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Work Your Way Up to The Ground Floor with A “Get Paid To” Service
Posted: admin on Aug 11 | Work At Home
You won’t get rich, but if your 13 years or older, with no special skills, you can make a little recreation money in exchange for sharing your contact information with marketing companies. Always hungry to find new potential customers, companies offer a bounty for new customer leads, some paid “find new customer” services will share their bounty with you, the new customer. One of the better known services is CashCrate.com. For starters they will pay you $1 for filling in your detailed profile. Even the under 18 crowd limited to only free offers and surveys can exceed the minimum $20 monthly payout, doing surveys for 50 cents a pop. If you are at a point where every dollar counts, it may be worth giving up some anonymity to the marketeers.
One precaution you have to take before joining CashCrate.com, get a ‘disposable’ email address to which you will have the various advertisements (junk mail) will be sent to. DO NOT give out your primary email address. Google gmail is a popular free email service. Here’s a review of the top 18 free email services.
Although most solicitations will come thouugh email, t’s also best to give out a secondary disposable phone number, if you have one. Register your phone number with the National Do Not Call Registry to stop most telemarketers.
The pay to install toolbars etc., that you are asked to download may not be worthwhile. While not doing anything illegal, some just collect usage statistics, others may add popup window advertisements…most annoying.
GPT (Get Paid To…) sites like CashCrate.com present various activities such as survey taking, game testing or product evaluation as the chores your being paid to perform, while the reality is in most cases, your personal contact information is being collected for a marketing company, with Cash Crate and you sharing the commission for bring them a new prospect.
CashCrate.com also had promotional deals with about 20 major online stores, for example Cash Crate for example members save 5% on your their online Walmart purchases.
For Credit Card Owners Who Want to Spend Some to Make Some to Make Some
In addition to the simple lead collection offers, various product trials or sales are offered 18 and over CashCrate.com members who have a credit card. Some of these offers can turn out to be a good deal. Products offered in TV infomercials are sold on the internet as well, in place of paying for TV air time, web site operators are pain a commission for finding new customers
Does the Shamwow guy have you considering a purchase? buy a set of ShamWow towels through CashCrate.com and you will receive a $6 rebate from Cash Crate. (bear in mind that like the typical infomercial product, the $19.95 (+S&H) product actually ends up totaling $32.90 ($19.95 + $7.95 + $5.00 for separate handling of purchase and bonus)
Asleep at the wheel exploits: Like the mail in rebates that have become popular with the retail stores, many of the offers you will encounter have a an initial low trial/sample charge that will be followed by higher charges later, if like the rebates, human nature has causes you to forget to mail in the rebate or cancel the product trial. The marketers come out ahead by playing the odds that many customers will slip up, DON’T be one of them. Keep good records, mark those trial end deadlines on your calendar.
You can get the same Video Professor, sample DVD for a $6.95 shipping fee offered in te infomercials, and receive a $25 kick back from Cash Crate, who is getting a finders fee considerably larger than the $6.95 you are paying for the sample. Bear in mind that like the old Columbia Record Club offers, this sample is setting you up for a continuity program in which your failing to decline the automatic followup charges will result in your being charged full price for the sample DVD, followed by a larger DVD bundle.
Read the fine print in each offer, particularly if a credit card purchase is involved.
The most tricky complicated deals are the various gift offer involving products or gift cards worth $100 to $2000. Before providing them any information, be sure to examine the bottom of the page, most offers detail your requirements to collect the gift there. They all require multiple product offers commitments, some ‘free’ trials some purchases or subscriptions that might add up in the long run. The larger offers require you refer 1 or 2 other households to also complete the offers before you can collect your reward. I don’t know the percentage of applicants that manage to complete all the required offers without getting disqualified for some technicality. I believe some do, be sure to read the small print at the bottom and click the information links there before committing to one of these combination offers.
Those promoting CashCrate with a more optimistic tone, exhibiting big payout checks are getting a piece of CashCrate’s income from every new productive member they recruit. They are’t earning the big checks doing surveys.
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