I went to https : //XXXX, entered my information, and requested my free annual credit report from Experian. 

I got this message : " We were unable to honor your request. If you entered your credit card information, we did not charge you. 

Sending us your information To receive your personal credit report by mail, please mail us this letter ( or the information in it ), along with " ... 

Then I went to the " Contact Us '' form on the annualcreditreport.com site and tried to report the problem, but the site refused to accept my form. The error was " Tell us more is invalid. Please try again. '' but it provided no information about why the information I had entered under " Tell us more '' was invalid or how to correct it. 

The appearance to me is that Experian is trying to avoid its legal obligation to provide a free annual credit report by making it so difficult that most people will just give up.