How offers are verified
Every offer on this site carries a date. This is what has to happen before that date can move, and the things this site will not publish regardless of what they would earn.
Why the date matters more than the badge
Most referral and coupon sites display a "verified" label with nothing behind it. It is a graphic. The useful version of that claim is a specific date attached to a specific check, because a referral bonus is a moving target: providers change amounts, add trading milestones, restructure plan names, restrict offers to new markets, and retire programs without announcing any of it.
So every listing here shows when it was last checked, and that single field drives the visible label, the sitemap timestamp, the machine-readable feed and the answer to "is this still working". Advancing it without doing the work would break all of those at once, which is exactly why it does not happen.
The check, step by step
1. Read the provider's own terms, not a summary
Every offer starts at the provider's official referral terms, pricing page or help centre article — never at another coupon site, an aggregator, or a Reddit thread. Where the terms and the marketing page disagree, both are recorded and the page discloses the conflict rather than picking the more attractive number. The Interactive Brokers listing is a live example: the public page and the legal terms state different stock-award rates, so the page says so and promises only the uncontested maximum.
2. Record what is actually displayed, with the date
For offers with volatile pricing, the link is opened in a clean browser and the observed values are written down: the final domain, the displayed currency, the advertised discount, any included extra months, the selected term, the total upfront charge, the tax wording, the renewal price and whether a manual code is required. Those become the dated offer-check boxes you see on the page. They are observations on a specific date, not permanent facts.
3. Test the outbound link end to end
Every referral link is loaded through this site's own tracking route to confirm it resolves, that the tracking parameters survive any redirect, and that it lands where the page says it does. A link that has quietly started redirecting to a generic homepage instead of an offer page is a broken offer even though it returns a success code.
4. Write the requirements before the reward
Offer pages put the qualifying steps above the outbound button, not below it. If an offer requires a $250 deposit held for 60 days, a $100 trade after identity verification, or two separate delivery orders to realise the headline figure, that appears before you are asked to click anything.
5. Publish the sources
Pages with volatile terms carry a list of the exact provider URLs consulted, so the check can be repeated independently. 30 of the 30 current offers publish that source list.
6. Re-check, and only then move the date
The verified date on an offer is only advanced after the offer has actually been re-checked against the provider's current pages. It is never bumped to make a listing look fresh. That date drives the visible label, the sitemap timestamp, the machine-readable feed and the "is this still working" answer, so inflating it would corrupt every freshness signal on the site at once.
Rules that override everything else
These are absolute. They apply even when following them costs the site an offer or a placement.
- Never publish an affiliate offer while the application is pending. Research can be written privately; it stays unpublished until the program is approved and a real tracking link exists.
- Never claim personal use, testing or a review of a product that has not actually been used. Checking an offer is real work; inventing product experience is not.
- Never invent a bonus amount, expiry date, coupon code, user testimonial, star rating or Reddit consensus.
- Never present the site owner's commission as the visitor's reward. What a provider pays this site is kept off the public pages entirely.
- Never promise a percentage or bonus copied from an expired campaign because it still appears in old blog posts or forum threads.
- Never build separate thin pages for keyword variants. Coupon, promo-code, referral-code, working and Reddit questions get answered inside the one canonical page for that offer.
What "verified" does not mean
It does not mean the offer is guaranteed to work today. It does not mean the product is recommended. It does not mean the terms have been read on your behalf and approved as a good deal for your situation. It means that on a stated date, the offer described on the page matched what the provider was publishing.
Before you deposit money, place an order or start a subscription, confirm the current terms at the provider's own checkout. Every offer page links to the provider pages used, so that check takes a minute.
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