Surely you have come across all kinds of free gift card offers online. You were probably thinking, oh, that’s too good to be true. Who is going to give away a free gift card with amounts ranging from $250 to even $1,500? Yes of course. Well, you’d be surprised. Free gift cards are legitimate and are given away on a regular basis.

In a nutshell, I’ll explain what goes on behind the scenes, giving you a better understanding of what makes this possible. Gift card offers are made by companies or marketers that have contracts with certain stores, restaurants, product owners, etc. to provide exposure to your brand or service. An effective way to accomplish this is to offer them to that specific department store, grocery market, or product.

Basically, let’s say you’re interested in a free $500 Costco gift card. You would be considered a strong candidate for the products or services Costco sells or provides; more than a casual perspective. The marketing company is compensated by its affiliates for allowing them to share other similar offers with you. Are you seeing it now?

As far as “required participation” is concerned, that includes completing or opting to “sponsor” offers. You will be presented with a selection of different ones to choose from or other programs they offer that might interest you. Typically, the higher the gift card amount, the more sponsor offers you’ll need to complete. Just be sure to fill in what is necessary; there are no shortcuts or you risk not receiving it!

It really doesn’t take long to make them. For the smallest dollar amounts, you might be looking at 10 minutes. But for larger amounts it can be up to an hour. You can probably do it on your lunch break or something.

This is the most important part, so pay close attention here. No, I repeat, DO NOT use your personal or work email address. Your affiliates will also email you for other offers. So take a quick minute to get a free Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail account in order to sign up to really none online deals. This allows you to have a specific email address just for that. And it’s also a good way to keep track of the progress of your online offers as well as spam control because chances are you’re going to get a lot of emails. I can’t stress this enough!

Well, now you know why it’s believable! We hope you’ve found these insightful truths because many people don’t know what makes it possible to offer free gift cards.