As you get started, you will find that the traders on the Free Lunch Room and in the freesite world have a lingo all their own. Here is a glossary of the terms you will hear:
A4F: Anything 4 Free Forum
Approval: Someone has completed all the site requirements and has been approved to claim their final prize.
Avatar: A small graphic or Picture that represents you on the forum.
Banned: There are 2 types of bans; temporary ban or a permanent ban.
* Temporary ban happens when someone is caught breaking the rules such as spamming other traders. This is typically a 1, 3 or 5 day bans where you cannot access the site.
* Permanent ban happens when someone is caught scamming other traders or has not has been temporarily banned 2 already. The person is unable to access the forum permanently.
Bump: By posting in your thread, it is then rises to the top. Either you can post by typing "I'm bumping up" or by answering a question to someone that has posted there.
cc: means credit card.
Clear cache/cookies: means erasing all the old cookies stored in your temporary files so that when you do offers you will get credit for them on the correct site.
Conga
line: This is similar to a chain letter, where you sign up at the bottom and eventually you get to the top of the list & stay there till you get a set number of referrals.
Cookie: A small amount of information stored on your computer. Each time you go to a site and then to do an offer, a cookie is stored on your computer. Both of these cookies enables the company to be able to give you credit for the offer on the correct site.
Crediting: The process of getting your completed offer credited to your freesite account.
Forever Green (can also be called evergreen): this term is used on some sites and means you keep your green status on the site forever. You don't have to go back in and do more offers if you want to cashout again.
FIpG: Free Ipod Guide forum
FLR: Free Lunch Room forum
Free Green: From time to time a network will offer or grant you a green status for one or more of their sites without requiring you too do any offers. Then all you have to do is get referrals.
G4G: also known as green for green, ref 4 ref, trade 4 trade, & site 4 site (trading site with another trader). You do a referral for them and they do a referral for you. No money exchanges hands & then you both receive full value for your referral.Then you both can gain referrals without paying some to green for you.
Green: this were you complete the basic requirements for a site and the site has been credited for them. You will people say that "you are green for them" or "You are green".
Hijacking or Threadjacking: Contacting someone who replied to someone else's trade thread for the purpose of trading with them. This is against the rules of the forum.
IFW: Incentive's Freebie site
Jumping the Fence: This where you move to finding/paying for referrals instead of getting paid to be a referral.
Locked Thread: This means that nobody can reply to the thread. Some threads are locked because they are too big and trade threads can be locked to violating some of the rules; such as, bumping your trade thread more than twice in a 24 hour period.
MCR (Manual Credit Request): Sometimes offers just do not credit for whatever reason. When this happens, we can file a MCR at the site (although many of the sites no longer accept MCR's) using the confirmation email that you received.
Mods (Moderators): They regulate the FLR forum and enforce the rules.
Network: The name of the company or parent company that owns the different sites. Each network can own a variety of sites; such as, Giftmonster, Zipnadazilch, etc. The networks are rated by several agencies based on their quality, customer service and how long they have been around.
Offer: These are the advertisements for specific products or services on the freebie sites. You can only do each offer once, no matter how many freebie sites carry that offer.
Offer Requirement: The amount of offers or credits needed to qualify on a specific freebie site in order to green and start collecting your own referrals.
Offer Weight: The same offer can be worth different values/credits from site to site. For example, it might be 1 credit on one site and 1/2 credit on another.
OOD (Offer of Doom): A
problem on Offercentric sites where the offers get very difficult for the last
few refs you collect.
PFR: Paying for Referrals
PM (Private Messages): a form of communication on the forum similar to email. You can do this simply by clicking on someones user name.
Post: a forum message left on a thread.
PPD: Project Payday, a training program for using freebie sites
PP: Paypal, method of payment.
Prize: The final reward or incentive that you can receive after completing the offer requirements and the necessary referrals for the site. On most sites, you are able to choose your prize when you sign up.
Red Status: Refers to several things, typically it indicates that an offer has been revoked on a freebie site where the offer is no longer green. If someone pays you for your green and you end up going red, you will owe them a refund. To find out all the reasons that someone can go red, please see our Staying Green tutorial.
Referral of Ref: A trader that has been referred by another trader.
Referral Link: The unique sign up web link for each site that you have. It is what you give to a trader you are referring the the site so you can get credit.
Referral Value: The amount each referral is worth. Take the prize value o f the site and divide it by the number of referrals you need. So a $120 prize based on 3 referrals would be valued at $40. This is the amount that you will cashout for each referral so you would pay your referral half of that or $20.
Repeatable: This means that the site will let you collect a prize over and over. Most of the repeatable sites are also forever green. There are some, however, that will make you do an offer again and re-green before you can collect more referrals.
RS: Referral Swapper Forum
Scamming: this basically committing fraud, against another trader, a freebie site or a forum. This usually involves the scammer refusing the refund the trader after going green or obtaining money under false pretenses.
Site: Each freebie site in a network will have its own website like cash.freeforallmankind.com or freebiemonster.net. You can sign up for each of the sites in a network.
Spamming: Contacting traders (particularly new traders) without them initiating the first contact with the intention of trying to get them to trade with you or promote your self. This is against the rules.
Sticky: A thread or post that constantly stays at the top of the page. The are often used by the administrators or moderators to make important announcements, but it is also possible to purchase a 3 day sticky for your trade thread.
Support: On any of the sites, you are able to contact them and obtain support or answers to you questions or concerns simply by submitting a support ticket there.
Thread: Same as forum Post, except you start a whole new topic.
TOS (Terms of Service): These are the terms of an offer, trade site, or forum. It is the fine print of the offer/company and you need to pay special attention to these because the spell out what we need to do for the trial; other wise you might end up with an unpleasant surprise.
TM (Trade Manager): This where we set up the trade or agreement between two traders.
Trade Thread: The message tread advertising what sites you need referrals on, and what sites you want to do.
TRAINN: Stands for Transcendental Innovations. It is a network that owns numerous freebie sites. On these sites, you can choose to do either the point based method or the referral based method. For the referral method, you only have to complete 1 offer to green.
FLR Verified: You have paid $50 to join the FLR Verified program (they make sure you are who you say you are) and are now eligible to purchase a sticky.
Verified Green: Means that the freebie site says that you are ok.
Walk Through: This is when someone walks you through the process telling you what offers to do on the site. This is illegal, because we are not supposed to tell others what offers to choose. Also, you should be doing offers that interest you.
Yellow Status: Means you have signed up for a site and now have your own referral link, but have not completed the offers yet.
