinum's offer was necessarily illegal). Later that day I contacted the bank that issued the credit card to me and was told by their representative that, in addition to certain charges I could verify as authorized, numerous other transactions had been charged to my account throughout the day, at ½ hour intervals, all unauthorized. I had to cancel my credit card. My efforts to communicate with Elise Petri, the Internet registrant for Platinum Giveaways under all its various guises, proved useless, as all I ever received by way of a reply was an unsigned email unresponsive to most of my clearly stated concerns.
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