Ooooh energy friends!
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I realise you may be joking, so apologies in advance for possibly missing the point with a straight reply:
There’s probably going to be hundreds if not thousands of cheaper stocks for every high value share given away, so most people are going to find themselves on the lower end of the scale in terms of overall value.
I also expect the lead time for the promotion makes it likely they’d chosen and purchased the stocks they wanted to use before the whole energy sector started going haywire.
Unfortunately for me, I’m not eligible for this promotion. The one free share I got off Freetrade a while back was a bit out of the left field, an ETF called “Vietnam Opportunities Fund”, I think it was (I didn’t cash it in straight away, but it eventually went in my last rebalancing). Cheap as chips, it was.
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I signed up, but don’t see any queued shares 
To clarify, yes I was joking. More on the scale that it is an exchange, ‘difficult to shift’ stocks go down in price until they shift. Still, as people are getting the same stocks it seems there’s probably a small pool, and I’m betting only one or two ‘£200’ stocks are available (the minimum to say it’s a possibility). I guess it’s a great introduction to the disappointing form of gambling that is trading individual shares.
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Same here. Nothing queued. I’ve emailed Freetrade to see what’s going on as it’s been 7 days.
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Have you both added a minimum of £2 to your account?
Mine appeared almost instantly after I topped up.
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I did that immediately last Thursday when I signed up. No idea why it’s not working.
I’m still waiting on my free share. Topped up 13th and it says between 7-10 days.
I emailed them and they fixed the issue. I think what happened is when I downloaded the app, I then just clicked open instead of opening it with the link. Luckily they fixed it and added the shares to my account anyway.
All 3 of my free shares landed today.
£4.64
£5.37
£24.44
So £34.45 in total for the 2 seconds it took to sign up 
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I’m already a Freetrade customer but still clicked on the link and got the free share. Just checked now and it shows 2 more pending.
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Did you have to add any more funds to your account?
Thanks for sharing. I am now queued for a free share as well. Sweeeet 
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How long did it take to show free share.
Instantly
Hasn’t worked for me. The link in the Plus section of the Monzo app just opened my Freetrade app and that was it. I even topped up with £5 but no sign of a free share.
I had an old Freetrade account that I had registered for but never used. I clicked the Monzo link, completed registration and added some money.
Nothing happened so a week later I popped them an email. They asked for a screenshot showing the offer in my Monzo app and then they applied the offer. I can see three shares “queued” now in Freetrade, just waiting to be completed.
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Thanks just contacted them
no idea… I did just to make sure and it worked 
Thanks for sharing too!
Also a Freetrade customer already, but clicked the link and I have a free share queued too.
For those asking about whether you need to top up, I got a splash screen with a list on it of something like:
- Register via link (least sure on this one)
- Open account
- Fund account
- Receive free share
The first three were all ticked off / crossed out, and it said I would get my free share soon.
So it seems to have been happy enough that I had previously topped up.
Will report back if I also get the other two once the first one hits my account.
(Very happy with this after all my complaining about the offer not being open to existing Freetrade customers, so long as I don’t lose my shares when they get round to fixing this apparent glitch…)
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