If you were lucky enough to have not been caught out by the company you many not know what I am talking about, a few months ago a new site called Covet.Me came bounding through the blogging world promising gift vouchers for our favourite brands in return for sharing our favourite fashion items through their site on various social media sites.
Many of us spent hour upon hour carefully choosing items to share with our followers on both our blogs and social media, we then chose tags that we knew would get the items shared and proceeded to add them to the various social media sites.
It was very exciting, while the work took time it was enjoyable and I did see a lot of nice items that I could buy for gifts, but the most exciting was the prospect of the vouchers in return for our efforts. It took me a while to get to cash out but I was so excited when I did. I chose the one I wanted and I have to admit I even chose what I was wanting to spend it on.
The site promised they would only be a few weeks although there was a delay. I waited and waited, weeks past and nothing!
I politely emailed, left messages on Facebook and tweeted their help pages, to start with I was told there were delays but I would get my voucher, they promised so I continued.
A few ore weeks and I was told they had introduced security checks, this was causing more delays but I could understand that some people had been abusing the systems so I sat back and waited, again they promised on their messages that I would get my voucher.
Two months past and nothing, I was then told that I had passed security and that I would be in the next batch, I was so excited and started telling people to have faith that things were moving forward.
I feel like such an idiot now, its now been 4 months and no sign of my voucher, I have pretty much given in messaging them, I have no more faith in what they are telling me. I feel extremely let down, taken advantage of and beyond guilty for sharing all this with my followers and wasting their time.
I just wanted to take time out to say how sorry I am to anyone who followed me to use this site, I 100% believed in them.
So what is happening now? I know some people have reported the company to various places the ASA among others, I have seen posts from other bloggers whom like myself have pretty much given in. They have vanished from social media, I have seen no replies nor anyone get a voucher in weeks. I think they have gone under if I am completely honest.
Was it a scam? I don't think it was, I think it was a site that got more popular than they expected but I do feel that it was badly managed when it did get too popular. They could have made the vouchers worth a lot more or something to slow down payouts but I have no idea what they were really doing. Was there even any security checks? I don't think we will ever know.
I was going to report them to the ASA myself but upon seeing others had done so decided that there was no sense in doing so.
If I see anything further on social media I will update but I think the answer is that Covet is pretty much defunct and non of us will be seeing our vouchers :-( Buy buy to my hair care products!
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