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Texas
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Great site!
April 27, 2024

I've received full and sample sizes of Nivea, Dr. Mom, Tekuma and Moroccan oil, all for free! It's easy and fun, all I have to do is post a review of the products.

Date of experience: April 26, 2024
Minnesota
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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You're never gonna get your packages they will say it got lost in the mail. 10 times in a row I've made it to the end of a survey and it said oh no you didn't fit.

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
Mississippi
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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It really is free
June 6, 2024

I have been a member of Pinchme for years. At first I didn't like the coins part, but now I see you get better products to try and sample.

Date of experience: June 6, 2024
Oklahoma
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I have been using #PinchMe for many years now. When I receive samples they are for the most part really nice items. I have received new products that were expedited to arrive such as whole body deodorant in name brands. I have found that this year they have made it more difficult to earn points. Also once awarded a product to try and actually being able to keep the product in the box and the points in your total of points( with 600 being the amount needed for a box
To be shipped out) is not so easy. A window of time is given to earn enough points and if don't meet the goal you lose points and the product. Seems unfair. If there were more offers to earn points through samples it wouldn't be so unfair, her not the case. I do not like the new options to earn points at all. I will complete offer and never receive the points after spending a long amount of time completing offer. I am not to the point of leaving #PinchMe behind, I just hope they work out kinks and do better for us loyal members.

Date of experience: April 26, 2024
Washington
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I love pinchme.com
March 25, 2018

This is not a scam. They've sent me a sample box almost every month for the past 2 years. I receive anywhere from 2-5 samples each month. They send SAMPLES. From reading these reviews, I guess most people don't know the definition of SAMPLE. A sample is not a full size product and nowhere does it say free full size products. I do however occasionally get coupons for free full size products to buy at the store. They only give out samples ONE Tuesday per month. The dates are listed on their website as sample Tuesday varies. You must keep your PinchMe profile updated and YOU MUST submit your reviews of all samples within the time period of 30 days of receiving your samples or you will become ineligible to receive anymore. It is a little time consuming but worth it to me. I get to try products i may not buy or even hear of. Samples include shampoo, condition, lotion, moisturizers, pet food/snacks, kids snacks, allergy/sleeping medicine, tea, etc. If you dont receive samples right away, just keep trying.

Date of experience: March 24, 2018
Kentucky
1 review
58 helpful votes
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Nothing received
September 10, 2015

I have been using the sight for about 4 months now, I get on and claim my samples when they are available. I have yet to receive anything in the mail. Anyone else have this problem?

Date of experience: September 10, 2015
North Carolina
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Was good
June 28, 2020

Used to be a great app but it now makes you jump through hoops to get the minimum size samples if you can even do it. The sell your information as well. Don't waste your time!

Date of experience: June 28, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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PinchMe is the best! If you like free samples and new products and want to try them without using your credit card, PinchMe is the way. Play games, take surveys and apply for them. It's that easy

Date of experience: June 7, 2024
Idaho
2 reviews
50 helpful votes
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Let me give you a few reasons why pinchme is the worst sample company out there... First off you have to wait 1-3 months while they send you a million updates on social media about how exciting and awesome the upcoming samples will be and they show off a bunch of cool items then once "sample day" comes and you check your sample page you either don't qualify for anything or you qualify for something you will never even use such a zzquil or you will receive over 5 sample offers and when you select "add to my cart" you get sent back to the home page saying "you don't qualify for any samples" then... You write them a support email or comment on their Facebook page and they either don't get back to you or they respond with "better luck next time" or "you don't match our sample criteria." It's a waste of time and you will get all excited over possibly getting awesome samples but don't hold your breath because most likely you will get nothing. Your more likely to win the lottery then to actually get anything from pinchme

Date of experience: June 14, 2016
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Overall good site
April 27, 2024

I enjoy the rewards of earning coins for shipping out the samples you've qualified for. I would like to see folks get more samples to fill their boxes

Date of experience: April 25, 2024
Indiana
1 review
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Free Samples
March 28, 2021

I received my first Pinch Me box the other day and I loved all of the products! I am glad I get to try new things before I buy... This is a very legit sight and I highly recommend signing up.

Date of experience: March 27, 2021
Oklahoma
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I love pinchme.com
April 27, 2024

I've been using this for years and I always feel lucky to get my boxes and magazines. Lately I've been waiting longer for my boxes but still happy to get it at all.

