Got Paid Update #80 - EarnEasyPTR

I love being able to report when a site pays me for the first time. Received my first payment from EarnEasyPTR yesterday for $1.05, about six days after request. EarnEasyPTR is a newer site that opened with much buzz a few months ago, so it's great to be able to say this site does pay!

I knew it would, though, as the site is in the same family as EarnEasyCash and Clickers-Union and the sites have always had a good reputation as paying sites with an honest admin. If you're not already a member, feel free to check out EarnEasyPTR and join!

Click HERE to View Payment Proof




On another note, after my grousing about hoping to make payout at Deals 'n' Cash this month, Phil reminded me that their cashout is $30 (whereas Hits4Pay is only $25), so I guess I'll be waiting 'til next month, but that's okay.

Don't forget that today is the last day of the month, so cash out where you need to (i.e., most general GPT sites). Hope you all had a good month of August!
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Got Paid Update #79 - YouData

Got last week's payment from YouData on Friday as usual, this time for 13 cents. Every little bit counts! And they do pay like clockwork, every single Friday.

If you missed my initial post on YouData and want to find out what it's all about, you can click here to read it. YouData is available to residents of the US and you must have a cell phone enabled for text messaging to be able to confirm your registration. Sign up today and you too can start getting paid every single Friday!

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My Flipper Cash, Cartoon-Clicks, and Others Shut Down

In light of some information about some apparent deceit and dishonesty on the part of admin Kelly Ann Gibbs that started coming out after her announcement that My Flipper Cash was closing - and the fact that in the last 24 hours since all of this started coming to light, Cartoon-Clicks has disappeared - needless to say, I have removed Cartoon-Clicks from the active list of sites both here and on the quicklist.

Which really the above is an understatement, apparently there was a LOT of deceit and dishonesty, not just some. Including the fact that Kelly apparently never sold Cartoon-Clicks to "Ann", and was paying people from some GPTs that "Ann" owned with her a PayPal account with her mother's name on it, presumably so no one would figure out it was Kelly herself (who was closing My Flipper Cash due to her "health issues").

To make a long story short, all this start coming out after Kelly had initially announced she was closing the MFC site, lowering the cashout minimum to $5, and asking everyone to withdraw before the end of the month, stating that the site would officially close the first week of September and that she would pay everyone their due earnings "as soon as possible".

Within about 24 hours, another announcement was sent out to members stating that she could only pay them 10% of their earnings because some affiliates hadn't paid her for recent (keyword being recent, remember that) activities and so she couldn't pay everybody everything they were due.

Which, naturally, a lot of people weren't very happy to hear. Especially people like this member, who has been carrying a balance at MFC for months that she just hasn't cashed out, and was owed close to $250. So therefore most, if not all, of her earnings due have anything to do with "recent" activities that affiliates had not paid Kelly Gibbs for - Kelly'd already been paid for most, likely ALL of this members activities at MFC - yet Kelly was asking this member to settle for 10%, i.e., $24 of about $245, if I'm not mistaken.

Then all the rest has come out in the past 24 hours and it's just ugly, and shameful.

These are the sites that it's been pretty much confirmed at this point that she owned... though mostly not with her real name (in some cases, her mother's), and in one case had the domain registered with another name and an old address from where she previously lived in Florida:

www.myflippercash.com

www.peaceandlovegpt.info

www.cartoon-clicks.com

www.teddybearclix.info

www.myflippergames.com

www.guitarinfozone.net

www.midnighthits.com

www.iwanttraffic.info

If you were a member of any of these, I'm sorry, but you'll probably never see anything you made at any of them.

I've lost close to $10 from two of these sites now, which another sad part about all that is that probably 99% of my earnings at Cartoon-Clicks were under the ownership of the Ann (no connection) who sold the site to Kelly Gibbs - I just never was able to cash out under that Ann's previous $3 cashout minimum because I got to about 55 cents away, but there weren't any offers on the site I could do further to get to cashout. Then Kelly Gibbs bought the site and the cashout was raised to $10, so.

If you want further information, the whole ugly nasty mess is here at GPTBoycott.

This mess has now sent my earnings lost due to scammy owners shutting down and taking the money and running to over $50. Before I could usually say well, I only lost a couple of bucks here or a few bucks there, but now the collective total is over $50. And the circumstances surrounding this particular incident have me really fed up right now and I'm going to be doing some thinking for a while about who I'm going to continue to promote and support.

It happens. And I'm sorry for anyone currently reading that didn't know and is just now finding out they're not going to get paid.

