Yay for getting paid by a site! Even if it was only 3 cents, lol... I was only a member for a few days. But the site pays out automatically once a month, which is always a good thing. No waiting to try and get to a minumum payout.
To be honest, the site doesn't have all that much to offer. They send out an e-mail or two a day, and there are a couple banners to click on. You end up earning more points than money, but if you get enough points you can sell them for money so it's not too bad. And besides, guaranteed money is still guaranteed money - cents add up over time.
Click here to see the proof!
Showing posts with label paid e-mail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paid e-mail. Show all posts
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Orangebizs - not worth it.
Yay for the first sites-not-to-join post on here!
Orangebizs.com sounds like a great site when you first join for one reason - weekly payouts with no minimum after you have been a member for 14 days.
However, after hanging around for a few days, you realise that it's just not worth it. I didn't stick around long enough to find out if the site actually pays because, frankly, I got annoyed. I got about 50 e-mails from this site a day, half of which contained links that wouldn't pay me because I had clicked on them too recently (so why was I even finding them in my inbox?). Not only that, but each e-mail (the ones that pay cash instead of points) pays $0.0002-$0.00025. So after two days of clicking every single link that came into my inbox, I had a grand total of $0.0244. Weekly payouts are a little useless if I can only make about $0.10 a week.
If it wasn't spamming my inbox so incessantly (I got a new e-mail every 10-30 minutes most hours of the day), I probably would have stuck around just to see if they paid so I could report back to you guys. But I was annoyed. So I deleted my account, and I'm recommending that you guys spend your time on more useful sites.
Orangebizs.com sounds like a great site when you first join for one reason - weekly payouts with no minimum after you have been a member for 14 days.
However, after hanging around for a few days, you realise that it's just not worth it. I didn't stick around long enough to find out if the site actually pays because, frankly, I got annoyed. I got about 50 e-mails from this site a day, half of which contained links that wouldn't pay me because I had clicked on them too recently (so why was I even finding them in my inbox?). Not only that, but each e-mail (the ones that pay cash instead of points) pays $0.0002-$0.00025. So after two days of clicking every single link that came into my inbox, I had a grand total of $0.0244. Weekly payouts are a little useless if I can only make about $0.10 a week.
If it wasn't spamming my inbox so incessantly (I got a new e-mail every 10-30 minutes most hours of the day), I probably would have stuck around just to see if they paid so I could report back to you guys. But I was annoyed. So I deleted my account, and I'm recommending that you guys spend your time on more useful sites.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Almost certainly a scam
I found this site called promails and I'm almost certain it's a scam. It has a $10,000 payout, and sends me 4-5 e-mails a day claiming to pay $50 each for simply viewing a website for 60 seconds. I'm trying it out anyways, since it's not costing me anything and clicking on links in my e-mail isn't really going out of my way at all... so I'll be able to tell you fairly soon if it's a scam or not from my own experience. As I said, though, I'll be extremely surprised if it's legit.
However, I wanted to write about it and use it as an example of exactly how smart the people who make these sites can be. I was a graphic design student at one point, so I do know a bit about targeting your audience, and one look at this site lets me know exactly who they're targeting.
Most paid e-mail or paid to click sites are obviously targeting teenagers and young adults who want a little extra pocket change to make it through college. The sites are colourful, fun and interactive.
This site is extremely professional looking. It looks like a legitimate business, and therefore people are more likely to trust it no matter what they might read about it - and, in fact, their target audience is less likely to do their research because they will be fairly new to the online world. They are targeting older people than most of these sites do. People in their 30s, 40s, 50s who don't have jobs (especially with the number of layoffs going around these days) and are desperately trying to come up with the income they were used to having when they had well-paying jobs. They will jump at the opportunity to make $10,000 with just a couple of months of clicking on e-mails, and then likely ask for a payout and not get it.
The reason I am so absolutely certain this is a scam is that I just don't see how they could finance it. Advertisers won't really pay that much for e-mail advertising, and there's no way people are using their paid referral program enough to make them able to pay so much per e-mail.
But we'll see. I'm giving them a chance to prove me wrong, if only because it's not costing me anything other than 5 minutes a day.