Date of experience: April 25, 2024
Michigan
1 review
29 helpful votes
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FAKE $#*! SH*T!
January 10, 2019

PINCHME is some BS! Don't fall for those "5" star reviews because those b*tches are fake as hell too! I spent 15 hours of one week taking surveys to get the 300 token box! As soon as I got 225 tokens, they stopped crediting me for surveys I absolutely COMPLETED! And their customer service SUCKS! They pick an choose what emails they want to respond to! The "Quiz Me" for samples is a straight up scam! If you look at where it says the people who won for the most tokens earned for the week, you will see that one person earned 8,000 tokens for that week! Thats straight up BS because the math doesn't even add up for that! For an hour long survey you get 100 tokens! So basicly that person had to be doing surveys for 80 hours that week! REALLY? How is that person qualifying for ALL those surveys and I can barely qualify for 6 50 token surveys (3 of those I never got credit for)! AND what is the 150 token "mystery" box? I had enough tokens for at least that, but that's just BS too! Plus they are getting paid for the surveys we do! So are the samples really "free"? And as far as sample Tuesday, they barely ever have any samples for me maybe one every few months, and I do the sample reviews! When I first signed up a few years ago Pinch me seemed much more legit but not anymore! And please don't fall for those fake $#*! 5 star reviews, they were probably posted by the pinchme member doing surveys 80 hours a week!

Date of experience: January 10, 2019
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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At first i was getting samples by taking surveys and racking up my coins. Well, now that pinchme.com has disabled my ability to take surveys for points, i am now only able to sign up for offers that REQUIRE ME TO ENTER MY CREDIT CARD. Um ya, no thanks. Let me take surveys for coins because i dont have money to sign up for all these OFFERS THAT ARE NOT FREE

Date of experience: June 1, 2021
Iowa
4 reviews
19 helpful votes
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Rip off
June 11, 2018

I did countless hours of surveys and accumulated 1000 tokens. If you get 1000 you get a deluxe pinchme box worth 100.00. What I received was less than 25.00 worth. When I questioned them they said the delixe pinch me box is only worth 25.00 and the super deluxe is worth 100.00. Nope, they didnt have the super deluxe box when I won the deluxe box. Scam scam scam! Stay away from them. I encourage all who have been scammed by them to report them to the BBB.

Date of experience: June 11, 2018
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I love pinchme!
April 27, 2024

I love Pinchme. I have been able to try tons of products that I have never thought of or never thought to try. I have widened my mind to many different things!

Date of experience: April 26, 2024
Missouri
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I love Pinchme.!
April 19, 2016

Pinchme is one of the best sample site on the internet i always receive great product samples from pinchme and it's real no scamm about it. Try it you just might love it too!

Date of experience: April 19, 2016
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My favorite
April 27, 2024

I love pinchme I've got to many Free stuff to try and I love it.
The only thing that I didn't like is the late shipments usually I receive the products after 3 or 4 months from ordering.

Date of experience: April 25, 2024
Tennessee
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I tried this for a while and after you jump through dozens of hoops, most requiring you to accept offers from other companies (insurance quotes, retirement plans, health insurance etc) you will get your "prize." So far I have gotten a "skincare" box about 6 weeks after I fulfilled the requirements. It included a foil packet of handcream, a sample packet of eye cream, a mini lip balm and a packet of makeup remover pad. Most of the items never came.

What I DID get was auto/life/health insurance companies blowing up my cell phone (even though I put in my landline which doesn't have a phone attached to it but the caller hears ringing) some as early as 7:01 & as late as 10PM, floods of emails (with the fake middle initial to help me track if my info was sold -- IT WAS) and text messages from early morning to late night.

I have been trying for over a month to end my "membership" with a company whose sole purpose seems to be selling your info to others & giving you a stale piece of lint covered gum they pulled out of their granny's purse as a reward.

Below is my most recent attempts to make it stop. As usual there is no response from them but I have received 4 texts from them while I was writing this.

Date of experience: June 12, 2022
Illinois
13 reviews
45 helpful votes
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Great site!
August 5, 2015

I've noticed alot of people saying they are mad they don't get them every month, but honestly, I free samples, be lucky youre getting anything AT ALL for free regardless of how frequent. I have been an active member for a few years and have probably gotten about 6 boxes with about 5-6 samples inside. If you don't mind being patient and accepting that you wont get their LIMITED AMOUNT samples each month (I mean honestly they have a lot of users and clearly not enough for everyone to get some every single month) then you will love this site.

Date of experience: August 5, 2015

Overview

PINCHme has a rating of 3.2 stars from 390 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with PINCHme most frequently mention free samples, full size and new products. PINCHme ranks 4th among Free Stuff sites.

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