Anyway. There are good sites and decent owners still out there that I will certainly continue to support - BankRollBucks, GPTCashCow, R U Ready 4 Money and YeeHawClickin, Cupid Cash, Rhino Riches, Ozzys, to name a few, and there are many more, but several of the owners from the above sites are active at GPTB and have been affected by this same situation and I am close to 100% certain they're all trustworthy, and there are more. And then there's sites like MatrixMails, ClixSense, AdPaid, WordLinx, CashCrate, and many more that have been around for years and years and are established, good paying sites.

I don't want to scare anyone off of participating in GPT/PTC/PTR, but this does happen, fortunately there is an at least semi-active community that tries to see that wrongdoers are held accountable as best they can. And there are, again, plenty of good sites out there. Matrix, ClixSense, WordLinx, AdPaid, etc., you can count on getting paid, and it's still true of the majority of sites as well, at least 99% probable in most cases. Just don't 100% count on it and set everything 100% by it and you'll be okay. When the money does come it'll be great, this is just yet another reminder to me to not 100% totally count on it anymore.

P.S. (UPDATE): I also want to add that even though Peace and Love GPT was initially sold to Kelly and Lora Sipple (DollarClickOrSignup & ClickOrSignup), Lora basically gave the site to Kelly and has nothing to do with this mess. Just to clear up any confusion there. Lora has a good and proven track record of being an honest and good paying admin and this bunch of shamefulness should not be held against her as she extricated herself from the site some time ago.
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Site Closings, Changes, & Other Stuff

It's been a crazy week again here at the end of the month so a few quick things...

Mail has been coming in steadily all week from Deals 'n' Cash and now I'm only 12 cents away from cashout... SURELY I'll have 12 cents worth of mail between now and Monday (knock on wood). LOL.

My Flipper Cash will be closing as of September 4th due to the owner's ongoing health problems and affiliate offers have been removed. Cashout has been lowered to $5 in light of the closing.

Make That Dollar is closing as of September 30th (thanks Danielle for the heads up on that one, I must have missed that in the mess in my mailbox). If you have silver dollars (points) there, they can be redeemed at $0.05 per one silver dollar until September 15th. (I have been a member of the site for a long time but never had a lot of luck there so it wasn't on the listed sites, not for a while anyway. I had it on the site listings at one time but I removed it about a year ago when removing sites that weren't performing well for me.)

Hundred Acre Clicks recently added AlertPay as a payment option. I note I already had that listed in my HAC site listings, so I'm not sure what's up with that, but anyway, it's available now.

DollarClickOrSignup and ClickOrSignup are going from weekly to bimonthly payments. The new payment terms are going to be a little confusing for folks who are used to 15th and/or end of month but hopefully people won't get too confused by the unconventional payment terms - I myself had an unexpected delay a while back when I discovered that rather than "end of month" cashout like most sites, one site required cashout by the 30th even in months that had 31 days.

Anyway, at DCOS and COS, payments will be on the 10th and 25th of every month. Members will need to cash out by midnight EST on the 5th to be paid on the 10th, and the 20th to be paid on the 25th.

Cupid Cash is making some changes but most of them won't be posted until after September starts so I'll report then, though one of them is that anyone who signs up after September 1st can cash out at $5 for their first cashout (instead of waiting for the regular $10 cashout).

Annnnnd I think that's about it. This week is super busy for me so I'm not sure how much I'll be posting before Tuesday, but I still have a bunch of sites to add (mostly PTC) and hopefully we'll get back to that after the new month begins. My main problem lately is so many sites being closed, sold, terms changed, etc., it's all I can do to keep up! See you guys soon.
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Deals 'n' Cash - Only 69 Cents Away

Argh... here's one of those times when activities within the "get paid to" industry make you just kinda wanna pull your hair out.

The end of the month is a week away... and I'm only 69 cents away from making my first cashout at Deals 'n' Cash. Well, here's hoping there will be a LOT of mails this week

I got paid by their partner site, Hits4Pay, some time ago, and was beginning to think I'd never make the $25 cashout minimum at Deals 'n' Cash, but they have really stepped up their available ads to view in recent months and my balance increased a good bit in a short couple months' time.

If you're not a member already, these are paying sites and the paid mails are pretty steady - it may take a while, but you WILL get paid eventually (quicker if you promote a lot). Check out Deals 'n' Cash and Hits4Pay today!

