yoursecertcode.co.uk > Reviews > Your secret code should stay a secret code

Author's product rating:   

How free is the stuff ?	Fairly free
Frequency of updates	Satisfactory
How fast is this website	Good

Advantages:	You can earn points to get free stuff
Disadvantages:	A lot of the stuff is not very good

Recommend to potential buyers:

no

Full review

This is an unoriginal site where you can earn points for shopping and joining mailing lists in order to get free stuff. A little like Mutualpoints.com but not as good. They don't have as many affiliates (only 89) and the free gifts they offer you are things that you don't really want, for example, keyrings and chocolate bars.

Right, how do you earn? There are 2 systems of points.

1st: Carry out a task, such as register with a site or spend in a shop and earn a 'Cat' reward. The higher the 'Cat' the better the prize, eg 'Cat 1' earns you a plastic keyring, but 'Cat7' earns you a £15 gift voucher.

2nd: Carry out tasks as above and convert a 'Cat' to 'Recruits' These can be saved up until you have enough to exchange for a 'Cat' reward. You can also collect recruits by recruiting your friends to the site.

Recruit friend = 1 recruit
Cat 0 = 1 recruits
Cat 1 = 2 recruits
Cat 2 = 6 recruits
Cat 3 = 12 recruits
Cat 4 = 16 recruits
Cat 5 = 25 recruits
Cat 6 = 36 recruits
Cat 7 = 60 recruits

This is all very well, but you have to collect a whole lot of recruits to get a high 'Cat':

5 recruits = Cat 1 reward
12 recruits = Cat 2 reward
20 recruits = Cat 3 reward
30 recruits = Cat 4 reward
35 recruits = Cat 5 reward
45 recruits = Cat 6 reward
60 recruits = Cat 7 reward
120 recruits = Super reward

It's really easy to do 'Cat's 0-3, as all you have to do is register with certain websites, subscribe to news letters and spend money with online shops that you already shop with, but to earn recruits from higher 'Cat's, you have to spend a LOT of money, for example, take out a loan, taking out an insurance policy or join a gambling site and deposit £50. Realistically, if you like keyrings and chocolate bars, this is a good site for you. If you are patient enough to save up all your recruits, just think how long you have to save for. Can you invite 120 friends? Can you deal with receiving news 60 news letters in your mail box every day? Lets face it. The only good rewards on this site are the gift vouchers and there are SO many other sites where you can do this.

Now, having said all that, the site itself is very badly designed. The whole site is black and sometimes it is hard to read the green writing. There is also a silly gimmic where your mouse becomes a torch and you can read the 'sercret messages' on the site by using your 'torch'. Most of the secret messages are pointless, telling you that you can change your 'Cat's into recruits... That's about it.

The actual navigation of the site is not too bad. There is a menu bar at the top of the page, and it takes you to all the places you need to go on the site (Home, Missions and rewards, Istructions, Your Recruits, Despatch/Your account, Competition, Tables, Contact us, T's & C's). When looking at the rewards, there is a drop-down menu so that you can move easily through the 'Cat's.

Perhaps I am little biased, having looked at several other similar style sites, but this has to be one of the worst. There's a place where you can post your comments. This site has 11 comments. That's it.

Enough said.