I got 3 kids man I can’t
If you can’t buy small things, or take advantage of the offers/opportunities mentioned by @Calie then you’ll have to accept that it’s just not something available to you at the moment.
Circumstances change, and at some point in the future you might be in a position to buy and review some products, in which case you can look them at the eligibility criteria and see if you can apply to be a tester then 
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Hey @Lovehoney_Brenna, wanted to check you got the email I sent you last night? 
Apologies, I was on annual leave - I’ve responded 
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Hope you had a nice time! I can’t see a reply 
Checked with IT - it should be on its way now!
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Once a year seems about right!
Since January this year I have been very lucky to get something every month. But it took a year of me being a forum member and I am a regular on the forum pretty much every day, Not just reading posts, I comment regularly and have raised topics myself. If you check my profile you can see just how many times I have posted.
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Forum activity isn’t directly connected to chance of being a tester.
Checking the forum regularly will make sure you don’t miss topics and things you posts can help Brenna get a better idea of likes/dislikes but other than that, post and topic count don’t make a difference
Seemed to work for me, but I didn’t join the forum just to test. Just thought I would post my experience so far. The member who posted the question has been a member for over two years but has only posted 7 times in that period. Thought it might have made a differnce Maybe not.
It’s in the tester FAQs that you don’t need to be super active
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Which is very sensible. Because otherwise you’d probably end up getting some people just saying things without any real contribution just to appear active so they can get free stuff.
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True.
I was just wondering how I would when if my reviews for products go live? I’ve been trying to get through a backlog to achieve 10+ reviews and am just wanting to check whether there is anything else I need to do
(Not sure if this is a question for @Lovehoney_Brenna )
@ALuvzGoon once you receive the email to confirm/verify a review, the only way to know the review is live, would be checking the product page for the product you have reviewed 
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Ah thank you! I’ll use the confirmation emails as a checklist of what I’ve reviewed so far
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Hmmm I would say there is some truth in level of activity or else it’s just coincidence. When I was active daily and creating posts, commenting regularly, I seemed to be more successful with testing.
I have stepped away on a couple of occasions just through life circumstances and illness so obviously during those times I wouldn’t have been voting, or looking to test, I also dont vote on everything.
I still read the forum, just don’t log in to contribute, or if I’m looking for an answer I’ll use the search facility and usually always find the answer, which is why I love the forum. The last time I stepped away recently was because I didn’t like the vibe from a couple of posters, so its best to remove myself as thats on me, I would still vote on the odd thing across the tester section and also still make purchases but since being ‘inactive’ apart from voting, I’ve not been chosen on the same scale.
I’ll always be the first to say, testing is a perk not an expectation, there are so many users and only so many products.
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I agree and disagree with you.
My original comment was to a reply stating that they believe the reason they receive testers is because they post multiple times a day, every day. This isn’t the case, as per the tester faqs. The reason I felt the need to correct that was because if people think the only way to be chosen is to post a lot then the forum is just going to get spammed by pointless comments which will make it basically make it unusable.
As for less activity leading to less testers, I’m not sure it’s that simple (although I am purely speculating here). There have been times when I have reduced my participation in the forum (for similar reasons to you) and it does feel like I’ve had less testers than I used to get. But there have been periods when I basically only interact with tester threads and have been selected. I will say, I don’t write many purchase reviews anymore (which I do need to change).
I think some forum activity does help, that way Brenna knows you are definitely still around and likely still interested/able to test (some posts can be up for a while), but I think there are a lot of factors including number of eligible testers and type of opinion LH wants (solo/couple, gender(s), experience, age etc) but I have definitely seen recent tester reviews from people who aren’t that active on the forum.
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Just wanted to put a suggestion here. Take it or leave it 
I was wondering if there was merit in a 2nd level / tier of [regular] tester offerings.
I’m sure that there’s only a limited number of testers per item that can be given away.
Either suppliers make them available to LH at no cost for that purpose, or LH foots the bill
to get the ball rolling on reviews for new products.
Perhaps ( and I guess it would depend on the product ) another tier of testers where an additional
number of the same item be made available as a discounted purchase price, like 50% of regular price?
Just my 2 cents / pence.
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