Got Paid Update #78 - MatrixMails

Received my sixth payment from MatrixMails yesterday, this time for $20.80. It's always such a pleasure to deal with this site, tho I do wish they would update their interface to make it a little less "busy" and more user-friendly - that's probably the #1 complaint I hear from others about the site. Once you figure your way out and find your way around, it's pretty easy, but at first it's a little daunting for new members.

But it's well worth it! Especially if you upgrade, because you can cash out anytime at $2 or more, you'll earn much more and much more quickly, and the potential for major earnings is pretty high.

The site does have PTS offers and other options to earn on, but I really don't do anything there but paid mails and PTC, and still I've now earned over $50 in less than a year. If I was still a free member I'd probably still be hanging around $5 or certainly less than $10, and still waiting to cash out (since cashout for free members is $20, I think).

It pays consistently and pretty fast (I waited nine days this time, but usually they pay in 2-4) and this is one of the handful of sites I highly recommend upgrading on, so if you haven't yet joined MatrixMails, you really should.

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Got Paid Update #77 - YouData

Catching up with weekly payments from YouData for August... week 1 of August and this week were a little slim at ten cents the first week and one penny today (LOL!), but last week was a pretty nice surprise to find almost a dollar in my PayPal last Friday (last week's payment was $0.95).

It seems to be growing steadily and I really love this site, I hope it keeps growing and improving and gaining more momentum. It's just such a nice and unique concept given the quality of advertising it offers.

My Last Five Payments from YouData:



If you missed my initial post on YouData and want to find out what it's all about, you can click here to read it. YouData is available to residents of the US and you must have a cell phone enabled for text messaging to be able to confirm your registration. Sign up today and you too can start getting paid every single Friday!

News & Updates, August 21st 2009

Wow, where'd the last ten days go? Between being sick last week and busy busy busy for a few weeks now, time just slipped away from me. Lots of stuff to catch up on so let's get started.

BankRollBucks is no longer accepting new members from Canada, Australia, and the UK. This is only because there are just not that many offers for those countries available, so the admin had to make a hard decision to disallow further signups from those countries. This is for new members only, all current members from those countries still retain their accounts.

The admin of CashMakingMonkies announced it will close on September 1st. If you have reached $5 or more there, you need to go cash out before the end of the month. No signup bonuses will be paid out.

The admin had sent out an email asking members for suggestions or feedback as the site has apparently been slow all summer, but before I had a chance to respond, the next thing I knew there was the email announcement the site was closing. I wrote some time ago about what I felt were questionable changes at the site, so it didn't really come as a surprise that the site was closing.

When other sites are lowering their cashout minimums to $5 and/or changing their payout terms to weekly and things like that, it's maybe not the best decision to raise cashout to a $20 level or tack on other terms (percentage of cashouts being in offers, percentage being X amount of what your referrals make, etc., etc.) that make things more difficult than other sites make it for their members. I had pretty frequent signups to the site until the cashout was raised - at a time when about four or five large and popular sites dropped their cashouts from $10 or more down to $5 - and then my signups for there dropped to next to none, and most of the referrals I had there disappeared.

There are more sites besides this one that have made (or brought to attention) similar changes in terms and I find it a little puzzling - I realize a lot of GPT sites out there are struggling and the affiliate payments have been particularly bad this summer, but honestly, unless nearly every other site out there is making the same kinds of changes in terms, and especially as long as other sites are lowering instead of raising minimum cashouts or changing to weekly payments and things like that - it just isn't going to do a site very well to offer less benefits to their members and without much difficulty (like the percentage requirements). If other sites are making it easier for members to cash out, then naturally those sites are going to draw more members and activity. And I can say without a doubt that when a site I've promoted raises its cashout, that site's banners no longer get clicked here - whereas when a site has lowered cashout or changed to weekly pay, I usually see a lot more activity on those links.

Anyway, enough of that (for now). Other site changes and news -

GPTCashCow now has weekly payments and the cashout lowered to $3 (the previous signup bonus has been removed in light of these changes). Check payment option has been removed as well, payment now by PayPal and Amazon or Wal-Mart gift certificate/card only ($5 cashout on GCs). Earnings on trial offers will still be held for 30 days due to high fraud issues. Also, for every new referral that has one offer approved, the referrer now receives a $0.25 bonus. So these are all neat changes for GPTCashCow. :)

Cartoon-Clicks has been sold again (as has Peace and Love GPT), and normally I would remove it from the active list but the new owner Ann (no relation to former owner two sales back named Ann) seems to be very active and proactive so I'm leaving it up on the active list for now. Upon the sale, the site changed to weekly payments - if you request payment by 10pm EST Friday, you'll be paid on Monday. Cashout at Cartoon-Clicks is $10.

