Quote Originally Posted by SunshineGirl View Post
I think a lot of people found out about us on the DISboards from general chatter about us with our straight www.sunshinerewards.com link--not any kind of referral link.

My best suggestion (because I don't want us spamming the DIS and having them get mad at us) is just to talk about SR when you see an opportunity that fits. Maybe a post on the budget board about something that you bought through us. Or mentioning in your TR how many gift cards you used on your trip from us. If you talk about us naturally in your regular posts, people will PM you for more information. And if they ask for more information and your link, you are allowed to give it to them like that.

It's a fine line because I want you all to be able to get credit for referring people who you get interested. But I also don't want it to look like we are trying to overrun the DIS with referral links.

I was doing just that the other week and I got a warning. No points, but a warning.

And in researching afterwards (it was absolutely unjustified but I'm not sure they have the ability to take warnings away) they have almost no guidelines. The guidelines I can find say that you can't say "PM me for a referral". And of course you can't put your link there.

The week I got warned in the one saving money board was slammed with mentions of rewards sites.

But I mentioned it in the d'land area, when people were talking about giftcards. As I am wont to do, I gave too much info while talking about why I had so many giftcards, and I mentioned SR. I gave NO link whatsoever. I blathered on, then b/c it wasn't my thread, I told the person who had asked to PM me if they felt like talking more b/c I didn't want to take over the thread (no mention or thought of a referral), and I told her my username here.

Those last two were seen as suspicious, and I got warned as though I had said "PM me for a referral".

So you have to be careful.

I won't even talk about it in my trip report or anywhere anymore. Sorry Sunshine. That one made two absolutely unjustified warnings (no points, but still, warnings) where no one cared to hear me or do anything upon hearing me, and I just won't risk it. The mod that warned me on this issue (the other issue was totally unrelated but even less justified) thought that you couldn't even *mention* rewards sites on the Dis at all!!!!!

Be careful.