Influenster

I wasted SOOO much time "earning badges" and writing reviews for influenster and received a few emails saying I was a match for a voxbox and I just needed to fill out a survey to receive a box full of samples however I "failed" those surgery EVERY TIME! They always ask questions like "have you heard of these products below" and when I answer honestly they fail me on the survey. Personally I feel they waste your time and promise you these big fancy boxes and give them to half their participants but not others. Id rather use sites like "bzzagent" and freesamples.org because they garauntee you free things...

I have been VERY active on Influenster for almost 6 months, done hundreds of snaps, dozens of reviews, created lists, finished almost every campaign and several other badges, and I have received ZERO products to review. I have to assume that is because of one of the following: I am not a member of a "desirable" age bracket (I'm 46, and I've heard other older women ALSO don't get boxes), I am not attractive enough in my photos, I am CRUELTY-FREE, or that I don't have a smartphone and can't use their precious app. I wrote them about the latter, and they assured me that had nothing to do with it...

So months later, why have I still received NO products to review? I am done with Influenster, and I encourage other older or cruelty-free women to consider the same.

I was very excited upon first enrolling in Influenster. I am very active in social media, with a lot of followers who care about my opinion. I have a professional background in communications and marketing. I though it would be a fun way to try some new products and share my opinions with all of my followers. I was mistaken. The formula that Influenster uses to determine who receives products to test is quite puzzling. It doesn't appear to be based upon anything that would actually help them market the products to the correct target audiences. I found that Influenster is actually populated by legions of reviewers who are much like the people who raid Sephora dumpsters looking for free makeup. Barely literate, bored moms who are grateful for any free scrap thrown their way. Meanwhile, the company is taking in millions on the backs of the free labor of these women. The last straw for me was completing a qualification survey that took me ten minutes, and ended up yielding me TWO 6.7 ounce juice boxes. Not worth the time or effort. Not to mention all of the "Virtual Boxes" that require you to actually go out and BUY the products they want you to review. I am sure there are better companies for those truly interested in product testing and sharing reviews. Influenster is disappointing, however.

Influenster is amazing, it's NOT as hard as many people make it out to be. Patience and participation is key! You won't get high end products for free without putting in a little bit of work.(Completely understandable). In my opinion, it is a lot of fun to be an influenster. You get to try amazing products for free, read reviews, write reviews, and communicate with others. It's a great way to find out about new products and find out if they are for you or not. It gives you something to work towards and it really is a pleasant experience. Most people assume you have to have a high impact score or you won't get a box, that is absolutely incorrect. I am proof of that. I do NOT have a huge following at all and I just received a really awesome box and I'm waiting on the next one to arrive! My score is only 859(medium) and it has gone up since I received the box. I believe it was 780 when I was selected to receive the box. It's mostly demographics, completing snaps, writing reviews, and interacting with others on the app that matters. Of course, I'm sure a higher score helps, but it's not a requirement. You do need to complete a few easy tasks to earn a badge after you receive each box, but it's super simple. It is a lot of fun to be a part of influenster and it's very exciting to receive boxes and to learn about awesome products! Try it out for yourself and see! If you do it right, you'll really enjoy it.

I've been on Influenster for about 2 years. When I first started, I honestly didn't expect to receive the amount of Voxbox's I have received. (I've received about 5-6). The boxes are great because they (usually) come with full-size products. The thing about influenster though is that you HAVE to review these products, do activities, share photos on Instagram/other social media (which I don't have a problem doing). They give you a great amount of time to do these activities, and you don't *have* to complete all of them, but it's nice to get the badge for it so you can qualify for more voxbox's in the future. You also have to have a good social impact, which depends on the amount of followers/friends you have on your social media accounts (they add up the total amount). If you're looking for a place to sit and get free products for nothing, this is not the site for you. Influenster is about influencing your followers and friends to use products sent to you by participating brands.

The only thing that grinds my gears about this site/app is that there are so many people who copy and paste reviews from other reviewers for products, and who rate and write the same generic review on every item ever which is really unfair to those of us who spend time and effort writing great reviews to be qualified.

Absolutely outstanding and very impressed with the products and the reviews and the returns backs I appreciate their business and help

I love Influenster! I've heard from friends who signed up and did surveys, filled out the voxbox forms and never received a product. I have no idea why that is and can only speak from my experience. I signed up one day bored and recently gotten into makeup. I left a bunch of reviews on makeup products I recently bought and within a few weeks got asked to fill out a survey for my first voxbox. Please note I had no followers or much engagement being on there and the social media linked is just average, I don't have a huge following. I got a full size Anastasia Beverly Hills foundation (which I already owned but love so had a backup). The checklist for reviewing products is easy, leave a review on the app and places like Sephora which I do anyway. After that I'd get a box of products every 2-3 months. Products have varied. I've gotten drugstore makeup/hair products, skincare, ranch dressing, full size designer perfume and most recently a $60 ABH face pallette that just launched. I love Influenster and I've been doing it for a couple years now. I definitely don't sit on there and review like I used to, honestly I don't leave reviews at all unless it's part of a product I received but I still get good items on a regular basis.

Simple -easy - and very happy to cash out!
I decided on Amazon-because I shop there nonstop!
And I needed ink for my printer and dog food asap!