However, I wanted to write about it and use it as an example of exactly how smart the people who make these sites can be. I was a graphic design student at one point, so I do know a bit about targeting your audience, and one look at this site lets me know exactly who they're targeting.
Most paid e-mail or paid to click sites are obviously targeting teenagers and young adults who want a little extra pocket change to make it through college. The sites are colourful, fun and interactive.
This site is extremely professional looking. It looks like a legitimate business, and therefore people are more likely to trust it no matter what they might read about it - and, in fact, their target audience is less likely to do their research because they will be fairly new to the online world. They are targeting older people than most of these sites do. People in their 30s, 40s, 50s who don't have jobs (especially with the number of layoffs going around these days) and are desperately trying to come up with the income they were used to having when they had well-paying jobs. They will jump at the opportunity to make $10,000 with just a couple of months of clicking on e-mails, and then likely ask for a payout and not get it.
The reason I am so absolutely certain this is a scam is that I just don't see how they could finance it. Advertisers won't really pay that much for e-mail advertising, and there's no way people are using their paid referral program enough to make them able to pay so much per e-mail.
But we'll see. I'm giving them a chance to prove me wrong, if only because it's not costing me anything other than 5 minutes a day.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Snap Dollars
This is a bit of a hybrid site. They have paid-to-click ads, paid surveys, paid e-mails (almost daily, a huge improvement on most paid e-mail sites I've tried) and a daily free lottery, as well.
You get $10 in your account just for signing up - but it is a $40 payout, so it could still take you a while to earn enough to get paid. There are quite a few free offers to sign up for to earn money. There are also a bunch of offers you have to pay for, but the amount you get paid for these usually covers the amount you pay for them - so if the offers would be useful to you personally, there's no reason not to sign up since you're pretty much getting whatever they're offering for free.
The lottery especially is a genious idea - not because you really have much of a chance of winning, just because it's unique to the site (and hey, it's free, so why not enter every day?). Instead of the usual asking members to click on an ad and stay on the page for 30 seconds, you click on the lottery you want to enter and have to view an ad for 10 seconds before you can pick your numbers.
And on top of that, you get $5 for each referal, plus 10% of what they make.
I did a google search on the site (because it seemed almost too easy to make money on it... the free offers pay less than $1 as usual, but the ones you have to pay a bit to sign up for can get you $25 sometimes) and as far as I can tell, it's legit. There are a lot of people complaining that it takes them forever to answer e-mail complaints, and that it takes them up to a month sometimes to get your cheque in the mail. They only pay by cheque, which is a drawback to a lot of people.
The reason I like the site so much (and am hoping it's not actually a scam) is that it's based in Toronto... which means Canadians can actually sign up for most of their offers, for once.
Check it out if you're interested, I'll update later as always.
You get $10 in your account just for signing up - but it is a $40 payout, so it could still take you a while to earn enough to get paid. There are quite a few free offers to sign up for to earn money. There are also a bunch of offers you have to pay for, but the amount you get paid for these usually covers the amount you pay for them - so if the offers would be useful to you personally, there's no reason not to sign up since you're pretty much getting whatever they're offering for free.
The lottery especially is a genious idea - not because you really have much of a chance of winning, just because it's unique to the site (and hey, it's free, so why not enter every day?). Instead of the usual asking members to click on an ad and stay on the page for 30 seconds, you click on the lottery you want to enter and have to view an ad for 10 seconds before you can pick your numbers.
And on top of that, you get $5 for each referal, plus 10% of what they make.
I did a google search on the site (because it seemed almost too easy to make money on it... the free offers pay less than $1 as usual, but the ones you have to pay a bit to sign up for can get you $25 sometimes) and as far as I can tell, it's legit. There are a lot of people complaining that it takes them forever to answer e-mail complaints, and that it takes them up to a month sometimes to get your cheque in the mail. They only pay by cheque, which is a drawback to a lot of people.
The reason I like the site so much (and am hoping it's not actually a scam) is that it's based in Toronto... which means Canadians can actually sign up for most of their offers, for once.
Check it out if you're interested, I'll update later as always.
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