Ads for All now offers payments by PayPal and AlertPay.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something else I meant to post about, but that's all I had in my Notepad notes so there we are for now. I've just been so busy lately I've been a real slacker regarding pay sites and I'm trying to get back on a more "normal" schedule to get my ad viewing daily in and all that stuff.

So with that all said, wanted to remind you all that Jessica pretty much keeps up to date with up to the minute news about most of the sites in the community daily, so be sure and bookmark her blog if you haven't already.

Have a good weekend and more stuff as soon as I get a chance to breathe again, ugh. I've been so busy not only are my GPT/PTC/PTR earnings suffering but so am I from lack of sleep!

One more thing to post and then I'm outta here 'til next week. Have a great weekend, everyone!

UPDATE: Well, that's interesting. I was pretty sure I didn't have $5 over there, but apparently the CashMakingMonkies admin has already cleaned out the database as I discovered my account has already been deleted - even though I just got the email announcing the closing YESTERDAY. Well, whatever.

I'll be removing links and adding updated info as above on the other sites to remaining links shortly.
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FastEasyTraffic, Traffic-Splash, & Where I've Been

Sorry for the lack of posting since Thursday. I have been REALLY busy with an organizational/reorganizational (is that even a word?) project and then, after the weekend, now I'm deathly ill with some flu-like something or other. I told my mother it would be just my luck - seeing as how I rarely move from in front of the computer because I'm always working - that on one of my rare ventures out to the store I'd wind up exposed to the swine flu. Tho this is likely some garden variety bug I've got, but in any case, I'm feeling pretty rotten so posting may be light this week.

So since I feel too icky to make a real post today, I thought I'd just mention that I won $7 at FastEasyTraffic the other day just surfing. Most of the major traffic exchanges have promos going all the time, but FET and another favorite, Traffic-Splash, have bunches of them constantly. (Phil's already got the market cornered on Phil Loves Traffic-Splash blogging so I won't do the same, but I do love Traffic-Splash!)

But even if you don't have anything to bigtime promote, I know most of you out there are looking for money - well, there ya go, a free $7 was up for grabs if you'd been there. And the traffic exchanges are certainly a great place to go to find places and ways to make money.

So that's my tip for the day - join FastEasyTraffic and Traffic-Splash and go surf, you might make some money or find a cool way to make some.





Now pardon me while I go crawl back under my rock and wish I was dead for a while. I haven't been sick with something like this in a looong time and it's miserable. See ya when I get well again (at least I hope I do!!).
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Clickbank Pirate

I don't do this too often and step out of the GPT/PTC/PTR box here at the Guide, but I know there is the occasional reader here who is looking for ways to make serious money online and not just extra cash and pin money, so I've got one of those for today.

Brand new and just released this week, Clickbank Pirate comes from the crack team of Soren Jordansen and Cindy Battye, whose names you probably know if you read anything at all revolving around Internet and network marketing.

This is a totally and completely plug-n-play system, and when I say totally and completely - I mean 100%. I like what Paul Kinder of Traffic-Splash and Affiliate Funnel said about it best, because it pretty much says it all, so I'm going to shamelessly swipe that (sort of) and explain what you don't have to do with Clickbank Pirate:

• You don't have to sell anything
• You don't have to learn HTML or any of that techy stuff
• You don't have to have your own website or domain name
• You don't have to pay for your own hosting
• You don't have to install a blog
• You don't have to pay for an autoresponder every month
• You don't have to upload rebranded e-books constantly
• You don't have to write any blog posts or e-mails

In short, you don't have to do ANYTHING but promote it and send traffic to your sites and pages. They do everything else for you, and when I say everything - I mean EVERYTHING.

It's not free, but it doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and it's a shockingly simple system that can make you at least $1,000 per month without a website or a product of your own. Everybody knows that Clickbank is THE place to start and make the simplest and easiest money online, but then when you get into it, it all looks so complicated. I've leaned in that direction many a time and then leaned just as fast in the other direction because it was more than I wanted to fool with.

This system takes all of that frustration and complication out of the equation and does every single thing for you. EVERY single thing. You don't have to do any followup, nothing - all you have to do is promote it.

I'm not going to yap about it further - if you really want to make major money online, you should just go check Clickbank Pirate out right now. Some things profess to be "plug-n-play" and then when you get into the back end, there's all kinds of other stuff and it's really not plug-n-play. But this really IS.

Click the link or the banner and go see Clickbank Pirate for yourself. Yarrrrrr! :)