I used to like this site very much, but now when they claim I'm getting a product or a box I never get it at all, I'm just not going worry about this anymore.

When I first saw marketing for Influenster, everything was about makeup, hair and face products. When I signed up and received my first VoxBox, I was so excited! But immediately disappointed after finding French's fried onions, a bottle of Frank's Red Hot sauce and a few other food items. Definitely not what I was expecting! But hey, I'm a good sport and used everything in the box (even though I've tried everything before) and left reviews on it. Then, boom! Here's my second box about 2 months later. Crossing my fingers I might get a lip balm or something, this go round it was little bags of chips, a tongue scraper, Febreze, coupons and some other little things I've already forgotten. Needless to say, I let my kids have a go at this stuff and ended up using the scraper to scrub some stuff off my bathroom sink. Not worth my time writing reviews on things I was never interested in to begin with. ALSO, I realized that MOST of the reviews on products (received in a VoxBox) had positive (some over the top) remarks, when in reality I knew better. So you pretty much cant trust the reviews on all of the products people received for free:-I I guess this is fine for people with crazy extra time on their hands and like writing reviews and advertising products for free (most of which you don't really care about, but might mean you'll get another box in the future). And for everyone's reference, I'm a 30 year old mom of two with all social accounts. Apparently, falling into a certain category means I only cook and clean and have no interest in my appearance...

I love this app where you get to try out free products and share about them with all of your followers

I have been a member of Influenster for almost a full month. I have an impact score of 2519 and 141 followers. Since Day One, I have posted a ton of reviews and pictures, asked questions, answered questions, filled out all of my snaps, linked all of my accounts, shared with my friends, got my friends to join, and answered every survey that they sent to me. I'm active with YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and recently created a TikTok account. I've spent hours upon hours on this site, and still haven't qualified for a VoxBox. I truly believe that I'm "too old" to be included in this program. I looked up reviews about this company, and others have stated that they feel like if you're over 35, you're not going to get anything. I've filled out everthing completely. Everything. I'm giving it two more days to see if things change (giving it one whole month), but right now I'm about ready to give up. I belong to some other groups that send me wonderful products for free for my honest reviews, and they don't mind that I'm 57 years old. It's just disheartening, as even though I'm older than a lot of people in this group, I take care of myself, like to look nice, wear lots of makeup and cologne, and buy lots of nice clothes and products. I feel like I'm being discriminated against because of my age. I wish I could get those hours back that I spent reviewing products on something productive.

I've really wanted to like Influenster. The idea of getting complimentary products to honestly review is great, however it seems that it is getting harder to do just that. The chances of actually getting full sized quality products to review is getting further and harder to obtain. I have been an Influenster for some time now and had some products that I was excited about but mostly not. My main issue and the reason I went as far as reviewing here is that the reviews are biased. I am vegan and conscious of my impact. That being said I already know that products might not align with my values. I still try and accurately review the products and when necessary enlist a non vegan friend to try out for me. I've had some fairly recent products that I found that they were misleading in their ingredients. I stated that in my review and went as far as chatting with the company over this. I was disappointed that my honest review was not honored and was not able to be posted when I stated clearly why I wasn't a huge fan of the product and thus leaving a 3 star review and never named called cursed etc. I simply stated why I could not recommend due to x, y and z. I find it a waste of an Influenster's time if all they can do is rave about products no matter what and not be able to legitimately review a product. I hope this gets improved because I am a strong believer in basing my potential purchases on fellow reviewers input and will continue to do so in hopes of it not effecting my odds of continuing to Influence with Influenster.

Influenster is nothing but a scam. It took them over a year to send me a tea bag I'd signed up to review. One tea bag -- over a YEAR. All they want to do is collect your information and sell it to other companies. I'm glad I gave them little to work with, let me tell you.

Now they've redesigned their site so it's EXTREMELY difficult to contact them. They also don't explain things, such as exactly how the 'program' works. Why? So they don't have to deal with people -- it's obviously a distraction for them when they're very busy selling your information.

My advice to you is to STAY AWAY from these people. Unless you *want* to have someone profit from your information or you'd like to spend endless hours shilling for the companies that pay THEM, not YOU.

I'm very glad I never went back to that site after I initially signed up and requested a sample of Runa tea. Considering how stale it was when it finally arrived, no way was I about to drink it -- and after waiting so long I certainly wasn't going to review it.

I should write Runa about Influenster and ask them if they knew the ill will their deal with them was going to generate -- on so many levels.

So, when I first started Influenster I loved it. I have a large following and received 2 or 3 boxes of products. Recently though, I ran into a snag. They have Influenster Twitter Parties, I won a "Gloskin Mega Voxbox" which is a high end brand. It took 8 weeks to receive the box and it had 3 drugstore products in it. I thought, I had gotten it by mistake so I reached out to them... no response. I asked them nicely a few more times then tweeted at them to. Finally, I tweeted at Gloskin. They responded immediately and gave me a $200 gift card as well as saying that they were promised by Influenster the Gloskin Mega Box would contain THEIR products. A few weeks later I won another box, it has been 12 weeks and I haven't received it. They ignore my emails and I am almost positive they cancelled my box because I complained about them being deceiving with their prizes. I don't bad talk brands, ever and I know that things like this could just be a mistake but when you continue to be shady and not respond to me... that shows what kind of company you are running!