Complaint Review: Ontheweb-offer.com

ontheweb-offer.com offerred a so-called 'free gift' in return for a survey. It was made clear from the start that unless the survey was completed, the 'gift' would not be recieved.

Personal info was requested on the first page, including address under the guise of 'shipping info' regarding the free gift. I had no cause for concern at this point. The survey seemed legit at first. A lot of offers, all able to be rejected. Several 'submit's later I was informed that I would have to buy a service from not one but three third party corporations in order to recieve anything in return for giving them my personal contact information. By the time I figured out what they were really up to, they had already recieved my address and phone information with no going back.

I decided to continue past that point in the survey, just to see where it would lead to. Eventually I came to a window with one box only. To move on, I had to check it. To check the box was agreeing that I was a smoker. There were no other choices other than closing the browser window, ending the survey. I don't smoke, but since I was curious, I went ahead and checked it. Immediately I was routed to a survey page asking for my personal smoking stats. The only way to move on was to check a box agreeing to recieve cigerette ads and listing what cigerettes I buy. No where was there a choice "I don't smoke". I wanted to move on to see what came next, so I filled in bogus smoking information, allowing them to force words into my mouth. After that came a mandatory credit card signup form requesting a Social Security Number. There I stopped.

I will never recieve the so-called 'gift'. I'm not a smoker and refuse to lie and say I am. I'm not giving my SSN out to some unknown recipient. I'm not buying products when I was told I wouldn't have to. However, now they have my address, my phone number and my name. That's all they wanted in the first place. Be warned.

Erin
Lexington, Kentucky
U.S.A.