Schemes that allege to make you money can be divided into two categories, those that work and those that do not. The reason we all encounter the latter on a daily basis and the former are so hard to find is that every new person who knows how to make money in a certain way enlarges the risk of the system becoming aware of its suboptimal arrangement and, exempli gratia, updating its usage policy. I am not even talking about illegal dealings, but merely using certain offers to their full advantage.
However today I though I would share with you a little tip that I have discovered, though no doubt many of you have already used similar tactics. Still, stating the obvious does sometimes have a use, not everyone has the time to think through all the possible advantages that a system offers. Furthermore, I am only a humble blogger and don't think my post will influence any significant number of people. Should Aliexpress somehow patch the 'exploit' that I will describe I would not care that much as I only buy something from there twice a year. So here goes:
Aliexpress is very welcoming to new users, offering them either a small coupon of something like 3 dollars off on a wide variety of eligible purchases, offering exclusive prices to new users, sometimes half price of what you would normally pay and finally, $0.01 deals, where an item, usually worth less than a dollar i sold to you for 1 cent. This last opportunity is probably the most useful as you are not enticed to buy something for 15 dollars to get that cherished 3$ discount. 0.01$ offers are very useful when you have to buy a cable, a rubber valve, a screw, a bolt of a specific diameter, plant seeds... the list is endless.
What you do is open a search window with no cookies. Private mode will work. Browse aliexpress for what you need or head straight to their new user zone to look what's on offer. Now you get to use the full potential of those 'free virtual cards' your challenger bank, crypto exchange, financial app or whatever new fintech you are using. Get a virtual card, pay for the product as a 'new' user, setting an account in the process (you only need an email for this, temp-mail.org works fine) and then just, heh, discard the card. Ali does not care about the same shipping address or even the name on the card, the sole condition is having a card that was not yet used at Ali. So if you were baffled by the adverts offering 'unlimited virtual cards' - now you know how to use them properly. Have fun.
