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PINCHme Reviews Summary

PINCHme is a product discovery platform that offers users free samples of various products.

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Louisiana
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
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What is going on?
February 11, 2020

I was shipped two boxes of samples and they just stopped. I have pending orders from months ago. I have contacted the company and they just say that they are months behind in shipping. Last month, I only qualified for one sample and it still hasn't arrived. I will try to apply for one more box and if it doesn't come, I'm done. Why waste my time?

Date of experience: February 10, 2020
Florida
1 review
8 helpful votes
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It's not all that
January 27, 2020

I was getting samples and then I got to one where it was a speciality sample for some makeup brushes. I went down and did the home chef offer to receive the brushes but it never let get the brushes. I wrote them in an email and they said they will investigate it and it's been almost 2 weeks. I gave up on it and feel like they're scammers

Date of experience: January 27, 2020
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Great samples
December 17, 2019

Pinchme.com has new samples waiting for me every Tuesday, I love the samples gives me the opportunity to try before I buy I love pinchme

Date of experience: December 15, 2019
California
4 reviews
27 helpful votes
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It's good, not great
October 27, 2019

I like Pinchme it's a nice sample site, but it can take a long time for samples to arrive, and you need to be quick when samples are available or you miss out. You can go months before without catching the available sample. I've discovered some good products through this site thanks to all the free coupons I've gotten from them. And there are frequent offers for free magazine subscriptions, though it isn't a wide selection.

Date of experience: October 24, 2019
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Amazing website!
September 21, 2019

Pinchme is amazing! It matches you to samples based on your profile and all you need to do is leave a honest review. 100 % free and so much fun.

Date of experience: September 20, 2019
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awesomeness
September 21, 2019

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE PINCHme, I love trying new products, and its free and amazing, it is like having family sending you presents monthly!

Date of experience: September 19, 2019
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Amazing app
September 19, 2019

I absolutely love PinchMe. Their free sample boxes are great and they have good deals and offers for you too. I have found a few products I never would have known about because I go on PinchMe. Products that I now regularly use.

Date of experience: September 19, 2019
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Pinch me is amazing!
September 19, 2019

I absolutely love pinch me. I've been using it for a long time now and I always receive free products and product samples in exchange for my honest review. This site is great and I never miss my sample Tuesday. :)

Date of experience: September 18, 2019
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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This is a great site to enroll for free samples. Pinchme sends you samples, you try them and just give your honest review. I had great full sizes products and coupons for free items that I got to try and became a regular customer for some of the products.

Date of experience: September 18, 2019
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I was really excited to join pinch me. I love new products and am always happy to share my thoughts on them... However the samples are very few and far between so not nearly as good as I thought it would be

Date of experience: August 9, 2019
Oklahoma
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Twisted Ranch Dressing
August 10, 2019

What a hit! This flavor of the Twistrd Ranch series of dressings was a wild hit with us. A hit of Ranch, a bite of black pepper, and the awesome, unique absolutely nutty contribution of parmesan work so very well together! It's wonderful on salad, without completely masking the crisp veggies. I'm looking foward to trying it as a marinade with my chicken before breading and in my baked potatoes! I am going to look on line to find other ideas! Thank you, PINCHMe, for gifting me with a coupon to bring this line of dressings to my attention. I want to try the other 4 twisted flavors as well!

Date of experience: August 8, 2019
Florida
3 reviews
12 helpful votes
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I am on this kick searching for free samples to try then review and surveys to earn some pocket money. This is the 1st OUTRAGEOUSLY false site i have encountered so far. There are no free samples ( their sample tuesdays are things they email you). You are supposedly able to take surveys to earn points towards a free sample box HOWEVER GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. I didnt seem to qualify for one survey. I tried back to back 10 plus times and NOPE I didnt qualify for one.

Date of experience: June 17, 2019
Texas
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Its just ok
May 15, 2019

I've been on pinchme awhile and usually qualify and receive a few monthly samples but I still see how ridiculous the quizzes can be and usually dont waste my time. You may not even qualify for most quizzes, wasting time filling out 10 minutes of questions to find out you then dont. And 3000 points for a deluxe sample box? At 100 points for a 60 minute quiz, you will spend 30 hours, at least, trying to earn one of those boxes in a week. It doesnt take rocket science or some pompous 1000 word review calling everyone an idiot to see that pinch me is not for everyone, especially people with lives.

Date of experience: May 15, 2019
Germany
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Past It's Glory Days
April 19, 2019

I don't know what happened. This used to be a first come first serve sight to test smalls samples and provide feedback for companies that gave out the samples. Mutually beneficial. Now, it's take surveys that constantly reject you. They come of as scammers now, but occasionally you get selected for great samples. I check my email to see if I qualify every month, but any further effort is a waste time. I can easily go other places to get paid to take surveys that work. Couponing is more fruitful in getting cheap or free stuff than PinchMe. Sad, a short era of sampling has ended.

Date of experience: April 19, 2019
Colorado
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Don't bother
April 10, 2019

I joined pinch me years ago and it was legit and fun and exciting. Always got
The free samples never had any problems. Now they want you to take surveys to get samples. All
That does is blow your email up with company's you have no interest in. Now your lucky if they offer you a coupon every other month. Don't waste your time this site is now a bummer.

Date of experience: April 10, 2019
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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PINCHme is the only quality free sample website where you actually get products.

They target their samples, so you don't get samples every month, but when you do, it's worth the wait.

Date of experience: March 13, 2019
Washington
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Scam don't waste your time I have email them several times and they respond with the same answer and never really answering my questions and concerns

Date of experience: February 25, 2019
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Definitely NOT a scam!
January 18, 2019

I decided to write this review after reading the most recent one claiming it's a scam, because it's really not! I've only been a member since the beginning of december 2018 and have won a $250 gift card a few times, a huge perfume sample set from sephora, plus the boxes i get for having 3,000+ points every week, all thanks to the QWIZme surveys. They take no more than 20 minutes to do - typically 10-15 minutes, sometimes not more than 5. I can rack up 1,000+ points a day in just a couple hours of my time. It's very unfortunate that other people aren't having the same kind of experience with PINCHme and the QWIZme surveys that i have but oh well, more opportunities to win $250-500 and exclusive beauty products for me.:-) i also uploaded a screenshot of my giftly account to prove that PINCHme does indeed reward you handsomely for participating in enough surveys.

Date of experience: January 17, 2019
California
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
Washington
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Waste of time!
December 1, 2018

You don't always qualify for a sample box, more often not. I tried the qwizme portion to get guaranteed samples and received an email confirming it would be sent in 2-3 weeks. After a month and a half I emailed them asking if it was still being sent as I had not received anything. Their response was a tracking number telling me it was sent on one day to contact USPS. After tracking it said USPS was still awaiting the item. I emailed back with a screenshot of the tracking showing that USPS never received it and was told it's out of their hands that I need to contact USPS because it left their facility on a different day than what they told me in their original email with tracking information. I know this is just free samples but the customer service was ridiculous.

Date of experience: November 30, 2018