A Try Me Free Offer is an offer where you buy the product, and then get given your money back by the company. Often the company will require you to send a particular piece of the packaging like the label or the barcode off to them along with a few words on why you did or didn’t like the product.

Some Try Me Free (TMF) offers are quite obvious and easy to follow, while others can be a bit complicated and you do sometimes need to read the instructions quite carefully in order to make sure that you do actually get your money back. This can mean taking careful note of whether they want no more than 30 words, no less than 30 words, whether they want you to tell them what you didn’t like or what you did like. Sometimes you’ll also need to send a receipt along to show how much you paid for the product as well. For this reason, when you buy a TMF product, it’s often easier to pay for it separately so that you make sure you have a completely separate receipt for the item.

Sometimes a TMF offer will be across a whole range of products. In this case, it can be important to read the wording of the offer very carefully to make the most you possibly can of it. After all, if the company is happy to let you try each of their 3 different flavours of pizza and give you the money back for each one of them, it would be daft to just try one of them wouldn’t it.

Normally offers are done per household. Again however, do watch this one, as sometimes they’re per customer which means that if you try the product and send off for your money back, your husband or someone else in your household could also do the same thing.

Not all offers where you can get your money back are actually TMF offers. Some companies do a standard offer where if you don’t like their product, you can contact their customer services and tell them and they’ll send you your money back. When they do this however, it’s generally in the form of a voucher for money off another product in their range.

TMF offers come in all different shapes and sizes, and can save you quite a bit of money overall, but you do have to be prepared to spend the money first, and then claim it back afterwards. Often it’s the big brand names who have this sort of offer available which can give those of us on lower budgets a chance to buy some higher end products that we wouldn’t normally indulge in. Obviously the reason the company does this, is that they’re hoping you’ll like their brand so much that you’ll keep buying it from that point on, but there is no obligation for you to do so.